We have always proudly claimed that Chinese civilization has a history of 5,000 years.
Chinese history books also believe that Chinese civilization can be counted from the Xia, Shang, and Wednesday dynasties, the oldest of which dates back to 2070 BC.
However, the Cambridge Ancient History of China, an authoritative work on Chinese history in the West, denies the existence of the Xia Dynasty, saying that the Xia Dynasty was invented by Chinese itself and did not exist in history.
In fact, the Cambridge Ancient History of China initially denied the existence of the Shang Dynasty, but the Yin Ruins unearthed bronzes used by the Shang Dynasty, as well as a large number of tortoiseshell and beast bones inscribed with writing, which contained several government archives of the Shang Dynasty!
The evidence was overwhelming, and the foreign experts were dumbfounded, and obediently supplemented the mainland's records about the Shang Dynasty.
Originally, the authoritative Chinese historical book "Shi Ji" has clearly recorded major events such as Dayu Zhishui, Yu Shunchan, Xia Qi's seizure of the throne, Taikang's loss of the country, Shaokang Zhongxing, and Xia Jie's tyranny, and the names of successive Xia kings have also been recorded in the records.
However, foreign experts insisted that this was made up by Sima Qian.
It makes no sense!
As the pre-Qin historian Zhu Fenghan said: "The early literature of the Western Zhou Dynasty already talks about Xia, when the Merchants were not long, and there were many Shang relics, if the Zhou people created a fictitious Xia lai to publicize the Zhou Dynasty Shang, just like the Shang Dynasty Xia, it was adhering to the Mandate of Heaven, then how can we make the Shang remnants who already have historical records believe?"
For us, the Xia Dynasty should be an unquestionable existence.
But there is no way, the foreigners want evidence.
In order for foreigners to recognize the existence of the Xia Dynasty, it is necessary to find strong cultural evidence through archaeological excavations.
In other words, Wang Hongqi, who graduated from the Department of Modern Physics of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1970, has long been engaged in technical work, academic research and cultural creation, involving natural sciences and social sciences. Create artificial topographic climatology.
From the 1980s onwards, Wang Hongqi began to study the Chinese national cultural treasure book "Classic of Mountains and Seas", after more than 20 years of information interpretation, he was surprised to find that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was composed of the "Five Tibetan Mountain Classics" of the Emperor Yu Era, the "Four Overseas Classics" of the Xia Dynasty, the "Four Classics of the Great Wilderness" of the Shang Dynasty, and the "Five Classics of the Sea" of the Zhou Dynasty, of which the "Five Tibetan Mountain Classics" was a white paper on land resources investigation in the Emperor Yu era. Its topography and landform are several in line with the natural landscape of China 4000 to 5000 years ago (2200 BC to 3000 BC), and have rich scientific and cultural value.
Therefore, Wang Hongqi positioned the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as "the earliest large-scale land and resources investigation record of mankind", and comprehensively examined the geographical location recorded above, and cooperated with the painter's wife Sun Xiaoqin, after 5 years, he has painted more than 600 watercolor paintings of mountains and seas, 108 maps of chinese paintings of mountains and seas, and dozens of maps of geographical restoration of mountains and seas. On September 9, 1999, he drew a huge painting "Map of the Diyu Mountains and Rivers", which basically painted all of the 447 mountains of 26 mountains in the five regions of the East, West, South, and North, as described in the "Five Tibetan Mountain Classics", and their related 258 water systems, 348 earth looks, 673 minerals, 525 plants, 473 animals, and 95 scenes of human activities, basically all of which were painted on a 42-square-meter picture (540 centimeters high and 780 centimeters long).
Mr. Yuan Ke, a titan of mythology, gladly wrote a congratulatory inscription and pointed out: "The "Map of the Emperor Yu Mountain and River" jointly produced by Comrade Hongqi and Ms. Xiaoqin is a brilliant achievement of the combination of scholarship and art. Mr. Zhang Dainian, a famous professor at Peking University, also happily telepromptered: "In-depth study of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, exquisite drawing of mountains and rivers."
China National Geographic Magazine uses seven pages to detail it, and the Journal of Geography, Maps, Fossils, Oriental Culture, Literature and History Magazine, CCTV, Beijing Television, Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong Ming Pao, Overseas Edition of People's Daily, Science Times, China Pictorial, China Science and Technology Pictorial, Workers Daily, Beijing Daily, Beijing Youth Daily and other news media have all reported on it, which can be described as a sensation.
However, Western scholars are scornful of the earth-shattering "Map of the Mountains and Rivers of Diyu", believing that Chinese is purely self-deprecating, because the Classic of Mountains and Seas is just a mythological book.
Is the Classic of Mountains and Seas really just a mythological book?
According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the "Map of the Mountains and Rivers of Diyu" paints the location of kunlun, the capital of the Yellow Emperor, on the Ordos Plateau south of the Yellow River Loop.
It should not be a coincidence that in 2011, the archaeological department found a unique and magnificent stone masonry ancient city on the eastern edge of the Maowusu Sandy Land, located on the eastern edge of the Maowusu Sandy Land on the mountain ridge of Shiya Village, Gaojiapu Town, Shenmu County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, which is the largest city site in the prehistoric period of the mainland that has been discovered so far, equivalent to 6 Forbidden Cities! Its age is about 2300 BC - 2000 BC, which belongs to the ancient Era of China.
The walls of Shicheng are well preserved by megalithic masonry and city gates, and have been designed with powerful military functions, and three "horse-faced fortresses" have been excavated, containing unique military ideas. The city's stone walls also have significant details, such as diamond-shaped stones when the walls are built, and it is not clear whether they are decorative or of religious significance. Moreover, the city is well planned and the functional division is very obvious.
Referring to the large remains of the Two Rivers Basin, ancient India, and Aegean civilizations, Western scholars have always believed that ancient Chinese civilizations were unable to build stone buildings. The emergence of the ancient city of Shiya has filled this gap just right.
Moreover, the huge area, strong military functions, and rigorous planning and design of the ancient city of Shi'an show that there was indeed an extraordinary ethnic group in the ancient era of China.
Which ethnic group should this be?
All the spearheads were directed at the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor lineage.
In fact, monographs published by the Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, such as "Classic Pictures reading the Classics of Mountains and Seas", "Appreciation Dictionary of Mountains and Seas Classics", "Ten Days of Talk on the Classics of Mountains and Seas", and Wuhan University Press's "Complete Drawings of the Classics of Mountains and Seas" (all three volumes), have clearly demonstrated that in the pre-Xia period and the Xia Shang Zhou period, the birthplace of the Yellow River that people know is actually in today's Hetao area.
More than 4,000 years ago, there were many large lakes in the Hetao area, of which the former Taohuze was the Jize mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas (where the ancestors of the Zhou clan were buried here), and the Houtao Lakeze was the birthplace of the Yellow River mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and it was also the place where the Hezong clan of the Mu Tianzi sacrificed the god of the Yellow River.
According to the huge scale of the ancient city ruins in the Pre-Xia period of Shi'an and the cultural relics it unearthed, compared with the records of the Activities of the Yellow Emperor in ancient books such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it can be inferred that the ruins of the ancient city of Shi'a are the remains of Kunlun, the capital of the Yellow Emperor.
Many scholars believe that the ancient city of Shi'a is the legendary Juyi where the Yellow Emperor clan lived!
On March 25, 2013, Shen Changyun, vice president of the Chinese Pre-Qin History Society, professor of the School of History and Culture of Hebei Normal University, and doctoral supervisor, published an article in Guangming Daily entitled "Shi'an Ancient City is the Residence of the Yellow Emperor's Clan", proposing that "there is sufficient basis to judge that the ancient city of Shi'e is inhabited by the Yellow Emperor's tribe". He quoted the "Records of History" and the Book of Han on the yellow emperor's mausoleum in the area of Zichang in northern Shaanxi, not far from Shi'an", referring to the Yellow Emperor's activities in the Loess Plateau where Shi'an was located. The "History of the Five Emperors" states: "The Yellow Emperor collapsed, buried Qiaoshan", and the "Suoyin" quoted the "Geographical Chronicle" as saying: "Qiaoshan is in Yangzhou County, Shangjun County". Checking the "Geographical Records of the Book of Han", the upper county of Yangzhou County does indeed have the words "Qiaoshan is in the south, and there is the Tomb of the Yellow Emperor". Yangzhou is now Zichang County in northern Shaanxi. The Geographical Chronicle of the Book of Han also records that there were "four ancestral halls of the Yellow Emperor" in the geographical records of the Book of Han, which is now Yulin, Shaanxi, in the north of Zichang County, adjacent to Shi'an. Since yulin and Zichang near Shi'an have the tomb of the Yellow Emperor and the ancestral hall where people worship the Yellow Emperor, it is undeniable that the Yellow Emperor and his clan were active in this area before his death.
Professor Shen Changyun concluded the article with: "This ancient city is nothing else, it is the legendary Residence of the Yellow Emperor tribe. ”
Shen Changyun's article once aroused the suspicion of Chen Minzhen, a young scholar at Yantai University's School of Humanities, and he published an article in guangming daily on April 15, 2013, entitled "Don't easily link archaeology and legends." Shen Changyun quickly published "The Yellow Emperor and the Ancient City of Shi'an" on the same page, analyzing in a simple and in-depth manner the view that "the Yellow Emperor, as the ancestor of the Zhou people, originally lived in the northern Great Wall area, and he was later regarded as the representative of the common culture of China as the ancestor of the Chinese nation, and the two are not contradictory."
Xiang Shirong, director of the Shenmu County Bureau of Culture and Sports, agreed with Professor Shen Changyun's views. He believes: "The ancient city of Shi'a may have been formed in the transition stage from the ancient kingdom and the Fang kingdom to the empire, and it was the capital city in the original ancient city community. It is not a conjecture to say that it is the residence of the Yellow Emperor's tribe, and perhaps the Yellow Emperor lives in this area. ”
Regardless of whether the ancient city of Shi'an is the legendary residence of the Yellow Emperor tribe, it at least proves that as early as two hundred years before the Xia Dynasty, There were already powerful city fortresses in China, enough to establish a strong state. The existence of the Xia Dynasty is thus indirectly and strongly proved.
As a result, the ancient city of Shiya has been rated as "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in China (2012)" and "World Major Field Archaeological Discoveries (2014)".
Shao Jing, the leader of the archaeological team, said in 2015 that although the excavation work had been carried out for 3 years, what he saw was only the tip of the iceberg. To completely excavate the largest stone city seen in China's prehistoric period, the consensus reached by domestic cultural relics experts is that it will take nearly 100 years.