Showing The Exquisite Vein Of Chinese Civilization

Li Ling, a well-known cultural scholar recently, prefaced the book "the great civilization scene: following the first archaeological captain through history". In the book, senior archaeologists and first-team archaeologists from Liu Bin and Xu Hong showed us the archaeological scene of the different stages of Chinese civilization from its embryonic stage to its prosperous stage, and beautifully outlined the skeleton and outline of Chinese history. According to the spread of civilization, according to the historical period of the archaeological excavation of the Chinese civilization, the archaeological discoveries of Liangzhu, er Li, Yin Ruins, Sanxingdui, and Xiaohe cemetery, which are still glittering and glittering in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, are displayed from far away and near to the pictures. A prominent history of ancient Chinese examination.

The whole book is arranged in accordance with the timeline of the Chinese civilization process. According to my own understanding, it can be read from an anthropological perspective, namely, the route and time of human migration. We know that ancient humans walked out of Africa at least two times, the first time they were basically distributed to all continents except the Americas 500 thousand years ago. 5-6 years ago, the second time when the ancient humans started from Africa, they re entered the territory of China from South Asia, Central Asia and the Eurasian steppe. So there are probably at least two main sources of Chinese civilization, one from South Asia to the north from east to west, and the other from southwest to north. Later, as the western population moved eastward, they entered Xinjiang from Central Asia and merged with the aboriginal peoples in the Central Plains before the East. Therefore, we can read this book from the Liangzhu site in the southeast and the tombs of Xiaohe River in Xinjiang to understand the interaction and origin between eastern and Western cultural exchanges, the Central Plains and southeastern cultures and the southwest aboriginal culture.

In the past 5000 years or so, the earth has entered a civilized society and a country has emerged. Liangzhu is one of the most convincing civilizations that China has discovered so far. In terms of scale, social class, productivity development, agriculture and urban planning, it can prove that its social development is no less than that of ancient Egypt, no less than that of West Asia and India River Valley. Liangzhu culture is mainly distributed in the Taihu valley of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It was 5300 to 4300 years ago. It belongs to the late Neolithic period and is in the same period with ancient Egyptian culture. Liangzhu culture extends from the core circle of Yangtze River Delta to southern Shandong, and it also affects the vast regional culture, which includes Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi, and has always been to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In 2007, the Liangzhu ancient city, about 1900 meters in the north and south, and 1700 meters in the East and West, was found. The layout of the city was in line with the shape of the ancient capital of China. Liangzhu's agriculture was very developed. Liangzhu does not have metal or mature words, but jade processing is very developed. The site was not exposed to civilization from the West until it was flooded. As the earliest civilization discovered by archaeology, Liangzhu also affected the later Shang Dynasty. Yin Ruins found many jade Cong, influenced by Liangzhu jade Concord. The Jinsha Ruins discovered in Chengdu, Sichuan, are very famous, and there is also a jade Cong in the Liangzhu style.

We turn to the northwest, and the Gansu and Qinghai regions connect the Central Plains and the western regions, belonging to the culture of Ma Jia Yao, merging the eastern and Western cultures. And along the Silk Road to the northwest, it is the Kroraina area, where interesting exotic cultural relics have been discovered. The small river burial group is hidden in the depths of the desert (Lop Nor), but it was once a beautiful and suitable place to live in. The creek site is divided into upper and lower levels. The upper layer has 3500 years of history, the lower level has a history of 4000 years, and there are more than 360 ancient tombs, which are quite spectacular. The coffin is covered with cowhide, some hanging with cattle heads, and some with burial heads. The hair of the grave owner is brown and yellowish or reddish. According to the bridge of the nose, face shape and hair color, it should belong to European race. DNA analysis of the mitochondria of lower female grave owners shows that there are genes in East and South Asians in the female grave holders, which indicates that the East Asian, South Asians and Europa people are merging in the early stage. People there grow wheat and millet, and the animal power they use is cattle. DNA samples of cattle indicate that they may be from European or Western Asian cattle. The site is part of the bronze age, which suggests that the group may come from the Russian Caucasus region today. Because of the cold climate, the Caucasians are moving eastward. There are Tianshan Mountains in the north of Xinjiang and Altun Mountains and Kunlun Mountains mountains in the south. These people may migrate gradually to Uzbekistan along the Uzbekistan corridor, that is, the valley of the Yangtze River. As early as 4000 years ago, the Indo European race gradually migrated eastward along with climate change. The pottery of the Central Plains area was not found in the creek cemetery, indicating that this foreign culture did not merge with the Central Plains culture at this stage.

Above, we can see that through archaeological discoveries, we are gradually connecting the intermittent track of eastern and Western cultures. From the Sanxingdui ruins in Bashu, we also found that Cuban Shu people were influenced by the bronze culture that crossed the Longmen mountains through Gansu and Qinghai, and there was also a jade ware pottery culture from the Xia Shang culture, indicating that there is still an active cultural exchange and integration in the area where people have always regarded barbaric land as hard to come by. These archaeological discoveries give us a broader view and inspire modern people to see and deal with some conflicts in the world today.

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