Half a month later, under the scorching summer sun.

After holding several meetings in Liangzhu, listening to many lectures, and visiting the Yaoshan altar, the archaeological team of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences soon received a new task.

Excavate a site suspected to be a jade-making workshop of the Liangzhu culture.

The ruins of the middle and early songs.

This is not really a newly discovered site.

The Zhongchuming ruins are located in Yangdun Village, Leidian Town, Deqing County, Huzhou, Zhejiang.

It is about 18 kilometers away from the Liangzhu ruins in the southwest. The area has a low terrain and a well-developed water network, adjacent to the current Dongtiao River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the waterway transportation is very convenient.

According to the 1932 "Deqing County New Chronicles" volume 2 records: "In the early song, the lower first song, Sangyu, Gaoqiao, in the middle of the ground when digging miscellaneous horns of ancient jade and ring ring step pendant and other things, the quality is firm, the color is red and yellow, the people of the time called the Western Tu Han jade, the best one is extremely precious".

In the 90s of the 20th century, a large amount of jade was unearthed from the local excavation of fish ponds, and there was a phenomenon of illegal excavation from time to time.

This has long attracted the attention of the local cultural preservation department, and this group of ruins has been positioned as an important archaeological site for a long time.

It's just that in the whole of Zhejiang, there are too many various sites that need long-term archaeology, so much so that there is no time to excavate one site at a time.

It was not until 2010 that the Yangdun site in the south of the site group was announced as a county-level cultural relics protection unit in Deqing County, and the Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology was ready to carry out archaeology on this Zhongchuming site and included it in the long-term archaeological plan.

Then, more than ten years passed, and it was not until the people from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences came that the Zhongchuming site finally waited for the opportunity to excavate.

Kong Jianwen led his archaeologists to the location of the Chuming ruins in the middle of the city, and investigated and explored this area.

Since it is a group of ruins, of course, it does not refer to a single site.

The whole ruins include Muyu Bridge, Baoan Bridge, Wangjia, Tianbandai, Lujiaba and many other ruins.

However, due to the local excavation of ponds and the construction of farms, most of the area has been destroyed and poorly preserved.

Only the ruins of Baoan Bridge and Wangjia in the north, the ruins of Tianbandai in the middle and the ruins of Lujiaba in the south are well preserved.

With everyone, everyone first carried out exploration work for a period of time.

After a period of archaeological investigation and exploration, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences found and confirmed a total of 23 artificially built earthen platforms in the Liangzhu culture period.

It is basically clear that there is a large-scale jade-making workshop site group in the Liangzhu culture period in this area, which can be collectively referred to as the jade-making workshop site group in the early Ming Dynasty, with a total area of more than 1 million square meters.

According to the existing situation, the ruins are divided into four areas: A, B, and D from north to south.

Among them, Area A includes the Baoan Bridge, Wangjia, Xiaoqiaotou and other sites, and a total of 11 artificial earth platforms have been found, with an area of 200~1200 square meters.

Area B includes Tianbandai and other sites, and a total of 10 artificially built earth platforms have been found, with an area of 100~1000 square meters.

Area D includes sites such as Lujiaba, and a total of 2 artificially built earth platforms have been discovered, but due to limited time, the exploration work in this area has not yet been completed.

Why hasn't it been done yet?

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Because halfway through the exploration, it has been basically determined that this is a large-scale jade-making workshop, so it is necessary to select several sites for trial excavation.

Said before.

Various exquisite jade artifacts have been unearthed at the Liangzhu site, representing the pinnacle of jade culture in the same era.

None of the archaeologists who have participated in the archaeological work of Liangzhu will deny that the jade culture of Liangzhu is very good, and no one will think that these jade artifacts are foreign objects and must have been made by the Liangzhu people themselves.

But at the same time, because there has been no large-scale jade-making workshop, there is a lack of a little bit of key evidence to prove that these jade objects were made by the Liangzhu people themselves.

But that's different now.

The determination of the ruins of the Middle and Chuming sites, and also the determination of the Liangzhu jade culture, the jade production process is from itself

Own.

In this case, it is necessary to carry out a formal excavation.

After a brief discussion between Kong Jianwen and Professor Li, they decided to take the lead in excavating the site of the Baoan Bridge in Area A, which is in good preservation.

Because there are a lot of earthen platforms built here, and the state of preservation is one of the best among the four districts.

The site of Baoan Bridge is located in the northern part of the Zhongchuming ruins group.

According to the scale of the site explored in the early stage, Kong Jianwen plans to lay 22 exploration parties of 5 meters x 10 meters here!

The archaeological team of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has only 12 people in total, and it is definitely unrealistic to rely on yourself.

Fortunately, Zhejiang, as a large province in the south of the Yangtze River, is not an exaggeration to say that people are everywhere.

With the help of the local county's cultural preservation department, more than 100 villagers from the countryside were summoned the next day to help with the excavation work.

In fact, it is very simple, that is, according to the 5 m x 10 m pit drawn with white lines, dig out the fill inside meter by meter.

It's just digging a pit.

More than 100 uncles and aunts in their forties and fifties are full of enthusiasm and get a salary of 100 a day, and the one who works is called a beautiful one.

Another month or two passed, and the excavation area of nearly 1,100 square meters soon found and cleaned up the earthen platform, red clay accumulation, ash pit, ash ditch, well, tomb, etc. of the Liangzhu culture period, and found the cultural relics of the Shang and Zhou, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Judging from the stratum accumulation, the bottom layer of the Baoan Bridge site is much richer than the bottom layer of the dam of the ancient city of Liangzhu, and 12 layers can be divided.

The first and second layers are modern layers, the third layer is the Ming and Qing layers, and the 4a, b, 5th, 6th, and b layers are all Song Dynasty soil layers, but the specific activity period is different.

Just one Song Dynasty layer, can be divided into five layers, it can be clearly seen that in the Song Dynasty, the location of the Baoan Bridge site should be a very important, dense flow of people, and frequent human activities.

And unearthed a large number of early Song Dynasty pottery, porcelain, bricks, a small number of late porcelain, tiles, bricks.

Thinking about it, it is still the same sentence, the area where the Liangzhu ruins are distributed is really too close to the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

It is completely foreseeable that under the soil layer of this place, the soil layer of the Song Dynasty is the richest and thickest.

After all, the Hangzhou area of the Southern Song Dynasty was the most important center of China, comparable to the ancient Chang'an, densely populated, and gathered goods from all over the world.

Although the Song Dynasty has always been said by netizens to be a weak Song Dynasty, it is a soft knee.

But I have to admit that although the Song Dynasty was very strong in foreign wars, it had been peaceful internally for many years, the economy was very good, and the people's livelihood was also very good, which was one of the most prosperous periods in history.

Whether it is for the officials or the people, it is a relatively comfortable era to live.

Gu Qu