✎ “No site can have the elements and symbols of the origin of civilization like the Taosi site.” As one of the three key sites in the Chinese civilization exploration project, the Taosi site is a must-pass place to study Chinese history and ancient culture and perceive the spiritual connotation of the Chinese nation.
▲Taosi Site
On July 21, 2022, the academic seminar on “Tiantian and Weidi, Shining the Four Directions – Taosi Model of the Origin of Chinese Civilization” sponsored by the Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics and the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was held in the original Taishan City of Taizhou.
This meeting was to explore the Taosi ruins, the first city site in the Central Plains region, the earliest capital city site, which entered the primary civilization stage, and to show its fruitful archaeological achievements, such as: an unprecedented city site, a magnificent palace wall, a regular cemetery, the earliest observatory in the world, the earliest text to date, and a set of ritual vessels.Babaylan 1990 cloth draw….
The original China
Since ancient times, the Taosi ruins have been a sacred place in the minds of the locals. According to the aerial film taken, for thousands of years, no matter how the nearby villages have developed and changed, they have been encircling and tightly surrounding the Taosi site, and rarely occupying the burden.
▲Taosi Ruins Navigation
In the dark, it seems that there is a magical power protecting this ancient capital ruins.
In the ruins of more than 4 million square meters, the city site occupies 2.8 million square meters and the palace city is nearly 130,000 square meters. The entire site has clear functional distinction, exquisite layout, and distinct burial levels, which seems to have the basic form of the country.
Many scholars believe that Taosi is the “Yaodu Pingyang” recorded in classics. According to the years of excavation, the gap between the rich and the poor in Taosi society is huge, and a few nobles have accumulated a large amount of wealth and formed a privileged class. At this time of social development, the prototype of the country has been formed. The civilized society has already beenCinema 1950 witch cloth drawKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw/”>Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw is coming.
Taosi ruins are typical representatives of early China. � The tall Que Building in Babaylan 1990 cloth draw extends from the south wall of the palace city, and the model is similar to the style of the Yingtianmen Que Building in Luoyang City during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Even the later Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City also follows this Que Building model more than 4,000 years ago.
▲The “Qulou Style” gate of the southeast gate
▲The Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City
The tall Quelou gate of the palace shows the grandeur in the palace. Above the palace, just one main hall, the area reaches more than 540 square meters. The cellars outside the palace store the country’s grain. The cellars have a diameter of 5 meters and a depth of 7 meters. The built-in spiral ramps can reach the bottom directly. These Komiks 1960 witch clothes DrawThe large cellar pit is almost exactly the same as Hanjia Cang in Luoyang during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
After more than 40 years of excavation, the Taosi siteBabaylan 1990 cloth draw has been recognized by many scholarsMany scholarsKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawThe capital of the Yao and Shun era. “Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawExploration of the origin of Chinese civilizationKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawCinema 1950 witch cloth The Taosi ruins are very consistent with Yao in terms of age, geographical location and the level of civilization it reflects. They are an important fulcrum and cornerstone for empirizing the journey of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years. The cemetery of the Taosi ruins in the tomb of the king is the largest in the Yellow River Basin. More than 40 years of excavation shows that more than 4,000 years ago, the society here had undergone serious polarization. Unlike the tombs of a large number of ordinary people, there are relatively few aristocratic tombs, very high specifications, and particularly rich burial objects. In 1980, in the M3016 tomb, a special round pottery was revealed. This is not a Cinema 1950 witch clothes Draw ordinary pottery trays, with a dragon painted in the center of the plate vividly painted.
▲Taosi Panlong
In the entire Taosi site, only four such dragon plates were unearthed from the kingly tomb. Archaeologists believe that the dragon plate should belong to the king at that time and is a symbol of high-level status. The dragons drawn in the Taosi Dragon plate are all shaped like coiled dragons, with crocodile-like scales on their bodies, square on both sides of the head resemble bear ears, and long jaws are convex. draw, especially the image of holding branches on the mouth, is very rare. Taosi Panlong is already very close to the image of the descendants of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties and later generations. Taosi is the original prototype of China, so Taosi Dragon is the true Chinese dragon.
▲Longpan unearthed from the Taosi site
The world’s earliest observatory
400More than 0 years ago, Taosi had a relatively advanced astronomical calendar and the world’s earliest observatory.
When archaeologists first discovered 13 arc-shaped rammed earth pillars, they were confused by the strange combination of “walls are not like walls, and roads are not like roads”.
According to the records of “Shangshu Yao Dian”, astronomy was very developed during the Yao Emperor’s period, and the astronomical calendar was related to agricultural production and had become part of the royal power. The observatory was a necessary building for the capital.
These 13 strange stone pillarsKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw, could these 13 peculiar stone pillars be the observatory from more than 4,000 years ago?
After years of exploration and verification and simulation observation, archaeologists finally discovered the secret of the observatory. It turned out that the ancestors determined the seasons and solar terms by observing the observation gaps of the pillars and the sunrise direction of Taer Mountain. From the second observation slit, the sunrise is seen as the winter solstice, and from the 12th observation slit, the sunrise is seen as the summer solstice. Both the vernal and autumnal equinoxes see the sunrise from the 7th observation slit.
▲Taosi Ruins Observation Station
▲Restoration of Taosi Ruins Observation Station
This is the earliest observatory in the world and the ancestral source of China’s 24 solar terms. It is 500 years older than the British Stonehenge Observation.
Mysterious Zhu Shuwen
In the excavation of H3403, a broken flat pot, the two “characters” written in cinnabar caused a great sensation.
One of the red characters is not very controversial, and many scholars believe that he is very similar to the word “玉” in the oracle bone inscriptions.
▲Zhu Shu Danhu
The second controversial word is whether it is the word “Yao” or “Yuan”.
Although it is only twoBabaylan 1990 cloth drawThe simple word is the earliest clearly discovered in China. It was about 800 years earlier than the mature oracle bone inscriptions.
The initial formation of “ritual and music civilization”
29 musical instruments unearthed from the Taosi site, including turtle drums, earth drums, special chimes, pottery bells, copper bells, oral string zithers, etc. The combination of turtle drums and special chimes is the earliest known instruments of the same kind.
▲Crocodile drum and restoration
copper bells are the earliest metal instruments discovered in China. The oral string calves are the smallest ethnic instruments in China. To this day, the Qiang, Mongolian, Yi and Oroqen peoples are still in use.
▲Oral string calves
The drums that use crocodile skin masks only appear in the king levelIn the tomb. The same is true for earth drums. Among them, one pair of turtle drums, one stone chime, and one earth drum are all placed in a fixed combination on the lower left side of the tomb owner of the noble tomb. The combination of turtle drums and special chimes was inherited from the Shang and Zhou dynasties and became the unique burial tool of the nobles.
Taosi also released Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw soil includes jade evangelism instruments such as jade axe, jade cong, jade bi, and jade gui. They and the above-mentioned instruments indicate that the “ritual and music civilization” has been initially formed at this time.
▲Jade artifact unearthed from the Taosi site
▲Jade beast face
The earliest astronomical measurement instrument
In the autumn of 2002, in the Taosi site<a A wooden pole was found in the M22 of the tomb of Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, with black, green and red markings on it, which caused archaeologists to verify the "Guobei".
Gui Biao is an astronomical instrument that measures the length of sun shadow in ancient my country. It can measure the sun shadow in the earth and determine the location of the capital; it can conduct geodetic measurements, recognize the actual scope and territory of the world; it can also be used to formulate a calendar.
Study proves that the wooden pole found in the M22 tomb is a ruler. The discovery of Taosi Guizhi also shows that the instrument used in ancient China’s astronomical measurements first appeared in the middle period of Taosi culture 41 years ago.
▲The gems were unearthed from the Taosi site
From this point of view, the Taosi site is a collection of city walls, palaces, cemeteries, musical instruments, observatory platforms, large storage areas and other functional elements discovered in China so far.ylan 1990 cloth draw‘s early capital ruins.
A variety of archaeological signs also show that Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawAs early as more than 4,000 years ago, Taosi entered the national stage and entered a civilized society. First, the Taosi culture period was not an equal society, but a serious social hierarchy differentiation occurred. For example, the differences in tombs mentioned above actually reflect the social status of the tomb owner. Second, the emergence of the “king” in Taosi culture and society, which means that a country dominated by royal power emerges. Third, in the Taosi society, the ritual system was initially formed and became the essence of the Babaylan 1990 cloth draw social system passed down to future generations. Fourth, most of the material and spiritual civilizations created by Taosi society were inherited and developed by the Xia, Shang, Zhou and later generations, and were in line with the lineage.
It can be said that Taosi was “the original Chinese and the main vein of China.”