Chapter 347: The Relationship Between Xia Shang Zhou and Liang Zhu

"Guess big."

"Is there a possibility?"

"Liangzhu culture is the legendary Youchao clan?"

Chen Han muttered: "The lower limit of the Liangzhu culture is about 4300 to 4200 years ago, and according to the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the upper limit of the Xia age is speculated to be 2070 BC. ”

"There is a difference of 200 years."

"And 4,200 years ago, the Qijia culture appeared in the Gansu region of the northwest region, and there were jade artifacts with jade cong as a typical representative, and a typical ganlan-style building in the Liangzhu area."

"The reason for the demise of the Liangzhu culture has now been clarified, which is that around 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."

"Is there a possibility that because of this flood, the ancestors of the Liangzhu culture had to migrate north, from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the Gansu region."

"Because along the way, whether it is the middle reaches of the Yangtze River or the Yellow River, 4,200 years ago, there were already many other cultures and tribes ruled by them."

"The Liangzhu people can only go all the way north, to the unoccupied area of Gansu, and then live in Gansu."

"Later, another one or two hundred years later, Yu, who came from the Qi family culture, moved east with his father Kun and came to the Central Plains."

"Because the people of Liangzhu have been very good at water conservancy projects for generations, which has been inherited for thousands of years, they were taken by Shun and let them control the water?"

"You know, Dayu has always been a legend in China, and the place of birth is also a lot of talk, not only Sichuan people say that they are Qiang, and even XJ people say that they were born in Kunlun! No less than ten provinces in the country are vying for the birthplace and former residence of Dayu! ”

"But Dayu's mausoleum is very unified, in Shaoxing, Zhejiang!"

"The history books also said that the princes of the Yu Conference were in Huiji, why did the Central Plains Dynasty "Xia" at that time have to ally with the princes (tribal leaders) in Huiji? ”

"If you don't go home, you will be like a brocade at night!"

The more Chen Han's eyes brightened, the more he felt that his guess was very argumentative.

First of all, the age of the establishment of the Xia Dynasty is not much different from the age of the disappearance of the Liangzhu culture.

And as the Liangzhu culture in the south of the Yangtze River has an earlier water conservancy project than Dayu, if Dayu is a descendant of Liangzhu, it is a good explanation that he can solve the problem of the Yellow River flooding, because the Liangzhu culture is more proficient in the study of water than the Central Plains.

Secondly, the princes of the Yu Conference are in Huiji, according to the previous understanding, the ruling area of Dayu has nothing to do with Jiangnan, why do you want to come to Huiji to meet the alliance?

Huimeng must be on its own turf! But if the reason is that Dayu himself is a descendant of the Liangzhu people, because he became the boss in the Central Plains, he went back to his hometown to show off, and it seems to be reasonable all of a sudden.

Finally, according to the history books, after the fall of Xia, the descendants of Xia established the Yue Kingdom, and it happened that the Yue Kingdom was in Huiji, so why not somewhere else?

"Historical Records" records that its ancestor is the concubine of Shaokang, the monarch of the Xia Dynasty, and is one of the direct descendants of Dayu.

Yue and Qi country, Zhangguo, Bao country, etc. are all divided by the descendants of Dayu.

And the location of these small countries is all in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Why are the descendants of Dayu going to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River?

"Wu Yue Chunqiu" believes: "At least Kang, I am afraid that the sacrifice of Yu Trace Zong Temple is absolutely sealed, and his concubine is sealed in Yue, and there is no more."

What does that mean.

It is that Shaokang is afraid that no one cares about the sacrifice in the temple in the tomb of Dayu in Huiji, so he sealed his youngest son to Huiji.

If Dayu is a descendant from the Liangzhu culture.

It seems to explain why Xia culture inherited so many things from Liangzhu culture.

First, the state regulations of all later dynasties, including the Xia Dynasty, originated from the ancient city of Liangzhu.

The ancient city of Liangzhu has obvious functional divisions, and is the beginning of China's three reconstructions of the national capital, which has been followed by all dynasties in later generations.

Second, the "Six Instruments of China" ritual system, including the Xia Dynasty, originated from the Liangzhu culture.

The tombs of the anti-mountain kings and the tombs of Yaoshan in the ancient city of Liangzhu all see the "six instruments" of the Zhou rites in later generations.

Moreover, it is precisely the six colors of Cangbi, Huangcong, Baihu, Qinggui, Chizhang, and Xuanhuang, which are completely consistent with the records of the "Zhou Li" of later generations in terms of color and shape.

The Zhou people have never seen the ancient city of Liangzhu nearly 3,000 years ago before their age, and their classic records and the actual sacrifice of the six jade vessels, both in color and shape, are completely consistent with the six jade vessels unearthed in the ancient city of Liangzhu, what does this mean?

It can only be said that the Chinese six-instrument ritual system was invented by Liangzhu and passed down to all later dynasties, including Zhou.

Third, the Chinese clothing culture of later generations, including the Xia Dynasty, originated in Liangzhu.

The Liangzhu nobles wore silk clothes and wore jade. Ancient books are called jade silk.

"Zuo Chuan: Seven Years of Mourning the Prince": Yuhe princes are in Tushan, and the jade silk is held by all countries.

The Xia Dynasty took "holding jade and silk" as "six rui" to show the rank.

"Shangshu Preface" also has "Yu farewell Kyushu, with the mountains and rivers, let the soil as tribute", the solution of the country to jade, silk as tribute, "the subject country to express the record of submission."

The Liangzhu nobles wear high crowns, and the unearthed statues of Liangzhu gods are all high crowns, and this style of wearing is the earliest source of Chinese clothing and crown ceremony.

Liangzhu also discovered the earliest jade belt hooks for buttoned silk robes.

The jade belt hook is a symbolic ornament of the Chinese clothing ceremony, which has been used until the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Another feature of the Liangzhu civilization is the back of the jade comb.

The use of the jade comb back is to insert it in the hair bun behind the head of the Liangzhu nobles, to shape the bird, to extend it to the people in later generations, and to comb the hair bun of Chinese men and women in previous dynasties.

The comb shape is still the same today.

Liangzhu's clothing culture was inherited by all dynasties after Xia, "Huainanzi Qi Customs": "Three Miao heads, Qiang people bracket collar, Chinese crowns", indicating that the Chinese people should wear robes and high crowns, which is different from the Qiang and Miao people.

And the Liangzhu culture can be found, the earliest ancestors of robes and high crowns.

Huzhou Qianshanyang also found the earliest Gebu.

2 pieces of jade spinning wheels unearthed from M2 in Hengshan, Yuhang, Zhejiang, 1 piece of jade spinning wheels unearthed from M2 at the site of Yuhang Boyi Mountain, and 1 piece of jade spinning wheels unearthed from M1 in Zhangling Mountain, Wuxian County, Jiangsu.

A set of jade spinning wheels unearthed from M11 in Yaoshan in Yuhang and a set of jade end ornaments of loom parts unearthed from M23 in Anti-Mountain.

and a pottery pot with 5 silkworm patterns engraved on the abdomen unearthed from the Yuanjiadai site in Meiyan, Wujiang, Jiangsu.

The jade silkworm moth unearthed from the Zhangling Mountain site in Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province is a strong evidence of silkworm raising and large-scale silk weaving in Liangzhu culture.

It can be determined that the Chinese clothing culture created by the Liangzhu culture has been inherited from all dynasties in later generations.

And these cultures that were all in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties are almost certainly transmitted from Liangzhu, or influenced by Liangzhu.

However, there is a two-hundred-year fault between the time of Liangzhu's demise and the time of Xia's creation.

Let's put it this way, two hundred years seems like nothing in modern times.

But in that era when civilization was in the ascendant and writing was not yet mature, 200 years was enough to make people forget many things.

Only when the surviving descendants of Liangzhu are passed on by word of mouth, and some of the remnants continue to pass it on, can the culture of Liangzhu be free of faults.

And this part of the remnants, if they want to influence the Xia, Shang and Zhou culture in later generations, the only possibility is to become the high-level of Xia culture.

This is also why Chen Han guessed that Dayu is a descendant from Liangzhu!

This can explain why the Central Plains Dynasty after Xia had so many connections with Liangzhu!