After 5 years, he and the team completed the excavation of Zhaogong site

Colorful Guizhou News (Reporter Zhang Hongjie Intern Luo Qianying) "In 16 years in Guizhou, I traveled almost all districts and counties in Guizhou. Zhang Xinglong, deputy director of the Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, and deputy research librarian, said in an interview with reporters.

In college, Zhang Xinglong was transferred to the archeological major, and he had always been "feel" of his major in the early days of enrollment. Change an internship visit to the Jinsha site in Chengdu. Zhang Xinglong was shocked by the exquisite cultural relics unearthed, especially when he saw the "Sun God Bird" that had just been unearthed, which made him have a strong interest in archeology.

"The charm of archeology lies in the truth, and the real record of people's lives in that era." That internship experience made him realize the significance and fun of archeology, and also made him three students who insisted on the front line of the archeological line to this day. one.

In 2006, Zhang Xinglong went to Guizhou to work and excavated after graduating from Sichuan University. At that time, some people told Zhang Xinglong that Guizhou may not be the best place for archeology, but Zhang Xinglong didn't think so.

"Guizhou has abundant archeological resources, especially the relics of human hunting collection. The number of sites is large, and the saved information is very rich." Although the archeological research in Guizhou at that time had just started, Zhang Xinglong was eager to try to prepare for a big job.

In July of the same year, Zhang Xinglong applied to the Guizhou Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Institute. On the seventh day after the employment, he received the first archeological survey after joining the job: to Fuquan to conduct cultural relics surveys along a highway.

In 2009, Zhang Xinglong's excavation site at the site of the Laotu Mountain

At that time, it was midsummer, and the crops and wild vegetation were very dense, and the daily investigation was shuttled. Zhang Xinglong's clothes were soaked by sweat, and the vine plants and crops that were often stabbed on their bodies were often drawn out of wounds.

"Sometimes in order to verify a cultural relic clue, we must walk under the scorching sun for a few hours, but as long as you find something, the body's pain and fatigue will be swept away." The first archeological survey developed Zhang Xinglong's hard work, solidly solid, and solidly, solidly, solidly, solidly, and solidly, and practical, and practical, solidly, solidly, and practical, and practical, and solidly, it was practical. Careful work habits.

Zhang Xinglong (right) and colleagues measure ancient cultural relics

Compared with the difficulty of working conditions, it is not possible to gather with his family for a long time. Zhang Xinglong thinks the most "bitter" place. In Zhang Xinglong's record, the longest business trip was 2008, 253 days. That year, it was his year of marriage.

"The long -term business trips of the Archaeological Institute are the norm, and they are owed to the family." Zhang Xinglong said that an important task of archaeologists is to cooperate with the basic construction of archeological work. Essence

In 2016, the Zhaogong site of Gui'an New District, Guizhou, was discovered, and Zhang Xinglong led the team to excavate the cave. The culture of the site is 8 meters deep, which is divided into 25 cultural layers, which spans the late Paleolithic era and the Neolithic era.

Some experts compare it to a time capsule, and the time of more than 40,000 years is concentrated in this cave.

In order to extract the information contained in the site, Zhang Xinglong and the team carefully expose the cultural accumulation layer by layer every day, and measure the three -dimensional coordinates and other information of each relic. A total of more than 10,000 pieces have been measured.

"This process is very boring and tedious. There are dozens or even hundreds of relics on each cultural layer to measure, and the measurement of each relics requires several professionals to work together. Work."

After 5 years, Zhang Xinglong and the team completed the excavation of Zhaogong site.

This is one of the most proud projects in Zhang Xinglong's work in 16 years. He has accompanied Zhaogong from a silent cave to becoming one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in China in 2020.

"The most important thing is that it allows everyone to see the human journey of the Neolithic Age more than 40,000 years ago, and restore a large number of details of human activities." Zhang Xinglong said that the reason why he likes archeology is that many people may see that many people may What you can't see in your life.

"Should humans claim that the smartest species on the planet should figure out where they come from?" Zhang Xinglong said, knowing the past to better grasp the future, this is the ultimate purpose of his archeology.

"If I can clarify Guizhou's ancient humans and their cultural development contexts before I retire, or in my life, then even if the merit is fulfilled." In Zhang Xinglong's eyes, archeological work is not measured by the "year" unit, and it is measured by the unit. It is a great mission measured by "lifetime".

Today, the archeological results of Guizhou are gradually being familiar with the public, and Guizhou has a place in the archeological world. Zhang Xinglong is very eager to have more talents to come to Guizhou to discover the bright cultural heritage of Guizhou together.

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