4000 years ago, Shijiahe Jade's avatar "Mysterious Smile" is amazing

In the Tianmen Museum, the Neolithic Age "God Head" was smiled at the Shi Jialing site. Changjiang Daily reporter Qiu Yan

Changjiang Daily reporter Yu Tantan

It is only three or four square meters and the thickness is only a few millimeters. , "Mysterious Smile" in the complexion. On the afternoon of August 24th, the Tianmen City Museum of Hubei Province, "Read China Along the Yangtze River -Hubei Qianli Yangtze River Bank" Wuhan Metropolitan Circle Visiting Regiment, in front of a jade showcase with a "God Avatar" nameplate Essence When we learned that the exquisite jade articles shown in the cabinet came from the hands of the handicrafts craftsmen of Shijiahe, 4,000 years ago or even earlier, everyone couldn't help but call "incredible".

The Shijiahe site is an important empirical place for the history of Chinese civilization in 5,000 years.

Tianmen City, which is only more than an hour's drive from Wuhan, is known as "Tombs" in ancient times. It is one of the important birthplaces of human civilization in the Yangtze River Basin. The Shijiahe site, which was approved by the State Council as the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and was selected as one of the "100 archaeological discoveries of China in the 20th century" in 2001, namely Shijiahe Town in Tianmen.

The visiting group came to the "Shijiahe Ruins Archaeological Working Platform" located in Shijiahe Town, Tianmen City, and was "chartered" into the excavation site. , Each hold a small iron shovel, carefully scrape the wet soil, and put it in the dustpan next to it. In the soil layer of the shovel, you can see something similar to the fragments similar to pottery.

"Are these fragments?" Xiong Meiqi, a member of the visiting group and a graduate student of Beijing Foreign Studies University.

"Yes. Due to the changes in the soil layer of the age, most of the pottery buried underground was broken and scattered into fragments. The complete pottery you saw in the museum was actually stitching and stitching in the later stages." The staff answered Essence

According to Zhu Shigan, a member of the Hubei Provincial Cultural Relics and Archeology Institute, which is being excavated on the "Shijiahe Ruins Archeology Platform", the Shijiahe site was excavated in 1954 for the first time. In the winter of that year, the Shilong Crossing Reservoir Ganchang was built in Jingshan and Tianmen in Hubei. Archaeologists were surveyed along the channels. Many ancient sites were found in the Qujialing and Shijiahe River of Tianmen. open.

Zhu Shigan said that after years of archeological excavations, experts found that the Shijiahe site had human life as early as 6000 years ago, and has experienced the Yousing Culture, Qujialing Culture, Shijiahe Culture and Hou Shijiahe Culture. 4 development stages. The Shijiahe site is the largest distribution area, the highest level, and most well -protected new stone city site settlement in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in my country so far. The site is composed of more than 40 sites, with a total area of ​​about 8 square kilometers. The ages are between 6000 and 4000 years. It is an important empirical place for the history of Chinese wen and Ming Dynasty.

"Qujia Ling -Shijiahe Culture, Liangzhu Culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Dawenkou Culture in Shandong, Hongshan Culture in the Liaohe River Basin, Yangshao Culture in the Yellow River, and Tao Temple Culture in Shanxi. A variety of cultural scrolls in the New Stone Age also promoted the threshold for prehistoric culture into civilization. More than 6,000 years have passed. The glory of Shijiahe's prehistoric culture will always be engraved on the historical monument of the origin of Chinese civilization. We should always remember it! "Invited experts who have participated in the archeological excavation of Shijiahe ruins for many years, experts from the visiting group of the archeological excavation work of the Shijiahe site, and specially appointed by Hubei University History and Culture College Professor Meng Huaping said.

In the Tianmen Museum, the Neolithic Age unearthed from the Tanjialing site "Supreme Tutor Jade". Changjiang Daily reporter Qiu Yan

Shijiahe jade represents the highest level of processing of East Asian jade at that time

The Tianmen City Museum, located in the West Lake on the West Lake of Jingling City. The precious cultural relics such as jade portraits are important places for studying the history of ancient human life, production history, the history of handicraft industry and art history of ancient human life in the Yangtze River Basin. "The Light of Civilization -Tianmen Shijiahe Cultural Exhibition", as one of the four basic display exhibitions of the Tianmen Museum, uses sculptures, wax statues, scenarios, sound and photoelectric, especially physical exhibitions, etc. The culture and civilization of the Shijiahe site from 6000 years ago made the visiting group and the obvious head of the gods of God was the exhibits in one of the showcases.

"The gods of the gods unearthed from the Shijiahe site are the treasures of the town hall of the Tianmen Museum. It is also a rare treasure in the cultural relics unearthed from the Yangtze River Basin so far. There is a dignified atmospheric atmosphere, and some people's vulgar and cuteness can be said to be beautiful and flawless. Content. When sacrificing, the ancestors often worship the jade avatar as the image of a god. This may be the origin of the head of the gods. In the various jade animals unearthed from the Shijiahe site, there are usually small holes on the back. Experts analyze that this is a full -time wizard that embeds these jade wares or inlaid on the French clothing. During the sacrifice, the wizard put on French clothes and dances to communicate with the relationship between the gods and gods through these gods and gods. The exquisite and exquisite skills of Yu Yuan ancient craftsmanship and the exquisite and exquisite jade utensils are even more convinced of the philosophical understanding and artistic expression of the ancient ancestors of the people of heaven and earth. "Meng Huaping explained to the members of the visiting delegation. The reporter noticed that God's avatars carry the "smile" mysterious face. Meng Huaping introduced this that it is not just that the head of the gods carry this "mysterious smile". Many jade avatars unearthed from Shijiahe have mysterious colors, such as long faces, big eyebrows, big eyes, high buns, high buns, and high hair buns. The jade -man's avatar, his ears standing, open eyes, the jade tiger avatars with no mouth, and so on.

"The maturity of these jade shapes also seems to surpass our awareness of the ancient ancestors. It is beyond the common sense of people. Another jade tiger's avatar is too mature, almost not like the works of that era, and many jade articles unearthed later, the shape is even more eye -catching. "Meng Huaping added the way Essence

According to the data, the Shijiahe site has been unearthed three batches of jade articles, totaling more than 440 pieces. These jade wares are mostly small decorative supplies, including God's avatars, avatars, tiger avatars, cattle avatars, and cicadas, eagles, dragons, phoenixes, rings, pendants, beads, pipes, etc. Cooperative clothes with clothes can also be used as headwear, few gifts and production tools. According to experts, these jade wares generally use the process of round carving, transparent carving, land reducing yang, and unlucky carving lines, representing the highest level of jade processing in prehistoric China and even East Asia.

"The trip to Shijiahe has made me gain a lot and perceived a lot. The skills and wisdom of the ancients of the ancient Chu have exceeded the imagination of our descendants, which is really admirable!" At the end of the visit, the visiting group members, Hubei Hubei, Hubei, Hubei, Wang Yunqi, a graduate student of the University of Journalism and Communication, said emotionally.

【Edit: Yin Yin】

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