Chapter 730 Astronomical Observatory
If it is to commemorate Noah.
It’s because of religion.
That’s why Göbekli Tepe was built.
That seems to make sense?
But is it really that simple?
“Do you still remember that there was the first wheat here?
In other words, agriculture in our human era was born at this time.
Agriculture is not Say, just plant the seeds in the ground.
Inseparable from agriculture is the calendar.
Otherwise you won’t know when to plant what crops.
When should you start farming.
Complete agriculture requires a complete calendar to guide it.
It can be said that along with the development of agriculture.
The calendar is a must.
Otherwise, even if you have all the farming skills.
If there is no calendar, I don’t know when to sow seeds.
You can't grow anything at all. ”
We people working in the city now.
Looking at the calendar just wants to know what day of the week it is today.
It’s just about when you can take a vacation.
But for farmers, our lunar calendar.
But it is used to know when to sow.
But where did the calendar come from?
How did the ancients know that there are 365 days in a year?
A very simple truth.
For example, after a shipwreck, you end up living on an isolated island.
How do you know what time you are at?
What month and day is it?
How did the ancients do it?
"Our country's agriculture was extremely developed in ancient times.
This is also due to our calendar and our research on astronomy.
It is also one of the few in the world.
< br>We even discovered Halley's Comet as early as the Qin Dynasty
and accurately recorded the trajectory of 27 Halley's Comet from the Qin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty
It can be said that the calendar is the foundation of our country.
Do you still remember the ten days that disappeared in history?
If the calendar is inaccurate.
For example, some previous calendars had errors.
It’s not obvious for a short time, but such errors accumulate over time.
It will become a huge error.
It may differ by more than half a year.
In this way, when farming, we will misjudge the opportunities for planting seeds.
This will result in no harvest for the whole year.
So an accurate calendar is necessary. ”
Some people who have farmed before understand the importance of the calendar.
For example, our country’s 24 solar terms.
As long as it comes to a certain time, corresponding things need to be done.
This is the role of the 24 solar terms.
Only the ancients knew how effective the 24 solar terms were in guiding agricultural production.
"Now let's take a look at some of the patterns on Göbekli Tepe.
In fact, this was the star map in the sky at that time.
How did the ancients grasp the number of days in a year?
They can only do it through stargazing. ”
Professor Zhou can be said to have a very strong say here.
Because of our country’s observation of the stars in the sky.
It can be said to be unparalleled in the world.
Professor Zhou sighed, "There have been records in ancient books."
"In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man who wanted to study whether the trajectory of a star was consistent with what was recorded in ancient books. The record is the same. "
"It has been like this for decades on a small island that is convenient for observing this star."
"Finally, I will report back to the court when I am old."
"Report to His Majesty the Emperor that this star does move like this."
"You can't imagine how the ancients at that time were. Persistence and romance. "
"It is precisely because of this that our country's research on astronomical phenomena is the most advanced and complete, and even sunspots have been recorded for a long time. ”
In fact, we have to mention here the astronomical records of the same period in foreign countries.
It seems like a blank.
They simply do not have as long a period of observation and research as our country.
The strange thing is that they also have a complete calendar and some astrological charts.
Especially after the Ming Dynasty, Western astronomy suddenly developed. This has to be said to be very strange.
Si Xiaoping recalled on the side, "Didn't Mr. Ye say it before?"
"The stars in the sky will actually affect each of us."
< br>“Because according to the universal gravitation of modern science.”
“As long as two objects with mass will affect each other.”
Lao Wu smiled and said, "This may be the so-called stargazing."
But what the three of them don't understand is, what does this have to do with Göbekli Tepe?
I heard Ye Zhen explain immediately.
“Göbekli Tepe, the animals on it are exactly the star map recorded at that time.
It records the stars in the sky at that time.
Because the calendar is necessary, agricultural farming must be coordinated with the calendar.
Göbekli Tepe is actually an observatory.
It can also be said to be a star observatory. ”
I only saw Ye Zhen peeling off the patterns on Göbekli Tepe.
Turn them into some simple lines.
Then behind the projection, a place in Türkiye at that time was shown.
The starry sky 12,000 years ago.
Ye Zhen matched the patterns one by one with the starry sky at that time.
“You can take a look at the starry sky at Göbekli Tepe at that time.
It is exactly the pattern carved on Göbekli Tepe.
So this stone formation is not useless.
The primitive humans at that time wanted to develop agriculture.
You need a calendar.
Göbekli Tepe is the observatory they need to observe astronomical phenomena.
They recorded the celestial phenomena and the time point at that time.
Why does it need to be built layer by layer?
Because the celestial phenomena are different.
Every once in a while, this calendar starts to become inaccurate.
In the second generation, the calendar could still be used reluctantly.
But in the third generation, I no longer knew what the purpose of building Göbekli Tepe was.
It began to gradually decline. "
Professor Yan Xin heard Ye Zhen's explanation.
"An astronomical observatory? Used to observe the stars and guide agriculture? "Professor Yan Xin always felt that something was wrong.
Although at that time, the development of agriculture was the most important.
Without the agricultural revolution, it can be said that we would not have everything we have now.< br>
No matter how much effort it takes to come up with an accurate calendar, it is not an exaggeration at all.
But Professor Yan Xin always feels that it is not that simple.
Song Xuan and others in Bureau 749 don’t know much about calendars or anything like that.
But Ning Xiu knew.
Now there are only some important festivals.
For example, marrying a wife and having children.
It is necessary to choose a good and auspicious day.
Many people go to fortune tellers to choose a good day.
And this often requires the use of the lunar calendar.
In fact, what we now call the lunar calendar or the lunar calendar.
It is actually a lunar calendar.
In the oldest calendar, there are generally only ten months.
There are thirty-six days in each month and only three hundred and sixty days in a year.
This is why our country says that three hundred and sixty is a great week.
Later I discovered that the solar calendar with ten months in a year had too big an error.
Only then came the version of the next three hundred and sixty-five days.
By the Xia Dynasty, the ancients at that time already knew that there were 365 days in a year.
The calendar at that time was called the Summer Calendar.
Earlier there was the Ancient Six Calendar.
Refers to the Huangdi calendar, Zhuanxu calendar, Xia calendar, Yin calendar, Zhou calendar and Lu calendar.
At that time, it was already accurate to 365+1/4 days.
It is very close to the modern measurement of one year.
But this is still not accurate enough.
If the time becomes longer, there will still be a time error.
This led to the later synodic moon and so on.
Later, leap years were introduced to make up for the extra days of error.
This is the wisdom of the ancients.
(End of this chapter)