The Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences found a bowl of noodles 4,000 years ago, although it was a sensation, but the excavation will not stop because of this.

Just when Chen Han and others were busy studying how to reproduce millet noodles.

The excavation site has made another sensational archaeological discovery.

In July, on the No. 2 and No. 3 construction sites on the southeast corner of the site, archaeologists from the Qinghai Archaeological Institute discovered a small square from the Qijia culture period.

With more than two months of continuous excavation, important relics such as altars and high-level tombs have been discovered in the area where the square is located, which is very unique!

According to past experience, the appearance of altars usually becomes the most important archaeological area of the entire prehistoric site.

More than two months of key excavations have brought a lot of amazing cultural relics unearthed to the Qinghai Archaeological Institute, and almost every day there is news of great discoveries, which is spread at the archaeological site.

Even Kong Wenjian, after listening to the rumors for several days in a row, couldn't hide his curiosity, and slipped to the No. 2 construction site with his hands behind his back, wanting to see what was going on.

As soon as he arrived at the second construction site, he saw the obvious ruins of a small square.

Just to the north of the ruins of the small square, there is an altar about 2 meters above the ground of the square, which is artificially piled up by relying on the loess slope terrain.

It was in the center of this altar that the people of the Qinghai Archaeological Institute discovered the special rectangular vertical pit tomb, which was also the focus of the excavation of the colleagues of the Qinghai Archaeological Institute.

Kong Wenjian walked up to the altar and saw three people from the Qinghai Archaeological Institute at a glance, who were surrounding a probe about 2.3 meters long, 0.7 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep, and were cleaning up and finishing.

Kong Wenjian grabbed an old man who was nearly half a hundred years old standing on the altar, and asked with a smile: "I said Lao Li, what treasures have you dug up here for two months?" ”

"I heard that this tomb is buried with a heavyweight from the Lajia ruins?"

Li Chunchao, deputy director of the Qinghai Institute of Archaeology, who was held by him, smiled, pulled Kong Wenjian aside, and said excitedly: "Old Kong, it's amazing!" ”

"The origin of this tomb is definitely not small."

"The fill in the pit is yellow soil, and the fill in the mouth is the superposition of red soil and loess."

"Outside the sleeve, there is also a circle of red clay."

"And according to our excavations, it seems that after the burial of this tomb, the entire earthen platform, including the tomb, was covered with laterite!"

"Just looking at the situation of the filling, the identity of the owner of this tomb is not small."

"And it can be proved that in the late Qijia culture, the burial customs of the Chinese people have matured."

Kong Wenjian nodded with a serious face, deeply convinced.

In the Chinese tomb culture, there are five kinds of soil colors, red clay and loess are the first, green clay and white clay are secondary, and black is the fierce.

Laterite and loess have always been "auspicious" soils in the eyes of Chinese people, and later evolved into the so-called feng shui treasure land in feng shui.

The black soil is considered a fierce place and cannot be used to bury ancestors.

The earliest practical proof that can be found before the excavation of this tomb culture at the Lajia site can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

No matter how early it is, there is no relevant excavation proof.

However, in the Lajia ruins 4,000 years ago, tombs were found that were carefully buried and backfilled with loess and laterite!

This shows that at least in the late period of Qijia culture, the Chinese ancestors already had the funeral culture that yellow and red clay were auspicious soil!

That's amazing!

Even if no cultural relics are found in the tomb, just the discovery of these two colors of soil is of great significance to the Chinese cultural traceability project!

"Amazing, amazing." Kong Wenjian muttered softly.

"The best is yet to come." Li Chunchao raised his eyebrows very proudly and continued:

"In the filling of the sleeve mouth and the pit tomb, a total of eight pieces of jade and jade materials are regularly placed, and each piece is very precious!"

"Among them, the most precious are the two pieces of Sanhuang!"

Kong Wenjian smashed his mouth and sighed with emotion: "Jade, the Dawenkou culture in Shandong has also been unearthed, right?" ”

Shandong is not a little far from Qinghai.

Moreover, the Dawenkou culture unearthed in Shandong is a Neolithic culture 6500-4500 years ago, spanning 2,000 years.

When the Dawenkou culture perished, the Qijia culture on the side of the Lajia ruins was still at its peak!

One south and one north, two Neolithic cultures with a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, developed independently, but all of them had the habit of making jade as a ritual vessel.

Coincidentally?

Jade, one of the six ancient vessels.

The six vessels are jade, jade, jade, and jade, which are the ritual vessels of the four directions of heaven and earth in ancient times.

There are documentary records, the earliest in the "Zhou Li".

But in fact, these six kinds of jade were used as sacrificial ritual vessels by the Chinese people for a very long time, and they were widely used as early as the Neolithic period.

And it is amazing that whether it is a Neolithic site in the Yangtze River basin or a Neolithic site in the Yellow River basin.

From Qinghai and Gansu to the coastal Shandong region, jade made of jade has been unearthed.

This proves that 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, there was sufficient communication between the tribes living in the land of China!

Otherwise, if all the tribes in various places developed independently, it would not be such a coincidence, and everyone developed the same ritual!

Even these six ritual vessels have been passed down from the Neolithic period to the last feudal dynasty in China!

It is a culture that has never been broken!

This means that the Chinese people, at least 5,000 years ago, have begun to form a tribal alliance!

Otherwise, it is impossible to pass a ritual and a sacrificial culture!

This is also the reason why the Xia Dynasty, and even the existence of Yao Shunyu, are still believed by Chinese archaeologists.

According to the sporadic archaeological excavations of Neolithic jade, different tribes separated by hundreds of kilometers are also inextricably linked to each other.

This suggests that in the late Neolithic period, there must have been an organizational structure that was higher than the "tribe", linking tribes from different regions.

And it is the source culture of Chinese civilization and the starting point of Chinese civilization.

Maybe it's a tribal alliance, maybe it's the earliest Fang country, maybe it's some other system.

However, it is safe to say that the connection above the individual tribes is definitely considered "civilized"!

A city-state in the west can be regarded as a civilization, so why is the aggregation of interconnected tribes in China not considered a civilization?

Is it because there are not enough large-scale cities, writing, and metal tools unearthed?

Who said that only those who started to use metal and had words were considered civilized?

The development of world civilization can never be in exactly the same vein.

In the Stone Age, the Chinese ancestors developed civilization first, is it not possible?

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The so-called "three elements of civilization" of Westerners should not be applied to the Chinese people who are independent of the development of Western civilization at all!