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Ship-shaped painted pot reveals life in remote antiquity
Updated: Oct 17, 2022
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Have you ever seen a ship-shaped pot dating back to the Yangshao culture in the Neolithic Age? The painted pot with a cup-shaped spout and two symmetrical ring-shaped handles is a water container. Its two slightly-rising ends form a ship shape.
There are reticulate patterns on the pot that look like fishing nets. The pot shows that people mastered the skills of fishing and building boats more than 5,000 years ago.
Unearthed in Baoji, Shaanxi province in 1958, the vessel is so delicate and priceless that it cannot be exhibited abroad. It is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of China.
