Xu Le glanced back at the water of the Yellow River and told himself that he must take the Yellow River and the Yangtze River from the downstream to the upstream step by step!

At seven o'clock in Xiangfen County, everyone got out of the car to eat, last night they didn't eat much, all of them were fasting rice and fruits, Xu Le basically didn't eat, this way of running even more hungry, Jinzhou's breakfast and Kyoto's breakfast are all hard goods, noodles, cakes, fried noodles, etc., men and women ate dozens of bowls, and also asked for a lot of food from the stalls next to them, before they were full, even Zhenglong and Li Heng ate a lot!

Then I inquired about the location of the Tao Temple ruins, everyone here knows, pointed to the direction and checked the map, half an hour to arrive!

It was not yet eight o'clock, and there was no one to sell tickets, Xu Le directly took out his work card, and asked them to contact the people from the local cultural management station to come over, and after a while, two dusty people came on bicycles, and looked at Xu Le in front of Xu Le, "You are Deputy Xu's office, right?" Xu Le nodded, and did not say hello directly that he was here to investigate, please explain, the two of them were very happy to introduce themselves, and then took everyone into the ruins!

As soon as Xu Le and the others walked in, they felt the majestic atmosphere, at least there must be an area of 10,000 square meters, and then they were introduced!

The site of Tao Temple is the site of the Longshan culture Tao temple type in the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China, and also includes the second phase of the Miaodigou culture and a small number of relics of the Warring States, Han Dynasty and Jin and Yuan dynasties. It was created by the ancestors of the Chinese people and is one of the sources of Chinese civilization.

In recent years, in the excavation of the Taosi site, combined with magnetometer and ground penetrating radar geophysical prospecting, environmental archaeology, zooarchaeology, plant archaeology (pollen, flotation, seed selection), human bone analysis, genetic analysis, astronomy and other scientific and technological archaeological methods, including the chronological discussion of carbon 14 dating technology, the absolute age of Taosi culture is further judged to be between 2,300 BC and 1,900 BC.

Xu Le popularized this time period to everyone that it was the time of Yao Shunyu, the upper limit was Emperor Yao, and the lower limit was Yu Qi, and everyone nodded frequently!

During the excavation, the archaeological team discovered the ruins of an unprecedented city, the matching tomb of the king, the world's first observatory, a magnificent palace, an independent storage area, and a handicraft area under official management. There are many experts and scholars who have proposed that the site of Tao Temple is where the capital of Emperor Yao is located, and it is the earliest "Huaxia". According to the results of the excavation, there was a huge disparity between the rich and the poor in the Taosi society, and a small number of nobles accumulated a large amount of wealth, forming a privileged class, and came to the edge of the Bangzhiguo era and the Fangguo era.

They were then taken to the so-called residential and burial quarters, where more than 1,000 tombs were excavated. Among them, there are nine tombs of great nobles, unearthed pottery dragon plates, pottery drums, drums, large stone chimes, jade, painted wood and other exquisite cultural relics, this is the largest prehistoric tomb in the middle reaches of the Yellow River that Xu Le has seen, and it is also the largest city site he has ever seen, I don't know what the situation is on the Liangzhu side, but even if the Liangzhu side is bigger than here, this is a very terrifying thing!

The earliest astronomical observation system for measuring the shadow of the sun was found here, and everyone looked at the rows of stone pillars, which are tools to detect changes in the sun, and measured the length through the shadow between the two stone pillars, which was four thousand years ago, so the summer calendar was formed on the basis of the Yao calendar, and it was by no means formed in one day!

Everyone also saw the world's earliest building materials until the excavation of the ruins - slabs and tiles, and felt that the creativity of the ancients was really strong; The other is the world's oldest observatory associated with the astronomical observation system, which predates Inge Stonehenge by more than 500 years.

Subsequently, the people from the two cultural management stations told everyone about the discovery of the earliest writing up to the excavation of the site. They were brought into the exhibition hall, Xu Le and others saw a fragment of a flat pot, there was actually text on it, Xu Le smiled when he saw the text rubbings on this fragment, it was really a nowhere to find the iron shoes, and there was a word the same as the six words he rubbed, and he thought it was a woman who knelt down with a big belly?

Hurriedly asked, "This is the word 'Wen', right?"

The two staff members nodded, and then said, "In 1984, archaeologists found a fragment of a flat pot at the site of Taosi, the fragment was painted red around the stubble, and the fragment had two characters in Zhushu, one of which was "Wen", and the other word was explained by experts such as "Yao", "Yi", "Life", and "Yi".

Xu Le stared at these two words, let Yingzi take a photo, and one of them handed Xu Le two books, Xu Le glanced at it, one is the "Tao Temple Atlas Compilation", and the other is the "Xiangfen Tao Temple Excavation Report", he hurriedly thanked him, and then said, "Wen Ming is not reliable, who is Wen Ming, Wen Ming is Dayu, is this the kettle used by Dayu?" Wen Yao, what is the relationship between Yao and Wen, Tang Yao and Tao Yao are all possible? Wenyi and Wenyi, these two seem to be more reliable in terms of glyphs and meanings"! He didn't have a specific time to study this now, but just said casually, and everyone continued to visit!

Then we saw a pottery plate, a pottery plate painted with the pattern of a dragon, which is one of the most characteristic utensils. This is the earliest specimen of a Beausaurus image seen in the Central Plains so far. Judging from the excavation, the dragon plate is a ritual vessel, and the dragon pattern may be a symbol of the clan and tribe. Some of the painted patterns are quite close to the Shang and Zhou bronze patterns. Is there a dragon coiled in the middle of the plate? Xu Le smiled, listening to what the staff said This is the earliest dragon totem found in the Central Plains, isn't this a snake? Xu Le is most concerned about dragons and snakes, and he is also very sensitive to this, so he judged that it was not a dragon, even if it was a dragon, it should be a state of alternation between dragons and snakes!

Afterwards, they were led into the small houses of the ruins, which were restored and surrounded by roads, wells, pottery kilns and denser ash pits. There are three types of housing sites: ground, semi-crypt and cave, and the latter two are the majority. The semi-crypt foundation plan is mostly rounded and square, and a few are round. There are several types of ash pits, such as cylindrical shape, bag shape, and pot bottom shape. In addition, fragments of rammed earth and white-plaster wall skin with geometric patterns were found.

Xu Le looked here, looked around again, and said to the staff, "You talk to the local person in charge, take a break, and continue to dig if it is not in place"!

Both of them were very happy to thank Xu Le for his recognition!

Then it was to the public cemetery, which was more than 30,000 square meters in the southeast of the place of residence. Xu Le had a huge sense of sadness, the feeling of being in the same room between brothers made Xu Le can't understand what was going on, but there was an unspeakable breath and resentment that surged towards Xu Le, Xu Le didn't expect that there was such a strong resentment here, he immediately asked everyone to stop, close their eyes and don't think about anything, ordinary people don't feel anything, but these people and Xu Le's cultivation are more or less related, and they can feel as if there is a stream of energy entering the body, Xu Le was like the sun of the sun, emitting a strong flame scorching everything, and streams of black smoke flew out from all directions, Xu Le asked the two masters to recite the mantra, the mantra of death, over and over again; Xu Le himself is speeding up and constantly absorbing everything here while refining everything, he takes himself as the center to absorb these and then release them, constantly purifying this place, those people are also absorbing, and then visualizing the moon to calm down, after a while, everyone seems to have absorbed a lot of energy, but it can't be used directly, it can only be burned by the flames, Sanjay is the most relaxed, as long as he visualizes the guru, he feels that the energy is involuntarily absorbed for his own use, Zhenglong and Li Heng are passively absorbing, and their bodies are constantly stinking, but the impurities in their bodies are still constantly decreasing, and they are directly purified by Xu Le's heat energy, almost half an hour, after all, thousands of years have passed, there are not too many things, and finally they are completely digested and clean, and the ones who benefit the most are Qingling and Yingzi, and the two of them feel that they can reach the Wheel Sea Realm when they are stable!

The two staff members were stunned when they saw all this, they felt usually very depressed, but now they seem to be much clearer, they thought it was the credit of the two masters, and bowed again and again, and at the same time thanked Xu Deputy Hall, Xu Le smiled, it doesn't matter!

Xu Le opened his eyes and saw everything in front of him, there must be more than 1,000 tombs, all of which are rectangular pit tombs, except for a few secondary burials, bent limb burials and individual bent burials, generally adult supine straight limb single burial, head to southeast, neatly arranged. There are differences in the size of the burials and the density of the pits in different clan burial areas. There are mostly men, not many children, a few women, and only one woman seems to have a complete body, but her neck is obviously broken, Xu Le was stunned at the time!

What's going on here? A sea of blood churned in his mind, couldn't it?

He didn't dare to think about it anymore, and then went to see the unearthed production tools and weapons, including stone axes, adzes, chisels, shovels, knives, arrowheads, bone shovels, cones, arrowheads, pottery spinning wheels, pottery utensils, pottery pads, etc. The number of flat rectangular stone shovels is the largest, and shoulder stone shovels appeared in the late period. Stone shovels and wooden rakes were the two main tools used to lift the earth at that time, and their traces are left on the walls of the ash pit and the tomb wall. Then everyone looked at the pottery that was excavated and buried with the stove, pot, pot, bottle, basin, plate, bean, and individual tombs had tripods and goblets. All clay pots, pots, pots, bottles, plates, beans, are painted, are painted after firing, with black pottery clothes as the ground, on the red, white, yellow color; Or take red as the ground, and apply yellow and white colors on it. Patterns include dots, strips, geometric patterns, swirl patterns, cloud patterns, back patterns, dragon patterns, variant animal patterns, etc. The colorful and gorgeous painted pottery constitutes a major feature of the pottery temple type culture.

Looking at those painted wooden utensils, there are various shapes such as cases, figurines, several, boxes, plates, buckets (spoons), beans, "warehouse-shaped vessels", drums, etc. The wooden drums are all in pairs, together with a large stone chime (special chime). Painted in red or with red as the ground, yellow, white, black, blue, green, and red colors are used to depict the elaborate ornamentation. From the crocodile bone plates scattered in the drum cavity, it is known that the original drum was covered with crocodile skin, which is called "dragon drum" in ancient documents.

Sanjay suddenly shouted, "Tara", Xu Le frowned when he heard Sanjay's shouting, he couldn't help but look at these colors, I don't know why, I thought of the woman in green riding a white horse on the grassland and the shadow wearing a white hao, they were all blurry and blurry, and suddenly muttered in his mouth, "Da Changtian, Su Yansha", everyone didn't know what it meant, Qingning seemed to hear Su Yansha, and frowned but didn't say anything!

Why is there a six-color tardar here, there is no other color but these six colors, does this have anything to do with the Tibetan region? Xu Le looked a little worried, he was here to learn, but there were more problems, and the clay plate that was obviously not a dragon, why was it called a dragon?

And what kind of text is it, and how did those people die, it is definitely not a normal death, such a big grievance will not be dissipated for a long time! Everyone looked at these ceremonial utensils and the bones of domestic pigs and livestock, including some jade ornaments, etc., all of which reflected the professional division of labor, which showed that the cultural civilization at that time was very rich!

Xu Le knows very well that the origin of the ancient Chinese civilization was not achieved overnight, and its origin and formation went through a long process, and only the continuous development, accumulation and convergence of civilization factors can form a mature civilization to a certain extent. It must have been a royal city, that is to say, the concept of the state in the earliest sense appeared, and the formation of the state was generally considered as a sign of the stage of civilization. Some scholars have suggested that the symbols of the formation of the state should include writing, cities, large ceremonial buildings, and bronzes. After analyzing the remains that have been found in the Tao Temple, it can be found that these civilization factors can be found in the Tao Temple ruins. Moreover, the ancient Chinese witch culture worship, ancestor worship and the development of the ritual and music system have also found their source here.

Everyone walked around here for nearly two hours, less than ten o'clock, all after reading it, everyone was shocked, especially Xu Le found the shadows of different civilizations here, for example, these pottery has the shadow of the Qijia culture in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Haidai civilization in Dawenkou in the lower reaches, and the jade has the shadow of Liangzhu in the east, which is obviously the rhythm of surrendering to the four seas?

In addition, the maturity of the text is already very high, and it is still a brush word, which subverts Xu Le's imagination a bit, he has heard of the brush word may be very early, but now it is a real sight!

Then some people came to say hello to Xu Le, Xu Le didn't stay long, thank you very much, and went straight to the bottom ditch of the temple!

After the county seat to the south, after a while, Qing Ning said, "The sign of the Dingcun ruins seems to be not far away, go and see"?

Xu Le looked at his watch, ten o'clock, at most eleven o'clock, he had to go, "Okay"!

Then Qing Ning directly accelerated and arrived at the entrance of the Dingcun ruins after a while, Xu Le got off the car without saying a word, and said to the ticket office, "I am from the Huaxia Association for Science and Technology, and I will take the team here to investigate, please take us to take a look", and then Xu Le directly gave the work card to the people inside, and the people inside exclaimed that it was so handsome when they saw Xu Le's name!

Xu Le also lost his temper, and then he was led in, and while walking, he introduced the Paleolithic site containing ancient human fossils.

Discovered in 1953, the Dingcun site is the first large-scale Paleolithic site discovered outside Zhoukoudian after the founding of New China, and it has attracted much attention for the discovery of the "Dingcun Man" between Kyoto ape man and modern human. There are more than 50 paleolithic and fossil sites here, and the stone tool making site buried in situ in the Ding Village ruins was found at the Jiulong Cave site; The remains of human fire dating back 300,000 years have been found at the site of the water cave; Remains of human activity dating back 100,000 years have been found at the Laohupo site.

Everyone looked at these gravel yards and the traces of fire and nodded, 100,000 years ago, and heard the narrator say, "We are not the oldest here, and now the world's oldest record of fire use is in the Xihoudu people in the southwest, they have a record of using fire almost 1.8 million years ago, which is the earliest fire relics in the world"!

Xu Le really didn't know, everyone felt the breadth and longevity of Chinese civilization!

"In our place, three human tooth fossils and a child's right brain parietal bone fossil were found, if you have time, you can go to Xihou Du and Nihewan ruins to see, the ruins of Nihewan are more than two million years old, and the sequence there is more complete and has never been broken"! Xu Le hurriedly thanked him, Nihe Bay is the west of the Liao River, the generation of Sanggan River, in the northeast of Jin, Jizhou, and the place where the Mongolian Inner District is handed over, Xu Le told the two masters and Sanjie in Tibetan language, and the three of them felt incredible!

After wandering around for half an hour, Xu Le then picked up a stone that seemed to have been polished, kept it as a souvenir, and then thanked the staff, but the information they gave him left directly!

Xu Le told Qing Ning the approximate address and route of travel, and then he turned on the computer and wrote on his lap, "Destroy Yao Shun, Yu? 》

In the summer of 1978, an important thing happened in the archaeological community of our country, that is, the discovery and excavation of the Taosi site, which opened a heavy page in the history of China.

Xu Le first described the first basic fact, the Zen concession system did not appear at the beginning, at the beginning it was passed on from brother to brother, father to son, and it was passed from father to son when it was determined in Zhou, not in Great Xia, and Shang was more obvious; The Yellow Emperor passed to Shao Hao, that is, the hustle and bustle, then Zhuan, then the Emperor, the Emperor passed to the eldest son, and the eldest son passed to Emperor Yao, so how could Emperor Yao pass it to Shun?

The second basic fact is that Emperor Yao is in Pingyang, which is now Xiangfen, Emperor Shun is in Puban, which is now Yongji by the Yellow River, and Emperor Yu is in Anyi, which is now Xia County, and these three places are each 100 kilometers apart. They all claim to be so diligent and thrifty, why do they want to choose another place for the people? Isn't familiarity the best guide? That's everyone guarding against each other!

Then he began to describe the scene of the tomb he saw, describing a case of destruction 4,000 years ago:

The scene of the crime is actually the palace of a prehistoric royal city. When the archaeologists excavated a meter under the ruins of the palace, several disturbance pits appeared densely packed bones, mostly broken limb bones and scattered skulls, it seems that the murderer 4,000 years ago put the victim's stump into a symbol of unknown meaning, these bones are placed according to a certain law, very terrifying.

In one of the pits alone, archaeologists sorted out 36 remains, nine under the age of 14 and 27 over the age of 14. Most of these remains are incomplete, and only one person left a "whole corpse", which should be a woman, looking at the figure.

Thinking of that shocking scene, a horn about half a meter long pierced her body, however, the penetrating wound was not fatal, judging from the broken neck bone of the person's remains, after being pierced through the body by the horns, the woman did not die, but was abandoned in a pit full of severed limbs. Subsequently, the killer stomped on the woman's cervical vertebrae, and then buried all the incriminating evidence.

So, who is the murderer in this incident? Who are the victims?

Judging from the scale of the ruins of this palace, at that time, the ancient royal family in this place was prominent, and the scale of the royal city was about 3 million square meters. You must know that the ancient city of Pingyao is only two million square meters, and the royal city located in the ruins of Erlitou is not much smaller than the ancient city of Pingyao. Amazingly, there are also altars similar to the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth. In addition, there are double city walls, residential areas, handicraft areas, storage areas, and burial areas. It can be said that these two buildings are completely laid out in accordance with the ancient ritual system of our country.

So, what does this mean?

It shows that the ancient ritual system was formed before the Xia Dynasty, which is a very astonishing discovery. For a long time, due to the lack of archaeological evidence, many foreign historians have refused to admit China's 5,000-year-old civilization, and only believe that there is physical evidence of the Shang generation and the subsequent 3,000-year civilization. Therefore, in a national sense, the discovery of the Tao Temple site is undoubtedly inspiring.

As the archaeological work continued, an even more shocking fact emerged: the Taosi royal city was the royal city of Emperor Yao's time! The royal city of the Five Emperors was destroyed by the most barbaric means!

Xu Le came to a very cruel inference: the people in Tuyao Wangcheng may be Dayu!

As we all know, Dayu is the son of Kun, because of the unfavorable control of the water, Shun was executed in Yushan, which aroused the hatred of the Xia people. Dayu, who succeeded to the throne, is not only the leader of the Xia clan, but also a son who bears the hatred of killing his father. Therefore, Shun's motive for ordering Dayu to inherit his father's business and continue to control the water is worth thinking about.

And the reason why Dayu really passed the door three times and did not enter is because he is ashamed of his clan because of his service to Shun? Dayu endured for thirteen years, and when the flood was contained, Yu deserved to enjoy the glory and the support of the tribal leaders, as well as the annexation of force. The flood is no longer raging, but the flood in Dayu's chest has just burst the embankment, and Dayu wants to let all the people of Shun become his father's burial!

After several days and nights of slaughter, Dayu finally led his people to leave the place where he had been resentful for half his life, and migrated to Yuzhou Erlitou to rebuild his homeland, which is the story of Dayu's overthrow of Shun's rule.

Later, Dayu's son Qi actually personally chased and killed the poor clan to reach today's Lianyungang, realizing the revenge of the ancestral enemy, is this the complete liquidation of the three emperors and five emperors in ancient times?

But Xu Le has something to figure out, is it necessary to be so ruthless? Basically, it's enough to vendetta against the first evildoer, right? What's more, this is Yaodu, is Emperor Shun here, isn't it? Xu Le was very puzzled at this point, this did not conform to the characteristics of that era, this was a tragedy of annihilation, not to mention that the various factions were inextricably linked, but Xu Le still made a case first and closed the computer!

Xu Le leaned on the back of the saddle and closed his eyes thinking about all this he saw, and suddenly heard Qing Ling say, "Brother-in-law, what are those things?"

Xu Le knew what she was asking, but he didn't say anything!

"Qing Ling, if you always talk nonsense about what you should ask and shouldn't ask in the future, then don't come out again", Qing Ning said to Qing Ling, and Qing Ling stuck out his tongue!

Xu Le was thinking about a question, looking at the mountains and villages that were speeding by the car, the familiar names of Jishan, Jicheng, Jincheng, Yuanqu, and Quwo, and when he arrived in Xia County, he felt the strong historical atmosphere, or the dilapidated appearance, and the sign of Mingtiao New Village, "Tang Fa Mingtiao, chase Nanchao", why did he run here from Nanma? Isn't it Erlitou, he shook his head imagining the route in his mind, it is also very suitable for the battlefield, but it is a flat river!

Is it a vacation here or is it here to fight, or do you want to use the power of the ancestral land?

Seeing the signs of the ruins of Xiyin Village and Shicun, Qing Ning asked if he needed to go down, he shook his head, continued to move forward, crossed the Yellow River, and came to the bottom ditch of the famous Sanmenxia Temple!