Liao, Song, Xia, Jin and Yuan Periods

Agricultural development in this period surpassed that of the previous generation. The center of national economic gravity shifted to the south during the two Song periods, crop varieties were exchanged between the north and the south, and agricultural production techniques were summarized and improved. From this period of unearthed funerary objects (medallions), different shapes of grain storage facilities are mainly the following:

First, the multi-angle barn jar

   Multi-angle barn jar

Late Tang and Northern Song Dynasty, Jiangnan appeared a multi-horned pots, "corner" and "grain" in the southern region with similar pronunciation or "multi-horned" that is "multi-grain ", and its image also seems to be like the growth of grains.

Song dynasty polygonal barn jar, this barn jar, ware identity five layers, on the small under the big, each layer protruding five sharp corners, columns of five rows, the cover for the pavilion type, heavy eaves five corner save the tip of the roof, adorned with pearl, the four sides of the pavilion are door, pedestal was covered with petals in the shape of a lotus flower, exquisite production, the overall is also like the fecundity of the sheaves of wheat, the foot is slightly flared, applying the bright green glaze, the barn body has an inscription in ink: "Warehouse always full, the thousands of years, the age of dingji. Thousands of years, the age of dingmao, October note title".

Song dynasty polygonal barn jar, this barn jar, the barn body is divided into six layers, on the small under the big, by the second time below the beginning of each layer of the convex five nipple convex pointed horn, vertical column five rows, the tip of the corner has a hole, cover the top of the treasure pearl-shaped knob, cover the surface of the ruffled edge of the heap decorations, the overall is also like the fattening of the ears of wheat, the foot flared. Cang body ink inscriptions: "YuanYouYuanYuanNian, thousand years, five grain warehouse, year long full, descendants of generations of prosperity", "YuanYou" is the first year of Song ZheZong ZhaoXi, "YuanYouYuanYuanNian Yuanyou" was the first year of Song Zhezong Zhao Xi, and "Yuanyou yuannian" was 1086 AD, more than 900 years ago. Figure 58, Song dynasty multi-horn barn jar, this barn jar, composed of cover and jar, cover top for the pearl knob, from top to bottom three circles of stacked wave pattern, the barn body has five groups of five layers of sharp corners, the barn body engraved with the inscription: "thousands of warehouses are always full of thousands of autumns and thousands of grandchildren, the generations of prosperity" Figure 59, Song dynasty multi-horn barn jar, slipped shoulder, five layers of drumming belly, bottom to top gradual closure of the pagoda shape, closed neck, rim foot, cover for the first time, "Yuanyouyuannian" is 1086 AD, more than nine hundred years ago. Neck, footrim, cover for the pearl knob, the cover surface has a circle of lotus leaf edge pile decoration, the abdomen pile paste five groups of five layers of leaf-shaped flat pointed knobs, knobs printed on the surface of the lotus petal pattern, cover the top of the abdomen under the glaze ink painting peony around the branch pattern.

Land low temperature, rainy climate of the southern region, most of the use of the lower elevated dry bar type houses to store grain. The earliest age of the earth's grain silo is Zhejiang Hemudu site unearthed "dry bar" grain silo, the silo also holds grain, according to evidence that seven thousand years ago, is the earliest grain storage facilities in southern China. In addition, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, before the mountain Yang, Jiangsu Province, Wujiang Meiyan Longnan, etc., in Haiyan, Zhejiang Province, Xiantan Temple site unearthed a Liangzhu culture pottery cover on the inner surface, engraved with a picture of a dry bar type building graphics, the excavators believe that it is likely to be the image of the dry bar type grain silo.

Summarize the above historical facts, enough to prove that China's long history of grain storage, is the world's grain storage technology development of one of the earliest countries.