The Banpo site is located on the second terrace on the east bank of China River, eastern suburb of Xi'an. It preserves complete and typical sample of Matriarchal clan society, which existed in Yellow River 6,700 years ago. The site was discovered in 1953.With the five excavations from 1984 to 1957,nearly 10,000 relics were unearthed. The site covers an area of more than 10,000 square meters which is one fifth of the total square .In 1958,the first museum of Neolithic site were founded in China .It is were known as the Museum of Bampo Site. If human beings want to survive, they need, first of all, a suitable environment .The reason why the Banpo people could settle down and love on is due to the fact they profited, to a great extent, from the fine natural environment along the Yellow River.

To the west side of the Banpo site, flows the Chan River, one of the renowned eight rivers around the ancient capital Chang'an and an affluent of the Wei River, 6000years ago, the Chan River did not rise or fall suddenly and violently as it does today with its plentiful water overflowing now and then, thus leaving many lakes and marshes on its banks as a result, the Banpo people were never worried about the supply of water.

Next to the east side of the Banpo site, lies the White deer Plain, and to the south lies the zhongnan Mountains.6000years ago, primeval forests grew densely, densely, where all sorts of birds and beasts appeared and disappeard. It turned out that through the studies of the sporepollenin of the soil of the Banpo site such a conclusion can be drawn; the climate at the time when the Banpo people were living there was warmer and more humid than it is today, similar to that at today's Hanzhong of southern Shaanxi, its annual average temperature was 4 degrees centigrade higher than it is today the Banpo people with an excellent place for gathering and hunting .To the northern side of the Banpo site, lies the Wei River Plian, an ideal place for human being s to be engaged in the primitive agriculture.