✎ “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 for studying Chinese history and ancient culture and perceiving the spiritual connotation of the Chinese nation.
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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 Taiyuan, Shanxi.
This conference was to concentrate on exploring the Taosi ruins, the first city site in the Central Plains region to enter the primary civilization stage, and to showcase its fruitful archaeological achievements, such as: an unprecedented city site, a magnificent palace wall, a regular cemetery, the world’s earliest observatory, the earliest text to date, and a set of ritual vessels…
The Taosi ruins have been a sacred place in the minds of the locals since ancient times. 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’s Babaylan 1990 cloth draw site occupied 2.8 million square meters and nearly 130,000 square meters of the palace. 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. By this time the social development has been developed, the prototype of the country has been formed and a civilized society has arrived.
The Taosi site is a typical representative of early China.
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Babaylan 1990 cloth drawThe only dialect near the Taosi ruins is called the Sun “King of Yao”. Is it a coincidence? Or the inheritance of civilization? Or is it a certain worship? The great king Yao, who was passed down from generation to generation, has the Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw ever built a great capital?
In 2018, on the wall of the Taosi ruins palace city, archaeologists were surprised to find the remaining “Qilou”-style door site. Babaylan 1990 cloth draw
The tall Que Tower has always been called the gate of etiquette. Two tall que Towers extend from the southern wall of the palace city, and the pattern is similar to the style of the Yingtianmen Que Tower in Luoyang City during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Even the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City later followed this Que Tower model more than 4,000 years ago.
▲The “Qilou Style” door address of the Nandong Gate
▲Cinema 1950 witch clothes drawThe Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City
The tall Quelou gate site shows the grandeur in the palace city. Above the palace, just one main hall, the area reaches more than 540 square meters. The cellar outside the palace city stores the country’s grain. The cellar diameter is 5 meters and the depth is 7 meters. The built-in spiral ramp can reach the bottom directly. These large cellar pits are almost exactly the same as Hanjia Cang in Luoyang during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
After more than 40 years of excavation, the Taosi site has become the capital of the Yao and Shun era recognized by many scholars. Wang Wei, chief expert of the “Chinese Civilization Source Exploration Project”, believes that no site can have the elements and symbols of the origin of civilization like the Taosi site. The Taosi site is in terms of age, geographical location and the level of civilization it reflects.It is quite consistent and is an important fulcrum and cornerstone of the empirical 5000Babaylan 1990 cloth draw years of Chinese civilization. The cemetery of the Chinese Dragon in the tomb of the King is the largest in the Yellow River Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw. More than 40 years of excavation show that more than 4,000 years ago, the society here had undergone serious polarization. Unlike the Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw tombs of a large number of ordinary people, there are relatively few aristocratic tombs with fewer, very high specifications, and particularly rich burial objects.
198Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw0, in the M3016 tomb, a special round pottery was revealed. This is not an ordinary pottery plate. The center of the plate is vividly painted with a dragon.
▲Taosi Panlong
In the entire Taosi site, only four such dragon plates were unearthed from the king-level tomb. Archaeologists believe that the dragon plate should belong to the king of the time and is a symbol of high-level status. The dragons drawn in the Taosi Dragon Pan are all shaped like coiled dragons, with crocodile-like scaly patches on their bodies. The sides of the head are square like bear ears, and the long jaws are protruding, especially the image of holding branches on the mouth, which is very rare. The Panlong of Taosi is very close to the image of the descendants of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties and later generations. Taosi is the original Chinese dragon. Therefore, the Taosi dragon is the true Chinese dragon.
▲Longpan unearthed from the Taosi site
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More than 4,000 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 during the Yao Emperor’s period was very developed, and the astronomical calendar was related to agricultural production.Cinema 1950 witch Cloth draw has become part of the royal power, and the observatory is a necessary building in the capital.
Are these 13 strange stone pillars 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 season and solar terms by observing the observation slits of the pillars and the direction of the sunrise in Taer Mountain Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw. The sunrise from the second observation slit is the winter solstice, and the sunrise from the 12th observation slit is the summer solstice. Both the vernal and autumnal equinoxes see the sunrise from the seventh observation slit.
▲Taosi Ruins Observatory
▲Taosi Ruins Observatory Restore
ThisKomiks 1960 witch clothes draw is the earliest observatory in the world and the ancestral source of China’s 24 solar terms. It is even more than the Stonehenge Observatory in the UK, and it is 500 years in the morning.
The mysterious Zhu Shuwen
H3403, ash pit in Taosi ruins in 1984During the excavation, the two “words” written in cinnabar on a broken flat pot 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 “王”.
Although it is just two simple words Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, it is the earliest text 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 drum and special chime is the earliest known instrument of the same kind.
▲The drum and the restoration of the copper bell are the earliest metal instruments discovered in China. The oral stringed zither is the smallest ethnic instrument in China. To this day, the Qiang, Mongolian, Yi and Oroqen peoples are still in use.
▲Oral string calves
The drum that uses crocodile skin mask only appears in the king-level 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 in the tomb of the nobles..com/”>Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw‘s lower left side. The combination of turtle drum and special chime was passed down to Shang and Zhou dynasties and became the unique burial instruments of the nobles.
Tao Temple also unearthed jade ritual instruments such as jade axe, jade cong, jade bi, and jade gui. They and the above-mentioned instruments indicate that the “Babaylan 1990 cloth drawRitual and music civilization” was initially formed at this time.
▲Jade artifacts unearthed from Taosi site
▲Jade Beast Face
The earliest astronomical measurement instrument
In the autumn of 2002, a wooden pole was found in the mid-term tomb of Taosi site, coated with black, green and red markings, which caused archaeologists to verify the “Gui Biao”.
Gui Biao is an astronomical instrument used in ancient my country to measure the length of sun shadows. It can measure the sun shadows and determine the location of the capital; it can conduct geodetic measurements, recognize the actual range and territory of the world; it can also be used to formulate a calendar.
Research proves that the wooden pole found in the M22 tomb is a Gui Pian. The discovery of Taosi Gui Pian also shows that the Gui Piano instrument used in ancient China astronomical measurements first appeared in the mid-term of Taosi culture 4,100 years ago.
Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw▲The guizi unearthed from the Taosi site
From this point of view, the Taosi site is a city wall and palace discovered in China so far. The early capital ruins with complete functional elements such as draw, cemeteries, musical instruments, observatorys, large storage areas, etc.
A variety of archaeological signs also show that Taosi entered the country more than 4,000 years agoAt home stage, we 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 supreme ruler of Taosi culture and society appeared, “King of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, and Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw means that a country dominated by royal power emerges. Third, in Taosi society, the ritual system was initially formed and became the essence of the social system to be passed down in 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.”