The Dahe Village Ruins(Chinese:大河村遗址；pinyin:dàhécūn yízhǐ), discovered in autumn of 1964, the remains of Dahecun Village covers an area of 400,000 square meters. It is often praised to be the "eastern Banpo Village". It is located 12 kilometers north of downtown Zhengzhou. Four distinct periods relics have been unearthed in this 12.5-meter-deep site: the Yangshao Culture, Longshan Culture, Xia Culture, and Shang Culture. This rich and ancient site is a miniature of prehistorical culture of the Central Plain of China. The wood-bone-molding building with four floors, existing over 5000 years, is the best preserved house among similar ones in China. A large number of painted potteries were unearthed and their colorfulness and variety fully reflects the unique charm of painted pottery culture in Central Plain. The sun stripes, corona stripes, constellation stripes in painted pottery are the earliest astronomical information in China.