关键词: 水稻, 稻作起源, 考古

Abstract: The author puts forwards a series of questions on the origin of rice cultivation, including the debate between the mono-centre and multi-centres of the origin of rice; the question of how the cultivated rice was evolved from wild rice; the contradiction between the archaeological excavation and the transmission route of rice; the question of the origin Of indica type and japonica type, as well as the paddy rice and upland rice, etc. In the meanwhile, the author gives his own viewpoint about these questions for exchange and further investigation.

Key words: Archaeological excavation, Indica type, Japonica type, Rice origin