Chapter 25 Shu Civilization
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From the "Chinese": "King Xuan (Emperor Zhongzong Taipeng) was diligent in business, four out of ten, Emperor Jia (Zujia) was in chaos, and the seventh generation died." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”。 It can be seen that later Confucian scholars blamed the cause of Shang's demise on Zu Jia's destruction of Tang Fa.
Reigned 1230-1167 BC.
Di Xin, Feng Xin, or by Xin, the surname of the child, the first name.
In 1230 BC, Zu Jia's son Di Xin inherited the throne of the Shang Dynasty and was the twenty-fifth monarch of the Shang Dynasty, with Yin (Anyang, Henan) as the capital.
At the beginning of the succession of the Shang king, the Qiang side rose again in present-day Shaanxi and Gansu, and the silkworm cong tribe that rose up in the late period of Zujia's reign also joined the power alliance of the Qiang side, repeatedly violating the Shang Dynasty, often causing great losses to the Shang army, and becoming the focus of the Shang Dynasty's military use.
Di Xin decided to use troops to pacify Xirong.
In view of the strong armed forces of the Qiang side, Shang Wang Liao Xin carried out comprehensive planning and arrangement before the war, on the one hand, he ordered the garrison army to temporarily avoid the enemy's front and wait for the opportunity to move, and on the other hand, he organized elite troops to reinforce in a timely manner to resist the Qiang invasion.
Due to the active defensive strategy, Gengding's war against the Qiang side won the final victory, breaking up the Silkworm Cong tribe, capturing and killing the Qiang Fangbo, occupying part of the Qiang land, and sending the five tribes close to the royal family to defend it.
However, the Qiang side was not destroyed and became a hidden danger. During the reign of Wu Yi and the kings that followed, there were still frequent skirmishes with the Qiang. When King Wu of Zhou attacked, the Qiang side even participated in the coalition army to destroy the Shang.
The Shu civilization is divided into several periods: Shushan Clan, Silkworm Cong Clan, Baiguan Clan, Yuyu Clan, and Enlightened Shu Clan (Shu is a Hehua people). The Shu people were a different ethnic group from the Huaxia culture in the pre-Qin period (the Huaxia people were also a Hehua people).
Minshan, a folded mountain range extending from the south of Gansu Province to the northwest of Sichuan Province, is roughly in a north-south direction, with a total length of about 500 kilometers, and the main peak Xuebaoding is located in Songpan County, Sichuan Province, with an altitude of 5,588 meters. Minshan is the watershed of the Minjiang, Fujiang and Baishui rivers of the Yangtze River system and the Heishui River of the Yellow River system.
According to legend, in ancient times, the Ran people who lived in the ancient Qinghai-Tibet Plateau moved to the southeast and entered the Minshan area and the CD Plain. Later generations called these people who lived in the Minshan River Valley the Shushan clan, and they were once the co-masters of the tribal alliance before the great flood. This period is called the period of civilization of the Shushan clan.
In the Western Han Dynasty Yangxiong's "Shu King Benji" wrote, "The first name of the King of Shu was Silkworm Cong, and the name of the descendants was Bai Hui, and the latter was called Yuyu." These three generations are hundreds of years old, all of them are deified and immortal, and their people are quite following the king", "The fish is in the mountain and becomes immortal." Today, the temple is enshrined in the soak. When the people of Shu were scarce".
According to legend, the Yellow Emperor married a woman from the Shushan clan as a concubine and gave birth to a baby boy. When the baby boy grows up, he is a "eye longitudinal" (that is, double pupils) and lives in a stone cave at the foot of Min Mountain. He is good at raising silkworms, because of the merit of "teaching the people to silkworm mulberry", and is called "silkworm cong" by the tribesmen, and his tribe is called the silkworm cong clan, replacing the indigenous Ran people to become the leading tribe in southern Gansu until the Sichuan Basin. This period is called the period of Qiang civilization of the Silkworm Cong clan.
During the Shang Dynasty's Zujia and Liao Xin periods, the Qiang tribe of the Silkworm Cong clan fled in all directions after the Qiang side was defeated.
Unable to fight for a long time, a part of the Qiang people of the Silkworm Cong clan re-entered the Sichuan Basin with a young man to escape the war. They settled in a cypress forest (present-day Pengzhou) where a river flows, where copper mines, jade, and clay were abundant. Some people found that there were white cranes inhabiting the forest, and they thought that they would fly away from the war like the white cranes, so at the initiative of the youth, they changed the name of the tribe to "Bai Guan clan", and the young man who led the family to settle down was elected as the new tribal leader. The territory covers the area of present-day Pengzhou, Shifang and Pixian. This period is known as the period of the Qiang civilization of the Baiguan clan.
Sanxingdui site is located in the northwest of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, on the south bank of the Yazi River, 40 kilometers away from the capital of Sichuan Province, and 7 kilometers away from Guanghan City in the east.
Archaeologists divide the cultural remains of the site into four phases, one of which is the early accumulation and belongs to the Late Neolithic culture, and the second to fourth phases belong to the bronze culture. The age of the ruins group starts from the late Neolithic period to the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, and lasts for nearly 2,000 years.
Sanxingdui ruins are huge in scale, wide in scope, most of the ancient cultural relics are distributed on the high platform on the north and south banks of the Mamu River on the south bank of the Yazi River, the plane of the ruins group is an irregular trapezoidal shape that is wide in the south and narrow in the north, 5~6 kilometers long from east to west along the river, 2~3 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of about 1200 hectares, it is the largest and most important ancient cultural relics in ancient Sichuan, and it is the ancient Shu cultural site with the widest range, earlier occurrence, longest duration and the richest cultural connotation in Sichuan.
There are more than 30 distribution points of ancient cultural relics that have been identified, among which the "Sanxingdui" in the south, "Moon Bay" and "Zhenwu Palace" in the middle, "Xiquankan" in the north, "Shishiyan" in the east, "Hengliangzi" in the west, and "Rensheng Village" and "Dayan Village" in the west are the most important. The age range of Sanxingdui ruins is about 2000 years from now, more than 4,000 pieces of cultural relics have been unearthed before and after, and a large number of pottery, stoneware, jade, bronze and gold have been produced, which has distinctive local cultural characteristics, and has become a cultural system of its own, which has been named "Sanxingdui culture" by Chinese archaeologists.
Sanxingdui is three mounds about tens of meters to 100 meters long and about 5 meters to 8 meters high, connected into a line, distributed on the east, south and west platforms on the west bank of the Mamu River. There is a beautiful myth about Sanxingdui and its name. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor scattered three handfuls of soil from the sky, and formed three large mounds after falling on the bank of the Mao River in Guanghan, standing abruptly on the plain, like three Venus stars distributed in a straight line, so it is called Sanxingdui. On the other side of the Muma River, there is a curved plateau that rises above the surrounding area, and the whimsical people named this platform Moon Bay. Sanxingdui and Moon Bay face each other across the river, and come from ancient times, forming one of the eight views of Guanghan - three stars with the moon.
The discovery of the Sanxingdui site began with a pit of jade tools accidentally discovered by local farmer Yan Daocheng and his son Yan Qing in the spring of 1929 when they were in Taogou, including Gui, Bi, Cong, jade ring, stone beads, etc., a total of more than 300 pieces. In the spring of 1931, when Dong Duyi, a British missionary in Guanghan County, heard the news, he found the local garrison to help publicize the protection and investigation, and handed over the collected jade tools to the West China University Museum run by the Americans for safekeeping.