And it is somewhat similar to the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty.

In the same vein.

Chen Rui guessed that the text on the sheepskin map was marked with Xia Seal.

A kind of writing that Chinese historians and scholars believe once existed.

However, in archaeological excavations, the Xia Dynasty script found has not been clearly confirmed.

Referring to the Zhou seal and oracle bone inscriptions that are in the same vein as Xia Seal, Chen Rui read out the three characters marked in the text.

Xiayang Lake.

Summer, sun.

Yang.

In ancient times, the middle reaches of the Yellow River were north of the Tropic of Cancer, and there would be no direct sunlight all year round, and the sunlight would only shine from the south. Conversely, for water systems below ground level, the sun does not shine on the south bank of the river, but only on the north bank.

Therefore, the ancients regarded the place where the south of the mountain and the north of the water could be irradiated by the sun as yang.

This story spread from the Central Plains.

Therefore, Chen Rui guessed that the ancestors who built the ancient city here were not indigenous ancestors who originated in the local area, but ancestors who migrated from the Central Plains.

The ancient Central Plains was the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the birthplace of ancient China.

It was ruled by the Xia Dynasty during the Xia Dynasty and by the Shang Dynasty during the Shang Dynasty.

Summer!

The word 'Xia' in a Xia seal told Chen Rui a lot of information.

Can Chen Rui speculate like this?

The ancestors of the Xia Dynasty migrated here for some reason and found a lake, which they named Xiayang Lake in honor of their homeland.

They settled here, built dwellings, lived by water, and built cities to protect themselves from wild beasts in the mountains and forests.

Chen Rui stopped at a smooth stone slab by Xiayang Lake, took out a sheepskin map from his backpack, and spread it out on the stone slab.

Finger pointed to the location where he was at this time, Xiayang Lake.

Slowly move your fingertips on the parchment map.

He nodded at a flat place in the mountains and forests, and said to himself, "Xia Cheng is here." ”

It is located 0.7 km southeast of the lake.

Chen Rui set the goal.

Chen Rui put away the sheepskin map, put it in his backpack, and continued on his way.

In the afternoon, Chen Rui was very close to the place marked on the sheepskin map.

The terrain is flat, overgrown with dense trees, vines and shrubs.

The leaves block the sun.

Vines and shrubs covered the earth.

The ground was very damp.

Chen Rui walked in it, often entangled in vines and shrubs on the ground, and it was very difficult to take a step.

In these vines and bushes, there are some poisonous insects and poisonous snakes.

The surroundings were very quiet, so quiet that Chen Rui felt depressed and dull.

Suddenly, Chen Rui found a large rock.

The large boulder is half-buried in the soil, long in shape, and there are obvious traces of cutting and processing on the surface.

It is a large stone block that built the walls of the ancient city.

In other words, the ancient city is not far from here.

Such a large piece of rock, washed so far by a mudslide, is already the limit.

The mudslide flowed downward, and Chen Rui had to go up to find the ancient city.

The higher he went, the more stones Chen Rui found, and he also found some bronzes, pottery, and pottery fragments.

These are all mudslides that have been washed down all the way, and most of them are half-buried in the soil.

Chen Rui picked up the bronzes, pottery, and pottery fragments found on the ground.

To Chen Rui's great excitement, writing was found on some of these bronzes, pottery, and pottery fragments.

The characters are engraved on the utensils, very mature, very standardized, the pen is rounded, pay attention to symmetry, is different from the Zhou seal and the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription.

It's not like Tao Wen, which is a single symbol, so people can't understand the specific meaning of these words.

It is written in length, it already belongs to the category of words, and it is very mature.

Chen Rui believes that these characters are Xia seals.

The discovery of Xia Seal is, so to speak, very important to Chinese history.

As we all know, civilization is a concept that belongs to the category of the Bronze Age, which refers specifically to the national stage after mankind entered the Bronze Age.

In Chinese history textbooks, Chinese civilization began in 2070 BC, when Yu Chuan located his son Qi and established the Xia Dynasty.

However, abroad, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, do not agree with this view.

They believe that the history of Chinese civilization began with the Shang civilization.

It began around 1500 BC, 3500 years ago.

That is to say, China's 5,000-year-old civilization is not 5,000 years, but 3,500 years.

The main disagreement is whether the 'Xia Dynasty' existed zài.

The international academic community does not recognize the existence of the 'Xia Dynasty'.

The reason for this is that there is no archaeological evidence, i.e. no writing, no smelted bronze finds, and no evidence of the existence of the state form, as well as the remains of the city, etc.

Chen Rui found the bronzes of the Xia Dynasty here, which are very large and delicate, indicating that the Xia Dynasty mastered the technology of smelting bronze.

The Xia seal engraved with written text found on bronzes, pottery, and pottery fragments proves that the Xia Dynasty had a very mature and complete text, which is not only not more primitive and backward than the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription, but also more progressive, mature and beautiful than the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription.

Bronze, writing, this is the hallmark of civilization.

Several bronzes in Chen Rui's hands, pottery, bronzes, and pottery fragments engraved with Xia seals illustrate the existence of the 'Xia Dynasty'.

Of course, with only a limited number of bronzes, a few Xia seals are not very convincing.

Chen Rui needed to find more bronzes, Xia seal characters, things recorded in Xia seals, etc.

After walking for half an hour, Chen Rui found the ruins of the ancient city.

The ruins of the ancient city are hidden by bushes and vines.

Peeling through the vines and bushes, you can see the ruins, and huge stones are piled up in the ruins, mottled and devastated by the wind and rain and the surrounding environment.

The air is humid.

The broken walls, the broken walls, and the flat stones are covered with green moss, and they have become a paradise for insects and snakes that live in a dark and damp environment, and from time to time centipedes and insects can be seen running out from under the stones, through the cracks in the broken walls, and burrowing back in.

Chen Rui took out a handful from the pregnant sea pearl space and cut down the vines and bushes that blocked his vision.

Step into the ruins of the ancient city.

The ruins of the ancient city gave Chen Rui a very desolate feeling, and the air was filled with a depressing atmosphere, which was very dull.

There was a dead silence all around, and the silence was worrying.

Broken walls and overgrown with weeds. The stones, utensils, and bones that had been half-buried in the soil seemed to tell Chen Rui silently about the tragedy that took place here thousands of years ago.

A once glorious ancient city was destroyed in an instant.

Buried by landslides.

In the ruins of an ancient city.

What Chen Rui found the most were the bones buried in the mound, which were stacked on top of each other, so much that Chen Rui's scalp was numb.

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