Cultural Changde ┃ Puyang Plain: an important area for the exploration source of Chinese civilization

"The research results of major projects such as the China Civilization Source Project have evidenced the history of human beings in my country, the cultural history of 10,000 years, and the history of more than 5,000 years." On May 27, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China deepened The 39th collective study of the Chinese civilization exploration source project.

As an important area for archeological discovery and research in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Hunan is a key area for the inspection and implementation of the Chinese civilization source project. Which sites and results are the main sites and results of the Chinese civilization exploration of Hunan? The reporter interviewed Guo Weimin, a special researcher at the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology and a professor at Yuelu Academy, Hunan University.

Hunan civilization exploration source focuses on Puyang Plain

The Chinese civilization exploration source project is called "comprehensive research on the origin and early development of Chinese civilization and early development", which has started pre -research since 2001.

The pre -research and first research phase of the exploration source project is in the Central Plains region from 2500 to 1500 BC. In the second stage (starting from 2006), the upper limit of the research extends forward to 3500 BC, and the space range expands to the beginning of civilization, the upper, middle, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Xiliao River Basin.

The Archaeological Site Park, Chengtoushan, Chengxian County. Photo by Hunan Daily all media reporter Gu Pengbo

Since 2006, the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology has successively undertaken the project and tasks of the second, third, and fourth stages of the China Civilization Source Project. "In the exploration source project, the task of the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology is to study the basic model of the prehistoric social civilization process of the region through the settlement form of the Puyang Plain, and to explore the status of this model in the origin of Chinese civilization." Guo Weimin introduced that the research scope includes the chickens on the Puyang Plain, Shanlonggang, Youzhou, Chengtou Shan, Chekuishan, Sun Jiagang, Qixingdun and other sites, as well as Liyang Xiawan, Guiyang Qianjiaping and other Liyang Some important sites in the plain areas. Among them, the three sites of Chicken Castle, Sun Jiagang, and Qixingdun were also included in the key topics of "archeological China".

Pay attention to "what", and pay more attention to "why"

When the formation of civilization, how to develop, and why this development, a series of issues are a major topic of the attention of the Chinese civilization exploration source project.

As a result, in the excavation of the Totou Mountain site, archaeologists care about how the social organizations here are; in the process of civilization, how power is generated and used.

For example, they found that there were special plaid pits at the bottom of the moat, and there was a interval between pits and pits. Archaeologists speculate that these pits were "operating areas" left by people at the time when people dug the moat and built the city walls. The construction of the moat is a division of labor under certain organization and planning. Clear division of labor and organization arrangements.

The Yixian Youzhou Gang site has an important discovery in the field of prehistoric spiritual and cultural. Archaeologists have discovered large altars around 6,000 years ago. A woodcarving person was unearthed in a sacrifice pit north of the altar. The part of the nose below the human face is decaying, and the remaining part can be seen to see the bulging nose and the eyes of round holes. There are upward corners on both sides of its head, with a wooden pillar in the middle of the top. This characteristic has a certain similarities with the noodles in the witch culture.

Puyang Plain is an important origin of the Yangtze River civilization

Coupled with some previous discoveries, the positioning of the mysterious Puyang Plain is a little clear--

It is one of the important origin of Chinese rice agriculture. Early cultivated rice with the characteristics of japonica rice and rice rice in Pengtou Mountain, eighty -eight, and Shanlonggang has been unearthed. Chengtou Mountain found the rice fields that were 6500 years ago.

It is the dissemination and diffusion center of the prehistoric culture in the south. In addition to the ancient agricultural culture, Bai Tao's spread and communication witnessed the influence of prehistoric culture represented by the Puyang Plain.

It is one of the sources of the dawn of Chinese civilization. "The earliest city in China" was born on the basis of the early Shinshi ring settlement. The changes in this city interpret the major process of early national civilization. Chicken Castle was unearthed in China's earliest and most complete ultra -large wooden architecture foundation. Chelongshan and Qixingdun discovered the earliest Long Kiln in the middle of the Yangtze River. Cemetery ...

"The results of these archeological excavations are superimposed to confirm that the Puyang Plain is an important origin of the Yangtze River civilization." Guo Weimin said.

Source: Hunan Daily

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