Master Archaeologist

Chapter 380 The Finale
After more than half a year of excavation work in the new phase of Liangzhu, archaeologists from more than a dozen archaeological research institutes from all over the world have once again achieved a breakthrough research.

According to molecular anthropological research on archaeological sites, it was finally determined that Liangzhu y chromosome haplogroups were all O1 type.

What is the O1 type?

To put it simply, about 6.91% of the Han people have this gene, and the proportion of O1 among the Han people in the south has reached 15.34%. Based on the absolute number of people, at least 9000 million Han people belong to the O1 type.

Of course, some people will say that China has a population of more than one billion, and only over 9000 million people carry the O1 type. It seems that this number of people is not the "majority"!

But in fact, "Huaxia" or Huaxia people are originally a multi-ethnic group.

Even going back thousands of years to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and even the earlier Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Chinese ancestors have been conquering and incorporating foreign genes.

The Qiang people and Guifang who are far away, the Rongdi, Zhongshan, Huaiyi, and Chuyue people who are closer, and the Hu people and Huns who are closer...

Even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, chieftains of ethnic minorities in the southwest have always been integrated into the big collective of China.

The definition of "Chinese people" has never been based on genes, blood, or race.

For example, in Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, and even further south in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, there are also many modern people with O1 type genes, but does this mean that they are also Liangzhu people?

of course not.

Regarding Liangzhu, there are still too many things that can be explored, and there are still too many secrets waiting to be studied by generations of Chinese archaeologists.

That's the same as Spain and Portugal, Northern Ireland and Ireland, Russia and Belarus...

The ancestors of the Liangzhu period, although their country and civilization may have been destroyed by a certain catastrophe, their descendants did not die off. Instead, they continued to thrive in the southeastern region of China and became the main people of the "Jiangnan region". .

In fact, the researchers headed by Chen Han, based on the continuity of O1 in time and space, have basically determined the O1 population in Zhejiang and Modu, from the Neolithic Age to modern times...the population there may not have been replaced!
That is to say, the people in this area may be descendants of Liangzhu.

Based on the above conclusions, these people can basically be determined to be the direct descendants of the Liangzhu people.

For example, the remaining ethnic minorities such as Gaoshan, Commoner, Zhuang, and Tujia have their own national cultures, and they have always resisted the integration of Han civilization in history, and finally continued to modern times, and they are not the main civilization of China.

People with the O1 gene living in other places still live their own independent lives.

Civilization, culture, and development have nothing to do with each other!

However, these ethnic groups no longer exist, and all descendants have been integrated into the Han nationality. It can be said that they have completely become a part of the Han nationality.

According to historical records, we can be sure that this group of people is Yu Yue and Yang Yue who used to be in Baiyue.

After all, you can't expect a country that ruled millions or even tens of millions of square kilometers to emerge in an era when travel was all about walking five or six thousand years ago, right?
This is the same as the vassal states in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. Their genotypes may be the same and they may marry each other, but they are different countries.

The southern population fled south to Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean, or formed their own nation.

As soon as this research came out, it can be said that the domestic and even Asian academic circles were in an uproar!
The Liangzhu civilization has been confirmed in terms of culture and genes. It is one of the sources of the main civilization of China, and it is the undoubted ancestor of China!
This discovery is undoubtedly very encouraging to the Chinese people!
Because the civilization history of the Chinese people will be extended to 6000 years ago!

The integrity, age, scale, and connotation of the Liangzhu site were all ranked high at the time, compared with Sumerian Uruk, the ancient city of Ur, the ancient city of Eridu, and ancient Egyptian Thebes and Memphis. Don't give up.

Chen Han is just one of the archaeologists who have devoted themselves to the archaeological research of the Liangzhu site for several generations.

The O1 gene population in the hometown of Liangzhu was packaged and integrated into the Han people in the Zhejiang and Shanghai areas during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Liangzhu is too big!
Liangzhu, this is the most important site in the great history of Chinese civilization, and it is also one of the important sources of Chinese civilization.

Even the O3 type, which has the most genes in China, currently only has about 6 million people, but could it be said that the remaining 6 million people in China have been expelled from China?
Moreover, the Miao Yao O3 in southern China accounted for 51.41%, the Dulong nationality was 100%, and the South Island people O3 accounted for 26.31%. Could it be that these ethnic minorities have more orthodox blood than the Han people, and they are the most pure Chinese people?

The O1 population in Liangzhu is one of the ancestral lineages of modern Chinese people and the source of culture, but other O1 populations in the south are not the source of Chinese civilization and culture, or even the main culture.

Although Liangzhu has not yet discovered writing, no one will doubt that Liangzhu is not an early civilization, Fang Guo!
Because, Liangzhu's comprehensive level of civilization is really not low at all!

These ethnic groups and Liangzhu people are not the same group.

How can an ancient country with a capital, water conservancy facilities, altars, outer cities, farming culture, and water transportation system be called not a civilization?
Just because there is no systematic text found for the time being?
Moreover, the statement "no text" cannot be concluded for the time being. It can only be said that it has not been discovered yet!

Of course, if it is not the O1 type in the gene, then they are all Liangzhu people.

In fact, genes are very complicated, and humans carried out large-scale migration tens of thousands of years ago.

Therefore, Liangzhu people are indeed Han Chinese, which is almost beyond doubt.

Liangzhu is also the largest among these 5000-year-old ancient cities, with the most complete water conservancy system and the largest engineering construction.

It's just that Qin Shihuang came out later and unified China again. Otherwise, if this continues to modern times, everyone is not a country, and they don't even recognize each other as a nation.

Genetically, we may be relatives, but culturally, in terms of identification with the ethnic group, we are not the same at all.

On this land, which covers an area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers, and may even be larger and more extensive, even though Chinese archaeologists have studied it for decades, they are only at the beginning.

A long time ago, O1 in Shanghai, Zhejiang and O1 in the South were not the same crowd!
In other words, in the old land of Liangzhu, a group of ancient people with the O6000 genotype established a kingdom called Liangzhu 1 years ago.

Maybe he has a little more talent than others, and he also has a little more help from the mysterious system than others.

But in the matter of archaeology, there has never been a shortcut. Every archaeologist needs to be meticulous, and use the process of sifting the soil bit by bit to excavate Liangzhu inch by inch!

For Chen Han, his archaeological journey has just begun.

In the future, there are still too many secrets of Chinese civilization, waiting for him to discover, study, and explore!
The archaeological journey of Chinese civilization will also be a journey of searching for the origin of human civilization that has spread for hundreds or even thousands of years!
The whole book is finished.

(End of this chapter)