In many historical sources, there have been records of the story of "Da Yu Zhi Shui", such as "Da Yu Ping Living Water and Soil, Gong Qi Heaven and Earth" ("History"), "Yu Zhi Flood, Tong Yuanyuan Mountain" ("Huainan Zi"), "Yu Ping Water and Soil, the Main Name Of The Mountains and Rivers" ("Shang Shu") ... However, because of the lack of physical data, the authenticity of Dayu Zhishui has been questioned by many experts and scholars. But fortunately, archaeologists have found a mysterious substance at the Lajia site, and after research, they can prove the authenticity of Dayu Zhishui. The following Xiaobian will reveal the secret to you from scratch.
(All pictures in this article, all from the network, thanks to the original author, if you infringe your rights, please contact the author of this number to delete.) In the 1990s, when archaeologists were inspecting Minhe County in Qinghai, they found a large prehistoric site near Lajia Village outside the county seat, and initially judged that its age was about 4,000 years ago, and named it the Lajia Site. Later, after research and preparation, experts carried out in-depth excavation and protection of the site in 1999.
In the early excavation process, experts found many traces of water crossing, and unearthed a large number of stone tools, as well as a small number of pottery and jade. Judging from this, the life of the ancestors of the Lajia family at that time may have been very "moist". Later, experts cleared out the complete ruins of the houses, and most of them were square or circular, mainly in the style of semi-crypts. But to the surprise of experts, in several house ruins that have been excavated, there are the remains of unnatural deaths, a total of 14.
The experts were shocked, the remains were in different postures, some curled up, some fell to their knees, some spread their limbs, some embraced each other, and all showed a look of extreme fear. This scene, like Pompeii in Italy, is shocking and cannot bear to look at it directly. For a long time, experts have been continuously researching, and at the same time, they have discovered the little-known past behind the Lajia ruins, and deduced that what brought a devastating blow to the ancestors of the Lajia family should be a sudden natural disaster. What kind of disaster is it? You will know by looking at the secret of the editor.
By 2007, archaeological excavations at the Lajia site were continuing, and when experts cleared six or seven meters underground, they found a lot of fine sand and slime deposits, which had never been seen in ordinary ancient sites. Later, archaeologists consulted several geologists, and they turned out to be a sediment of yellow river water. Therefore, experts wondered why it appeared in a large area at the Lajia site more than 20 kilometers away from the Yellow River since it was a sediment of the Yellow River. Experts speculate that perhaps only one explanation is that a major earthquake occurred at the time, which then caused some huge dammed lakes to form around the Yellow River. Immediately afterward, as the water of the Yellow River became more and more concentrated, after reaching the limit of the dammed lake, the embankment broke, and then tens of billions of cubic meters of Yellow River water, with sediment, began to gush all the way downstream, and finally completely swallowed up the ancestors of the Lajia family overnight.
Through rough calculations, experts found that the flood that destroyed the area of Lajia was only the tip of the iceberg of the flood of the entire barrage lake, and more floods continued to rush downstream, almost everywhere they went, countless farmland houses were destroyed, countless ancestors were homeless, and even buried under the water like the ancestors of the Lajia family. Later, when the experts examined the remains of the ancestors of the Lajia family, they got a surprising result... According to the results of carbon-14 identification, the remains are dating back more than 3900 years, that is, around 1920 BC. However, we all know that although there is no exact date record of the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, experts deduce that it should be around 1900 BC. In addition, before the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, Dayu was the glorious history of his water control, and it is said that it took more than 20 years. From this point of view, the facts now speak louder than words, and the detritus sediments of the Yellow River water in the Lajia site directly prove the fact that the great flood occurred at that time, and then the time of the flood basically coincided with the legend of the Great Yu Zhi Water, so it can be proved that the Great Yu Zhi Water is not false.
In more than 5,000 years of history, whether it is the written records of historians or the oral transmission of ancestors, which of them is the truth is actually a question worth exploring. The Spring and Autumn brushwork in the historical data is also the usual means used by the ancients, and although the myths and legends sound mysterious, it can be passed down to this day, and there must be facts as the basis. Therefore, archaeology has revealed the truth of the facts for us and told us that the Great Yu ZhiShui is a real historical event. Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Liu Lijiang's