The Hemudu culture (5000 BCE to 4500 BCE) is a Neolithic culture that flourishes just south of the Hangzhou Bay in Jiangnan in modern Yuyao, Zhejiang, China.
The site at Hemudu, 22 km north-west of Ningbo, was discovered in 1973.
Hemudu sites were also discovered on the islands of Zhoushan.
