About 50 thousand years ago, the form of our ancestors has evolved to be the same as that of our modern people. They learned to sew animal skin clothes with bone needles, and the clan society gradually formed. After a long time, among the cultural triumphs of this era excavated in recent decades, besides a large number of knives, teeth and arrows made of stone tools and animal bones, many harpoons and hooks have been found, which is of great significance for understanding the fishing history of China.
Among the bones found in Yangshao culture in banpo village, Xi, Shaanxi Province, many fishhooks made of bones were found. This can prove that the level of fishing activities grinded out at that time was very high. These sites are located in inland freshwater areas, and fishing is very common.
The earliest written records of bamboo fishing rods in China can be found in the Book of Poetry more than 2,000 years ago. For example, in the chapter Monsoon, there is a poem "Swish bamboo poles to fish in Qi (Qi refers to a tributary of the Yellow River, located in the northern part of Henan Province)", which shows that people used thin bamboo poles to fish in the river during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.