The appearance of jade bi is obviously an important event.

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed many ritual vessels of the same standard in the tombs of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

That is, the six instruments in "Zhou Li".

The ruins of Lajia also unearthed jade.

This means that although the Lajia site was suddenly destroyed due to a catastrophe, at least some of the culture of the Lajia site has been passed down to future generations.

After discussing a few words around these two precious triangular pieces, Li Chunchao continued to introduce in depth: "Lao Kong, this is more than that. ”

"The jade found in the fill is only a burial object on the periphery."

"The owner of the tomb, who is buried in the center of the altar, is a man between the ages of 45 and 50."

"And when he was buried, there was a wooden coffin, his head was facing north, he was lying in it with his back straight, and seven jade objects were placed on his body."

"The jade bi, the jade ring, the big jade knife, the jade axe, and the jade adze are complete."

Kong Wenjian nodded: "The jade bi and the jade ring represent the high status of the tomb owner, and the big jade knife means that the tomb owner is very powerful, or has the right to conquer the tribe." ”

"The jade axe and jade adze may have been the productivity tools commonly used by the tomb owner during his lifetime, or they may refer to the tomb owner's mastery of the tribe's production work."

The excavation of this set of jade, if it were not for the special feature of the tomb pit in the center of the altar, it can be simply believed that these jade objects were all jade commonly used by the tomb owner during his lifetime.

But the tomb pit is so special, so these unearthed jade artifacts may also be given a special meaning.

Like the axe, it symbolized power in ancient times, and when the Son of Heaven divided the princes, he would give the axe and bow to show his rights.

When the princes were buried, they often accompanied the burial of the axe.

Kong Wenjian is not an over-interpretation.

It's just that this interpretation is definitely not verifiable.

After all, no text has been unearthed at the Lajia site to describe whether these jade artifacts have symbolic meaning.

But in any case, the identity of the owner of the tomb is definitely undoubtedly high.

"On the southeast edge of the altar, we also found more than a dozen sacrificial tombs."

Li Chunchao pouted in the southeast direction: "There is no law in the location of these ten or so tombs, and the adult tombs and children's tombs are still mixed together. ”

"Except for a few whose head direction is the same as that of the owner of tomb M17 in the center of the altar, the head direction of the tomb owner of the other tombs is to the northwest or west."

"We guess that the head direction is the same as M17, and it may be the burial tomb of the owner of tomb M17, or the sacrificial pit."

"And the rest of them may be the later tribal leaders, and their burial tombs."

Kong Wenjian frowned.

The absence of words is not good, all the unearthed graves, who are in them, why they are buried here, everything can only be inferred and guessed.

It is never possible to find an absolutely accurate truth.

Unlike the tombs after the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there are basically epitaphs, or tokens engraved with the name of the tomb owner, according to the history books, it is easy to find out who the tomb owner is and what he did during his lifetime, which is extremely clear.

When doing prehistoric site archaeology, it is basically a confused face when excavating, a half-confused face when cleaning up, and a bunch of words such as inference, speculation, maybe, and maybe when summarizing the report.

From the mist, go to the mist.

Li Chunchao doesn't care, he is very satisfied with having so many discoveries.

He looked at the busy No. 2 construction site with satisfaction, and said with a chuckle:

"What is now certain is that the small square, the altar, and the special ground building next to it should constitute a public activity space for the ancestors of the Lajia ruins."

"It should be an important sacrificial area."

"However, I heard from the villagers of Lajia Village that they had found some jade artifacts not far north of the altar in the early years, and perhaps the scope of this sacrificial area was even larger."

"It's just that this will have to wait for further archaeological excavations and research to be confirmed."

"Well, such a big ruin, it can't be sorted out in ten or eight years."

Kong Wenjian nodded, and was about to echo a few words before leaving, when a young man from the Qinghai Archaeological Institute ran over from a distance, panting and shouting:

"Li Suo, those geologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have preliminary research results on the destruction of the Lajia site!"

"What?!"

Kong Wenjian's eyes widened, so he didn't care about any greetings, so he pulled out his legs and ran to the geological working group.

Li Chunchao also chased after him quickly, and scolded in his mouth: "Lao Kong, you fucking rabbit, wait for me!" ”

The two of them walked one after the other, and soon walked through the No. 2 construction site and ran to the station of the geologists.

"Professor Zhang! Professor Zhang! ”

Before anyone arrived, Kong Wenjian's loud voice spread all over the geological workers' station.

Zhang Cheng, a senior researcher at the Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, walked out of the mobile board room when he heard the sound, and was just bumped into by Kong Wenjian.

Kong Wenjian took Zhang Cheng's hand and walked inside, and asked impatiently again and again: "Professor Zhang, have your geological research results been obtained?" ”

"What kind of natural disaster did this Lajia ruins suddenly destroy?"

Zhang Cheng, who was grabbed by Kong Wenjian, smiled helplessly, he could understand the excitement of these archaeologists.

Zhang Cheng beckoned, and one of his team members brought a laptop over.

"Director Kong, look."

Zhang Cheng pointed to several geological maps on the computer interface, as well as the unearthed map of the soil layer at the site, as well as some photos taken from his field trip, and said in a slightly heavy tone:

"It can be determined that the Lajia site is the only disaster site in China."

"And it's a very complex disaster."

After calling up a few large cracks found at the excavation site, Zhang Cheng said with certainty: "Around 4100 years ago, there was a major earthquake here. ”

"The earthquake caused damage to the ground and the collapse of houses at the Lajia site."

"The bones that were crushed in the house probably died from this sudden earthquake."

"It is preliminarily determined that the epicenter of this earthquake is about 130 kilometers away from the Lajia ruins, and the scale of this earthquake is very large!"

"So, the ruins of Lajia were destroyed because of the earthquake? That's what we guessed. Li Chunchao had such an expression on his face.

But Zhang Cheng nodded first and shook his head again.

"Nope."

"The Lajia site suffered more than just an earthquake."

"Remember the red sediment you found at the ruins?"

Kong Wenjian and Li Chunchao both nodded.

"That seemingly ordinary red sediment is the reason for the complete destruction of the Lajia ruins."

Zhang Cheng sighed: "In the first two months, our team traveled all over the vicinity of Lajia Village and conducted a detailed geological survey. ”

"Lajia Village is next to the Yellow River, and in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, about 25 kilometers away from Lajia Village, there is a place called Jishi Gorge."

"During the geological survey of Jishi Gorge, our team happened to see some special debris and collected it for study."

"Soon, we were able to confirm that the debris was the sediment of a huge outburst flood in antiquity."

"In connection with the red sediments found during the archaeological excavation of the Lajia site, the situation is very clear."

"That's how it should have been."

"A strong earthquake triggered a massive landslide in Jishi Gorge that blocked the Yellow River for six to nine months, creating a huge dammed lake that blocked the Yellow River."

"After nine months of continuous water increase, the dammed lake burst and as much as 11 billion to 16 billion cubic meters of water was rapidly discharged in a short period of time, creating a huge flood."

"The Lajia ruins, it should have suffered a large earthquake and then a monstrous flood in less than a year."

"Two super-large natural disasters in a row directly wiped out the Lajia tribe 4,000 years ago from this world."