Chapter 1474 Sincere Hope
This is indeed the case. For example, the Zhou Dynasty was once a small and remote tribe to the Shang Dynasty; similarly, Qin, to the Zhou Dynasty, was the first to throw away a small tribe. The grooms went to the minority areas in the west to fend for themselves.
Then what was once powerful declined, what was once declining became powerful, and the once weak culture developed into a strong culture. The Zhou Dynasty finally used rituals to end the witchcraft of the Shang Dynasty; the Qin State used the rule of law And the military merit and title system eventually destroyed the Six Kingdoms.
The two of them were admiring the cultural relics piled here while casually discussing topics of mutual interest.
For example, the practice of painting pottery with mud coating, Zhou Zhi believed that this technique was later inherited by porcelain.
Before the advent of porcelain, the ancients also invented a method of glazing, which was to stuff fresh pine branches into the kiln when the pottery was about to come out of the kiln, so that the pine branches would produce a large amount of oily smoke, which would penetrate into the surface of the pottery, forming a glaze. "Carburizing glaze" is the earliest method used by ancient people to glaze pottery.
However, in the Daxi culture, many pottery vessels will be trimmed after being made, and then brushed with a more delicate layer of mud to make the surface of the fired vessels more polished. smooth.
As long as this loess slurry is replaced with a porcelain stone called "glazed fruit" to make porcelain stone slurry, and then the furnace temperature is raised, porcelain will appear.
To this day, many small kilns in towns and villages still retain this method of making porcelain.
From a technical point of view, it is no different from the "decorative pottery" of Daxi Culture.
"As for the question you mentioned about why Sanyuan Palace, which is closer to Qujialing, retains a more independent cultural type than Daxi itself and is less affected by the culture of the middle and lower reaches, I have some other thoughts. "Sheng Zhaoming said.
"Oh? Professor, have you discovered the reason?"
"It should be said that it is an idea. Of course, it was also inspired by the discovery of the Youhou reservoir area." Sheng Zhaoming came with Zhou Zhi Go to the map on the wall: "Come and see, elbow, can we find some patterns in the age of the ruins along the Wujiang River and Youshui River?"
"Yes! Culture Channel!" Zhou Zhi suddenly said: "There is also the Yangtze River, spreading along the river to the area east of Qutang Gorge!" For fishing and hunting, there must be a large river. So the reason why the Sanyuan Palace type is relatively independent is that it just avoids these three paths of cultural communication.”
"It seems to make sense! They left the main river and found a paradise." Zhou Zhi pointed to a lake called Heiyu Lake on the map: "In ancient times, this must have been a very big lake. They ran into Yunmeng Ze to seal it. ”
Of course, in these discussions, apart from the fact that Daxi civilization is more reliable in communicating with the outside world along the three rivers, the independence of the Sanyuan Palace type can only be discussed at present. Belongs to "guess".
Archaeology is a very serious subject and a science. Any inference with insufficient empirical evidence can only be named "conjecture". The reason why Daxi Culture can become an independent culture is because there are two thousand Many archaeological artifacts are on display.
Moreover, these cultural relics are closely related to each other. Regardless of processing methods, cultural symbols, types of artifacts, house formats, storage sizes, living accumulation layers, content composition, etc., they are all closely related and restricted.
This is true for a culture with thousands of cultural relics and dozens of archaeological sites, not to mention a civilization with millions of cultural relics and countless huge ruins as the foundation?
If you want to forge a project as big as the Great Wall, the people, materials, and national finances that need to be used will not leave any flaws. The most important thing is that the proposition of "forging monuments and miracles for the sake of national self-confidence" is full of absurd temperament. . With so much money, wouldn't it be more confident to build more warships and guns?
There are also parts of Daxi culture that are beyond many modern people’s understanding of humans in the Neolithic period. However, instead of questioning these things as fakes, it is better to question your lack of knowledge and start from I started studying archeology as a self-study undergraduate course.
For example, Daxi people like to make a kind of pottery ball. The pottery ball is hollow and has six pottery particles inside. When shaken, it will make a sound. Currently, Sheng Zhaoming named it "pottery ringer" .
This kind of thing is very beautifully made, in the shape of a ball or a xun. In addition to the built-in ceramic ball, there are also holes drilled on the outside for stringing ropes.
There are also dot marks on the surface made by a very neat tooth comb, making the pottery ball look a bit like a modern softball.
The sound produced by this kind of utensil is very small, so it is impossible to use it as a ritual utensil in public. Some people suspect that it is a toy used to amuse babies at home.
Zhou Zhi feels that this speculation is a bit unreasonable. At that time, people had so much leisure and spent so much energy to make a fragile and fragile toy for babies?
There is also a musical instrument, which is similar in shape to a pottery sounder, but more similar to a xun, and the indentation of the tooth comb is also similar.
This thing is even more amazing. A combination of several holes can produce three musical scales.
Such a complex and exquisite pottery making process must use pottery molds. If the pottery mold craftsmanship is used, it must be called a "standard ware." In other words, the Daxi people five or six thousand years ago already had "standard ware." Craftsmanship standards", this thing is far more shocking than the appearance of the pottery sound ware itself!
Chou Zhi intuitively thought that the things he made would not be used to tease babies.
In the semi-cave style round house with bamboo walls, Daxi wizards use pottery sounders and xun-shaped instruments. In the smoke-filled thatched house, they play the rattles with a cautious expression and chant vaguely. Is it more reasonable to bring the sound of music and provide hospice care to the old man lying on the straw bed? Is it more reasonable to change the application scene of these two utensils to the other side of life?
Sheng Zhaoming couldn't help but sigh: "Although it has not been proven so far that these two artifacts were used in this way, I sincerely hope that it will be the same as your guess."
筚路蓝丝, In the Qishan Forest, the life of the Daxi people, like countless ancestors on the land of China, can be imagined. To use the English phrase, restinpeace, it may be a luxury.
Of course, there are far more relics in the Daxi area than these. From the Neolithic Age to the Pre-Qin Dynasty, the War of the Han Dynasty, to the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are many tombs that are in urgent need of rescue excavation.
Of course, the most important thing is the Daxi Cultural Site. When the water level rises, the relationship between Daxi Culture, Qujialing Culture, Yangshao Culture, and Sanyuan Palace will really remain a mystery forever. .
After asking Sheng Zhaoming about his current difficulties at work, taking notes, and promising that the foundation would provide critical support, Zhou Zhi returned to the ship with a full harvest.
After preparing the meal with Huang Lin, Li Laosan and Lin Wanqiu came back with their friends, laughing and joking.
(End of this chapter)