Master Archaeologist

Chapter 18 The man who discovered the world's first bowl of noodles!

9 month 26 number.

Qinghai, Minhe County, Guanting Town, Lajia Village.

07:30 in the evening.

After dinner, the people from the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences dragged their exhausted bodies and gathered again in the lobby on the first floor of the residence where they stayed.

Although the weather in September is not as hot as July and August, everyone is exhausted after a day of excavation work.

However, no one dared to say no to the team leader Kong Jianwen who wanted to hold a meeting.

One after another, more than 30 people gathered on the first floor. After finding benches and chairs to sit down, they stared at each other.

Chen Han also sat in a corner with several brothers in the same dormitory, chatting with each other.

After thumping his sore waist and spine from bending over for a long time at work, Chen Han asked suspiciously:
"Brother, do you know what meeting the teacher is going to have today?"

"I don't know. It's probably related to the suspected noodle remains we found last time."

Zhuang Yunpeng pouted angrily, and signaled Chen Han to look at an archaeologist with half-haired hair sitting in the front row.

"Nah, when we were having dinner just now, I heard from Professor Li that news came from the Academy of Sciences in the afternoon, saying that the composition of the ball of "noodles" had been identified."

"Professor Li also played tricks on us by not telling us what the ingredients are."

"It's just that when the teacher received the call, he was taken aback."

Chen Han's curiosity was immediately aroused by Zhuang Yunpeng's few words.

With a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, he pondered his guess and said, "Since I was shocked, it must not be wheat?"

"In addition, there are two kinds of noodles that are more common now, barley and buckwheat."

"However, the history of eating highland barley is only a few hundred years, and it is mostly found in snowy areas. Although Qinghai is quite close to the snowy area, it is not a plateau after all, and it is not suitable for planting highland barley."

"Buckwheat is a possibility, but since the teacher was surprised by the result, buckwheat can also be ruled out."

After Chen Han stroked his chin and analyzed for a while, he clapped his hands fiercely: "I know!"

"It should be made from millet or millet!"

Zhuang Yunpeng looked at him in astonishment: "Ah? Why?"

"Do you need to ask why?" Chen Han said with a speechless expression: "Before the Tang Dynasty, the ancestors living in northern China always used millet or millet as their main source of food."

"So if they want to make noodles, they must only use these two kinds of food crops to make it!"

Although it is said that there was already the theory of five grains in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Rice, millet, millet, wheat, bean.

But rice is mainly eaten by southerners, that is, the land of Chu and Yue.

Because wheat has not mastered the grinding technology, before the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was basically not shelled, and it was steamed and eaten directly with the shell, which was very unpopular with the ancients. Very few people grew it, and few people ate it.

Shu, that is, soybeans, was generally used as the main food by the people at the bottom in the pre-Qin period.

The lowest-level soldiers of the Qin State unified the six countries by relying on bowls of bean rice (bean rice) and sauce!

In fact, during the long history from Zhou to Tang, the staple food of people in northern China was mainly "millet".

From nobles and emperors to ordinary people with land, millet has been the staple food for generations.

And this millet is millet, which is now millet.

Millet is an ancient crop that originated in China!
It is the Chinese ancestors of the Neolithic Age, who selected and bred the largest "excellent" individual from the dogtail grass generation after generation, and artificially cultivated crops!

Especially in the past 50 years, many Neolithic sites have been unearthed one after another, and the food crops excavated by prehistoric archaeologists are mostly millet.

Whether it is based on actual unearthed evidence or historical records.

It can be determined that from the prehistoric civilization of China to the Tang Dynasty, millet or millet was basically the staple food in the Central Plains.

It was not until the end of the Song Dynasty that rice and wheat gradually developed, and millet retreated to the second line.

As the site of the late Neolithic period, the Lajia site is located in the Yellow River Basin. It is quite normal for the ancestors of the Lajia to eat millet as their staple food.

Chen Han got this answer just after a little speculation based on geography, culture and historical origin.

Sure enough, Kong Jianwen, who came late holding a teacup, sat down, and the first thing he said was:

"Colleagues, let me tell you some good news!"

"The ingredients of the suspected noodle remains found in the F20 detection site have been tested by the Academy of Sciences. The main ingredients are very similar to millet and millet!"

"In other words, this is a bowl of pasta made from millet and millet!"

"As a food widely spread all over the world, the origin of noodles has always been controversial!"

"However, the discovery of this bowl of noodles 4000 years ago can finally settle the debate about the origin of noodles!"

"We, Huaxia, are the birthplace of noodles!"

With a bang, the applause was thunderous.

All the colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences present cheered and applauded excitedly.

This is a world-class archaeological discovery!
It just fell into the hands of the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, how can we not make them excited!

Everyone looked at Chen Han who was the first to discover this bowl of noodles, as if they were looking at some rare treasure.

No wonder they do.

There will definitely be no shortage of research surrounding this bowl of noodles.

I don't know how many papers and reports will appear to subvert the archaeological world!

And the word "Chen Han" will become more and more famous along with the Lajia ruins and the news about this bowl of noodles.

At least one title of "the earliest noodle discoverer in the world" is inseparable from him in this life.

To a layman, this might seem like nothing.

But for those in the field of archaeology.

Most people work hard all their lives, that is, they hope that they can become the first archaeologists to discover "XXX cultural relics" and "XXX ruins".

Of course, the "XXX" here must be a world-class discovery.

For example, Howard Carter, the British explorer who discovered the Pyramid of Tutankhamun and led the excavation team.

Obviously, in the future, when Chen Han is in the circle, whenever someone mentions it, everyone will think of it.

"Oh, he's the man who discovered the world's first bowl of noodles!"

In any case, it is foreseeable that Chen Han will definitely become famous in the domestic archaeological circles, and he will still be famous.

The way Zhuang Yunpeng looked at Chen Han also became weird.

It's not that he envies his fame, Zhuang Yunpeng has already prepared for this matter.

What he didn't expect was that Chen Han actually guessed right.

This bowl of noodles is really made of millet and millet.

It took the people of the Academy of Sciences a week to make the test report, but Chen Han guessed it in 5 minutes.

It's a pity not to do criminal investigation with this head.

"Cough cough."

After everyone cheered and applauded for a while, Kong Jianwen coughed a few times, stretched out his hand and pressed a few times, signaling for everyone to calm down.

After the atmosphere at the scene recovered a bit of tranquility, he said again with a serious face:

"The news is indeed good news."

"Next, the focus of our research will revolve around this bowl of noodles!"

"How much this small bowl of noodles means to our Huaxia, I don't think I need to emphasize it too much!"

"Such an important archaeological discovery must be implemented and made public as soon as possible!"

"Relevant research reports, as well as photos of the first site of excavation, should be sorted out as soon as possible."

"This is a shocking discovery, and it is also a shot in the arm for the Chinese culture traceability project!"

"Facts have proved that the civilization development of our Chinese people is no worse than any civilization!"

"Let those doubters take a good look at it, the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese ancestors!"

"Don't connect your own cultural things with other people's foreign civilizations every day!"

"Wake up and wake up their cultural self-confidence!"

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