The Azukuishiyama Ruins Museum recreates scenes of the life of the Azukuishiyama people.
"The Legend of the East Sea is Azukuishi Mountain, and Azukuishi Bay is on the edge of Azumashi Mountain. There are many stories in Azushi Bay, and the gushing Minjiang River flows into the wide beach. This is a lyric composed by Ou Tan, the first director of the Azushiyama Ruins Museum, a few years before his death. He is 74 years old this year, and he has been retired for more than 10 years, and he still has his heart set on the Awashiyama culture.
Tanshi Mountain is located in Tanshi Village, Sugarcane Town, Minhou County. In 1954, Azumashi villagers found a lot of white clam shell accumulation layers when repairing the embankment to fetch soil, and later archaeologists at the Nanjing Museum named it the Azushi Mountain Culture.
Fujian is called "Min", and in ancient times it was called "barbaric land". The Azushi Mountain culture is like a key that opened up the Fujian civilization. Ou Tansheng deliberately wrote conspicuously above the Archaeological Hall that "Fujian civilization began here".
Born in 1945 in Jianyang, northern Fujian, Ou Tansheng was admitted to the Department of History of Peking University in 1963, majoring in archaeology. After graduating from Peking University, Ou Tansheng first worked in Henan. In 1988, he was transferred to the Fujian Provincial Museum as a talent introduction.
In 1996, when Ou Tansheng was invited to Azukuishishan Elementary School to discuss the preparation of the Azushiyama Cultural Specimen Exhibition Room, he picked up pottery pieces and a piece of a child's eyebrow bone in a sweet potato field on the mountain, and he concluded that there were still unexcavated tombs and remains on the top of the mountain.
At that time, many people believed that After 7 excavations in more than 40 years, Mt. Azushi had no digging value. After more than a year of excavations, 42 tombs, two trenches and five pottery kilns were found at the top of the mountain.
At the end of 1996, the leaders of Fujian Province inspected the site of the 8th archaeological excavation, instructed on the site to protect and prepare for the construction of an archaeological museum. In 1997, Ou Tansheng took over the responsibility from the then Provincial Department of Culture and began to prepare for the construction of the Azushiyama Ruins Museum. On June 24, 2001, the Fujian Tsurushi Mountain Site Museum was completed and opened.
During his tenure as director, Ou Tansheng devoted himself to the Azushi mountain site museum, from the layout of the exhibition to the writing of the explanatory words, to the external publicity to the training of the docent, all of which invested a lot of painstaking efforts, so that an archaeological excavation site became a well-known museum, reproducing the five-thousand-year-old historical civilization of Fujian. In 2004, Jiang Zemin, then chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, wrote an inscription: "Tanshi Mountain Cultural Site."
Ou Tansheng believes that the first chinese lamp, the cheekbones of the Azushi Mountain people, the original porcelain, the pottery with threads, the burial of male slaves, and the eighteen pottery kettles can be called "the best in China". The cheekbones of the Azushiyama people have the same characteristics as the "Japanese bones" in modern anatomy, and it can be said that the ancestors of the Japanese can be traced back to the Azushi Mountain, and the eighteen pieces of pottery pots unearthed are equivalent to the current casserole, which can indicate that the food culture of the Fuzhou people who love to drink soup began on the Azukuishi Mountain.
Ou Tansheng retired in 2005 and became a professor of archaeology at Minjiang University and a postgraduate tutor in archaeology and museology at Fujian Normal University. After his retirement, after repeated thinking and argumentation of the Azukuishiyama culture, he proposed that the Azukuishiyama culture was not a residential site, but a clan cemetery. The lower level is the 5,000-year-old Azushi mountain culture, and the upper layer is the remains of the Western Zhou Dynasty tomb more than 3,000 years ago. Generalized archaeology can also be called "Azushiyama Cultural Site".
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Located in Tanshi Village, Sugarcane Town, Minhou County, Fuzhou City, the site of Tanshi Mountain has undergone 10 archaeological excavations since its discovery in 1954, and is a relatively complete cultural site excavated in Fujian Province after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The site has rich cultural connotations and distinct regional cultural characteristics, among which the cultural connotation of the Neolithic era has been recognized by the academic community as "Ezushi Mountain Culture", which is the earliest recognized in the southeast coastal area of China and the first established archaeological culture in Fujian Province.
The Tanshishan culture is represented by the site of Tanshishan Mountain, centered on the lower reaches of the Minjiang River, and the eastern coast as the main distribution range, covering almost the entire territory of Fujian and connecting the two provinces of Fujian and Taiwan. It is the cradle of Fujian's ancient marine culture and the birthplace of the pre-Qin and Min ethnic groups. The rich history and culture it contains is of great significance to the study of the southeast coastal areas and even the ancient chinese historical civilization.
(Southeast Network reporter Lu Jinfu text/photo)