Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1474 Sincere Hope

This is indeed the case. For example, the Zhou Dynasty was once a small and remote tribe for the Shang Dynasty. Similarly, for the Zhou Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty was just a horseman sent to the minority areas in the west to fend for itself.

Then the once powerful declined, the once declining became stronger, and the once weak culture developed into a strong culture. The Zhou Dynasty finally used the ritual system to end the witchcraft of the Shang Dynasty; the Qin State used the rule of law and the military merit system, and finally Destroyed six countries.

The two of them just admired the cultural relics piled here and casually discussed topics of mutual interest.

For example, the practice of painting pottery with mud coating, Zhou Zhi believed that this technique was later inherited by porcelain.

Before the advent of porcelain, the ancients also invented a method of glazing, which was to stuff fresh pine branches into the kiln when the pottery was about to come out of the kiln, so that the pine branches would produce a large amount of oily smoke, which would penetrate into the surface of the pottery, forming a glaze. "Carburized glaze" is the earliest method of glazing pottery in ancient times.

However, in the Daxi culture, after the production of many pottery is completed, the body will be trimmed, and then a layer of more delicate mud will be brushed to make the surface of the fired object smoother.

Just replace this loess mud with a porcelain stone called "glazed fruit" to make porcelain stone mud, and then raise the furnace temperature, and porcelain will appear.

To this day, many small kilns in towns and villages still retain this method of making porcelain.

Judging from the technique alone, it is no different from the "decorative pottery" of Daxi Culture.

"As for the question you mentioned about why Sanyuan Palace, which is closer to Qujialing, retains a more independent cultural type than Daxi itself and is less affected by the culture of the middle and lower reaches, I have some other thoughts. "Sheng Zhaoming said.

"Oh? Professor, have you discovered the reason?"

"It should be said that this is a train of thought. Of course, it was also inspired by the great discovery of the Youzou Reservoir area." Sheng Zhaoming led Zhou Zhi to the map on the wall: "Come and see, the age of the site, along the Wujiang River and Youshui River , can we find some patterns?"

"Yes! Cultural channel!" Zhou Zhi suddenly said: "There is also the Yangtze River, spreading along the river to the area east of Qutang Gorge!"

"Yeah!" Sheng Zhaoming said with great appreciation when he saw Zhou Zhi: "Daxi culture is inseparable from fishing and hunting. To fish and hunt, there must be a large river. So the reason why the type of Sanyuan Palace is relatively independent is that it just avoids Have these three paths of cultural communication been opened?”

"It seems to make sense! They left the main river and found a paradise." Zhou Zhi pointed to a lake called Heiyu Lake on the map: "In ancient times, this must have been a very big lake. They ran into Yunmeng Ze to seal it. Developed in a traditional way and lost communication with the outside world!”

Of course, these discussions, apart from the fact that the Daxi Civilization communicated with the outside world along three rivers, are more reliable, and the independence of the Sanyuan Palace type can only be classified as "guess" at present.

Archeology is a very serious subject and a science. Any inference with insufficient empirical evidence can only be named "conjecture." The reason why Daxi Culture can become an independent culture is because there are more than two thousand archaeological artifacts. of.

Moreover, these cultural relics are closely related to each other, regardless of processing methods, cultural symbols, types of artifacts, house formats, storage sizes, living accumulation layers, content composition, etc., they are all closely related and restricted.

This is true for a culture with thousands of cultural relics and dozens of archaeological sites, not to mention a civilization with millions of cultural relics and countless huge ruins.

If you want to forge a project as big as the Great Wall, the people, materials, and national finances that need to be used will not leave any flaws. The most important thing is that the proposition of "forging monuments and miracles for the sake of national self-confidence" is full of absurd temperament. . With so much money, wouldn't it be more confident to build more warships and guns?

There are parts of Daxi culture that are beyond many modern people’s understanding of Neolithic humans. However, instead of questioning these things as fakes, it is better to question your own lack of knowledge and start studying for yourself from the undergraduate course in archeology.

For example, Daxi people like to make a kind of pottery ball. The pottery ball is hollow and has six pottery particles inside, which will make a sound when shaken. Currently, Sheng Zhaoming named it "pottery ringer".

This kind of thing is very beautifully made, in the shape of a ball or a xun. In addition to the built-in pottery ball, there are also holes drilled on the outside for stringing ropes.

There are also dot marks on the surface made by a very neat tooth comb, making the pottery ball look a bit like a modern softball.

The sound produced by this kind of utensil is very small, so it is impossible to use it as a ritual utensil in public. Some people suspect that it is a toy used to amuse babies at home.

Zhou Zhi felt that this speculation was a bit unreasonable. At that time, people had so much leisure and spent so much energy to make a fragile toy for babies?

There is also a musical instrument that is similar in shape to a pottery sounder, but more similar to a xun, and the indentation of the tooth comb is also similar.

This thing is even more magical. A combination of several holes can produce three musical scales.

Such a complex and exquisite pottery making process must use pottery molds. If the pottery mold craftsmanship is used, it must be called a "standard ware." In other words, the Daxi people five or six thousand years ago already had "standard ware." Craftsmanship standards", this thing is far more shocking than the appearance of the pottery sound ware itself!

Zhou Zhi intuitively believed that the things he made would not be used to amuse babies.

In the semi-cave-style round house with bamboo walls, Daxi wizards use pottery ringers and xun-shaped instruments to play rattles with a cautious expression in the smoke-filled thatched house, and use faint chants and music to entertain the sleepers. Is it more reasonable to provide hospice care to the old man on the straw bed and change the application scenario of these two items to the other side of life?

Sheng Zhaoming couldn't help but sigh: "Although it has not been proven so far that these two artifacts were used in this way, I sincerely hope that it is the same as your guess."

The blue strands of the road open up the mountains and forests. The life of the Daxi people is the same as that of countless ancestors on the land of China. It is imaginable that they have worked hard. To express it in English, rest in peace may be a kind of luxury.

Of course, there are far more relics in the Daxi area. From the Neolithic Age to the Pre-Qin Dynasty, the War of the Han Dynasty, to the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are many tombs that are in urgent need of rescue excavation.

Of course, the most important thing is the Daxi Cultural Site. When the water level rises, the relationship between the Daxi Culture, the Qujialing Culture, the Yangshao Culture, and the Sanyuan Palace type will really remain a mystery forever.

After asking Sheng Zhaoming about his current difficulties at work, taking notes, and promising that the foundation would provide critical support, Zhou Zhi returned to the ship with a full harvest.

After preparing the meal with Huang Lin, Li Laosan and Lin Wanqiu came back with their friends, laughing and joking.

(End of this chapter)