✎ “No site can fully possess the elements and symbols of the origin of civilization like Taosi Site.” Taosi Site, one of the three key sites in the Chinese civilization exploration project, is a must-pass place to study Chinese history and ancient culture and perceive the spiritual connotation of the Chinese nation.
▲Taosi Site
On July 21, 2022, the academic seminar on “Tiantian and Weidi, Shining the Four Directions – Taosi Model of the Origin of Chinese Civilization” sponsored by the Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics and the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi.
This meeting was to explore the Taosi ruins, the first city site in the Central Plains region to enter the primary civilization stage, and to showcase its fruitful archaeological achievements, such as: an unprecedented city site, a magnificent palace wall, a regular cemetery, the earliest observatory in the world, the earliest text to date, and a set of ritual vessels…
The original China
Since ancient times, the Taosi ruins have been a sacred place in the minds of the locals. According to the aerial film taken, for thousands of years, no matter how the villages near Komiks have developed and changed, they have been encircling and tightly embracing the Taosi ruins, and rarely occupying them.
▲Taosi Ruins Navigation
In the dark, it seems that there is a magical power protecting this ancient capital ruins.
In the ruins of more than 4 million square meters, the city site occupies 2.8 million square meters and the palace city is nearly 130,000 square meters. The entire site has clear functional distinction, exquisite layout, and distinct burial levels, which seems to have the basic form of the country. Many scholars believe that Taosi is the “Yaodu Pingyang” recorded in classics. According to the years of excavation, the Taosi society has a huge gap in the rich and poor, and a few nobles have accumulated a large amount of wealth and formed a privileged class.ttps://comicmov.com/”>Cinema level. By this time the society has developed, the prototype of the country has been formed and a civilized society has arrived. The Taosi ruins are typical representatives of the early China Komiks. The capital of Yao and Shun
The only dialect near the Taosi ruins in the country is called the Sun “King Yao”. Is it a coincidence? Or the inheritance of civilization? Or is it a specific worship? Did Yao, the great king passed down from generation to generation by the people, ever built a great capital?
In 2018, on the wall of the Taosi ruins palace city, archaeologists were surprised to find the remaining “QueBabaylan“” style doorCinema address.
The tall Que Tower has always been called the gate of etiquette. Two tall Que Towers extend from the southern wall of the palace city, and the pattern is similar to the style of the Yingtianmen Que Tower in Luoyang City during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Even the later Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City also followed this Que Tower model more than 4,000 years ago.
▲The “Qilou Style” door address of the Nandong Gate
▲The Forbidden City Wumen Gate
The tall Quelou Gate site shows the grandeur in the palace. Above the palace, the area of only one main hall reaches more than 540 square meters. The cellars outside the palace store the country’s grain. The cellars are 5 meters in diameter and 7 meters deep, and the built-in spiral slope can reach the bottom directly. These large cellars are almost exactly the same as Hanjia Cang in Luoyang during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After more than 40 years of excavation, the Taosi site has become the capital of the Yao and Shun era recognized by many scholars. Wang Wei, chief expert of the “Chinese Civilization Source Exploration Project”, believes that no site can have the elements and symbols of the origin of civilization like the Taosi site. The Taosi site is as good as the Taosi site. The Taosi site is as good as the Taosi site and its level of civilization.It is quite consistent and is an important fulcrum and cornerstone for empirizing the journey of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years.
The cemetery of the Chinese Dragon in the tomb of the king
The cemetery of the Taosi site is the largest in the Yellow River Basin. More than 40 years of excavation show that more than 4,000 years ago, the society here had undergone serious polarization. Unlike the tombs of ordinary people with a large number of tombs, there are relatively few aristocratic tombs, very high-quality and particularly rich burial objects.
In 1980, a special round pottery was revealed in the M3016 tomb. This is not an ordinary pottery plate. The center of the plate is vividly painted with a dragon.
▲Taosi Panlong
In the entire Taosi site, only four such dragon plates were unearthed from the king-level tomb. Archaeologists believe that the dragon plate should belong to the king of the time, and Babaylan is a symbol of high-level status. The dragons drawn in the Taosi Dragon Pan are all shaped like coiled dragons, with crocodile-like scale markings on their bodies, and the sides of the head are square like bear ears. The long jaws are protruding, especially the image of the oral branches. It is very rare. The Panlong of Taosi is very close to the image of the descendants of Xia and Shang Dynasty. Taosi is the original prototype of China, so Taosi dragon is the true Chinese dragon.
▲Longpan unearthed from the Taosi site
The world’s earliest observatory
More than 4,000 years ago, Taosi had a relatively advanced astronomical calendar and the world’s earliest observatory.
When archaeologists first discovered 13 arc-shaped rammed earth pillars, they were confused by the strange combination of “walls are not like walls, and roads are not like roads”.
According to the records of “Shangshu Yao Dian”, astronomy was very developed during the Yao Emperor’s period, and the astronomical calendar was related to agricultural production and had become part of the royal power. The observatory was a necessary building in the capital.
Can these 13 strange stone pillars be the observatory from more than 4,000 years ago?
After years of exploration and verification and simulation observation, archaeologists finally discovered the observatory’s BabaylanSecret. It turns out that the ancestors determined the season and solar terms by observing the observation seams of the pillars and the sunrise direction of Taer Mountain. From the second observation seams, the sunrise is seen as the winter solstice, and from the 12th observation seams, the sunrise is seen as the summer. Both the spring and autumn equinoxes see the sunrise from the seventh observation seams.
▲Taosi Ruins Observatory
▲Taosi Ruins Observatory Restoration
This is the earliest observatory in the world and the ancestral origin of China’s 24 solar terms. It is 500 years older than the Stonehenge Observatory in the UK.
Mysterious Zhu Shuwen
In the excavation of H3403 in the ash pit of Taosi Ruins in 1984, the two “character” written in cinnabar on a broken flat pot caused a great sensation.
One of them is redKomiks‘s colored text is not very controversial. Many scholars believe that it is very similar to the word “王” in oracle bone script.
▲Zhu Shu Pinghu
The second controversial word is whether it is the word “YaoKomiks” or “王”? It is still unclear whether it is “Yao”. Although it is just two simple words, it is the earliest text clearly discovered in China. It was about 800 years earlier than the mature oracle bone inscriptions.
The “ritual and music civilization” was initially formed
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29 musical instruments unearthed from the Taosi site include turtle drums, earth drums, special chimes, pottery bells, copper bells, oral string zithers, etc. The combination of turtle drum and special chime is the earliest known instrument of the same kind.
▲The drum and the restoration of the copper bell are the earliest metal instruments discovered in China. The oral stringed zither is the smallest ethnic instrument in China. To this day, the Qiang, Mongolian, Yi and Oroqen peoples are still in use.
▲KomiksOral Stringing Key
The drum that uses crocodile skin mask only appears in the kingly tomb. The same is true for earth drums. Among them, one pair of turtle drums, one stone chime, and one earth drum are all placed in a fixed combination on the lower left side of the tomb owner of the noble tomb. The combination of turtle drums and special chimes was inherited from the Shang and Zhou dynasties and became the unique burial tool of the nobles.
Tao Temple also unearthed jade ritual instruments such as jade axe, jade cong, jade bi, and jade gui. They and the above-mentioned instruments indicate that the “ritual and music civilization” had been initially formed at this time.
▲Jade unearthed from the Taosi site
▲Jade Beast Face
The earliest astronomical measurement instrumentKomiks
In the autumn of 2002, a wooden pole was found in the mid-term tomb of Taosi site, coated with black, green and red markings, which caused archaeologists to “CinemaGui Biao”.
Gui Biao is an astronomical instrument that measures the length of sun shadow in ancient my country. It can measure the sun shadow in the earth and determine the location of the capital; it can conduct geodetic measurements, recognize the actual range and territory of the world; it can also be used to formulate a calendar.
Research proves that Babaylan, the wooden pole found in the M22 tomb is a gui ruler. The discovery of the Taosi Gui Piao also shows that the gui ruler used in ancient China’s astronomical measurement first appeared in the middle of the Taosi culture 4,100 years ago.
▲Taosi Literature<a The guizi was unearthed from the Babaylan
From this point of view, the Taosi site is an early capital ruin that has been discovered in China so far, which has all the functional elements of city walls, palaces, cemeteries, musical instruments, observatory platforms, and large storage areas.
All kinds of archaeological signs also show that Taosi entered the national stage and entered a civilized society more than 4,000 years ago. First, the Taosi culture period was not an equal society, but a serious social hierarchy differentiation. For example, the burial differences mentioned above actually reflect the social status of the tomb owner. Second, the “king” appeared in Taosi culture and society, which meant that a country dominated by royal power appeared. Third, in Taosi society, the ritual system was initially formed and became Babaylan is the essence of the social system and inheritance of future generations. Fourth, the material and spiritual civilizations created by Taosi society were mostly inherited and developed by the Xia, Shang, Zhou and later generations, and are in line with one line.
It can be said that Taosi was “the original China, the main lineage of China.”