In the vast history of ancient civilization, the wise Chinese ancients have mastered many world-leading scientific and technological processes, such as the familiar compass, papermaking, gunpowder and movable type printing. Of course, the scientific and technological level of the ancient Chinese is not limited to the four major inventions, such as the bronze ware of the pre-Qin and Shang and Zhou dynasties, and archaeologists continue to restore the industrial technology level of that period for the world through the study of these artifacts. It is amazing and at the same time makes people understand that the glorious civilization was not only led by the Industrial Revolution in Europe in recent centuries.
Among them, it is located in the patina mountain of Daye County, Hubei Province
Bronze Mine Site Museum
, following
Banpo Ruins, Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang
Its unique historical value has repeatedly attracted archaeologists from all over the world. In the archaeological discovery of the copper green mountain copper mine site a few decades ago, experts have found the Spring and Autumn period
Copper smelting
Technology, its level of craftsmanship is more than 2500 years ahead of the world, but the most shocking thing is that there are more than 100 buried two civilizations in the site
Tomb group
, and thus unveiled a story about the Spring and Autumn Period of China"
Spring and Autumn Five
"The age-old doubt.
It all started in the '50s, when it was
Patina Mountain
All of them are black shards, which look very different from ordinary stone fragments, which has aroused the curiosity of many people. As a result, some good people took it to analyze these black flakes, and the truth immediately attracted the attention of archaeologists, who turned out that these flakes were not naturally formed, but were there
smelting
The iron content left behind by the mineral is extremely high
slag
Looking at the mountain full of stone, after a rough estimate, experts say that the number of these pieces of stone on the mountain alone is enough to correspond to 150,000 tons of crude copper, oh my God! So what kind of copper smelting technology did the ancients have in the patina mountain?
As one of the earliest metals mined and utilized in ancient times, copper is a metal material with a very special status. And those exquisite bronzes are the proof of the advanced smelting technology of the ancients, but also the glory of the national history, if you can confirm the copper smelting technology of the copper green mountain, then it is tantamount to studying history and enhancing national self-confidence has a very significant significance. Of course, the most important thing is that it has a huge wealth value. Left behind by the patina mountain
Ruins and monuments
It is very likely that the beginning of the history of bronze civilization, with these expectations, since the 1970s, experts have carried out continuous archaeological excavations on this.
With the in-depth excavations of experts, not only one was found in The Patina Mountain
Open pits
And also found in the ground many laneways used by craftsmen at that time, densely packed with dozens of them. It looks like a labyrinth. In addition, it has also been found that the ancients used in smelting
Roaster
This continued discovery can be said to have shocked the Chinese archaeological community. Because the level of engineering represented by these things is so high that no one has thought of it. After systematic mining, experts finally discovered that the mining of Patina Mountain was first obtained
Business Week
The period began and continued until
Han Tang Dynasty
It's over.
It is also this conclusion that allows experts to say with certainty that at least more than two thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese people have mastered the complete copper mining technology. Why is it complete? Because in the two pieces of crude copper excavated, the copper content reached more than 90%, and this content almost reached the smelting level under modern technology. After the conclusion was drawn, the world's archaeological community began to be curious about the Patina Mountain, and in the ancient world, where the overall level was low, the ancestors of China played such a magnificent thing with their own hands and wisdom
Civilized music
Copper smelting technology has been 2500 years ahead of the world level, which has shocked everyone.
Shock turned to shock, but what puzzled archaeologists was that the site of Patina Mountain only unearthed cultural relics related to smelting, but there were no human footprints. This is really a small flaw in such a major achievement of civilization. But more than forty years later, when the experts performed the second time on the Patina Mountain machine
Rescue excavations
Later, the string of mysterious footprints hidden inside unveiled this question, and also gave an answer to the mystery of the Spring and Autumn Five Powers in history.
At the beginning of the excavation, the team members found a footprint from a freshly cleaned ground. Someone might see this ask, is there anything curious about a footprint? In fact, this footprint is extremely not simple, because it is an ancient footprint. at
Archaeological community
As many people know, the footprints of the ancients are not easy to find, and this is really a major discovery. After in-depth excavation, it was found that this is not a footprint, but a footprint, a total of 27 pieces, after finding the footprint expert identification, deduced that this is the footprint of the smelters at that time, they are carrying heavy metal materials in the mountain road trekking, after a heavy rain, for archaeologists, it is fortunate that the footprints are left on the ground, and it is likely to happen later
mudslide
And other disasters have made this footprint "sleep" steadily for nearly a thousand years.
This discovery makes experts excited, since the discovery of human footprints, then with this footprint as the center of the excavation, you will definitely find more traces of human activities or cultural relics, it is likely to find what the experts most want to see -
Tombs
。
Sure enough, about 100 meters away from this footprint, experts found a group of tombs. Although there are more than a hundred tombs, most of them are small-sized tombs, so many people think that this will not be a major discovery. However, after careful comparison, careful archaeologists have found a difference. Among the many small tombs, the excavated artifacts are biased
Yangyue culture
In the historical records, the people living in the Patina Mountain are an ethnic group called Yang Yue. However, in the tomb group, which is relatively large in scale and the identity of the tomb owner is relatively high, the excavated artifacts are Chu culture, why is this?
From a series of cultural relics, it is inferred that it was the Chu people who came here and enslaved the Yangyue ethnic group, the Chu people were the producers and managers of the mining area, and the owners of those footprints were the low-status absentees of the Yangyue ethnic group, who had to bear the weight of smelting every day. After this discovery, even historians can't sit still, because in the historical record,
King Cheng of Chu
When he succeeded to the throne, there was an outbreak."
Suppression of the Southern Rebellion
It is clear who is being suppressed.
However, Yang Yue's rebellion ultimately failed, and they continued to be forced to smelt copper mines for the Chu state. During this period, it was an important time for the Chu State to enter the Central Plains and become the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, and historians have always been aware of the sudden strength of the Chu State
higher rank
Very curious, after the discovery of the Patina Mountain, this age-old question finally has an answer:
Chu
It is precisely by virtue of the huge mineral resources of the Patina Mountain and the enslavement of Yang Yue to forge weapons for them, bringing wealth that the national strength has rapidly become stronger, drinking the Yellow River in the north and entering the Jianghuai River in the east, reaching a period of its own strength.