Chapter 19: Then Make Another Bowl!
The Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences found a bowl of noodles from 4,000 years ago in the F20 exploration square.
This news soon spread throughout the excavation site of the Lajia site.
More than a dozen archaeological teams at four archaeological sites were shocked by this sudden news.
It's just that while digesting this news, many people also questioned the news and didn't want to believe it at all.
Professor Pan Xiang, the leader of the Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology, crossed most of the construction site and ran to the excavation scope of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
It took a lot of effort before he found Kong Wenjian, who was putting the finishing touches on the excavation.
"Old Kong! Director Kong! ”
"I heard that you found a bowl of noodles in the Tanfang that has been preserved to this day?"
As soon as he found Kong Wenjian, Pan Xiang pulled him and didn't let go, and a bunch of questions gushed out of his mouth.
Kong Wenjian had no choice but to put down the work at hand for the time being, gave Pan Xiang a cigarette, and chatted with him on the side.
"S... Call...! ”
After taking a sip of the bonus group, Kong Wenjian said calmly: "Yes, it was discovered by the students I led." ”
"Don't you know, when I first found out, the noodles were still lifelike, they looked like they had just been cooked."
"It's a pity that it weathers very quickly after exposure to air."
"By the way, I have a photo taken for the first time when I unearthed it, and I'll give you a second look."
Kong Wenjian took out his mobile phone with great flaunting meaning, and showed the photos copied from Zhang Jianbo's camera in front of Pan Xiang's eyes.
When he saw the pale yellow mass of unearthed objects that resembled noodles in the photo, Pan Xiang's jaw dropped in shock.
Is there really a noodle that has survived from 4,000 years ago to the present?
Lao Kong's luck is too good, this can be found by the archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences.
According to the unspoken rule that whoever digs it out, the result belongs to whomever it is.
This bowl of the world's earliest noodles may become the largest archaeological discovery of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences this year, and even the most outstanding in the past five years.
For scientific research institutions, SCI is the most important thing, and it is the most important thing that can affect the influence and funding of the entire institution.
And the discovery of this bowl of noodles, just the relevant papers can make the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences brush the face of major journals at home and abroad!
The SCI index is clicking!
This made Pan Xiang envious.
Not only him, but also seven or eight people from other archaeological teams followed him, each of whom was at least at the level of a team leader and professor, snatched the mobile phone from Kong Wenjian's hand as soon as he swarmed up.
"Tut-tut... It's really noodles. ”
"This color, this thickness, the noodles eaten by the ancestors of the Lajia family are no different from our now!"
"Lao Kong, Lao Kong, what kind of crops is this made of, wheat?"
The gossip of exclamation, mixed with a few questions, kept ringing in Kong Wenjian's ears.
For such "enthusiastic" peers, Kong Wenjian had to pick some important answers.
"Well, it's noodles."
"And it is also a very special noodle, according to the expert appraisal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this is made of millet and millet, and it is not our common wheat noodles."
It's just that what Kong Wenjian didn't expect was that as soon as he said this, these peers who were looking at the physical pictures on their mobile phones all of a sudden, exploded.
"Huh? Made with millet?! ”
"How is this possible?"
"Lao Kong, you're not mistaken, millet flour has a very poor stickiness, how can you make such long noodles?"
"No, even now, millet noodles are hard to see, let alone the ancients four thousand years ago, how could they have this craft?"
"Could it not be noodles, but some kind of food similar to noodles, just because it has been buried in the ground for thousands of years, part of the substance has decomposed, and the rest of the part happens to look like noodles?"
To be honest, there is a lot of skepticism about the fact that the ancients made noodles 4,000 years ago.
The theory of the origin of the Middle East and the origin of Italy has existed for hundreds of years in the minds of all the historical, archaeological and ordinary people in this world.
Regardless of the faction, the main point of debate is whether Italy is the origin of noodles, or the Middle East.
Now a bowl of "noodles" suddenly appeared at the Lajia site, which is shocking enough.
As a result, this bowl of noodles is not made of wheat, but with millet, which has very poor viscosity, which is even more unacceptable.
All kinds of doubts poured into Kong Wenjian like a tide.
Everyone is engaged in archaeology and scientific research.
It's not that he's pedantic or vexatious, and all he comes up with are convincing reasons for questioning.
Their doubts are indeed to the point.
Modern people, without the help of wheat flour, it is difficult to make noodles from millet with very poor viscosity by hand.
How could the ancestors of prehistoric civilization do it?
It is believed that the ancestors of the Lajia family made noodles 4,000 years ago.
They prefer to believe that this thing is not actually noodles, but happens to be left over like noodles.
For example, this thing was originally actually a rice cracker made from boiled millet, but most of it was weathered, and there were some remnants of broken lotus roots, which just looked like noodles.
I heard the endless doubts of the crowd.
Kong Wenjian's face was as black as the bottom of the pot, and he was a little trembling with anger.
These doubts are indeed reasonable and reasonable.
But!
These words should not come out of the mouths of these Chinese archaeological research workers from archaeological institutes and universities in various places!
If you want to question it, it should be those Western scholars who think that European and American culture is a higher grade than Asian culture, and that everything originated in Europe and the United States!
As a Chinese person, how can you take the lead in firing at your own people when this kind of eight characters has not yet been skimmed!
That can grow the morale of others and destroy your own prestige!
"Why, do you want to be a skeptic!"
Kong Wenjian angrily pointed to the leaders of the archaeological team with the most doubts, and scolded: "What's wrong with millet, why can't the Chinese ancestors use millet to make noodles?" ”
"I see that your heads have been washed by the group of Westerners who preach Western supremacy and Western origin theory every day!"
"If you want to destroy its country, you must first destroy its history!"
"That group of Westerners has been trying to deny and discredit our 5,000-year-old Chinese heritage, and you Chinese people are still helping?!"
Since the Republic of China, RB and some Western historians have been committed to overthrowing the influence of traditional Chinese culture.
What "Yao Shunyu was forged by Confucianism", "Zhou Li" was forged by Liu Xin", "The history of Shaokang Zhongxing was fabricated by the Eastern Han Dynasty", "Xia is actually ancient Egypt, and the Chinese migrated from Egypt. ”
All kinds of arguments denying the history of China, denying that China is an independently developed civilization, and believing that Chinese culture grew up under the influence of other cultures, are widely popular at home and abroad.
Even the claim that the Chinese were not native inhabitants of East Asia, but migrated from Egypt, many Chinese and foreign scholars swear that it is true!
These arguments have influenced many of China's own scholars.
Even some foods and tools that were originally thought to be created by the Chinese people themselves have begun to have foreign theories under the long "ancient history discernment movement", which is believed to be not locally developed, but imported.
What Kong Wenjian hates most in his life is these skepticism.
Why do Westerners believe that noodles came to China from the Silk Road?
Why can't we Chinese ancestors have the technology to make noodles ourselves?
Any argument or opinion that cannot be proved by conclusive evidence is not necessarily correct and can be refuted!
"I'll tell you!"
Kong Wenjian's eyes erupted with fire, and he roared angrily: "Since this bowl of noodles from 4,000 years ago was found in the ruins of Lajia, then the country of origin of this noodle must be our Huaxia!" ”
"Isn't it just a bowl of noodles made of millet?"
"You say you can't do it, do you?"
"Then I'll make another bowl for you!"