Jing Cunyi
Based on sediments,fossils,cultural remains and peat layer,three phrases of the palaeogeographyic change of tbe Tai Hu region can be distinguished:early Holocene (about 10000 B.P-7500 B.P),middle Holocene (7500 B. P-2500 B.P),late Holocene (2500 B.P to present). In the early Holocene when the climate was cold and dry,yellow,grey silt-clay and subclay had been covered on the depressions and plains in the region,the vegetation consistes of deciducous broad-leaved and coniferous mixedforests and steppes. In the middle Holocene when the climate became hot and humid,and the sea level rose to present sea level,the Tai Hu Lake formed.Lacustrine deposit of grey clay and peat were found widely in the region.In Neolithic age man started to settle on the hills of this region.In that time,the vegetation mainly consisted of evergreen broad leaved forests. In the late Holocene when the climate turned to warm and moist,the Tai Hu Lake was expanded,with Yangcheng Hu,Cheng Hu and Dianshan Hu being formed one after another.A alluvial-lacustrine plain with a dense network of river and lake took shape in this region,The vegetation mainly consisted of coniferous mixed forest and hydrophyte such as Potamogetom Sp., Sphagnum Sp.widely grew.