CCTV News: Yesterday (August 24), a batch of cultural relics such as the Great Divine Beast were successfully extracted from the No. 8 pit of Sanxingdui. It is understood that this bronze beast is more than 1 meter long and weighs nearly 300 catties. ”

"At present, more than 4,000 numbered cultural relics have been extracted from the No. 8 pit, and a total of nearly 12,000 numbered cultural relics have been extracted from the Sanxingdui sacrificial pit."

"A new round of Sanxingdui archaeological excavations continues."

Rest room.

Chen Han held his mobile phone and swiped the latest report on the Sanxingdui excavation on Weibo with relish.

The restart of Sanxingdui excavation this time has aroused the enthusiastic attention of netizens.

It may be because the "Tomb of the Marquis of Haiding" made a lot of noise before, which made many people interested in archaeology.

It may also be because Sanxingdui itself is too topical.

So much so that this time digging Sanxingdui, almost every action, every unearthed cultural relics, and every new one will trigger heated discussions among netizens.

It's the same this time.

As soon as the bronze statue of the divine beast was found in the No. 8 pit, CCTV immediately issued a news report with a picture.

A group of netizens immediately poured into the comment area.

"Moe!

！ ”

"The mythical beasts of the ancient Shu people are so cute!

”

"This is the legendary alien civilization?"

"Cow wow cow wow!

”

"Where is Sanxingdui?"

Among them, under the last highly praised comment, there are countless netizens who poured into the "line" with it.

Where is Sanxingdui?

This is undoubtedly a very low-level question.

A netizen named "Chicken That Doesn't Poop" commented below: "Amazing, you used to think that Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow River Basin, but now Sanxingdui tells you that the Yangtze River Basin is also very good." ”

"In the past, you thought that China was a point of outward expansion and development, but later Sanxingdui told you that the ancient Chinese civilization was as bright and colorful as the sky full of stars!"

Chen Han, who was reading the comments, gave this netizen a thumbs up without hesitation.

There are still many talented people in the people.

This netizen is not wrong at all.

In the traditional concept, both scholars and the general public below feel that the Chinese civilization was a point in the Central Plains and slowly expanded to the four directions to have the current entire Chinese nation.

Think about the perception of the ancients in the past, and even the Xia, Shang and Zhou people.

The ancients believed that the Central Plains was the center of the world, and all other places were barbarians except for the Central Plains, so there was a saying that Dongyi, Nanban, Xirong, and Beidi.

During the hundreds of years of their rule, the merchants were either fighting against the Ghost Fang and Qiang people in the west and north, or conquering the east in the south.

Dongyi is a general term that includes the corpses (Yifang) that were active in present-day Shandong and northern Jiangsu, and the Huaiyi between the Yangtze River and Huai were the most threatening.

Therefore, in the past, most people believed that the Chinese civilization was centered on the Yellow River Valley, developed little by little, and expanded to the outside world.

However, the discovery of Sanxingdui broke this cognition!

It turned out that in addition to the Central Plains at that time, there was also a once highly developed group in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River basin in the land of Sichuan and Shu.

In fact, for the mysterious ancient Shu people, many people in history have talked about it.

They also have a well-known story in the Central Plains.

The allusion of the fourth generation of Shu King Wangdi Tuo Dujuan was used by Li Shangyin to mourn his deceased wife.

The excavation of the Sanxingdui civilization once again proves that there was also a brilliant civilization in the Yangtze River basin during the same period, which was no less than that of the Yellow River basin.

In other words, the excavation of Sanxingdui has extremely effectively refuted the "Central Plains Origin Theory" of Chinese civilization and supported the new "Starry Sky Theory". That is, the source of Chinese civilization is not only in the Central Plains (Henan), but throughout the country.

In fact, there has always been a debate in academic circles about the "theory of the origin of the Central Plains" and the "theory of starry skies".

Some scholars believe that Chinese civilization originated from unity, and the argument that supports them is that the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties recorded in historical books are in the same line, even dating back to the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and it is also a tribal alliance system, a unified cultural circle.

There are other scholars who support the "starry sky theory", and their arguments are based on modern archaeological discoveries.

China's first archaeological excavation of scientific significance began in 1921 when Anderson presided over the excavation of the Yangshao site in Mianchi, Henan.

At that time, because there were still very few archaeological sites in the late Neolithic period in China, the discovery of Yangshao ruins found the only source for Chinese civilization.

However, with the deepening of modern Chinese archaeology, the successive discoveries of the Longshan culture in the north and the Dawenkou culture in the east have given more archaeological evidence for the theory of multiple origins of Chinese civilization.

The origins of these cultures were all around 6,000 years ago, and they developed almost simultaneously.

This undoubtedly proves to a large extent that the earliest source of civilization in China did not come from one line, but diversified development and mutual integration, and finally gave birth to the Xia Shang Zhou.

In the past, most of the academic research on the origin of Chinese civilization was limited to the three most important groups in China (Yanhuang, Dongyi, and Sanmiao) in the pre-Qin period.

They are also recognized as one of the origins of the Chinese people.

The emergence of the Sanxingdui civilization has undoubtedly opened up a new research direction.

Although the sacrificial pits excavated at present are all from the Late Shang period, the cultural layer of Sanxingdui can be traced back to the late Neolithic period at the earliest.

The Sanxingdui civilization in Guanghan also developed from about 5,000 years ago to more than 3,000 years ago!

Obviously, the ancient Shu civilization located in the Sichuan Basin, although it has always had close exchanges, learning, and integration with the Central Plains civilization.

But at the same time, the ancient Shu people are also walking their own civilization development route.

Until the Warring States Period, the inheritance rose and fell many times, probably like the Central Plains through the Xia, Shang and Zhou, but also experienced many Shu Dynasty The last Shu regimes of the Ba State and the Shu State were destroyed by the Qin State and completely integrated into the Chinese civilization circle!

Indeed, as this netizen said, the ancient Chinese civilization is as bright and colorful as the sky full of stars!

Giving him a thumbs up, Chen Han continued to read down.

There are many other netizens who also commented:

"The awesome thing is that we are exploring the source of Chinese civilization!"

"We really don't know much about thousands of years ago!"

"Sanxingdui's large-scale bronze manufacturing process and unique bronze art culture are very powerful!"

Swiping Weibo, Chen Han laughed happily from time to time.

Yes.

In recent years, the field of archaeology has indeed gained a lot of attention.

At least netizens' research on archaeology and history is much deeper than before!

Maybe it's because the age of Sanxingdui is too far away from modern times, and now all the sacrificial pits are dug, and no tombs have been dug out, so there are no people who shout that "archaeology is official tomb robbery", but Chen Han is very pleasing to the eye.

After swiping Weibo for a while, he put away his phone satisfied, left the lounge, and returned to the archaeological shed.

"Senior Brother Zhuang, have the results of geological age research come out?"