The Majiabang culture at the mouth of the Yangtze River, primarily around the Taihu area and north of Hangzhou Bay in China, spreads throughout southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang from around 5000 BCE.

Initially, archaeologists had considered the Majiabang sites and sites in northern Jiangsu to be part of the same culture, naming it the Qingliangang culture.

Archaeologists later realized that the northern Jiangsu sites were of the later Dawenkou culture and renamed the southern Jiangsu sites as the Majiabang culture.

The Majiabang culture is to coexist with the Hemudu culture for over a thousand years as two separate and distinct cultures, with cultural transmissions between the two cultures.

Majiabang people cultivate rice.

At Caoxieshan, a site of the Majiabang culture, archaeologists excavated paddy fields.

However, faunal remains excavated from Majiabang archaeological sites indicated that people had domesticated pigs.

In addition, the remains of sika and roe deer have been found, showing that people were not completely reliant on agricultural production.

Archaeological sites also bear evidence that Majiabang people produced jade ornaments.