"Sanxingdui"
When it comes to the origins of Chinese history, most friends will think of the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" and the Xia And Shang Dynasties. Regarding the Xia Dynasty, historians believe that it originated in the 21st century BC of the Western calendar, but the evidence for the actual existence of the Xia Dynasty is currently relatively scarce, so that the historical circles have a great controversy over the positioning of the Xia Dynasty.
However, around 2000 BC in the Western calendar, there was an unquestionable "Sanxingdui" culture in the Sichuan region of China. Historians believe that the "Sanxingdui" culture was closely related to the later relationship between the ancient Shu state.
The rise and fall of the ancient Shu kingdom
The ancient Shu kingdom will always give people a sense of mystery. Li Bai, a Tang dynastyman, once commented on the history of the ancient Shu kingdom: "Erlai is 48,000 years old, and he is not inhabited by Qin Saitong. Although Shudi and Guanzhong were geographically distant, for a long time, the ancient Shu state had little involvement in the affairs of the Central Plains. In the historical materials of the pre-Qin side, we can find records about the intervention of the ancient Shu state in the affairs of the Central Plains, the most famous of which is that during the period of the Wu King, the ancient Shu state, as one of the eight hundred princes, sent hundreds of archers to participate in the crusade against the King of Shang.
In short, from the legendary Xia Dynasty to the Warring States Era, the ancient Shu Kingdom has always been outside the drastic changes in the Central Plains. It was not until the Warring States period that the Qin people began to conquer the ancient Shu state, and eventually, qin annexed the ancient Shu state.
With the passage of time and the scarcity of historical materials, people in later generations only remember the ancient Shu Kingdom and remember The Shudi Duyu, but for Sanxingdui, they have completely forgotten. Until modern times, the Sanxingdui civilization was unearthed.
However, it is strange that many historians' research on "Sanxingdui" has been in secret. So why are they hiding this study?
Personally, I believe that the reasons are as follows:
The shaking of the Xia Dynasty
For a long time, the Xia Dynasty has been regarded by historians as the beginning of an era of civilization in Chinese history (the Xia Dynasty is considered a state, while the previous Yao Shun can only be regarded as a tribe). However, regarding the existence of the Xia Dynasty, in addition to the inability to produce convincing evidence, if the glory of the Sanxingdui civilization is hastily declared, it will, to a large extent, have an impact on the current historical academic system, and even confuse the public's understanding of history, and even shake the historical status of the Xia Dynasty - after all, whether the Xia Dynasty has a dispute, and sanxingdui, which is as long as the Xia Dynasty, has a lot of physical evidence, and the Sanxingdui civilization has no inheritance relationship with the later Shang Zhou, which will cause harm to national feelings.
Research is immature
For the study of Yin Shang, in addition to historical records, there are also a large number of excavated oracle bones. For the understanding of the Xia Dynasty, at least the major events in the history of the Xia Dynasty and the lineage of the Xia Dynasty kings and kings of the Taikang Dynasty are clear. As for the understanding of the Sanxingdui civilization, the degree of understanding of it in the historical circles is far less detailed than that of the Xia Dynasty. Therefore, in the case of insufficient maturity in the study of Sanxingdui, it is not possible to hastily publish the research results.
Foreign cultural suspicions
When historians studied the Sanxingdui civilization, they found that there were a large number of elements suspected of coming from West Asia in the Sanxingdui civilization. Some scholars suspect that the Sanxingdui civilization is a civilization from West Asia, not a native civilization. This skeptical-based perception cannot be easily made public.