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Chapter 1441 Dragons and tigers exist, the evidence is as strong as a mountain

There is another saying about the origin of HLJ's name. HLJ used to be called Bailongjiang, and there was a white dragon in it.

The white dragon did many evils and was defeated by a black dragon.

Since then, Bailongjiang has been called HLJ. Perhaps the Heilong family sent by Fuxi drove away some evil people in the area and took charge of it, so there is this story.

If the origin of HLJ is related to the Heilong family, it means that in the Fuxi era, Huaxia and HLJ have been closely linked.

In that distant era, dragon-shaped utensils were not exclusive to later emperors, and could be used more widely for burial.

The Hongshan culture, which is closely connected with the Xinglongwa cultural site, also unearthed many dragon-shaped artifacts, such as the jade pig dragon and the c-shaped dragon.

The hillock where the Xinglongwa site is located is about 20 meters above the nearby ground, high in the east and low in the west, and the Neolithic cultural remains found on the southwest slope are Area A (archaeological number);
The area from the northeast slope to the west slope is the Hongshan cultural site, which is the B area, and the A area and the B area are adjacent to each other.

The continuous development of dragon culture in this belt shows the importance of dragon culture to Xinglongwa culture.

The Xinglongwa culture had dragon-shaped utensils for more than [-] years. It should be because the Huaxia culture of the Central Plains and the Xinglongwa culture of the Northeast had already communicated.

Therefore, whether it is the ancient Shu civilization in the west, the Yellow River and Yangtze River civilization in the east, or the HLJ civilization in the north, they all come from the same origin.

Although the plastic dragon in front of him looks a little miserable, but it is the earliest dragon in the country after all.

Looking at the jade pig dragon of Hongshan culture, this one is much more pleasing to the eye.

It's a pity that the Jade Pig Dragon of Hongshan Culture really can't be ranked.

This point, if you don’t study dragon culture, you really don’t know.

When he first got the Jade Pig Dragon, Chen Wenzhe thought it was the number one dragon in China!

Now it seems that the first is impossible, and the second may not be guaranteed.

Averting his gaze, Chen Wenzhe looked at another dragon.

I have to say, it's nice to have money.

If there is no money, these look like tattered things here, can they come here?
Don't look at these as tatters, in the eyes of knowledgeable people, these are priceless treasures.

For example, this one seems to come from an ancient tomb in Nanhe?
A 6000-year-old tomb was unearthed in Nanhe, and it was also known as "the first dragon in China" at that time.

And this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that they claimed or uncovered evidence of the existence of dragons.

Combining the Shan Hai Jing before, it has actually been explained that the dragon was probably an ordinary beast in ancient times.

They were able to rise and become the spiritual symbol of Chinese civilization and the totem worshiped by people, all because of the rapid decrease in the number of them.

It has to be said that our ancestors had a lot of research on eating, otherwise the dragon would not have become extinct.

We don't know exactly what happened in ancient times.

Anyway, now, the "dragon" has become a very mysterious creature.

Some people believe that it does exist, while others think that it is just an imaginary totem of myths and legends.

There are many records of dragons in the history books, the earliest one is Liu Lei of the Yulong family. It is said that he once raised two dragons.

In addition, "Book of Jin", "Book of Later Han", "Drafts of Qing History" and other history books have recorded the sightings of dragons.

The most famous in modern times is the "Yingchuan Dragon Falling Incident", which makes the legend of the dragon even more confusing.

Before the discovery of the Xinglongwa site, the earliest dragon-related cultural relics discovered in my country were unearthed at the Xishuipo site, about 6400 years ago.

This "dragon" was the earliest dragon image found in archaeological discoveries across the country at that time, and was hailed as "the first dragon in China" by the archaeological community.

The unearthing of this dragon undoubtedly raised the debate on whether there ever existed dragons in the world.

In 1987, in PY City, Nanhe Province, a water supply adjustment pool for diversion from the Yellow River was being built.

The original intention was to solve the industrial and urban water use of PY, but unexpectedly, an early Yangshao cultural site was discovered at the construction site.

The archaeologists were so excited that they quickly stopped the construction process and started salvage excavation of this ancient tomb.

In the No. 45 tomb of this site, a lifelike "Huaxia Dragon" attracted everyone's attention.

It can be seen that the skeleton of the owner of the tomb is placed in the middle of the tomb.

On both sides of him are clam shells, carefully placed patterns, one dragon and one tiger, extremely vivid.

The dragon pattern is 1.78 meters long and 0.67 meters high, and the tiger pattern is 1.39 meters long and 0.63 meters high.

The dragon and the tiger sandwich the owner of the tomb in a guarding manner, like the patron saint of the tomb owner for thousands of years.

It happened to be the year of the dragon in the lunar calendar at that time, and PY was also the hometown of Zhuanxu, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor. The unearthing of this "China's first dragon" immediately caused a sensation in all walks of life.

History books once recorded: "Zhuanxu rode a dragon to the four seas, to Youling in the north, to Jiaozhi in the south, to Quicksand in the west, and to Panmu in the east."

Therefore, some experts speculated at that time that the owner of the tomb in Room 45 was Zhuanxu, one of the "Five Emperors".

The appearance of this dragon shows that as early as 6000 years ago, "dragon" already had a complete image in people's minds, and it did not evolve from other animals in later generations.

People can't help but think of the various records of dragons in history books.

For example, in "Historical Records Fengchan Shu", "The former Qin Wengong went hunting and won the black dragon".

In "New Book of Tang", "At the end of Zhenyuan, Zijiang got more than ten feet of Longzhang".

Or "Jiangxi Tongzhi" in "December in winter, Longjian Fengcheng Tanaka, more than forty feet long, with a head like scales, flew away in seven days with wind and rain" and so on.

These records, together with the unearthed "China's first dragon", make people wonder, is the dragon a creature imagined in legends, or a real species that actually existed?
After the discovery of the PY Xishuipo site, archaeologist Zou Heng once wrote an inscription: "Chinese civilization has its own origin, dragons and tigers exist, and the iron evidence is as strong as a mountain."

In 1995, PY also held an academic seminar on "Dragon Culture and the Chinese Nation". At the meeting, PY was officially named "Dragon Township", which represented its status as the origin of dragon culture.

Now this "China's No. [-] Dragon" is hidden in the Nanhe PY Museum, and was once included in primary school Chinese textbooks.

No matter what people know about it or what they think about the existence of "dragon", the dragon culture has been deeply engraved in the hearts of every Chinese in the thousands of years of time.

This has played an indelible role in our sense of blood belonging and cultural pride.

Chen Wenzhe looked at the brick carving in front of him. There was only a picture of a dragon on it, not a picture of a tiger.

This is not bad, after all, the pattern of dragon and tiger displayed by the shells is just that one.

They were very lucky to be able to get some wall bricks from ancient tombs with dragon pictures on them.

Needless to say, this must be the contribution of the tomb robbers, who must have visited the ancient tomb in advance.

I just don't know, since that ancient tomb was patronized back then, why didn't other things inside it be brought out?

For example, the dragon and tiger pattern placed out of shells, or something else?
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