The earliest pottery on earth is in China.
At present, the remains of early pottery found in China that are more than 10,000 years old or about 10,000 years ago are:
To the north of the Huai River, there are ruins such as Yangyuan Yujiagou in Hebei, Huairou Zhuan in Beijing, Donghulin in Mentougou in Beijing, Zhuangtou in Xushui South in Hebei, and Lijiagou in Xinmi in HenanTo the south of the Huai River, there are the Shangshan of the Pujiang River in Zhejiang and the Xiaohuang Mountain in Shengzhou, the Wannian Xianren Cave and the Bucket Ring in Jiangxi, the Yuchanyan in Daoxian County of Hunan, the Niulan Cave in Yingde in Guangdong, and the Guilin Big Rock, Guilin Temple Rock, Guilin Retort Rock, Liuzhou Liyuzui, Yongning Dingshi Mountain and other ruins in Guangxi.Among them, the absolute age of the pottery unearthed from the Xianren Cave in Jiangxi Wannian and the Yuchanyan in Daoxian County has exceeded 18,000 years ago, and the absolute age of the pottery produced by the Miaoyan, Zongpiyan and Dayan in Guilin is about 17,000-12,000 years ago. The early pottery of Niulandong, further south, is dated to 1About 60,000 years.
Okay, now let's make the point.
The earliest pottery multi-round bottom ware in southern China, decorated with scraped stripesJomonor somen noodles;The early pottery of northern China was flat-bottomedDecorated with a light cord pattern, additional piles or plain noodles.
A 20,000-year-old Jomon clay pot from Senjin Cave.
In both the south and north of China, Jomon patterns appeared on the earliest pottery
This is naturally because, at the latest, 20,000 years ago, ropes were already a common tool used by Chinese.
According to previous research, there are two types of application methods for Jomon on pottery: rolling and patting. Li Wenjie believes that the tool used in rolling the rope pattern is a round rope stick, and the rope pattern printed should be a rope pottery paddle.Speaking of pottery rackets around ropes, let's first take a look at these two pottery auctions from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
There are two hexagrams engraved on it: both Ji Ji and Wei Ji.
That is, the last pair of hexagrams in the whole book of "Zhou Yi".
On another pottery auction, the seventh-fourteenth hexagram in "Zhou Yi" is engraved:
Divisions, ratios, small animals and shoes.
It is conceivable that the pottery made with such a pottery shoot naturally has an easy-to-learn philosophy of "repeating its ways".
Because these six hexagrams are exactly three pairs of hexagrams that are opposite.
This also shows that the origin of Yixue is likely to be hidden in this small pottery.
Because, the appearance of Jomon on pottery proves that spinning wheels have appeared in China at least 20,000 years ago
Judging from the Jomon patterns on the pottery paddles, I personally believe that most of the Jomon patterns were made using the rolling printing method. This is also the predecessor of the roller seal of what was later in ancient India, Sumer, etc.
In fact, the round rope rod used to roll the rope pattern is very similar to the shape of the spinning rod itself. I even wonder if the pottery maker could easily get a large piece of neat rope by rolling a spinning rod around the clay with a spinning rod that had just been wound around the rope.
Spinning wheels. The word "專" in the oracle bone inscription means spinning wheel, which is a spinning wheel with a rope wrapped around a pole.
The spinning wheel in the oracle.
It is also known as "tile".
【Poetry Xiaoya】The tile of playing. 【傳】Tile, 紡塼也.As for tile, it has been a general term for pottery since ancient times.
Tile, the general name of the earthenware that has been burned. - SayingsBoth pottery and spinning wheels were called "tiles" in ancient times, which shows that the invention of pottery has been closely related to spinning wheels since ancient times.
It can even be said that pottery was invented and developed on the basis of the spinning wheel.
In particular, the principle of the pottery wheel used for pottery is completely modeled after the spinning wheel.
Spinning wheel bearings. 
Potter's wheel axle. 
Potter's wheel. 
Spinning wheels. This makes it easy to understand why the ancients printed Jomon patterns on pottery.
Because the invention of pottery and potter's wheel was inspired by the spinning wheel and braided rope. The earliest pottery was made with a round bottom, inspired by the rotation of the spinning wheel and braided rope.
So, is there anything special about the rope braided by the spinning wheel?
Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.