Zhejiang has wet and moderate weather, distinctive four seasons, sufficent rain and rich animal and plant resources. Archeological excavation testifies that ancient mankind has grown and developed here in an age as remote as 126,000 years before.
　　About 10,000 years ago, human beings began their the Neolithic. Our precedecents at that time has already learned to plant crops, raise livestock and make pottery. They formed clan by kindred relationship and built villages to lead a settled life.
　　Zhejiang of New Stone Age is in a very prosperous era in its history. The fertilized soil and densely watered Northern Zhejiang Plain is an ideal place for rice planting. Therefore, it becomes one of the areas with most dense New Stone Age sites distributed, since where has ever lived many nations and tribes. Marked by Qiantang River, prehistoric culture of Zhejiang has been divided into nothern and southern systems. In north of Qiantang River, three branches of continuous archeological cultural systems of Majiabang Culture--Songze Culture--Liangzhu Culture has formed, while in south side of Qiantang River, Hemudu Culture becomes the dominant system. These two systems started both from 7,000 or 8000 years ago or so, and developed into a consistency for their cultural states.
　　The about 7000-year-old Hemudu Culture and the 4000-5000-year-old Liangzhu Culture are the begining and end of Zhejiang's prehistoric culture. Leaving very abundent relic sites, they have been praised as “Two Flowers” of prehistoric Zhejiang, and also as“dual-jade”.
　　《Zhejiang of 7000 Years》just displays these prime cultural relics.
　　Hemudu Culture is named because it was discovered in Hemudu, Yuyao of Zhejiang for the first time in 1973, mainly distributed in the south of Hangzhou Bay, Ningshao Plain and Zhoushan Isles. According to C14 testing, the earliest 4th cultural layer is 7000 years old. Hemudu people use bone plough to cultivate the farm in the swam and low wet land, planting rice, raising hogs and dogs; and building fence type wooden huts of wedge structure by stone axe etc. They use clay mixed with rice shells and plant stems and leaves to make pottery ware, spinning wheels and looms to weave fabrics, jade and ivory to engrave immortal wares and ornaments. They worship the sun and the bird. Hemudu culture is a extremely brilliant page in Zhejiang history. Meanwhile, cultural relics unearthed there present sold proof showing that, just like Changjiang River Field and Yellow River Field, Hemudu is also a birth place of Chinese nation.
　　Via scene restoring and large color painting background, the exhibition combines cultural relics into the scenes organically. It shows life and work scenes of cooking, hunting, planting, architecture and spinning of Hemudu people to the audience in a popularized way. And then, with a large picture of excavation field, sight of the audience is drawn to the area of selected relics, including top grade relics of Hemudu Culture such as wooden red lacquer bowl, ivory carving with the pattern of twin birds facing the sun, pottery basin patterned with fish and algae, pottery jar patterned with hog and “silkworm pattern”ivory stick jewelry, as best recreation of substance and spiritual life of Hemudu People.
　　And Liangzhu Culture is also named after its discovery place, Liangzhu, Yuhang of Zhejiang in 1936. This is a branch of prehistoric culture famous for jade processing, mostly distributed in Taihu Lake area. 5300-4000 years ago, Liangzhu, Yuhang of Zhejiang is political and cultural center of this culture. By then, Liangzhu people have already learned to use stone plough to plant rice. And solid relics proofs show that they have been capable of raising silkworms and weaving silk. And especially their high skills of making jade ware, black pottery and jade studded lacquerware set people to mere praises. Prosperity of social economy has accelerated labor diversion of the society. All these and many other archeological findings, such as the sacrificial alter, graveyard, sacrificial vessels, sacrificial victims, and symbolic script, herald the dawn of human civilization.
　　The exhibition displays various types of elaborate jade wares of Liangzhu people in a central isolated cabinet which allows four sides observation. Here Liangzhu noble tombs are restored, and three-color altar is shown by models. “Biggest and Finest Cong (jade)” of largest size and most intact designs, large holed jade with micro engraved signs, earliest silk piece in the world, copied Liangzhu jade studded red lacquerware by dehydrated timber of 7000 years ago unearthed in Hemudu relics site, all are peerless articles in Liangzhu Culture, fairly invariable.