At that time, the discovery of the Yin Ruins site, the excavation of bronzes and oracle bones, shocked the world, and made the two mysterious dynasties of Xia and Shang gradually move from legend to reality.
Along with the excavation of these cultural relics, there are also many white bones that have gone through thousands of years, which has a high archaeological value for confirming the owner of the mausoleum. However, in the excavated human bones, many white and black skulls were found.
As soon as this incident came out, some so-called Western scholars began to spread rumors that China's Shang Dynasty civilization was established by Westerners. As soon as these words came out, people wondered whether the expert had drunk fake wine.
If you want to talk about wine, it must be a rich alcoholic wine, the wine is fragrant, the aftertaste is long, the rich drunkard, the guardian of the world heritage, how can there be white and black skulls in the tomb of this ruin?
The mainland is mainly dominated by yellow people, in the Xia Shang period, the areas where different races lived were far apart, and judging from the living conditions at that time, it was impossible for different races to flow through natural migration.
- Among the piles of white bones excavated from the Yin Ruins, there are significant western white and Caucasian facial features;
- They argue that in the culture of the Shang Dynasty, politics and religion were closely integrated, sharing common characteristics with the Aryan peoples of the ancient Indo-European language family;
- The Zhou people originated from QiangRong and believed in the theory of yin and yang, which is similar to the early religion of the Indo-European language family, Yuanjiao;
Based on the above three points, Western experts believe that the Shang Dynasty migrated to the people of the Two Rivers Valley and gathered in the area of present-day Anyang, eventually establishing the Shang Dynasty.
Does this claim hold water?
Of course not!
If nothing else, the white bones of whites and blacks unearthed at the Yin Ruins site are far fewer than the number of natives. Moreover, the tombs of white bones unearthed from white people are basically not the main tombs, which shows that these white people are funerary products, not the owners of the mausoleum.
The Shang Dynasty was a militaristic dynasty with unstable regimes, often at war with neighboring countries, and countless battles, large and small. In addition, the Shang Dynasty people were full of desire to expand abroad, actively fighting abroad, expanding territory, and robbing resources such as copper ore and jade.
This is a good explanation for why in the tomb of the woman, the Hetian jade native to the Xinjiang region will be found, and in the bronze ware, the skulls of the people of the Yangtze River Basin will be found.
The Shang Dynasty people relied on the leading bronze craftsmanship at that time to create weapons with great lethality at that time, which also made their armies invincible and invincible. This frequent expansion was bound to bring many prisoners of war, and it is said that the King of Shang took 170,000 prisoners in just one battle.
In addition, the Shang Dynasty people were keen on sacrifice, and usually no matter what they did, they had to divinate first. The method of divination is also very simple, put the turtle shell on the fire and roast, according to the cracks of the turtle shell, the auspiciousness is judged. This also leads to the fact that more than half of the oracle bones unearthed are related to divination.
The Shang Dynasty people not only had a special love for sacrifices, but also loved human sacrifices, and it was common to use people as sacrifices.
For example, on days such as daily ancestor worship, the foundation of the temple, and the completion of the palace, prisoners of war and slaves will be sacrificed.
This has also been confirmed in the continuous excavation of Yin Ruins. In the royal tomb area of Yin Ruins, the burial pits of the tombs were found, and the bones of those white people were found from these burial pits. Those who were used for sacrifice would have their heads cut off and then placed in batches, while the severed heads would be placed in a small pit next to them.
According to this theory, the skulls of those white people could not have been shang dynasty natives, but prisoners of war and slaves captured in battle.
With the improvement of science and technology, an isotope detection called "strontium" is increasingly used in archaeology.
"Strontium" is a trace element in the human body that enters the human body through diet and drinking water, precipitates in the human body, and eventually deposits in the bones. Due to different regions, environmental and hydrological differences, the content of strontium in the body of residents varies from place to place. Suppose you are an Anyang person who has lived in Beijing for a long time, then the strontium content in your body will also be infinitely close to that of Beijingers.
However, the human body has an organ where the strontium content is constant, tooth.
People generally mature when they are about 12 years old, and thus lock in the strontium inside. The strontium content in this will not change no matter where it goes or how long it takes.
After testing these white skulls, it was found that the content of "strontium" in these skulls was very similar to that of people in the northwest region at the same time, which is more able to show that these white people, who did not live in the Shang Dynasty region, were likely to be prisoners of war, or "sacrifices" who specially donated to the royal family in the northwest region.
We can assume that the Shangwu Shang Dynasty received a large number of prisoners during a foreign war. Among these captives were some Westerners living in the northwestern region, who were also captured with the war to the capital of the Shang Dynasty. At a subsequent sacrifice, the men were treated as martyrs and their heads cut off.
This may be the true origin of these white skulls.
The "Chinese civilization established by Westerners" in the mouths of Western experts has become a laughing stock.
The excavation of the Yin Ruins is of great historical significance for understanding the Shang Dynasty and the Xia Dynasty. Before the Yin Ruins were discovered, from time to time there would be voices questioning the true existence of the Xia Dynasty. With the advent of pieces of bronze and oracle bones, the Yin Shang culture from 3,300 years ago has reappeared, and it has also broken many rumors about Chinese civilization, so that the light of Chinese civilization can continue to be carried forward.