Chapter 1454 Fengdu
The next day, the ship arrived at Fengdu.
Fengdu is known as a ghost town, but the origin of this ghost town stems from a funny mistake.
This was once one of the important bases of Tianshi Tao. At that time, Zhang Daoling founded Tianshi Tao and set up twenty-four Taoist temples in Shu as governance centers to manage the people. Later, his descendant Zhang Heng established Tianshi Tao in Feng. Du Mingshan established the "Ping Du Zhi". At least during the Northern Wei Dynasty, Li Daoyuan's "Shui Jing Zhu" still ranked it as the 45th among the seventy-two caves in Taoism.
Therefore, this place has a very strong Taoist background, and there are endless practitioners of Taoism. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were two alchemists, Yin Changsheng, and Wang Fangping practiced here and became an immortal, and he ascended to heaven in the daytime. In the Tang Dynasty, some people connected their surnames and regarded them as one person, calling them "King of Yin".
As a result, the famous mountain gradually evolved into the cave of the legendary "King of Yin", that is, the divine king in charge of the underworld. Combined with the legends of the Taoist Beiyin Emperor, the Buddhist Yama King and the Ghost Emperor, the legends became more and more true, and various temples and gods were created. The more.
I don’t know whether it was a coincidence or intentional. During the Sui Dynasty, this place was named after the Taoist hell "Fengdu". Later, it was changed several times. In the Ming Dynasty, this name was used again.
But this time, it is no longer a coincidence, but a real "right match".
Fengdu once experienced a catastrophe. Important cultural relics such as steel statues and bell pans on famous mountains were smashed into scrap metal for "steelmaking". In the past sixty years, cultural relics on famous mountains were destroyed again, and various statues of gods were destroyed. Nothing left.
Even so, the scale of the more than 20 palaces and temples on the famous mountains is still there. In 1982, Yuzhou rebuilt a national-level "ghost town" tourist attraction and built Fengdu into the number one tourist attraction in the Three Gorges. This scenic spot makes this place suddenly lively.
Then a bad thing happened. The antique buildings and sculptures along the Mingshan Road became a mixture of ancient and modern, with the real and the fake appearing at the same time. Moreover, many of the imitations were extremely clumsy. In Zhou Zhi's eyes, this was actually a kind of damage to the monuments.
However, Li Laosan thinks that Zhou Zhi is too demanding. After all, everyone is so poor now. At least this place can make money for the local government. This has value. With value, it will naturally Investing strength in protection, such proactive behavior is far more effective than unspontaneous passive behavior.
It is indeed true to say this. For example, the "Ghost Kingdom Shrine" that integrates sound and light effects can be called an ancient version of "horror script killing". Although Zhou Zhi thinks such things are funny It's ridiculous, but walking around with the frightened Jiang Shuyi in your arms is another kind of "emotional value" that this place can provide.
The warm fragrant soft jade hugged Zhou Zhi, making Zhou Zhi feel that the expensive ticket price of twenty yuan was not a loss at all.
And my group is free of charge, because I am the sponsor, and the local cultural center has arranged to receive them all the way.
There is another site in Gaojia Town on the Fengdu River that is not well known, but was later listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit - Gaojia Town Site.
In March last year, an expedition team sponsored by the foundation discovered more than a dozen stone artifacts in an area of less than one square meter on the gravel slope in Guihua Village, Gaojia Town. This discovery immediately received additional funding from the Cultural Preservation Fund. Over the past two months, the team conducted a detailed inspection of the site. More and more stone products were excavated, and many of them were large and giant gravel tools, with Paleolithic choppers as the main tools. Mainly, there are also scrapers, etc.
It was finally determined that this should be a place for stone collection and stone tool production and processing. The site specimens are densely packed and thickly piled, and the stone products are large in number, rich in type, and of high quality. The distribution area is as large as more than 10,000 square meters, and the culture is profound. It is the earliest Paleolithic cultural relic found in the Three Gorges area so far.
Because it is too close to the river beach, the state has included in the ranks of rescue excavations, but the state's fund allocation has not been in place yet. Therefore, the foundation allocated start-up funds in time based on the level of excavation. Therefore, when people from the Cultural Bureau led Zhou Zhi and his party to the riverside, it had become a huge construction site.
The leader of the team working here is Professor Li who was transferred from the Nanjing Cultural Preservation Institute and has participated in the excavation of important sites in Tianluoshan and Qujialing.
“I am very grateful to the comrades of the Cultural Preservation Fund for their strong support!” Professor Li excitedly shook hands with Li Laosan, Lin Wanqiu, and Zhou Zhi in turn: “Without you allocating funds in a timely manner, our work would at least require The official launch will be postponed until the end of next year! Thank you, thank you so much!”
Li Laosan already knows how to respond to this situation in China, from the red scarf to him. is a standard: "This is what we should do. We don't deserve Professor Li's gratitude."
Lin Wanqiu also said: "Indeed, after seeing such a big scene, our money was not wasted."< br>
“The reason why it is so big is that we took advantage of this opportunity to hold a large class.” Professor Li introduced: “‘Paleolithic Archeology Training Class in the Three Gorges Project Submerged Area’!”
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"The archaeological teams that came from all over the country to support us, especially those assigned to engage in Neo-Paleolithic archeology, first came here to conduct systematic archaeological studies, and then, according to organizational assignments, went to the sites they were responsible for to conduct excavations."
“In this way we are The project here is a bit spread out,” Professor Li continued: “The current excavation area of the Gaojia Town ruins is divided into three work areas, including 64 square meters in Area A and 126 square meters in Area B. , Area C is 330 square meters.”
“Area A is ours. First, in the area where stone artifacts were found, cultural relics were buried in a gravel layer 6.7 meters below the ground, and part of the gravel layer has been cemented into conglomerate. "
" This is our key work area, and it has been basically excavated. A large number of chopping tools, sharp tools, scrapers, stone hammers and other stone products were found, totaling more than 1,500 pieces, amounting to a ton."
"So many?" Li Laosan! They were all shocked: "So many stone tools were dug out within an area of 64 square meters?!"
Everyone was amazed. It was a bit exaggerated that so many Paleolithic tools could be unearthed in more than sixty square meters, which is the area of a small three-bedroom apartment.
This investment from the foundation is really cost-effective. It can be called a timely help, and it can also be regarded as the first shot. Although the main additional funding in the future will definitely be the responsibility of the state, the joint efforts are enough for everyone to be proud of. .
“That’s why we have to hold a class!” Professor Li said excitedly, waving his hand with muddy nails: “There are enough samples in this place for students to learn!”
(End of this chapter)