The Tsukasa archaeological site is not seen
Since ancient times, the exploration of the beginning of civilization has never stopped.
What is the picture of life of the ancestors of tens of thousands of years ago in the land under our feet? Civilization, how to light the first light and flash all the way to today? These answers are buried deep in the layers of cultures, and in the ancient epics of rocks that we know and know more. It is the excavation and exploration that archaeologists have diligently pursued, which has repeatedly extended our gaze to the depths of history.
Huangshan ruins, rock culture (petroglyphs), no tombs, Tanghe Huyang ivory fossil survey and cleanup, Xixia County Paleolithic archaeological survey... 2020 is a year of fruitful results for Nanyang archaeology, every cultural relic, every site remains, every bit of excavation and discovery, for us to outline a historical and geographical picture beyond the literature, let us get closer to the nanyang answer of civilization exploration.
"No mound" car and horse pit
There is no Tsukasa Carriage Horse Pit, with the picture above the Carriage Horse Pit in a tomb
Huangshan Site: "Archaeological China" explores the source of the Xia civilization
No one could have imagined that the Huangshan Ruins, an ordinary hill in the north of Nanyang City, would hide a shocking cultural relic. In addition to the field visits of experts and members of the National Archaeological and Historical Circles and the members of the Faculty of Science and did not hesitate to give away praise words such as "Chinese Treasures Once in a Thousand Years", "Civilization in Wan", "Dushan Ancient Jade, Huangshan Tianzhuo", etc., in April 2020, the Henan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics issued the "Notice on Effectively Doing a Good Job in the Excavation and Research dissemination of Major Archaeological Projects Related to the Yellow River Culture", which clarified that 9 major archaeological projects related to the Yellow River culture in Henan Province were selected as the Huangshan Ruins in Nanyang; The study of the origin of Chinese civilization has set its sights on the Huangshan site in Nanyang and listed it as one of the "Five Major Archaeological Discoveries of the Xia Culture and the Late Neolithic Period". The Huangshan site, with several "great kings" unearthed, jade artifacts 7,000 years ago or earlier, house sites, tombs, pottery and other major discoveries, left a large claw of slush in the years, attracting people to explore the Chinese civilization code contained in it.
Huangshan Yuyu
In 2020, archaeological discoveries from the Huangshan site have aroused strong concern from the archaeological and historical circles: the "Great King" of the early Yangshao culture, the tomb of jade craftsmen, the early Yangshao culture,the tomb of the jade craftsman, the early ritual utensils, production tools, jade tools, single jade raw materials, and a large number of house sites and other relics of the early Yangshao culture such as dushan jade, jade axe, and jade shovel were found... These major discoveries can date China's jade-making back to nearly 7,000 years ago. In fact, the Huangshan site is about 3 kilometers away from Dushan Jade Production Area - Dushan Mountain, and, as soon as 1959, the Huangshan site unearthed Dushan jade products, one of which is several times larger than other commonly used jade shovels, speculating that it may be a special artifact used for sacrifice, known as "the first shovel in China". As an important carrier of Chinese civilization, jade production represented the most advanced productive forces at that time. The importance of the Huangshan ruins is self-evident.
At present, the Huangshan site has revealed an area of 1700 square meters, and a number of early tombs of the Yangshao culture have been cleaned up, and a large rectangular rectangular "wooden bone mud wall type" building and shed-style building of the late Yangshao culture related to the production of jade tools, the site of small and medium-sized jade ware workshops in the Qujialing culture, many activity surfaces, sacrifice pits, and urn coffins have been excavated; a large number of diamonds, carving knives, grinding pier stone jade tools, jade material residues, pottery, bone tools, etc. have been unearthed. Archaeological excavations have confirmed that the Huangshan site is a large-scale central settlement site that mainly processes and exchanges jade tools in the late Yangshao culture and the Qujialing culture period (jade ware manufacturing base + port), filling the gap in the remains of Neolithic jade workshops in the Central Plains and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and providing key materials for the formation of Chinese civilization in the key area of cultural exchanges and collisions between the north and the south, and at the key time of about 5,000 years ago.
According to local experts in Nanyang, this is not only the site of a large central settlement, but also the "capital" of China.
A "luxurious" tomb at the Huangshan site
Rock Text: The secret language on the stone to explore the source of civilization
If it were not for the unremitting exploration and research of a group of local cultural experts in Nanyang, the rock texts (petroglyphs) scattered throughout Nanyang would have been silent in the wilderness, stirring up any dazzling waves. It is the tireless archaeological exploration of these people that makes the importance of Nanyang petroglyphs (petroglyphs) in the exploration of the source of civilization step by step highlighted. In 2020, one of the major discoveries in the study of Nanyang petroglyphs (petroglyphs) was the ancient "Petroglyph Observatory" in Tianying Village, Xiezhuang Town, Wolong District. The petroglyphs (petroglyphs) with similar astronomical observation functions have been found in more than ten places in the Yahe Industrial Zone, Fangcheng, Tanghe and other places.
On November 7, 2020, Sun Xiaochun, an expert in the history of astronomy at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his party visited Tianying Village to investigate the petroglyphs known locally as the "Altar of The Sacrifice of the Sun and Moon". This ancient petroglyph is carved on a slightly sloped rock, most notably a disc-shaped carving at the northern end, consisting of inner and outer circles, with the inner circle slightly higher, forming a concave ring between the inner and outer circles. Based on preliminary observations and analysis, Sun Xiaochun put forward new speculations on the nature and use of this ancient rock painting: this is an ancient "observatory", its circular structure has the astronomical function of determining seasons and times, it is a sundial, and its astronomical significance is extremely important.
Experts and scholars inspect the "Petroglyph Observatory"
The speculation of the "observatory" in ancient times has made the attention of Chinese historians, archaeologists and astronomical circles once again focus on the Nanyang petroglyphs (petroglyphs). Rock literature (petroglyphs) exist in large quantities in the Nanyang area, and are widely distributed in the shallow hilly areas of Yahe Gong District, Fangcheng, Nanzhao, Wolong District, Tanghe, etc., with a wide range, large number, complete types, and self-contained systems. The exploration and research of Nanyang petroglyphs (petroglyphs) began in March 2009, when Ma Baoguang, a visiting professor at Peking University and an archaeologist from Fangcheng, returned to his hometown to visit his relatives and found a large number of cave rock paintings in the area. Bai Zhenguo, then a member of the Standing Committee of the Fangcheng County CPC Committee and executive deputy county governor, immediately organized forces to carry out a census and found more than 2,000 petroglyphs in 13 townships and towns in Fangcheng. In September of that year, domestic authoritative scholars of petroglyphology gathered in Fangcheng to hold a rock painting expert report meeting, which established the unique status of Nanyang rock painting in the field of Chinese petroglyphology. Since 2012, nearly 10,000 remains of petroglyphs (petroglyphs) have been found in the Territory of the Yahe Industrial Zone alone. At the "World Rock Painting Seminar in Nanyang, China" held in The Yahe Industrial Zone in 2014, Robert Bernarik, executive chairman of the World Federation of Rock Art Organizations, praised "the group of tens of thousands of caves in the Duck River Industrial Zone is the most spectacular discovered so far, the most in the world, and the most influential cultural monument in China and even the world". In May 2019, experts and scholars such as Song Zhenhao, a member of the Faculty of Sciences, determined that the large number of rock texts that existed in Nanyang were cultural relics from the early days of Chinese civilization and contained important information about the formation period of Chinese civilization. That academic conference established the historical positioning of Nanyang as the "core area for exploring the source of Chinese civilization", and Song Zhenhao wrote ink treasures such as "The Light of Nanyang's Original History and Civilization" for Nanyang.
During this period, Bai Zhenguo, Zhang Jianguo, Lan Chengyun, Sun Baorui, Lan Yuxian, Yuan Zuyu, Zhang Changyun, Guo Qihua, Li Yingnian, Yuan Shuo, Zhou Xiaofeng... A group of local experts have conducted a large number of searches, visits and research on Nanyang rock texts, and published a number of weighty, thoughtful and in-depth research articles in Henan Daily, Nanyang Daily, Nanyang Evening News and other media, which have aroused widespread concern from scholars, archaeologists and readers from all walks of life.
On December 21, 22, 2020, on December 21, 2020, Sun Xiaochun, executive vice dean of the School of Humanities of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professors Yang Yimin and Song Guoding, Associate Professors Luo Wugan and Zhang Mingwu, Research Assistant Dr. Zhou Lixiao, Zhao Yongyong, Associate Researcher Of the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Geng, Associate Researcher, Senior Engineer He Boliang, Professor Song Yuqin, Professor of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Peking University, and other experts and scholars in astronomy history, astronomy, archaeology, rock painting and other fields came to Nanyang as scheduled. Conduct a two-day academic expedition to ancient astronomical sites. He has inspected the "Xiezhuang Petroglyph Observatory" and more than ten rock texts (petroglyphs) with astronomical observation functions in The Yahe Industrial Area, Fangcheng, Tanghe and so on. It can be said that the "Xiezhuang Rock Painting Observatory" may provide astronomical answers for exploring the source of Nanyang civilization.
On December 23, 2020, the "Nanyang Research Center for Prehistoric Archaeology and Scientific and Technological Civilization of the School of Humanities of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences" was established, and a tripartite cooperation agreement was signed with the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Nanyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, which will give full play to the advantages of the college and make full use of nanyang's rich archaeological relics and cultural relics to carry out research on China's prehistoric archaeology and scientific and technological civilization. This is undoubtedly another grand event in the process of archaeology and ancient civilization research in our city. Rock texts (rock paintings), when they are the secret language of the stone left by the ancestors to future generations, they put the most simple understanding of nature, society and human beings themselves, and the totems and gods of worship, life and psychological experience are truthfully carved, waiting for future generations to crack the secret language and explore and restore the origin of the original civilization.
There are no Tsukasa figurines
Missing Tsukasa: The Mystery of the Zhou Classics or unsealed here
Xiazhuang Natural Village, Longwo Village, Shiqiao Town, Wolong District, how many secrets are buried under this small village, and can it uncover the mystery of "Prince Chao Ben Chu"? It is precisely because it involves the study of the "Prince Dynasty and Zhou Dian Benchu Incident", which is an ancient unsolved case, and the "invisible tomb" here is famous all over the world. In 2020, the "invisible tomb" is still concerned by the Chinese historians and archaeology circles, and in that year, the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Nanyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology formed a joint archaeological team to carry out archaeological excavations on the Xiazhuang cemetery.
Tsukasa bronzes are not seen
Regarding "no tomb", the earliest wave came from bai zhenguo, then secretary of the party working committee of the Yahe Industrial District, published in the Nanyang Evening News in the "Nanyang Evening News" signed article "See what", like a stone wave, thus swinging around the "invisible tomb" layers of waves, the study of the "Prince Dynasty with Zhou Dian BenChu Incident" has also been fully rolled out since then, "The Prince Chao Ben Chu Exploration", ""No Seeing the Tomb", or buried chu Guo Fengjun", "Shan Hai Jing" shaped in Wan, into Wan? A series of academic research articles such as ", " has aroused widespread concern about many unsolved cases such as the tomb of the prince dynasty, the prince looking toward the ground, the birthplace of the Chao surname, and the place where the ritual artifacts of the Zhou Dynasty were lost. Subsequently, from Bai Zhenguo, Su Yuxi, Zhou Fuxiang, Yuan Zuyu, Guo Qihua and other Nanyang cultural experts and foreign scholars publishing articles to study and judge the "tomb without seeing the tomb" in detail, to the Chinese Pre-Qin Historical Society hosting the "Academic Seminar on the Protection of the Ancient Ruins of the Prince Dynasty and the Nanyang Pre-Qin Ancient Ruins", the "Seminar on the Exploration of the Source of Chinese Civilization and the Historical Status of Nanyang by the Chinese Pre-Qin History Society", the "Missing Tomb" caused great repercussions in China. Chen Xingcan, director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and dozens of archaeologists also inspected the "missing tomb" in late 2020.
Tsukasa dagger is not seen
Judging from the current situation of the "invisible tomb" funerary tombs that have been excavated so far, these funerary tombs are in the shape of "A", arranged in a standardized, neat and orderly manner, and arranged sequentially from the middle to the sides according to the identity of the tomb owner. Although the theft was serious, more than 300 pieces of bronze, pottery, and jade ware were cleared, among which a pair of pottery figurines and still sharp bronze swords, arrows, ge and other artifacts with typical characteristics of the Warring States period attracted attention. In addition to the 5 funerary car and horse pits found, there is also a 70-meter-long carriage and horse pit on the west side of the main tomb, at the end of 2020, archaeologists have built a cultural relics protection greenhouse here, and new excavations are about to begin, what new discoveries will be made in this huge shape of the car and horse pit and the main tomb? In fact, whether it is academic research or archaeological excavations, various points show that the owner of the main tomb is likely to be the Prince Dynasty, but all the points need to be confirmed by the final archaeological discovery, the "Mystery of the Ages" of the "Invisible Tomb", the mystery of the Prince Dynasty and the Zhou Classic, are shoveled by the hands of the Nanyang archaeologists, little by little close to the historical truth...
Tsukasa copper belt hook is not seen
Nanyang Archaeology: Ancient History Written by Hand Shovel
In 2020, important relics have been revealed in front of us, whether it is a Paleolithic archaeological survey or an archaeological survey of Xia culture and pre-Xia culture, whether it is ash pits or tombs, archaeologists have engraved an ancient history of Nanyang within reach with their hands. "It can be said that in 2020, the field archaeology in our city has achieved extraordinary results, and gratifying results have been achieved in cutting-edge research topics such as the origin of ancient human beings, the process of Chinese civilization, and the archaeological investigation and research of Xia culture." Qiao Baotong, head of the Nanyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said.
On February 23, 2020, villagers in the Lianzhuang Group of Kangzhai Village, Huyang Town, Tanghe County, found ivory fossils during the dredging of the river. Archaeologists excavated a complete ivory incisor on site, which is located in the same position as the ivory incisors that were folded into two pieces when the villagers took the soil, in addition to excavating and collecting 28 stone tools, according to the excavations, archaeologists judged that the age of paleontological fossils and other remains in the place may belong to the late Mesopleistene or early Late Pleistocene, when humans were about the late ape man or the early Homo sapiens. This discovery provides important physical data for the study of paleontology, climate and environment in nanyang during the Pleistocene period. In the Paleolithic field archaeological survey in Xixia County, archaeologists found 4 Paleolithic sites with native strata, which provided new clues for Paleolithic archaeological work in Nanyang and the most direct evidence for early human activities in the area.
After the launch of the archaeological survey project of Xia cultural sites in Nanyang in 2020, archaeologists have successively conducted archaeological surveys on 7 sites containing Xia cultural connotations, such as the Baliqiao site in Fangcheng, the Wangying site in Wolong District, the Zhaowa site in Neixiang, and the maquan wang site in Zhenping County, and found a number of cultural relics and relics of the Erlitou period, which provided valuable information for studying the cultural appearance of the Erlitou culture in southern Henan. In addition, in order to cooperate with the capital construction, archaeologists have also carried out archaeological excavations on more than 30 projects such as the Tanghe Lishui Road Portrait Stone Tomb, the Twentieth Complete School, the Zhenping Zhengtai No. 1 Courtyard, and the Tongbai Yuneng Phoenix Wind Power.
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