Master Archaeologist

"News from CCTV: Yesterday (August 8), a batch of cultural relics including a giant mythical animal were successfully extracted from Pit No. 24 of Sanxingdui. It is understood that this bronze giant mythical animal is more than 8 meter long and weighs nearly 1 kilograms."

"At present, more than 8 numbered cultural relics have been extracted from Pit No. 4000, and a total of nearly 1.2 numbered cultural relics have been extracted from the Sanxingdui Sacrificial Pit."

"The new round of Sanxingdui archaeological excavations is still going on."

Restroom.

Holding the mobile phone, Chen Han was reading the latest reports on the excavation of Sanxingdui on Weibo with relish.

The restart of Sanxingdui excavation this time has aroused enthusiasm among netizens.

It may be because the "Tomb of Marquis of Haihun" made a lot of noise before, which made many people interested in archaeology.

It may also be because Sanxingdui itself is too topical.

So much so that when digging Sanxingdui again this time, almost every action, every time cultural relics are unearthed, and every time a new one is added, it will trigger heated discussions among netizens.

It's the same this time.

As soon as the bronze statue of the mythical animal was found in Pit No. [-], CCTV immediately released a news report with a picture.

A crowd of netizens immediately poured into the comment area.

"Cute!
"

"The beasts of the ancient Shu people are so cute!
"

"Is this the legendary alien civilization?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
"

"Where is Sanxingdui so awesome?"

Among them, under the last highly praised comment, countless netizens poured in to "match" with it.

Where is Sanxingdui so awesome?
This is undoubtedly a very low-level question.

A netizen named "Chicken Who Doesn't Shit" commented below: "In the past, you thought that Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow River Basin. Now Sanxingdui tells you that the Yangtze River Basin is also awesome."

"In the past, you thought that China was a single point of expansion and development. Later, Sanxingdui told you that the ancient Chinese civilization is as bright and colorful as a sky full of stars!"

Chen Han, who was reading the comments, gave this netizen a thumbs up without hesitation.

The people are still full of talents.

This netizen is right.

In the traditional concept, whether it is a scholar or the general public below, it is believed that the Chinese civilization started from a point in the Central Plains, and slowly expanded to the four directions to form the entire Chinese nation.

Think about how ancient people, even Xia, Shang and Zhou people thought of themselves.

The ancients believed that the Central Plains region was the center of the world, and all other places except the Central Plains region were barbarians, so there were the sayings, Dongyi, Nanman, Xirong, and Beidi.

During the hundreds of years of the merchant's rule, they were either fighting the Guifang and Qiang people in the west and north, or they were conquering Dongyi in the south.

Dongyi is a general term, including the Shifang (Yifang) active in today's Shandong and northern Jiangsu, and the Huaiyi between the Jianghuai and Huaihe Rivers is the most threatening.

So in the past, most people believed that the Chinese civilization developed from the Yellow River Basin, little by little, and expanded outward.

However, the discovery of Sanxingdui broke this perception!
It turned out that in addition to the Central Plains area, there was also a highly developed group in the Sichuan and Shu lands in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River Basin.

In fact, many people in history have talked about the mysterious ancient Shu people.

They also have a well-known story in the Central Plains. …

The allusion that the fourth king of Shu Wangdi entrusted Du Juan was used by Li Shangyin to mourn his deceased wife.

The excavation of the Sanxingdui civilization once again proved that the Yangtze River Basin also had a brilliant civilization no less than the Yellow River Basin at the same time.

In other words, the excavation of Sanxingdui strongly refuted the "theory of the origin of the Central Plains" of Chinese civilization and supported the new "theory of starry sky".That is to say, the source of Chinese civilization is not only in the Central Plains (Henan), but throughout the whole country.

In fact, there have always been endless debates in the academic circles about the "Central Plains Origin Theory" and the "Starry Sky Theory".

Some scholars believe that the Chinese civilization stems from a unity, and their argument is that the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties recorded in the history books are in the same line, even dating back to the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, it is also a tribal alliance system and a unified cultural circle.

On the other hand, some scholars support the "starry sky theory", and their arguments are based on today's archaeological discoveries.

The first archaeological excavation of scientific significance in China began in 1921 with the excavation of the Yangshao site in Mianchi, Henan, which Anderson presided over.

At that time, because there were very few archaeological sites in the late Neolithic period in China, the discovery of the Yangshao site provided the only source of Chinese civilization.

However, with the deepening of modern Chinese archaeology, the successive discoveries of the Longshan Culture in the north and the Dawenkou Culture in the east have provided more archaeological evidence for the theory of multiple origins of Chinese civilization.

The origins of these cultures were all about 6000 years ago, and they developed almost simultaneously.

This undoubtedly proved to a large extent that the earliest source of civilization in China did not come from a single line, but from multiple developments and mutual integration, and finally the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties were born.

In the past, academic research on the origin of Chinese civilization was mostly limited to the three most important groups in my country during the pre-Qin period (Yanhuang, Dongyi, and Sanmiao).

They are also recognized as one of the origins of the Huaxia tribe.

The emergence of the Sanxingdui civilization undoubtedly opened up a new research direction.

Although the sacrificial pits excavated so far are all from the late Shang Dynasty, the cultural layer of Sanxingdui can be traced back to the late Neolithic period at the earliest.

The Sanxingdui civilization in Guanghan also developed from about 5000 years ago to more than 3000 years ago!

Obviously, although the ancient Shu civilization located in the Sichuan Basin has always had close exchanges, learning, and integration with the Central Plains civilization.

But the ancient Shu people were also following their own path of civilization development.

Until the Warring States period, the inheritance rose and fell many times. Like the Central Plains experienced Xia, Shang and Zhou, it also experienced the last Shu regimes of several Shu dynasties, Ba and Shu.
Indeed, as this netizen said, the ancient Chinese civilization is as bright and colorful as a sky full of stars!
After giving him a thumbs up, Chen Han continued to browse.

Many other netizens also commented:
"The awesome thing is that we are exploring the origin of Chinese civilization!"

"We really don't know much about thousands of years ago!"

"The large-scale bronze manufacturing process of Sanxingdui, the unique bronze art culture, is very powerful!"

Swiping Weibo, Chen Han laughed happily from time to time.

sure.

In recent years, the field of archaeology has indeed gained a lot of popularity.

At least netizens' research on archeology and history is much deeper than before!

It may also be because the age of Sanxingdui is too far away from modern times, and now all the pits are dug for sacrifices, and no tombs have been dug out, so there are no people who clamor that "archaeology is official tomb robbery", but Chen Han Very pleasing to the eye.

After swiping Weibo for a while, he put away his phone in satisfaction, left the lounge, and returned to the archaeological shed.

"Senior Brother Zhuang, have the research results on geological time come out yet?"