Jingnan Jizhong was a jade blank area in ancient times, but it may be the center of the origin of the power of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of China, why?
Author: Lu Zhongyuan historical research, personal views exchange and discussion.
During the Xia Shang Dynasty, the process of Huaxia winning among the thousands of people in East Asia was the process of the victory of the practical bronze culture and the luxury jade culture.
Fortunately, in the jade age, the Five Emperors of Jizhong Huaxia were not as obsessed with luxury jade as the four groups of people such as Hongshan, Dawenkou, Qujialing, Shijiahe, liangzhu and other people, otherwise they would have perished long ago.
Change: is the shang pre-luxury jade blank area, not no jade, Yixian Beifudi ruins have been excavated several pieces of eight thousand years of exquisite small jade, in the country is also among the earliest, but then the region did not like the northern Hongshan, Northern Shaanxi Shi'e, Lushan' An, Shanxi Tao Temple, Qingliang Temple, Gansu Majiayao, Qijia, Henan Xipo, Nanyang Huangshan, Shandong Dawenkou, Jianghuai Qujialing, Shijiahe, Lingjiatan, Liangzhu and so on like the development of ritual luxury, seems to have voluntarily given up, pottery is similar, At one time, there were also several sites in this area (Zhengding Nanyangzhuang / Pingshan Zhongjiabi / Quyang Diaoyutai, etc.) where faience pottery appeared, but it was also abandoned and did not develop greatly, indicating that the local Three Emperors and Five Emperors blood political group may indeed be as the history books say, "the Yellow Emperor saves water and fire materials, Yao Tu Steps Maozi, Yu Tong coffin three inches thin burial to seek rapid decay" and other thrifty thrift, the mind is mostly used in practical political farmland water conservancy and military, not in the non-practical luxury goods, art products and products, nor to the development of religious theocracy, so as to finally defeat the great natural disaster, Conquering the four sides of the fang state regime to develop luxury and corruption has become the winner of the leftovers, the so-called success and frugality and defeat luxury, in ancient times, it is obvious that once a local crowd regime is accustomed to luxury in a temporary comfortable environment, it is not easy to waste people's strength in advance, it is not easy to introspect and automatically change back to thrift, and once there is a sudden natural disaster and man-made disaster, it is difficult to take the initiative to reduce the desire to adapt and perish.
However, after the Xia Shang Zhou migration of the Xia Shang Zhou dynasty to conquer the various luxury fangguo regimes, it was also infected with its high-grade jade and other luxury cultures, and finally it was inevitable that the country would be destroyed due to luxury, but at this time, the various sub-lineages of Huaxia had spread out in a large area, the general trend had become, the powerful political genes had not been lost, and there were always relatively frugal people who had succeeded at the same time, such as the death of Xia Jie, the death of Shang Tang, the death of Shang, the death of Zhou Wenwu, the recent examples are the death of the Kuomintang, the frugality of the Communist Party, the Ruijin Yan'an Xibaipo of Jinggangshan, can the material conditions be compared with Shanghai nanjing? After a thousand years, if archaeology only judges the location of advanced regimes according to the heavy weapons of the Ayutthaya, won't it collapse? In the same way, if the heavy objects of the big city cannot be found on the grasslands, do powerful regimes such as Genghis Khan not exist and are not strong? On the contrary, at the same time, the defeated Jin Song Dynasty city listed a lot of luxury utensils.
Huaxia until Shao Hao led the team to expand west to Shi'e and Jinzhong Tao Temple in northern Shaanxi, perhaps because of the original bronze technology of the Qi family culture in the west, discovered the great practical value of bronze, and only then did it become more developed as zhibao was very interested in careful research, and achieved the greatest practical scientific and technological advantage in the competition of wanbang, bronze technology is the core technology of Huaxia to win the Central Plains instead of jade faience pottery technology, superimposed on the chinese tradition of strong political level to win, of course, like the golden god harvest, It is still good for Lao Tong and others to plunder luxury jade from all over the world in exchange for practical techniques and practical utensils such as copper ore. From the nationwide research on the civilization of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors Era (4,000 to 10,000 years), luxury jade can be used as an important marker of the degree of civilization, and it can also be said that there is a large-scale jade age, but it is not for the three emperors and five emperors of the small regional population regime, and it can even be said that it is actively rejected and abandoned, paying more attention to practical politics and practical technology, and the author believes that this is the success secret of the Chinese leftovers becoming the masters.
Jizhong later the earliest invention of iron smelting technology, Gaocheng Taixi Shang Dynasty site unearthed the earliest iron blade copper and iron ore, the author of the "Shanhai Jing Implementation Study" believes that this is the Shun descent WuJiaoguo, here invented the first type of iron smelting and iron (iron) this word, iron is only its practicality, almost completely no artistic value, more thorough than bronze, but also in the future medieval Huaxia far ahead of the world's practical technology.
The history of civilization and the history of political power should be different, the ancient Huaxia is more of an advanced group of people's concept of political power, not clinging to the heavy objects of the big city, with frugality and political ability to become the final winner of the leftovers, comprehensively absorbing some of the civilization factors of the people who have perished due to extravagance and corruption in various places, so the ancient city heavy objects can be used as a sign of the high level of civilization of the artifacts, but cannot simply be used as a sign of the power of the advanced crowd.
Of course, there are big cities and heavy objects that should also have advanced politics, such as the Liangzhu Kingdom in Zhejiang, which has only recently been recognized by international historians, but when due to the superior environmental and climatic conditions for a long time, smooth sailing, uncontrollable materialism and expansion, and extreme prosperity of civilization, once the great natural disaster suddenly arrives, it will soon take the road of decay. On the contrary, due to the fact that the narrow terrain of the Eastern Sea in the West Of Jizhong was not easy to unfold and the long-term occurrence of many floods in the east-west rapids of the Taihang Mountains, the imperial court had always had the political tradition of adhering to frugality and the ability to resist natural disasters, and the Yellow Emperor's sense of strategic distress was greatly increased, and he had the willingness to actively expand to the four sides, so that he became the final winner.
Inference from the white space area of the pre-Shang Dynasty in Jizhong:
The process of Huaxia's victory over the thousands of east Asian states during the Xia And Shang dynasties is the process of the victory of the practical bronze civilization over the luxury jade civilization.
Jizhong Shaohao expanded west to northern Jin, and assigned his descendants to build Shiya City in northern Shaanxi and The Tao Temple City in southern Jinnan, invented copper smelting techniques at Shi'an, introduced it to Tao Temple, and Huaxia gained political, scientific, technological, and trade advantages over the Jade Fang State of Shaanxi, Gansu, Yulu, Ewan, and Anhui. At least because of the Rebellion of Kang, Xia Ting transferred from Jizhong to Jinnan Tao Temple, and then southward into Yuxi Yiluo Erlitou City, bronze technology was greater development, technical advantages were expanded, Erlitou bronze was still mainly practical, plain face without ornamentation. After the merger of Shang Tang, the political, scientific, technological, trade, and military advantages were even greater, and Huaxia became the most powerful in East Asia.
In this process, Huaxia also comprehensively absorbed some jade cultures from the four sides.
The so-called conquest is also likely to be mainly carried out by the trade advantage of high-tech bronzes, and the armed war is not the main one. Replacing a large number of high-grade precious jades representing power and wealth with practical bronzes and technical asymmetries also subdued these jade fang states. Similar to today's Western high-tech asymmetric economic and trade model.
I think that the ancient jade culture is somewhat exaggerated, and some fang bangs in the relatively long-term superior environment have fallen into the misunderstanding of obsessing with the production of non-practical high-grade luxury jade, wasting productivity, and artistically religious culture, although the production is exquisite and dazzling, it should not be too high-looking.
Fortunately, the five emperors of Jizhong Huaxia did not fall into obsession with jade, but chose to develop practical bronze technology, coupled with high-level political strategy and water control and other technologies, and became the most powerful and advanced population regime in East Asia to the Middle Ages.
When Huaxia invented and developed iron technology, it was completely practical, almost no artistry, more thoroughly practical than bronze, and it enhanced its advantages.
In a word, the Chinese regime created and dominated the Bronze Age of Bronze Civilization, replacing the Fangbang regime, which fused with the four jades.
By the Shang Dynasty, after the political victory was completely won, it also integrated the sifang jade culture and the Chinese bronze culture at the same time, and the bronze began to imitate the complicated ornaments of those high-grade jades, and began to pursue luxurious artistry, and the Shang died because of this, and at the same time, the relatively frugal Zhoubu in China rose to replace it. Extravagance and frugality, the cycle of chaos is still there.
Archaeological findings show that before the Bronze Age, there was indeed a large-scale long-term jade civilization era in ancient East Asia, and those who had large ruins and high-grade jade in the places where the nameless people regime was indeed prosperous and powerful, but although Jizhong Huaxia was in the geographical center, it was unexpectedly not among the jade civilizations, and it can be said that Huaxia was backward in the Jade Age, but it was also because it did not fall into the obsession with non-practical jade art, but had the unique insight to seize and lead the creator of the practical Bronze Age.
Of course, the above "shang dynasty ancient Ji is a jade blank area, but it is also the origin of the Chinese regime" is only a personal speculation.
The mainstream of historians still believes that the center of the origin of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of the Shang Dynasty in ancient China must also be the birthplace of jade culture, and as soon as the heavy objects of the big city are found in the provinces, they take it for granted that they will associate with the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, which is probably not true. Huaxia was only after the Yellow Emperor sent Shao Hao to the north of Jin that there were two big city weights, Shi Jia and Tao Temple. The other previous and distant ones did not belong to the Huaxia regime, but belonged to the local anonymous advanced crowd regime, but they were later defeated due to their obsession with luxury jade, leaving no historical record. Only the Jizhong Huaxia crowd regime, which expanded into the last remnant of the co-lord, left a more systematic record of imperial figure events, but because it was later integrated and unified, it could not simply take other nameless ruins that had created a brilliant jade civilization to Huaxia.
In a word: If the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of ancient China were also obsessed with luxury jade that wasted the people's strength, they were afraid that they would be destroyed in the great natural disaster.
Later, in the Bronze Age, the ancient Shu kingdom of Sanxingdui was an example of the death of the extreme art religion of bronze, similar to the Liangzhu Nameless Kingdom that died due to the religiousization of extreme jade art, extreme obsession with non-practical art and wood religious functions, and it was difficult to continue when it was time to die.