Matriarchal Society: I Had Some Land in the Stone Age

Ten thousand years ago, by the Yunmeng River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a dying fourteen-year-old girl opened her eyes. Her name is Atai, and she is the granddaughter of the ancestor of the Ze tribe. No one knows that this body now lives with a soul from ten thousand years in the future - a master of botany, full of knowledge about seeds, soil and survival. After waking up, Atai discovered that this was a matriarchal clan. Women gather, men marry, and the children belong to the mother's blood group. There are only fifty people in the tribe. They live in caves, collect food in rough rattan baskets, and cook in leaky clay pots. Some people starve to death every winter. Atai began to change. She weaved denser rattan baskets, which increased the amount of collection by 30%; she discovered that acorns needed to be rinsed to remove poisons, so that they would have stable food in autumn and winter; she led women to plant the first experimental field, beginning a long leap from collection to agriculture. The tribe gradually grew larger. From fifty people to five hundred people to five thousand people. Atai sent people down the Yangtze River to find salt on the seashore; she mined and smelted copper, giving the tribe tools that were harder than stone; she built Gaotai City, which saved tens of thousands of people from the flood. Women are fleeing from all directions - because here, women have their own granaries and their own salt. But the shadows in the distance are approaching. A tribe of men fighting is rising. They regard the women they snatched as property and the land they snatched as their territory. Twenty thousand versus thirty thousand, the maternal line and the father's line, started the final battle beside Yunmeng Ze.