Who is she? She called the woman good,
It is the first female general recorded in Chinese history;
Her husband was Wuding, the King of Shang, who pioneered the prosperity of Yin Shang;
The ancient city where she lived was later called Yin Ruins,
The "holy land" of Chinese archaeology;
The era of life is called Shangcheng, the second dynasty of China,
It was also the beginning of China's written history...
▲ "Good Woman" statue
More than 3200 years ago,
Beautiful women are good "returned to dust".
She let go of her man, her country,
Sleeping under the loess;
More than 3200 years later,
With the discovery of female archaeologist Zheng Zhenxiang,
The legendary queen finally crossed over and became known today.
Some people say that Zheng Zhenxiang awakened the female general of a thousand years ago,
She is the female general of modern archaeology.
But in Zheng Zhenxiang's view, it is all a joke,
A good woman is a good woman, and she is just—
The most common of many archaeologists.
Poster from National Treasure
A clear Sunday
On May 16, 1976, the weather was fine,
It is a day worth recording in the history of Chinese archaeology.
When the archaeological team dug to a depth of more than five meters, it was all hard soil
Dig it further, and the groundwater will seep out.
Most people are ready to give up.
But Zheng Zhenxiang insisted on continuing,
She thinks that the rammed earth revealed is unreasonable,
You have to get it out.
"I encouraged everyone to say,
Our task today is to find out!
Punch a few more holes, just drill to the end,
Whatever happens, the task is complete. ”
5 rice, 6 rice, 7 rice, 8 rice.
The probe shovel went to the ground again and again,
Through rammed earth, through wet mud,
Finally, between the wet black mud,
A patch of red patent leather appeared!
▲ Women's good graves
A tomb of Yin Shang, which has been sleeping for more than 3,000 years,
Show your true face. In the past, it only stayed in oracle bones
The royal life of the Shang Dynasty suddenly became real.
The discovery of the Tomb of the Lady good is rated as:
One of the top ten archaeological discoveries in the world that year.
"I've loved Mu Guiying since I was a kid,
I think she has courage.
My personality is also like this,
Do things with determination and persevere to the end.
As long as I think this thing is correct,
I'll try to finish it.
And try to do the best job. ”
▲ Precious cultural relics excavated from the tomb of The Lady Of Good
Make the shovel smaller
In the eyes of many people, archaeology is a romantic discipline.
Discover the tombs of emperors and solve the mysteries of history.
But in Zheng Zhenxiang's eyes,
This is a discipline that requires great patience and care
Dissolve boring, repetitive disciplines.
Elder Zheng has an archaeological shovel used for excavation,
Under long-term high-intensity use,
It was worn out the size of a "spoon".
"The grinding is small, and the old use is deformed."
Elder Zheng said that the wind was light,
It seems that "the hardship of shoveling down one shovel after another"
Compared to her love of archaeology
All seem to be "deserved" and "not worth mentioning".
Anyang Workstation, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
It is the place where Zheng Zhenxiang placed his youth and dreams.
In the station's renovated dormitory,
There is still a desk that Elder Zheng once used.
More than 50 years ago, it was on this old desk,
A young girl with green lights and yellow rolls, salvaging history,
Wrote down his passion for archaeology.
The only archeological girl
In the list of archaeology departments of Peking University in Zheng Lao's field,
She was the only girl.
At that time, someone asked her:
"You girl studied archaeology,
Aren't you afraid to see those bones? ”
Pungently she replied:
"Not afraid, in my opinion,
These bones are like clay pots, nothing. ”
After graduation, Zheng Zhenxiang was pregnant with a field archaeology
With enthusiasm, leaving the bustling capital beijing,
Coming to the sacred site of Chinese archaeology that she has longed for for a long time——
Anyang Yin Ruins, since then in Anyang buried in archaeology for more than 40 years.
"To study archaeology is to do a good job of suffering
and the preparation for sacrificing superior living conditions,
Fieldwork must be done systematically.
Archaeologists do not go down to the field, just as a singing man does not go to the stage,
It is impossible to make achievements. ”
This is the belief that Elder Zheng has adhered to all his life,
In the decades of Anyang,
She ran almost every inch of Yin Ruins,
Get a good idea of the layout of the ruins there.
It is also this solid reserve of experience,
Let her be in the face of the opportunity of the tomb of the woman,
Confident, professional, decisive,
Harvested a career highlight moment.
Can't take away the diary
Zheng Zhenxiang, who is 92 years old this year,
Living alone in an old apartment in Beijing,
This house Zheng Lao has lived in for nearly 30 years.
She said, what it was like when she moved in.
The furniture has never been changed.
Perhaps in the minds of archaeologists,
"Vintage" is not a regrettable thing.
▲Reporters Wang Ning and Zheng Zhenxiang (right)
In this small unit,
Everywhere there was a pile of pouring out her life's work
Books and archaeological materials. Because the memory is not as good as before,
Elder Zheng deliberately put the Shang Dynasty character relationship genealogy map
Pasted on a cupboard in her bedroom.
"Just forget to look, it's a habit"
"I like to see the Shang Dynasty, Shang culture"
Elder Zheng said so.
She also has a lot of diaries,
In the face of visiting guests,
Will tirelessly advise "can only see and can not take",
He looks like a child guarding a treasure.
People who know Elder Zheng know that
What is written there is not a particular secret,
It's a dense collection of reading notes and thinking passages.
Not for publication, not for anyone to see,
Just for the sake of simply "mastering knowledge".
On the title page of a diary,
Elder Zheng copied such a sentence:
Don't wait for luck to strike, try to master knowledge.
She also wrote a famous quote:
In the dark place under the dirt,
to discover diamonds,
In deep and meticulous thought,
only in order to discover the truth.
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Source: CCTV News