The recent "Three Star Pile Fever" made everyone dream back to those prehistoric mysterious times for a time. Whether it is a mysterious golden mask, a humanoid statue with different looks, or a bronze god with its own mysterious color, people begin to focus on these prehistoric civilization eras, begin to guess the ups and downs of that era, and feel the influence of the culture of that era.
But in addition to the exploration of ancient civilizations, people can't help but start to imagine whether there are unknown prehistoric civilizations that are ------ and have a longer history.
The emergence of "black-skinned jade" has made this imagination rush to the peak again, and it has also led to a new prehistoric era from black-skinned jade----- Hongshan culture.
This is an ancient civilization that dates back to five or six thousand years ago, and it is also full of more fantastic historical mysteries, so what is the connection between "black-skinned jade" and this prehistoric civilization?
What is the "black skin jade"?
Black leather jade is commonly said to be a jade wrapped in a layer of black skin, which does not sound like there is any magic, but through the detection of modern means, these "black skins" contain a considerable amount of metal components, which is almost impossible to complete the smelting means of prehistoric civilization.
And in addition to the exquisite black skin, the jade inside is also mostly a good color jade, although the carving of the jade also appeared about this time, but the jade carving of the black skin jade is indeed a little exquisite, which makes the origin of the black skin jade more mysterious.
What is even more shocking is how the prehistoric ancients more than 5,000 years ago completed the combination of black skin and jade carving, which makes people can't help but have another speculation----- black skin jade is old, is the product of modern carving technology.
But with the study of black-skinned jade, this statement also began to gradually "disintegrate".
First of all, it is a study of the appearance of black-skinned jade, which is a trading collection that appeared in the late 1980s, when in the cultural relics market of China, Japan and South Korea, this kind of collection with black skin and jade inside suddenly appeared.
However, in the eyes of collectors at that time, this was a completely inconspicuous collection, and it was not worth adding an extra layer to their "collection shelf", at best it was just a stone of some age.
After that, an article entitled "The Authenticity of Round Carved Black Leather Jade and the Exploration of the Early Years" instantly put this "era stone" on the cusp of the storm, and some speculative dealers began to take advantage of the opportunity to buy heavily, resulting in the price of black leather jade began to rise.
From this point of view, black-skinned jade is actually not worth imitating, after all, no one will use jade to make worthless black-skinned stones, which is obviously nonsense, so the conclusion that black-skinned jade is genuine has also begun to be accepted by the public, so where does it come from?
Where Does Black Jade Come From: Prehistory? Or more ahead?
The retrospection of black-skinned jade is a controversial topic, and through people's research on various prehistoric civilizations, it will be found that black-skinned jade is more like the "integrator" of prehistoric civilizations.
As we mentioned above, the carving of black leather jade is somewhat exquisite, but where is it, in short, it is the beginning of the charm, through the earliest cultural matching, people found that the "jade dragon ware" unearthed by the Hongshan culture is very similar to the carving technique of the "black skin jade dragon ware".
Moreover, through further study of its carving technique, it will be found that the technique of black leather jade dragon ware is more simple, which makes some people think that black skin jade is a product of the Existence of Hongshan Culture, or even earlier.
This has been supported by the academic support of Seoul National University in South Korea, which through the analysis of modern technology, found that the jade wrapped in black-skinned jade is very old, and it can basically be locked in the Hongshan culture or even earlier.
However, in the face of South Korea's academic recognition, domestic institutions have not responded much, because domestic archaeologists, through further research on black-skinned jade, have found that this black stone is not only related to the Hongshan culture.
With the observation of more and more black-skinned jade, domestic scholars have found that some of the sculptural styles of black-skinned jade, and even some similar to Sanxingdui, this view has once again ignited the archaeological and collection worlds, you know, the prehistoric era of the purity of faith requirements are very strict, a tribe can hardly believe in two cultures at the same time, jade at that time as a sacrificial artifact, it is impossible to imitate another civilization. Moreover, although the Hongshan culture and Sanxingdui have a time intersection, one is located in the northeast and the other is far away in the southwest, based on prehistoric transportation technology, the possibility of exchange between the two is minimal.
Correspondingly, another conjecture has also begun to make a fuss about---- whether there may be a more prehistoric civilization.
This is supported by history, after the unification of the Six Kingdoms of Qin, the various systems were unified to a certain extent, which made the subsequent dynasties and dynasties, although there were also disputes, but the overall cultural form has tended to be the same.
Such as similar numismatic systems, similar engraving systems, similar metal smelting techniques.
The situation between the Hongshan culture and Sanxingdui is somewhat similar to this situation, otherwise it is difficult for two prehistoric civilizations that span such a distance to establish relevant cultural ties.
Subsequently, the ancient city of Shi'an and the Longshan culture, the successive emergence of these two prehistoric civilizations, further confirmed this view.
Archaeologists have further excavated the Site of Shi'an and found that some of the jade artifacts unearthed there are some similarities with the cultural relics of the Longshan culture, and they are similarities that can be verified.
In previous studies, the Longshan culture has found that its culture and carving techniques overlap with the jade artifacts unearthed by the Liangzhu culture in Zhejiang.
The jade artifacts unearthed in the ancient city of Shi'a, some of which are inextricably linked to the jade artifacts excavated by the Shandong Longshan culture and the Liangzhu culture in Zhejiang, are inextricably linked, which reminds people of the historical example of the Six Kingdoms of Qin unification, which obviously worked in prehistory.
There must have been a more distant kingdom, like the Zhou Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty, but then it did not know what kind of twists and turns it had, and finally gradually fell apart.
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Although, the study of this "unknown prehistoric civilization" is still in the stage of conjecture and deliberation.
However, through the study of historical regularity, the existence of this era is theoretical and reasonable, which provides basic theoretical support for the retrospection of this era.
At present, the retrospection of this era is obviously stuck in the excavation survey of black-skinned jade, after all, black-skinned jade is the intersection of multiple cultures, and perhaps the source of black-skinned jade is where this country is located.
"Dialing the clouds to see the end of the day sometimes, keep the clouds open to see the moon"
This is a folk custom often said by the ancients, but at this moment it also applies to the retrospection of the prehistoric country, we need to wait patiently, but also need to persevere in the scientific expedition, in order to find its consistency.
And the same applies to the prehistoric civilization buried deep underground with a mysterious aura, which is also waiting to see the light of day again.