through primitive society

Chapter 628 The Appearance of Pottery (5)
Chou could hear a slight change in the woman's voice, although the change was not obvious, he could still feel it as he was familiar with her.

Most of the men around woke up, and Ti stood up when he heard the movement. Since there were still women asleep, he said in a low voice: "Gory, take some men to the forest to find dry firewood and come back. .”

After waking up but not standing up, Mang raised his eyebrows, and Yuedu became excited... Could it be that the hard thing Ti accidentally found was really a good thing?It was also a little bit of luck, as soon as he arrived outside Mohe, he found something that made Yue excited.

Goli immediately called a few men to leave the cave to pick them up in the woods. Wu Xiyue didn't wait long for the men to come over with some dry firewood.

There is no need to worry about dry firewood in the dense forest, and you can find plenty of it if you look for it casually.

It is a bit difficult to drill wood to make fire. Although it is dry wood, the surface of the dead branches is soaked due to the humidity of the ground. The men use stone axes to cut off the surface and drill twice as hard as usual to get sparks. burst out.

The firewood was finally lit, and Wu Xiyue went to look for the stone flakes thrown out by her at a high speed, bent down and searched carefully for a while, and found something she had been thinking about for a long time, squatting by the fire and putting the things in her hand by the fire for a look ...

Wow!It's really a good thing.Big discovery, big discovery!The stickiness of walking in the mud last night made her mutter, so... so, so so!
"Hey, you really found a good thing. This kind of thing can bring us a lot of use." Wu Xiyue raised her hand with a smile, "We call this kind of hard thing Tao, and we will make Tao The things on the surface are called utensils, and utensils can store food and cook food..."

Wu Xiyue explained the convenience that pottery brought to human beings in one breath, "The hard thing you found is not pottery in the strict sense, it can only be said to be a piece of pottery that was fired unintentionally without any process. "

She talked very happily, but... the men were all in a fog, and had no idea what she was talking about.

The invention of pottery is an important symbol of the development of human civilization. It is the first time that human beings use natural objects to create a brand new thing according to their own will.

People mix clay with water to make various utensils. After drying, they are roasted by fire to produce qualitative changes and form pottery.It opened a new chapter in the utilization and transformation of nature by human beings, and has great epoch-making significance.

The appearance of pottery marks the beginning of the Neolithic Age.The invention of pottery also greatly improved the living conditions of human beings and opened up a new era in the history of human development.

There is still a lack of reliable materials to explain in detail how pottery was invented.

The note in Morgan's "Ancient Society" pointed out: "Gukui was the first person who first proposed the invention of pottery in the ninth century, that is, people coated clay on burning containers to prevent fire. Clay can be used for this purpose. Therefore, pottery has appeared in the world."

In the book "The Origin of the Family, Private Ownership, and the State", Siges further pointed out: It can be proved that in many places, perhaps in all places, the manufacture of pottery is due to the application of clay on woven or wooden containers. It can be produced by fire resistance.

The invention of pottery is not a patented product of the ancient ancestors of a certain region or a certain tribe. It is a long-term practice of human life, and any ancient agricultural tribe and group of people can independently create it.

However, it is still difficult to know the specific age of pottery.

Holding these pottery in her hands, Wu Xiyue was really excited.Nima, she is letting the tribe go directly from the Paleolithic age to the Neolithic age!
It took me a while to explain what pottery is, "Let's put it this way, in the past, the things we used to store water and food were not bamboo tubes, but gourds. Cooking is a stone tool polished with stones! Now, I can put Such things are made into various vessels to represent bamboo jars, bamboo tubes, and stone nests.”

She was just talking about utensils, but the two men, Ti and Mang, thought of another possibility almost in tandem.

Wu Xiyue could see what they were thinking from the bright eyes of the two of them, and pursed her lips and said, "What you think is impossible, I don't have the ability to make Tao a weapon for the time being."

"As long as Yue thinks it is useful to the tribe, I will support it." Hearing this, Ti was not disappointed, he just thought about it.It doesn't matter if you know it's impossible.Looking at Wu Xiyue's cold eyes as gentle as water, "However, how can you make such hard pottery as bamboo pots and gourds?"

Ti asked the doubts of all the men present.

The thing in Wizard Yue's hands is not as soft as grass and vines, so that it can be folded and folded at will... I'm afraid it will break if it is broken with a little force.

Wu Xiyue laughed, "Pottery is made by firing, so it was made of mud before. You all know mud, you can make it however you want!"

Mud?Mud?Mud...God, what use can mud be?

The men's eyes, brains, and hearts are full of big question marks. This mud is something that is stepped on under their feet. This, this, this... Can this still be used for mud?

Seeing their disbelief, Wu Xiyue's face turned green.However, they can't be blamed, they don't understand, because they don't understand.

Taking a deep breath, Wu Xiyue suppressed her joy and said calmly, "Put me a straw basket of the mud you threw out last night, and I'll try it now. If you're lucky, you can see what pottery is today." .” She has never been exposed to this kind of craftsmanship, so she still needs to explore.

Fortunately, the artwork is good, and it is still possible to squeeze out some bottles and cans.

You must know that in the primitive society of our country, some very representative pottery appeared.

Among them, red pottery is a kind of Neolithic pottery.Because the clay contains iron, which is oxidized to ferric oxide during firing, the pottery will appear earth red, brick red or reddish brown, hence the name.There are two types of red pottery: sandy pottery and clay pottery. The hand-made pottery in the early Neolithic age in my country is mainly sandy red pottery.

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