Leo Tolstoy once said: History is the biography of the country and mankind. Even a few thousand words of historical records can reflect the epitome of the environment and spiritual outlook of people at that time.
However, with the baptism and change of the years, the historical record will inevitably leave regrets for future generations. Whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, or the burial of dust, it makes those real events farther and farther away from us. We can understand it as a mutilated beauty, or we can think of it as a scar that is difficult to erase.
Disappeared 1500 years
The Chinese civilization has a long history of more than 5,000 years, which makes us as descendants of Yanhuang extremely proud, from the "Pangu Open Heaven and Earth" to the modern era of the founding of New China, it is also a witness to the continuous development of this vast civilization of this yangyang country.
The history of our country did not enter the era of "semi-faith history" until the Xia Dynasty, that is to say, from that era onwards, relevant cultural relics and texts were unearthed as historical evidence. It also gave archaeologists a limited range of cultural relics and writings to understand the living environment and social form of people at that time.
Until the beginning of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Our country began to have a detailed history as a record, and since then our country has had a history of conviction from the end of the semi-messenger era, so foreign countries have not recognized that our country has a history of 5,000 years.
As the third generation of the ancient dynasty, the Xia Shang Zhou dynasty is too old, and few excavated cultural relics and texts can record the history of that time. Before the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which had a certain history, there was a historical gap of 1500 years, and there was no written record of what happened in these 1500 years.
This blank historical period can be divided into three stages, namely 500 years before the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, and 500 years each during the existence of the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, this period has no historical record, but the 1500-year history is replaced by mythological stories.
Mythological classics such as the List of Fengshen and the Classic of Mountains and Seas make this history as mysterious as Venus's broken arm. Everyone has heard the story of Hou Yi Shooting, and it is said that he was the one who usurped the power of the Xia Dynasty, although his true identity is also quite controversial.
However, Houyi is also real in history, but whether he is Emperor Yao's archer or the monarch of a poor country can no longer be verified.
Good memorability is not as good as bad writing
The reason for the 1500-year historical gap period is not unrelated to the recording habits at that time. At that time, the way history was recorded was by word of mouth, just like India, which also has a long history.
Indians are not accustomed to writing history, which has led to a large number of gaps and controversies in their history. We've all played the game of group talk, starting with the first person to be instructed, passing one by one, and ending with the last, the answers are often ironic. Therefore, the history of word of mouth and the real historical facts must be unrecognizable.
And this is inevitably mixed with personal feelings and positions, and even some people like to make up and add drama, so the legends handed down are more mythical.
It was not until the time of The Western Zhou Dynasty that the Zhou Dynasty began to use the chronology to record history, and later the appearance of the Shang Dynasty oracle bones further confirmed the history of the time. The history before the Zhou Dynasty is confusing and controversial by historians.
Prefer to believe in the answer
In the Jin Dynasty history books, the record of Yao Shunyu is not so admirable, before Shun inherited Yao's position, he suffered all kinds of difficulties and almost lost his life, and after Shun succeeded to the throne, he exiled Yao and his son. Shun was treated equally after Yu succeeded to the throne and was exiled to death by Yu.
According to the records in the history books of the State of Lu, Yao Shun used the Zen concession system to select the next monarch, until Dayu in "Da Yu Zhi Shui" handed over the throne to his son, ending the tradition of Zen concession system and maximizing the interests of the family. In the "Records of History", it is also a hype of Yao Shun's jean-hyun.
The people of the country, who are deeply influenced by Confucianism, are more likely to accept the beautiful and broad feelings of "Yao Shun abdication and let the sages", so in the "Five Thousand Years up and Down", they are all based on the records in the history books of the Lu kingdom and the "Records of History" as a reference.
Such a vastly different description makes this fragmented historical puzzle even more difficult to judge. One of the main reasons was that there was no profession of "historian" at that time and people's concept of history was weak, and history was a serious objective fact, which seemed to be incompetent for non-professionals.
The Summer Dynasty that "sees the light of day again"
Although there are cultural relics and words as a factual basis, they still cannot make up for the gap in this history. Even before the discovery of the Shang Dynasty oracle bones, foreign scholars did not believe in the existence of the Xia Dynasty, because no Xia Dynasty script was found at that time, and if there was no writing from that period, it would be difficult to confirm the existence of that dynasty.
Until 1959, when Mr. Xu Xu and his team conducted an investigation in Yuxi, they were surprised to find the Erlitou site, and then the Erlitou site was finally identified as the capital city site of the Xia Dynasty after repeated research and investigation.
Unfortunately, they did not find any literature from that time here. However, according to the existing reference conditions, it can still be proved that the Xia Dynasty is indeed real.
Today, that 1500-year historical gap is still a topic that many archaeologists talk about, which has become their lifelong goal, and has also attracted the attention of many history lovers at home and abroad.
This history of our country is indispensable in the 5,000-year-old civilization, and perhaps the true face will be unveiled in the development of science and technology in the future and people's unremitting exploration, let us wait and see.
brief summary:
"Reading poetry makes people show their minds, and reading history makes people wise!" I think this sentence should also be based on real historical facts. The development of a real event must be based on objective laws of nature. A completely empty worldview like a novel, under the aura of a powerful protagonist, does not give us a profound lesson and a reference to reality.
Therefore, although it is difficult for Masashi to have the kind of fun of urban legends, it still has the charm and value that no history can match.
Perhaps because of the human nature of "what you don't get is the best", people still have difficulty letting go of the "disappearing 1500 years" to this day. It may be as glorious and holy as described in Five Thousand Years Up and Down, or it may be no different from the brutal political struggle recorded in the history books of the Lu Dynasty.
However, in the pursuit of the final answer, it is still difficult to hide the fascination for the good side. With this original intention, perhaps the true historical truth is no longer so important, because no matter what the past is, there is a better future worth pursuing and looking forward to.
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