Master Archaeologist

Chapter 23 Three Jubilees Together
The Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences discovered a bowl of noodles 4000 years ago. Although it is a sensation, the excavation will not stop because of this.

Just when Chen Han and others were busy studying how to reproduce millet noodles.

There was another sensational archaeological discovery at the excavation site.

In July, on the No. [-] and No. [-] construction sites located on the southeast corner of the site, archaeologists from the Qinghai Archaeological Institute discovered a small square from the Qijia culture period.

With more than two months of continuous excavation, important relics such as altars and high-level tombs have been discovered in the area where the square is located, which is very different!
According to past experience, the appearance of altars usually becomes the most important archaeological area of ​​the entire prehistoric site.

More than two months of key excavations have brought a lot of amazing cultural relics unearthed to the Qinghai Archaeological Institute. Almost every day, news of great discoveries spreads at the archaeological site.

Even Kong Jianwen, after hearing the rumors for several days, couldn't hide his curiosity, and walked to the No. [-] construction site with his hands behind his back, wanting to see what was going on.

As soon as he arrived at the No. [-] construction site, he saw the obvious ruins of the small square.

Just to the north of the small square site, there is an altar that is about 2 meters above the ground of the square, relying on the topography of the loess slope, and artificially piled up an altar.

It was in the center of this altar that the Qinghai Institute of Archaeologists discovered the special rectangular vertical pit tomb, which was also the focus of excavation by colleagues of the Qinghai Institute of Archeology.

Kong Jianwen walked up to the altar, and at a glance, he saw three people from the Qinghai Archaeological Institute, who were cleaning and finishing around a 2.3-meter-long, 0.7-meter-wide, and 1.5-meter-deep square.

Kong Jianwen grabbed an old man who was nearly fifty years old standing on the altar, and asked with a smile: "I said, Lao Li, you have been digging here for two months, what treasures have you dug up?"

"I heard that this tomb is buried with a heavyweight figure from the La family ruins?"

Li Chunchao, the deputy director of the Qinghai Institute of Archeology who was held back by him, smiled, pulled Kong Jianwen aside, and said excitedly, "Old Kong, you are amazing!"

"The background of this tomb is definitely not small."

"The filling soil in the vertical pit is yellow flower soil, and the filling soil in the mouth is made of red soil and loess."

"A circle of red soil was filled outside the socket."

"And according to our excavation, after the tomb was buried, it seems that the entire earth platform including the tomb was covered with red soil!"

"Just looking at the filling of the soil, the identity of the owner of the tomb is not small."

"And it can be proved that in the late Qijia culture, the burial customs of the Chinese people have matured."

Kong Jianwen nodded with a serious face, deeply agreeing.

In Chinese burial culture, among the five earth colors, red earth and loess are the top, followed by blue earth and white earth, and black is the worst.

Red soil and loess have always been the "auspicious" soil in the eyes of Chinese people, and later evolved into the so-called geomantic treasure land in Feng Shui.

The black soil is considered a fierce place and cannot be used to bury ancestors.

Before the excavation of this kind of tomb culture at the Lajia site, the earliest actual evidence that can be found can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

No matter how early, there is no relevant unearthed evidence.

However, in the Lajia ruins 4000 years ago, a grave that was carefully buried and backfilled with loess and red soil was discovered!

This shows that at least in the late Qijia culture, Chinese ancestors already had the funeral culture that yellow and red soil are auspicious soil!

This is amazing!

Even if no cultural relics were found in the tomb, the discovery of these two colored soils alone is of great significance to the Chinese culture traceability project!

"It's amazing, it's amazing." Kong Jianwen murmured softly.

"What's even more remarkable is yet to come." Li Chunchao raised his eyebrows proudly, and continued:

"A total of eight pieces of jade wares and jade materials were regularly placed in the filling of the mouth of the set and the entrance of the shaft, each of which is very precious!"

"The most precious of them are the two pieces of three huanglianbi!"

Kong Jianwen smashed his lips, feeling quite emotional: "Jade bi, the Dawenkou culture in Shandong has unearthed jade bi before, right?"

Shandong is not far from Qinghai at 01:30.

Moreover, the Dawenkou Culture unearthed in Shandong is a Neolithic culture from 6500 to 4500 years ago, spanning 2000 years.

When the Dawenkou culture perished, the Qijia culture at the Lajia ruins was still in its heyday!

One to the east and the other to the west, two Neolithic cultures developed independently over thousands of kilometers away, but all of them had the habit of making jade bi as a ritual vessel.

Coincidentally?

Jade bi, one of the six ancient utensils.

The six utensils are jade bi, jade cong, jade gui, jade hu, jade zhang, and jade huang, which are ritual utensils for offering sacrifices to heaven and earth in ancient times.

There are records in the literature, the earliest is in "Zhou Li".

But in fact, these six kinds of jade wares have been used as sacrificial ritual vessels by the Chinese people for a very long time, and they have been widely used as early as the Neolithic Age.

And it's amazing, whether it's the Neolithic sites in the Yangtze River Basin or the Neolithic sites in the Yellow River Basin.

Jade biscuits made of jade have been unearthed from Qinghai to Gansu to the coastal Shandong area.

This can fully prove that between 5000 and [-] years ago, there were sufficient exchanges among the tribes living in the land of China!
Otherwise, if all the tribal ages in various places developed independently, it would be impossible for such a coincidence that everyone developed the same ritual vessel!

Even these six ritual vessels have been passed down from the Neolithic period to the last feudal dynasty in China!

It is a culture that has been inherited in one continuous line and has never been cut off!

This means that the Chinese people, at least 5000 years ago, have already started to form tribal alliances!

Otherwise, it is impossible to pass a kind of ritual vessel, a kind of sacrificial culture!

This is why the Xia Dynasty, and even the existence of Yao, Shun and Yu, are still believed by Chinese archaeologists.

According to the Neolithic jade artifacts unearthed from sporadic archaeology, different tribes separated by hundreds of kilometers are also inextricably linked with each other.

This shows that in the late Neolithic period, there must have been an organizational structure higher than "tribes", linking tribes in different regions together.

And it is the source culture of Chinese civilization and the starting point of Chinese civilization.

Maybe it was the tribal alliance, maybe it was the earliest Fangguo, maybe it was some other system.

However, it can be said with certainty that a connection higher than a single tribe is definitely considered a "civilization"!

A city-state in the West can be considered a civilization, so why is the aggregation of interconnected tribes in China not considered a civilization?

Is it because there are not enough large-scale cities, writings, and metal tools unearthed?
Who said that only those who start using metal and have writing are considered civilized?

It is absolutely impossible for the development of world civilization to be in exactly the same vein.

The Chinese ancestors developed civilization first in the Stone Age, isn't it impossible?

Fuck his grandma's legs!

The so-called "three elements of civilization" by Westerners should not be applied to Chinese people who are independent of Western civilization!
　Different tribes may develop the same tools, such as knives, axes, spears, shields, swords and other tools and weapons.

　　However, it is difficult for two completely independent cultures to develop the same ritual utensils.

　　It is not uncommon for tools such as axes to be unearthed from Neolithic sites around the world.

　　But apart from China, which Western civilization can find the same ritual vessels such as jade bi, jade cong, jade gui, jade hu, jade Zhang, and jade huang?

　　During the Neolithic period in China, different cultures were far apart. In the tombs of important "chieftains", many funerary objects similar to six vessels were unearthed.

　　This shows that the various cultures and tribes in the Neolithic period definitely had frequent exchanges, and they did not develop independently. Otherwise, the sacrificial culture and ritual vessels would definitely be different.

　　Therefore, I am more inclined to believe that Chinese prehistoric legends are artistically processed based on real history.

　　Probably about 5000 years ago, there was indeed a group of tribes led by Emperor Yan, a group of tribes led by Huangdi, and a group of tribes led by Chiyou, fighting in the Central Plains.

　　Of course, these three leaders may not be called Yandi Huangdi Chiyou, but there are definitely three prestigious tribes.

　　Then the three tribes fought and merged, and a large tribal alliance was born. Yao, Shunyu was the "leader" elected by this tribal alliance.

　　In the end, Qijiatianxia replaced Chanren, ended the tribal era, and established "Xia".

　　Of course, this is my family’s opinion, so you don’t have to believe it all, and I will not write this conjecture as an iron-clad “historical truth” in the book, but only explore it.

　　In the end, archeology still needs to use unearthed facts to speak.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)