Master Archaeologist

Chapter 351 Yu Chao? !
Except for the conjecture that Dayu came from Liangzhu.

In fact, Wei Lai had another guess in his mind.

That is, the ancient country of Liangzhu, perhaps also the legendary "Yu Dynasty".

This is the result of his mutual confirmation based on the existing archaeological findings and records in historical books.

But it's just his personal guess.

The source of the guess is this:
"Chunqiu Zuo Zhuan Zhengyi" said: "China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; it has the beauty of obedience, so it is called Hua."

China's "great etiquette" also originated from Liangzhu culture.

In addition to the six vessels of Huaxia, which are an important symbol of the Chinese ritual system, the Circular Mound and the Society of the Emperors of the past dynasties are the most important ritual systems of the ancient Huaxia people, both of which originated from the Liangzhu Culture.

Regarding Yuanqiu, it is a round altar for worshiping heaven. "Zhou Li Chun Guan Da Si Yue" contains: "The winter solstice is played on the round mound on the ground. Tell us that on the winter solstice day, the king of Zhou will sacrifice to the sky in the round mound.

In ancient people's consciousness, the sky is round, that is, the sky is round and the place is round, so the round mound is round.Liao Ji is a ceremony of burning firewood to sacrifice to heaven, and it is held in Yuanqiu.Therefore, Yuanqiu has two characteristics: one is round, and the other is burnt.

The ruins of circular mounds used for burning sacrifices have been found in Liangzhu Ancient City, Wujin Temple Pier, Haining Heye, Daze Temple, Shanghai Guangfulin, Jinshan Tomb, Fuquan Mountain and other Liangzhu sites.

You may not know what the Circular Mound is. The Circular Mound Altar in the south of the Temple of Heaven in BJ is the central building of the Temple of Heaven.

The Circular Mound Altar of the Temple of Heaven is a carved three-story open-air round platform. The surface of the altar is made of Aiye Qingshi, carved with white marble railings and columns.

The stone components of the altar surface, steps, and railings of the Circular Mound are all nine or multiples of nine, that is, yang numbers, which are used to symbolize the sky.

The round stone slab in the center of the altar is called Tianxin Stone.

The source of such an important ceremony and shape of the emperor's personal sacrifice is the circular mound created by the Liangzhu culture.

Regarding "she", it is also called she sacrifice, also known as she sacrifice. It refers to the country, and it is a ritual inherited by all dynasties in China.

"Guanzi Qing Chongwu": "There is a king of Yu... who seals the earth as a society and puts trees as a house, and the people know the rituals."

The pre-Qin documents make it clear that social sacrifices originated in the Yu Dynasty and were inherited by the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.

Field archeology demonstrates that community sacrifices originated from the Liangzhu culture, and they can be found everywhere in hundreds of Liangzhu sites all over Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui, and have formed the basic form of later generations. The above-mentioned classics record that society sacrifices originated in the Yu Dynasty, while Archaeological evidence has found that the earliest relics of social sacrifices are all over the Liangzhu culture and not found in other earlier cultures. It can be seen that the ancient Liangzhu country is likely to be the Yu Dynasty before Xia.

This is the archaeological double evidence method.

Regarding the chronology of the Yu Dynasty, "Han Feizi Xianxue" says: "Yin and Zhou are more than [-] years old, Yu and Xia are more than [-] years old", "Now I want to examine the way of Yao and Shun before [-] years old."

Han Feizi was born around 280 BC and died around 233 BC.

According to his statement that "the way of trying to judge Yao and Shun before the age of 3000 years" was pushed back 3300 years, it happened to be around 3300 BC. From this, it can be inferred that the Yu Dynasty was established before about 5300 BC. Coincidentally, It coincides closely with the Liangzhu culture isotope test results about [-] years ago.

It is completely consistent with the conclusion that the ancient Liangzhu state is the Yu Dynasty based on the dual evidence method of "sheji" classic records and archaeological evidence.

Regarding the land of the Yu Dynasty, all the dynasties in later generations were named after the land.

For example, Xia originated from Daxia, Shang originated from Shangqiu, and the Yu Dynasty was named because of its location in Wangyu (Wu).

The oracle bone inscriptions in the Yin Ruins have seen "Wu", that is, "Yu", which means that the name of Wu was earlier than the state of Wu where the Taibo of the Western Zhou Dynasty fled to Wu.

According to "Shuowen Jiezi", the word "Yu" was born from the word "Wu".

"Yu" and "Wu" are connected, and the ancient sounds are in the same part of fish. "Yu" and "Wu" have been different since ancient times. All ancient scholars have no doubts, and they are also common in all ancient books.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the Yu Dynasty was named after the land of Wuyue in southern Jiangsu, Shanghai and northern Zhejiang.

Once again, it fully agrees with the conclusion that the ancient Liangzhu state was the Yu Dynasty based on the dual evidence method of "sheji" classics records and archaeological evidence.

Starting from the capital, even by train, it will not take long to arrive in Hangzhou.

Yuhang, where the Liangzhu site is located, is a district of Hangzhou.

The Liangzhu site is very large, spanning three modern town-level administrative units.

However, the core areas of the Liangzhu ruins are all in Pingyao Town, and the core part is located in Liangzhu Ancient City. "Fanshan, Mojiaoshan, Huiguanshan, and 11 dams" are all in Pingyao.

The Liangzhu ancient city site is located on Fengdu Road, Pingyao Town, Yuhang District, HZ City, ZJ Province, in the border area between the hills of western Zhejiang and the Hangjiahu Plain.

The terrain here is high in the west and low in the east, and the south and north are branches of the Tianmu Mountains. The Dongtiao River and Liangzhu Port flow eastward from the north and south sides of the city respectively. Southwest and Northeast corners.

The Liangzhu ancient city site covers a total area of ​​3 square kilometers. The Liangzhu culture dates from 5300 to 4300 years ago and has continued to develop for about 1000 years. It belongs to the archaeological culture of the late Neolithic age.

Distributed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, a total of 136 ruins have been discovered, including more than 300 high-level cemeteries, altars, jade ritual vessel systems, and large palace foundations.

The site of Liangzhu ancient city is known as "the first city in China". The water conservancy system around Liangzhu ancient city is the earliest large-scale water conservancy project known so far in China, and it is also the earliest dam in the world. Centers of power and belief in regional early states.

"The pottery unearthed in Liangzhu is the most distinctive one made of muddy gray body and polished black leather pottery. It is made of wheels and has regular shapes. Most of the pottery is ring-footed. It is decorated with hollow holes, slub patterns, and string patterns, and there are also painted paintings."

"A lot of jade articles have been found, including bi, cong, huang, ring, beads, etc., most of which were unearthed in tombs."

"Sites of the same type as the Liangzhu site are widely distributed in southern Jiangsu in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the south of the Qiantang River, and are collectively referred to as the "Liangzhu Culture" in the archaeological community."

On the way to Hangzhou, Kong Jianwen continued to introduce Liangzhu culture.

Liangzhu culture is a culture with a large scope.

The ancient city of Liangzhu found in Yuhang is just a capital city, similar to the city-states of ancient Greece.

But this does not mean that there is only such a city in Liangzhu.

In fact, sites of the same type as the Liangzhu Culture have been found from the southern Jiangsu region in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the Qiantang River region.

That is to say, the scope of the Liangzhu people's rule at that time should have included Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

Yuhang is the capital area.

This is why most historians believe that Liangzhu is already a feudal state that has entered the era of centralization, not a tribe.

"At the end of 1982, archaeologists unearthed a large number of stone, jade, pottery and other relics at the Yingpanshan site in Pukou, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Among them, the earliest dragon-shaped jade ornaments were unearthed. The two dragons are "head-raising dragons", The neck is lifted up, and the other is a "head-bowing dragon", the dragon's head is bent down."

"In 1986 and 1987, a large number of funerary objects were unearthed from Liangzhu tombs, of which jade wares accounted for more than 90%. The jade wares symbolizing wealth, the jade cong symbolizing divine power, and the jade ax symbolizing military power provided precious materials for studying the origin of class .”

"Moreover, many major museums in the world have re-identified and named the old jade wares, so that some of them were mistaken for Han jade, but actually the history of Liangzhu jade wares has been pushed back by more than 2000 years."

"Furthermore, the silk fragments unearthed from the Liangzhu Culture were woven first and then woven. This is the earliest silk fabric found in my country so far. This piece of silk from 4700 to 5200 years ago can be called "the world's first piece of silk." "

"Mr. Wang Suijin and others demonstrated that the "origin of silk" originated in the Yangtze River Delta, and the ancient Yellow River and the Northwest were passed from Hemudu, Liangzhu and other Jiangnan silk cultures to the north."

"In 1994, the foundation site of a super-giant building was discovered, covering an area of ​​more than 30 square meters. It was confirmed that it was a large earth platform piled up artificially. The thickest part of the soil layer was 10.2 meters. The vastness of the project is rare in the world."

"The archaeological community believes that the Liangzhu culture is a source of Chinese civilization."

Kong Jianwen's narrations are all commonplace topics.

Everyone felt nothing special.

However, Professor Li then said quite meaningfully: "Now, there is a saying in the academic circles that the ancient country of Liangzhu may be the legendary country of the Chengjiu clan."

Liangzhu is Yu Chao's guess, the argument comes from Zhihu: User of Astana Symphony, hereby attach the name.

　Liangzhu is Yu Chao's guess, and the argument comes from Zhihu: Astana Symphony users.

　　
　
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