Chapter 11 Liangzhu Culture

readx;? On the other hand, there are small civilian tombs seen in sites such as Xu Buqiao, Qianjinjiao, Pingqiudun, Wujiabu, and Miaoqian, which do not have special cemeteries, but are scattered around the residential site, and the tombs are narrow, and the burials are only simple pottery and small pieces of decorative jade ornaments. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The construction of large tombs is huge, especially the large-scale foundation sites such as Mojiao Mountain, which are not needed for people's material life at that time, so that we have to admire the construction ability of people in the Liangzhu culture period. Such a large-scale construction project requires a certain social order to ensure it, otherwise it is unimaginable. The establishment of this social order was closely related to the emergence of social hierarchical differences at that time. It can be said that during the Liangzhu culture period, there were already leaders with high authority in clans and tribes, and they had the social power to organize a large number of laborers to carry out such large-scale construction projects.

The ritual system with the jade system as the core was produced. The differences in the types and combinations of jade burials between noble tombs, between noble tombs and commoner tombs, and the differences in whether there are jade burials in commoner tombs, constitute the hierarchical differences in the jade system of Liangzhu culture. The appearance of large jade ritual vessels opened the prelude to China's ceremonial society, and the division between the tombs of nobles and the small tombs of commoners shows the intensification of social division. At the same time, it should be pointed out that some of the exquisitely made pottery double-nosed pots, tripods, buckets and other utensils found in the Liangzhu culture with elaborate patterns of pan mantis or bird patterns are all from the tombs of nobles, and they can be seen as a reflection of the jade system on pottery.

The core of the etiquette system is to reflect the subordinate relationship between people. The jade system of Liangzhu culture shows such a relationship. With the jade system as the main feature, it shows the emergence of the Liangzhu cultural ritual system, which is undoubtedly a manifestation of the qualitative change in society. The Liangzhu society has stepped into a civilized society from the barbaric prehistoric period.

The Jiuli clan tribe has made outstanding contributions to the formation of early Chinese civilization and has become one of the important birthplaces of China's agricultural civilization.

At the end of the reign of Emperor Yan Shennong's Jiang Yugang Dynasty, the princes invaded each other and tyrannized the people, and the Liangzhu culture gradually became the ruling center of the Yangtze River Valley, surpassing the Yandi Shennong's clan in strength, and occupied almost half of the territory of the world at that time. In its heyday, the Yandi Shennong clan, who was able to control the entire Yangtze River and Yellow River basins, was forced to retreat to the Yellow River valley and move the capital to Zhuolu, Hebei.

After that, the world was divided into three parts: the Liangzhu culture in the Yangtze River basin (a powerful Jiuli tribe established by the descendants of the Yandi Shennong clan), the Yandi Shennong clan in the Yellow River valley (the orthodox dynasty of the Central Plains), and the Hongshan culture (Youxiong clan) in the Liaohe River valley north of the Great Wall.

Among them, the Liangzhu culture occupied the raw material source of copper ore and was able to manufacture bronze weapons in large quantities. "Pipes and Places" said: "The mountain of Gelu comes out of the water, the gold follows it, and the Chi You is controlled by it, thinking that the sword, armor, spear and halberd are the nine princes of the year." The mountain of Yonghu came out of the water, and Jin Cong followed, and Chi You was controlled by it, thinking that the halberd of Yonghu Rui Ge was the prince of the age of twenty.

According to the historical records, the Chiyou tribe was able to make a crossbow with a staff and a knife because of the benefit of the salt pond and the method of metal smelting, and became the most powerful tribal alliance.

Therefore, the offensive ability is extremely strong and the most powerful, which causes the dissatisfaction of all the tribes. And the traditional forces that do not belong to the Central Plains are regarded as barbarians. In order to fight against the Jiuli clan, the Yandi Shennong clan invited the powerful Youxiong clan to enter Hebei to fight against Jiuli. The forces of the two sides entered a stalemate, just like the situation in which Sun Liu of the Three Kingdoms resisted Cao Cao.

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