Foreword: In the summer of 1668, an 8.5-magnitude dacheng earthquake occurred at the junction of Jiangsu in Shandong, causing the levee of the Yellow River flowing through this area to collapse, and the rushing Yellow River water instantly and mercilessly swallowed up the hundred miles in all directions. 300 years later, in order to better restore the history, the Jiangsu archaeological team decided to excavate the ancient city of Xia Pi, which was buried underground, but encountered many difficulties!
At that time, when the archaeological team of Jiangsu Province explored according to the location of the ancient city delineated in advance, it found that it was "a bamboo basket to hit the water empty", and there was no trace of the ancient city below. At this time, the experts understood that the original ancient city that was flooded by the Yellow River did not appear in the place where the experts prejudged. Well, really
Xia Pi Ancient City
Where?
After the first error of judgment, the experts had no clue for a while, and could only take one step at a time. Later, an old man reminded me that in the 1950s, there was a village in the north, where many large green bricks had been dug up, which looked very much like the kind of bricks that built the city wall in ancient times. After receiving the information provided by the enthusiastic old man, the archaeologists immediately rushed to the small village called "City".
After rushing to the small village, after intense investigation, experts did find ancient ruins from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties here, and also unearthed many valuable cultural relics. Only this time to find is only the Ming and Qing Dynasties flooded xia pi ancient city, but the historical records say that pi city in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period has been built in the city, after hundreds of years of development, in the Eastern Han Dynasty Xia Pi city ushered in a brilliant peak.
It is reported that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the State of Xia Pi ruled 16 counties in the Jianghuai region and was one of the largest princely states of the Eastern Han Dynasty. So where was xia pi city before the Eastern Han Dynasty? Did the experts find it? At that time, after discovering picheng in the Ming and Qing dynasties, experts searched for two more years, still without a clue, at this time there was a warm-hearted person, he told the expert that there was a piece of farmland with no grass and hard geology. After expert exploration, the city of Xia Pi was found in this farmland that was disliked by the villagers.
It turned out that this field was located on the site of the ancient city wall. The walls were all made of rammed earth, so the soil was very hard. Later, in the excavation of the ancient city, experts found that both inside and outside the ancient city had been covered by silt, indicating that as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Xia Pi City was flooded by heavy water. It can also be seen from historical materials such as the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a great war occurred between Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Lü Bu, when Cao Cao was always unable to attack bu pi city where Lü Bu was stationed, and directly dug up Surabaya and Yishui and flooded Xia Pi City.
Bai Yunxiang Archaeology Love said: The discovery of the ancient city of Xia Pi in the Eastern Han Dynasty is of high value for studying the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period, and with the in-depth study of xia Pi City, more mysteries will be revealed!