How important is Liangzhu culture?

She is the earliest and highest level of social development culture that can be verified in China at present!

The Tao Temple and the Stone Pass are 4,300 years ago, and the age is backward.

The age of the Shuanghua tree site is up to standard, but the excavation level of the site is low, and the row is not enough.

Yaowangcheng, the core area of Longshan culture, is only 4,600 years old in Shuangcheng, and the earliest Dantu site is only 4,800 years old.

Qujialing Shijiahe in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, although the level of productivity can be, the pottery industry is invincible in the world, and Shandong Longshan can be called a peerless double pride. The bronze industry was also the only spark in southern China, and perhaps even the beginning of metal smelting in China.

However, the degree of social organization in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is almost the same, and it has always been in a primitive and barbaric social atmosphere, and there is no highly institutionalized society.

The Red Mountain in the Northeast, the earliest religious origin in China, and the place where the dawn of civilization first appeared, but it perished 5,000 years ago, before the dawn of the beginning of world civilization.

Only Liangzhu is the most dazzling pearl of the Chinese land 5,000 years ago, and has an important leading role and great influence on the shaping of Chinese civilization!

The improvement of the carbon 14 data of the Chinese civilization exploration project has given us a new understanding of the prehistoric era.

The lower limit of the Liangzhu culture, the Dawenkou culture, and the second phase of the Miaodigou are all in 2300 BC, which is far from the lower limit of the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization!

In view of the important leading role of Liangzhu culture in tracing the early civilization and state and its influence on the outside world.

At present, the Chinese archaeological community has proposed to use the Liangzhu era to refer to the entire Chinese period of 5300-4300 years ago.

In other words, the Liangzhu era is used to represent this period of 5,000 years ago in China, which is equivalent to a unified dynasty such as the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, which represents the period from 2000 BC to the post-AD era.

From 5300 to 4300 years ago, China in this period was the era when the early state and mature civilization represented by Liangzhu began to appear.

Intensive agriculture represented by plough agriculture is becoming more and more mature, livestock breeding occupies an absolute dominant position in the source of meat, and high-end handicrafts represented by Yucong, Yuyue and Yubi are widely spread.

There are super-large urban settlements with an area of millions of square meters such as Liangzhu and Shijiahe, and elements such as palace areas and royal tombs have appeared in the settlements, and urbanization has reached a very high level.

In the Liangzhu period, the representative archaeological cultures of the same period mainly include the middle and late Dawenkou culture, Qujialing culture, late Yangshao period to Miaodigou Phase II, late Hongshan period to Xiaoheyan culture, as well as Tanshishan culture, Fanchengdui culture, Shixia culture, sentry shanzui culture, Guiyuanqiao culture, Bibaozi culture, Xiaozhushan middle culture, etc., and the migration range of people is broad.

At this time, the general trend of the Chinese cultural pattern was that the development momentum of the "Greater Central Plains Cultural Zone" was weak, and the surrounding cultural development was strong, especially the Dawenkou culture, Qujialing culture and Liangzhu culture, which had a strong impact on the cultural development process of the Central Plains, forming a scene of "chasing the Central Plains" in the prehistoric period.

It can be said that the Chinese culture of this era is in a period of starry stars.

It's like the Cambrian explosion of species, which ushered in the era of the Big Bang of life on Earth.

At this point in time 5,000 years ago, China was also experiencing a "cultural explosion", and finally the various cultures bred on the land of China were gradually expanded and conquered by the Yan-Huang culture in the Central Plains, and then Xia was born.

Of course, this is only the current archaeological discovery, and it does not mean that China was like this 5,000 years ago.

Archaeology is based on existing discoveries.

Maybe when a big ruins that shocked the world were discovered, and even the summer capital was discovered, and the ruins of the country of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors were discovered.

All the speculations and theories of the archaeological community will be disproved again.

This is not an impossible thing, on the contrary, it should be said that it is a very normal thing in the archaeological community.

Don't say anything else.

Liangzhu was discovered for about 100 years, and the real archaeological excavation began in 2006, less than 20 years ago, and there are still too many unsolved mysteries in Liangzhu

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The ruins of Yaowangcheng and Shuangcheng were discovered for decades, and the scale was only determined in the 21st century, reaching 4 million square meters.

These megacities simply can't be accomplished without a hundred years of hard work.

For Chinese archaeologists, it is now a glorious period of Chinese archaeology, and every day there may be great discoveries, and new theories may emerge every day.

The next 50 years will be perhaps the most important 50 years for Chinese archaeology.

A large number of prehistoric civilizations that subvert history may be dug out of the ground one after another, and prehistoric writing, prehistoric bronzes, prehistoric royal capitals, and royal tombs may be discovered one after another.

The traditional concept of three generations of society may be completely overturned by this archaeological discovery.

For Chen Han, he is in the prime of life, and he is just on the cusp of this new era of Chinese archaeology, which is definitely an extremely lucky thing.

At least more fortunate than the first archaeologists in China.

They found Yin Ruins, Liangzhu, Sanxingdui, Yangshao, and a large number of cultural sites from prehistoric times.

However, because the national conditions were not good at that time, it was in a period of war, and later the whole country was busy developing people's livelihood and developing the economy, so there was no time, no money, and no policy to support archaeologists to carry out all-round excavation work on these large-scale ruins of millions of square meters.

Until the arrival of the 21st actual, as the country's soft power and hard power have reached a level, enough achievements have been made in people's livelihood and economy.

Finally, the high-level has the strength and funds to support the archaeological community, and launched an exploration of the origin of our Chinese people.

The major large-scale cultural sites, which may have only a few archaeologists digging up so many square meters a year, have begun to carry out large-scale excavation work one after another.

Yangshao, Sanxingdui, Yinxu and other sites have entered the era of great excavation.

Every day there is a new discovery, every day there is a new result.

With the continuous progress of Chinese archaeology, the prehistoric civilization of China may continue to show earth-shattering results.

It's a pity that the first archaeologists did not wait for this golden age of archaeology.

Chen Han was lucky.

He was able to be born in this era of great development of Chinese archaeology and was able to participate in it.

However, the young Chen Han did not feel his luck at this time.

He listened intently to the discussion between Kong Jianwen and Professor Li, and some thoughts appeared in his heart.

"Senior Brother Zhuang, do you think there is a possibility?"

"Liangzhu culture, or the ancient country of Liangzhu, could it be that there is a Chao clan?"

"Later, Dayu who controlled the water and established Xia Dayu, could it be from the ancient country of Liangzhu?"

"About 4,200 years ago, there was a great flood in the Hangzhou Basin, where the ancient city of Liangzhu is located. The entire Hangzhou basin was flooded, forming a floodplain more than a meter thick, and the area became unsuitable for human life, and the ancient city of Liangzhu has since disappeared."

"The Hangzhou area became Zeguo, and it was not until 2000 years later that people lived in the Warring States Period, which is also the reason why the Central Plains later saw that Wu and Yue were still wild places with short hair tattoos."

"And the era in which Dayu lives is earlier than the period of the demise of Liangzhu."

"And in some records about Dayu, it has also been mentioned that Dayu's hometown is the generation of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because there is a Chao family who is good at water control, so he was invited to the Central Plains to help control the Yellow River."

"The Taihu Lake basin has a rich water system, and the Liangzhu culture has the ability to build water conservancy facilities, which is very much in line with the evaluation of "good at water management"!"