Master Archaeologist

Chapter 26 The Way Is Wrong
Who wrote "Shangshu·Yugong" is now impossible to determine.

Previous scholars believed that "Yu Gong" was written by Xia Dynasty historians or even Dayu himself.

But now it has been denied by the academic circles, and it is basically believed to be an article from the later Warring States period, and it was written by Wei people during the Warring States period.

And what about the content of "Yu Gong"?
To put it simply, it is a book about how to govern the world's mountains, rivers and waterways in the tone of "Da Yu".

It talks about how to dredge the Yellow River, starting from a place called Jishi, until it dredges into the sea.

Since the person who wrote this article was from the Warring States period, he obviously had no way of knowing how Dayu controlled the floods back then.

However, the method he proposed to sort out the Yellow River also happened to start from the accumulation of rocks and continue until it enters the sea.

Before the Lajia ruins appeared, this matter could not be taken seriously.

But now it is confirmed that 4000 years ago, an unprecedented flood broke out on the Jishi Gorge, and the time was very close to the legend of Dayu.

Then, the truth of the matter began to become confusing again.

Is there a detailed history of Dayu's flood control during the Warring States period?

That's why this Wei man was able to spy on the occurrence of the great flood during the Dayu period, and wrote this dredging plan?
Or maybe, during the Warring States period, there were still some stories about Dayu's water control experience, and the author of Wei State just compiled them into "Yu Gong", so he called himself "Dayu"?

Or is this "Yu Gong" really just a coincidence that happened to mention Jishi Mountain, the source of the flood?
Now people have no way of knowing the historical truth.

After Kong Jianwen brought up the matter of "Yu Gong", the three senior researchers who were at least at the professor level fell silent.

Everyone has thousands of thoughts floating in their hearts, but they are all pressed in their hearts.

There is still too little evidence to say that there is a thousand words and ten thousand words!
If it can really prove that the great flood that happened 4000 years ago is really the great flood ruled by Dayu.

Then Dayu's water control will become a real history, not just an illusory legend.

That Dayu is real, and his son Qi can also have a conclusion.

Going forward, China's first feudal dynasty "Xia" is no longer a legend without enough evidence to prove it, but has become a truly unquestionable history.

As long as it can be proved that Dayu did exist, then the Xia Dynasty will become a verifiable true history.

As for the Three Emperors and Five Emperors above Dayu, that is not something that scholars can consider now.

After a brief discussion, Li Chunchao and Kong Jianwen left the geological working group with confused thoughts.

Although it is said that during this trip, they solved the cause of the destruction of the Lajia ruins.

But this did not give them the feeling of seeing the sun through the fog.

Instead, a bigger fog rose in his heart.

Is this prehistoric flood related to Dayu's flood control?

If it is really related, is the dating of the Xia Dynasty pushed back by 170 years?
If the beginning of the Xia Dynasty is postponed, the subsequent Shang and Zhou dynasties will be affected, and how can we straighten it out?
All kinds of problems made their heads grow bigger.

However, the discovery of this great flood is still very important.

After returning to the residence of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, Kong Jianwen called everyone together and informed everyone of the research situation of the geological working group.

Sure enough, there was an exclamation.

Chen Han, who was worrying about how to reproduce the bowl of millet noodles, temporarily put this problem behind his mind, and excitedly discussed the prehistoric flood with Zhuang Yunpeng and the others.

Unsurprisingly, everyone associated it with Dayu's flood control, and agreed with Zhang Cheng's conjecture.

Although there is no way to come up with conclusive evidence at once, it is obviously a direction worthy of in-depth research.

Now that this prehistoric flood has been determined.

The Chinese archaeologists can completely cooperate with geologists to carry out a series of scientific research work around this great flood.

Among other things, if we focus on the time point of 1900 BC and the scope of this flood outbreak, and conduct targeted archaeological research, we may be able to find some traces of Dayu's flood control before 1900!
In case, some tools or ruins for water control were found in the 1900 BC strata of a certain river section.

Perhaps the legend of Dayu's flood control will become a solid historical fact!

However, this will be a project that requires a lot of work and will cost a lot of money.

It is not realistic to start such a large project because of an illusory prehistoric flood.

"About the occurrence of this great flood and whether it is related to Dayu's flood control."

"If anyone of you is interested, you can go to the geological working group to ask for some research data, and then write relevant papers and submit them to domestic journals."

Kong Jianwen sighed, and ended this topic that was full of doubts and it would be difficult to give a definite result for a while.

Now the most important thing for the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences is to turn the 4000-year-old bowl of millet noodles discovered by Chen Han from suspected to confirmed.

This is a major event that can completely rewrite the history of the origin of noodles in the world!
He raised his head and looked at Chen Han who was still whispering about the great flood with Zhuang Yunpeng, and asked lightly, "Xiao Chen!"

"How is your team's millet noodle remake, and is there any result?"

When Kong Jianwen asked, everyone present looked at Chen Han.

After Kong Jianwen handed over this subject to Chen Han, everyone was not optimistic that Chen Han and his youngsters could handle this course.

Just think that Kong Jianwen is training young people.

So they all looked at Chen Han and the others with mocking faces, or with smiles on their faces, ready to watch their frustration.

that's the truth.

Facing everyone's teasing eyes, Chen Han stood up with a bitter face, and said awkwardly: "Teacher that"

"We have already tried the Suobing mentioned in "Shiming". Although we can knead millet noodles, they will all break during the cooking process."

"Give us a little more time."

"Since the ancestors of Lajia can do it, it must mean that there is a way. We are looking for a suitable method from the existing noodle making technology and trying it."

Professor Li, who is in charge of the Qin and Han Research Office of the Institute of Archeology, Academy of Social Sciences, laughed, waved his hands and said, "Xiao Chen!"

"I've actually paid attention to your group recently, and I think you may have gone in the wrong direction."

"You have to be clear about one thing, the ancestors of the La family made this bowl of noodles 4000 years ago."

"Do you think they were able to grind millet as finely as modern millet flour 4000 years ago?"

"Can their shelling methods be cleaner than modern industrial machines?"

"I don't know if the other experimental processes are correct, but one thing I can be sure of is that it is absolutely wrong for you to use ready-made millet flour."

"Perhaps, you should try to use raw, unhulled millet, handmade from the first step!"

"From the perspective of the ancestors 4000 years ago, think about how they made millet noodles with a pile of stone tools."

(End of this chapter)