A silver goddess statue unearthed in Peru, her shape is plump and exquisite, and the most surprising thing is that on the front of the silver goddess statue, the word "Wudang" is written impressively. Why does a cultural relic containing Chinese culture appear in South America, thousands of miles away? What kind of secrets are hidden behind the silver goddess statue? Whether its appearance is closely related to the classical book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" in China. If you're wondering for the answer, let's reveal it together:
With the progress of human civilization, rational thinking has become more and more intense, especially in terms of history and culture, people have begun to have an objective understanding. In today's field of history, when historians examine historical events, they must not only refer to historical records, but also look for cultural relics to prove them, so that they can combine inferences with actual situations and then form a definite conclusion.
As we all know, as one of the four major civilizations, China has a splendid civilization of more than 5,000 years. In the 5,000 years of change, dynastic changes have become the norm, and every major upheaval will often leave traces in the history books and underground, providing strong evidence for future generations to conduct scientific research.
China's first unified dynasty was the Xia Dynasty, and the existence of the Xia Dynasty is still a topic of debate in historians. However, many experts are surprisingly consistent about the existence of the Shang Dynasty, because the Shang Dynasty did exist, and there are many secrets about it.
There has always been a legend in history of "Yin people crossing to the east", believing that during the Yin Shang period, some Shang dynasty people once traveled eastward and settled in a suitable area for survival, and then bred another brilliant civilization. Nowadays, in the various versions of the Yin people's eastward crossing, the claim that the Yin merchants arrived in the Americas is the mainstream, and even they have found a lot of evidence.
Judging from historical records, the classic "Classic of Mountains and Seas" of China's Western Han Dynasty writes: "The shape of the feathered people, the beak of the bird is red and the head is white." That is to say, in a place called "Feather People's Country", most of its people have a bird's beak, red eyes and white hair. Such a record seems to correspond only to the characteristic image of one nation, that is, the Indians.
From a cultural point of view, the Indian civilization has the same feather snake culture as China, there are also legends about dragons, and even the Indians believe that their ancestors are Fuxi and Nuwa. Not only that, from a scientific point of view, biologists have confirmed that Indians are east Asian, which is what we usually call yellow people, and Indian newborns, like yellow babies, have a chance to have small green spots on their buttocks.
Since history, cultural heritage, and science have confirmed that the Indians are of Asian descent, is it possible to determine the authenticity of this? Of course not, because we still lack the strongest and most direct evidence, which is the artifact.
In 1865, the Peruvian scholar Guacchi led his own expedition to excavate a cultural relic in the Xiyu Mountains in northern Peru. In appearance, the artifact is a statue made of sterling silver, the figure of the statue is a woman, whose body is not too much clothing, and the head is also decorated with a crown similar to the sun.
Through the careful identification of the artifact, Guaqui scholars believe that the age of the artifact should be about 3,000 years ago. Not only that, Guacchi also determined that the cultural relic must be related to China, because below the woman, there is a clear image of a turtle and snake, and the statue holds a card in each hand, and the text on it is actually the word "Wudang" written in Chinese characters.
However, the scholar Guacchi's idea has not been affirmed by Chinese archaeologists, because archaeologists believe that the image of the turtle and snake under the silver goddess statue is indeed consistent with the image of "Xuanwu" in traditional Chinese mythology, but the text on the sign in the goddess's hand cannot be the word "Wudang". "Wudang" is a famous branch of Chinese Taoist culture, and the "Wudang School", which is well known to women and children, was created by Zhang Sanfeng at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Although the word "Wudang" appeared as early as the Book of Han in the Han Dynasty, it was nearly 1,000 years after the silver goddess statue was made.
Does the unearthing of the silver goddess really not prove anything? Chinese archaeologists believe that this is not the case, because the silver goddess statue does contain a lot of ancient information, especially the production style of the statue, as well as the unique turtle and snake culture, which is the same as the Shang Dynasty around 3,000 years ago. In other words, the legend of the "Yin people's East Crossing" may not be false, but a great migration activity in ancient times, and the record in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is indeed reasonable and worthy of in-depth study.