"When countless glorious civilizations disappear, all that can be seen may be sporadic remnants, but in today's memory, it is not only the legends left by the fuxi and nuwa eras and the sound of the drums that never die, but the chain of cause and effect from ancient times to the present holds the brilliant and immortal sporadic remnants still swaying upwards..."
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In the third phase of Dadiwan, that is, the stage of the temple bottom ditch type in the middle of the Yangshao culture, a relatively complete barrel-shaped pottery was found- a pottery drum.
This artifact should be seen for the first time in the Yangshao culture of the Jingwei River Basin, and it is also a few in the third phase of the Dadiwan culture, and only one piece has been restored, and the others are fragments.
Judging from the analysis of fragment recovery, their shape is basically the same, and they are all clay orange and yellow pottery.
This restored drum straight mouth rounded lips, deep straight abdomen flat bottom, neck attached to four inverted hook buttons, abdominal decoration cross rope pattern, about twenty centimeters in diameter, about sixty-five centimeters high.
The four horn-shaped inverted hook buttons on the neck are specially set up to hang the hide, and the mouth is covered with animal skin and placed on the flat ground just to bend the knee.
It is similar to the twelve round buttons along the mouth of the long-necked gourd-shaped "earth drum" that originated in the Longshan culture period of the Xiangfen Tao Temple cemetery in Shanxi, as well as the trumpet-shaped pottery drum mouth excavated in the tombs of Chuanyangshan Village in Qinghai and Xinmin Countryside and the early tombs of the PingmaChang type in Yongdeng Leshan, Gansu, and its shape and use are roughly the same.
It is a type of prehistoric ceramic instrument.
In Tibet and some ethnic minorities, this kind of barrel drum, which is placed on the ground and bent on the knee, is called the "Ajie Drum". Judging from the characteristics of the above prehistoric pottery drums, they mostly belong to the "single-sided drum" of single-sided skin, and the pottery drum in the middle of the Yangshao culture in Dadiwan is the "Sister Drum" of the Ground and Drum...
These testimonies of ancient civilizations that have survived to this day are soaked with the passion and joy of the ancestors, who also believe in "gods" and "cause and effect".
【Related links】Majiayao culture mid-mountain type serrated pottery drum. The outer edge of the flare mouth of the utensil has eight hammers of the same size and the same distance, which are used when the drum face is used; there is an ear on the same side of the small mouth and the horn mouth, and the two are horizontal, and it is estimated that it is used for the shoulder of the bolt belt, like carrying a waist drum. Is it a musical instrument for dancing, or a loudspeaker for signaling during a hunt? It must be both. The key is that its inventor or manufacturer understood and applied sound and sound transmission, much like a scientist today. The drum surface is larger, and the sound comes out of the small mouth through the slender neck when hitting, the sound is thick and melodious, and it will definitely travel far, far in that time and space where there is almost no noisy sound...
When countless glorious civilizations disappear, all that can be seen may be sporadic remnants, however, in today's memory, it is not only the legends and the sound of drums left by the Fuxi and Nuwa eras that are remembered, but also the chain of cause and effect from ancient times to the present, holding the brilliant and immortal sporadic remnants still swaying upwards...
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The historical accumulation of more than 3,000 years, successively superimposed on the ancient culture of more than 3,000 years, the faience pottery and many prehistoric cultural witnesses of about 8,000 years ago, provided very important evidence for the birth of Fuxi and Nüwa in gansu, and formed a "visual image" for the generation and development of the prehistoric civilization of the Yellow River, so that those who have been here or will come suddenly return to the ancient period, and the dusty history is gradually unveiled in front of the eyes, and finally shines.
After examining the Indians in the Americas, Morgan divided human history into three stages: the age of obscurity, the age of barbarism, and the age of civilization, and divided the era of barbarism into three stages: low, medium, and high.
He argues that the Low-Level Barbarian Age, around the beginning of the Neolithic Period, was a period in the Eastern Hemisphere when pottery was popular but did not yet know how to raise animals, while in the Western Hemisphere it was from knowing pottery to planting crops such as maize and using irrigation to build houses with adobe and stone.
His knowledge of the Western Hemisphere is generally good now, but Morgan's understanding of the Eastern Hemisphere does not coincide with the results of later archaeological excavations.
Not only that, but his understanding of the spiritual production of the Eastern Hemisphere may be even less enough, and I wonder how he will interpret the pottery drums, ground paintings, fish patterns and architecture in the culture of Dadiwan, and whether he will redefine the "barbarism" of the barbaric era.
If nothing else, the main artifacts of the manhole culture, like other specimens excavated by Anderson, are now sleeping in a window in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Outstanding achievements in archaeology determined the career of Antson in the second half of his life. In 1926, Anderson was honored and welcomed in his homeland with unprecedented solemnity. After returning to China, Anderson no longer returned to his old career in geology, but was honored as director of the Swedish Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. It was a great opportunity to reminisce and meditate, and Anderson washed away the tiredness of the wind and rain, went through the diary of the various cultural relics, and wrote works such as "Ancient Chinese Culture" and "Research on Chinese Prehistory".
After the excavation of the Dadiwan site, a number of cultural remains of the same type have been found in the Weihe River Basin and some neighboring areas.
At present, at most eight places have been found in Gansu alone, concentrated in the Tianshui and Longnan areas, the southernmost point is the Liulin of Huixian County in the Jialing River Basin, the westernmost point is in the West DryPing of Wushan Mountain, as well as Tianshui Division Zhao Village, Xishanping, Longnan West and Ningjiazhuang, Lixian Zhaoping, Yanguan and other places.
These discoveries undoubtedly show that the eastern and southern parts of Gansu are important areas for studying the origin of Agriculture and early pottery in China, and are also the most promising areas for finding the early Neolithic culture in China.
【Photo caption】Majiayao culture mid-mountain type gourd blister pattern faience pot. The gourd on this artifact seems to be deeply buried in the water, and the number of unevenly shaped bubbles floating up around, clearly visible, and the sound of "grunting and grunting" can be faintly heard... Does this illustrate the purpose of the artifact, or is it a record of a life scene? In short, it is full of the interest of life and the freedom of creation. The motifs and ornaments of majiayao culture began to become relatively free, enthusiastic and expressive during the Mid-Levels period.
I, Z Jun, and my companions who have been here since then, on this vast and well-preserved Neolithic site, it is as if I am flipping through the annals of a prehistoric society.
Wander the ruins' staggered mountain paths, where fine red and black faience pottery pieces appear at your feet, or you'll find a polished stone tool.
On the cliffs on the side of the road, there may occasionally be a neat white ash floor, which is the place where the prehistoric ancestors once lived, and you will see the smoke in the distance...
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