Having undergone a series of archeological investigation and excavation, a primitive village site has been discovered at Songze Village, five kilometers east to Qingpu County Seat of Shanghai. The site could date back to five or six thousand years ago and a huge amount of cultural relics and historic traces has been preserved. It is the earliest ancient culture site discovered so far in Shanghai area.

The soil of the upper layer of Songze Ancient Culture Site takes on a yellowish brown color, and the cultural relics excavated are pottery, porcelain, stone wares and a few bronze wares made in the late Western Zhou Dynasty as well as the Spring and Autumn Period. The middle layer is grayish brown, and it was the cemetery of the primitive community. The burial features face-side up skeleton and straight limbs, mostly with the head facing southeast and buried on the flat ground with soil piled up. The skeletons are generally surrounded by funeral objects. The soil of the lower layer looks grayish blue, and cellars dug by the primitives for food storage as well as primitive production tools have been discovered. Indica rice and japonica rice grains that could be cultivated artificially have also been detected from the cellars.