Yanglang culture
The Yanglang culture is an early archeological culture of northwestern China, mainly identified by burial grounds in the southern part of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and in the adjacent Qingyang County of eastern Gansu. The culture is named after the Bronze culture Yanglang cemetery, excavated in 1989 in Guyuan, Ningxia. Other sites are the Pengbao cemetery and Wang Dahu cemetery. These sites are characterized by Chinese archaeology as belonging to the "Northern Bronze cultures of the Spring and Autumn Period", related to the Xirong people. The famous Majiayuan site is considered as representative of the end of the Yanglang culture.
The Yanglang culture is thought to have been directly or indirectly connected to the Saka culture, with suggestions of direct prenetration of Saka groups into North China. The animal style of the funeral artifacts in particular connects it to the world of the steppes. In particular, the decorated chariots and many artifacts have strong resemblance with Saka objects from the Issyk-kul kurgan.