Show certain of the most distinctive habits of the bronze age chinese were already practiced in a simple form by the people who lived in the black pottery villages one of these traits was building city walls of pounded earth to make this type of wall wooden frames were put in position and earth was dumped b between the frames and pounded down until it was exceedingly hard walls made by this method could be built quite high and sometimes endured for centuries the wall at cheng tzu yai can still be distinguished the painted pottery culture of china sometimes also called yang shao after the name of the place where it was discovered seems to have begun a little earlier than the black pottery culture the neolithic people who developed it made ordinary pottery of several sorts but their most distinctive ware was an orange or reddish pottery carefully smoothed and then painted with brown or red designs the neolithic people who made it lived by agriculture and pig raising as well as by hunting and fishing and used stone tools primarily before 1400 B C the chinese sc s far as we know had a primitive culture comparable to the culture cultured oi d the indians in the northeastern unit ed states when white settlers found them this phase of culture is callee called the neolithic or new stone age these primitive chinese did not know how to make objects of metal nor how to write but they made improved tools of stone bone and shell they also made pottery and coarse cloth besides hunting and fishing and gathering wild plants they grew millet and a few vegetables and raised pigs and dogs |