The long history of Yu Hui.

Huiyu was first called Huoshan Jade, Pi River Jade and Dabie Mountain Jade.

In the late primitive society, the gradual privatization of society contributed to the demand for jade. From ancient times to the Yu Shun period, in the archaeological sense, in Huoshan area (from Dabie Mountain in the west to the east of Mingguang City, including the north and south of Chaohu Lake, covering a large area of Anhui between ancient Jianghuai, including Lingjiatan Cultural Site in Lingshan and Xuejiagang Cultural Site in Buried Hill), a large number of aristocratic sacrificial objects were mainly jade and pottery. Lingjiatan settlement site has mountains, with a total area of about 6.5438+0.6 million square meters. It is the largest and most well-preserved Neolithic settlement site discovered so far in Chaohu Lake Basin in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, about 5,300 to 5,600 years ago.

Lingjiatan cultural site has pushed forward the history of China towns for thousands of years, and is called "the earliest city in China"! After the discovery of Lingjiatan site, some scholars put forward that the birthplace of nesting was in Chaohu Lake basin according to the information obtained from the latest archaeological excavation. Lingjiatan site is a large settlement center of Youchao family in the late Neolithic period.

The long-lost splendid civilization displayed in Lingjiatan ancient city will extend the history of Chinese civilization from "five thousand years up and down" to seven or eight thousand years, or even tens of thousands of years. The world-famous dragon-shaped jade carving unearthed is known as "the first jade dragon in China", and its exquisite craftsmanship and elegant charm have amazed the world. This is the pride of China people and an important element of "emblem culture". Anhui's unique geological landforms have created its rich jade resources. Archaeology has confirmed that most of these unearthed jades are chrysotile chalcedony, which basically comes from Huoshan, the hometown of Yu Hui at the head of Pi River. The ancestors hunted around the ancient Chaohu Lake, and the land of more than 200 kilometers was divided into two roads, north and south, with a waterway of 100 kilometers. By bamboo raft, they can drift westward to Lu 'an, Shucheng, Feixi (the lake surface of ancient Chaohu Lake is more than 2,000 square kilometers, about three times that of modern times, and many flat places in Lu 'an, Feixi and Shucheng are the surface of Chaohu Lake), not far ahead is Huoshan, the hinterland of Dabie Mountain, which is rich in wildlife. In the rolling Pi River, wise ancestors naturally chose emblem jade materials with good hardness and aesthetic feeling for production and life, and even for cutting ritual vessels.

Lingjiatan culture pushed the dawn of Chinese civilization to nearly 6000 years ago, causing a sensation in the world. The emblem jade produced by Huoshan River has made indelible contributions to the progress and prosperity of early human civilization, and its cultural and historical value can be seen.

Yu Hui culture appeared at the beginning of Chinese civilization and contained many basic elements of Chinese civilization. On the northern slope of the eastern Dabie Mountains in western Anhui, there are continuous peaks and rivers, and natural resources such as gold, silver, iron, granite, ruby, olivine and chalcedony are extremely rich. It was not until 2003, when the Iron Sand River of Dongpei River was mined, that people discovered the beautiful stone "Yu Hui" dug out from the depths of the riverbed by sand dredgers.

Yu Hui has not only unique geological attributes, but also unique cultural attributes, which can be described as "containing the geological essence of Dabie Mountain and reflecting the cultural color of Lingjiatan".