What is the history of Jiuquan in Gansu?

The history of Jiuquan in Gansu Province is that Jiuquan is one of the areas where paleontology is flourishing. There are abundant paleontological fossils here, from the oldest embryonic form of life-algae fossils to invertebrates, vertebrates and even ancient human fossils.

Jiuquan area is also one of the earliest areas where human activities appeared in China. More than 10,000 years ago, Jiuquan ancestors entered the Paleolithic Age. About 3500 years ago, Jiuquan people began to enter the Neolithic Age. In the Neolithic Age, the pre-democratic activities in Jiuquan were in Jiuquan Basin (including most of Suzhou District and Jinta County) and Dunhuang and Anxi Depression (including most of Dunhuang City, Anxi County and Yumen City).

About four or five thousand years ago, Jiuquan ancestors entered the era of human civilization. Siba culture is an important bronze culture in Hexi Corridor, with a large number of painted pottery.

Jiuquan in Xia Dynasty was mainly composed of Di and Qiang tribes, mainly agriculture and animal husbandry. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou people continued to develop in Jiuquan, and Zhou people, Qiang people and Miao people lived together and scattered. Zhou Wenhua began to spread and communicate, and social productive forces developed rapidly.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the ancestors of Jiuquan lived a life of farming and herding. They regard tribes as the basic organizational units of society, and many tribes form tribal alliances, gradually forming their own living habits and cultures. All clans and tribes are nomadic people engaged in agriculture.

During the Warring States period, Jiuquan area was a place where Yue people, Wusun people, Xiongnu people and other ethnic groups grazed and lived. They compete with each other and their territory changes from time to time. In the pre-Qin period, it was called Xirong Land, Xiqiang Land, Xiongnu Right Land and West, West and Hexi Three Dangerous Places. The Qin people launched a war of conquest against the Qiang people in Gansu, and a large number of Qiang people were expelled from Gansu, integrated into the Chinese nation, or moved to other places, or stayed in the local area to engage in agricultural and animal husbandry production, and gradually merged with other ethnic groups to become Jiuquan aborigines.