From the Island Owner to the King

And it is somewhat similar to the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty.

Inheritance.

Chen Rui guessed that the text label on the sheepskin map was Xia Zhuan.

A script that Chinese historians and scholars believe once existed.

However, in archaeological excavations, the Xia Dynasty characters found have not been clearly confirmed.

Referring to Zhou Zhuan and Oracle bone inscriptions, which are in the same vein as Xia Zhuan, Chen Ruishi read out the three characters marked by the text.

Xiayang Lake.

summer and sun.

Positive.

In the ancient middle reaches of the Yellow River, north of the Tropic of Cancer, there would be no direct sunlight all year round. The sunlight would only come from the south. For mountains, the south of the mountain could be illuminated by the sun. Conversely, for water systems below ground level, the sun also does not shine on the south bank of the river, only the north bank.

Therefore, the ancients regarded the place where the mountains in the south and the north can be irradiated by the sun as yang.

This statement spread from the Central Plains.

Therefore, Chen Rui guessed that the ancestors who built the ancient city here did not originate from the local indigenous ancestors, but the ancestors who migrated from the Central Plains.

The ancient Central Plains was the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the birthplace of ancient China.

The Xia Dynasty was ruled by the Xia Dynasty, and the Shang Dynasty was ruled by the Shang Dynasty.

summer!

The word "Xia" in Xia Zhuan told Chen Rui a lot of information.

Can Chen Rui speculate like this?

The ancestors of the Xia Dynasty migrated here for some reason and found a lake, which they named Xiayang Lake to commemorate their homeland.

They settled here, built dwellings, lived by the water, and built cities to avoid the beasts in the mountains and forests.

Chen Rui stopped on a smooth slate by the Xiayang Lake, took out a sheepskin map from his backpack, and spread it out on the slate.

Pointing at the location where he is at this time, Xiayang Lake.

Move your fingertips slowly across the sheepskin map.

He clicked on a flat spot in the forest, and said to himself, "Xiacheng is here."

It is located 0.7 kilometers southeast of the lake.

Chen Rui determined the goal.

Chen Rui put away the sheepskin map, put it in his backpack, and continued on his way.

In the afternoon, Chen Rui was very close to the place marked on the sheepskin map.

The terrain here is flat, covered with dense trees, implicated in vines, and overgrown with shrubs.

Leaves blocked the sun.

Vines and shrubs cover the ground.

The ground is very wet.

Chen Rui walked in it and was often entangled by vines and shrubs on the ground, making it very difficult to take a step.

In these vines and bushes, there are some poisonous insects and poisonous snakes lurking.

The surroundings were very quiet, so quiet that Chen Rui felt depressed and dull.

Suddenly, Chen Rui found a large rock.

The large stones are half-buried in the soil and are elongated, with obvious marks of cutting and processing on the surface.

This is a large stone block that builds the ancient city wall.

That is to say, the ancient city is not far from here.

such a big rock,

Being washed so far by the mudslide is already the limit.

The debris flow was going down, and Chen Rui had to go up to find the ancient city.

The higher he went, the more stones Chen Rui found, and some bronze, pottery, and pottery fragments.

These were carried down by the debris flow all the way, and most of them were buried in the soil.

Chen Rui picked up the bronze ware, pottery and pottery fragments found on the ground.

Chen Rui was very excited that some of the bronzes, pottery and pottery fragments were found with words.

The characters engraved on the utensils are very mature, very standardized, the strokes are round and symmetrical, which is different from Zhou Zhuan and Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions.

Unlike Tao Wen, it is a single symbol, which makes people unable to understand the specific meaning of these words.

It is written length, it already belongs to the category of writing, very mature.

Chen Rui believes that these characters are Xia Zhuan.

The discovery of Xia Zhuan can be said to be very important to Chinese history.

As we all know, civilization is a concept belonging to the category of the Bronze Age, specifically referring to the state stage after human beings entered the Bronze Age.

In Chinese history textbooks, Chinese civilization began in 2070 BC, when Yu passed his son Qi and established the Xia Dynasty.

However, foreign countries, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, do not agree with this view.

They believe that the history of Chinese civilization began with the Shang civilization.

It started around 1500 BC, 3500 years ago.

That is, China has a civilization of 5,000 years, not 5,000 years, but 3,500 years.

The main disagreement is the existence of the 'Xia Dynasty'.

The international academic community does not recognize the existence of the 'Xia Dynasty'.

The reason is that there is no archaeological basis, that is, there is no written text, no smelted bronze ware found, let alone any basis for the existence of the state, as well as urban relics, and so on.

Chen Rui discovered the bronze wares of the Xia Dynasty here. The bronze wares are very large and exquisite, indicating that the Xia Dynasty mastered the technology of smelting bronze.

The discovery of Xia Zhuan engraved with written lengths on bronzes, pottery and pottery fragments proves that the Xia Dynasty had very mature and quite complete characters. It is not only not as primitive and backward as the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, but also more advanced, mature and beautiful than the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty.

Bronze and writing are the hallmarks of civilization.

Several bronze wares in Chen Rui's hands, pottery, bronze ware, and pottery fragments engraved with Xia seal characters illustrate the existence of the 'Xia Dynasty'.

Of course, with only a few bronze wares, a few Xia Zhuan were not very convincing.

Chen Rui needs to find more bronzes, Xia Zhuan characters, things recorded in Xia Zhuan, etc.

After walking for half an hour, Chen Rui found the ruins of the ancient city.

The ruins of the ancient city are covered by bushes and vines.

Peeling open the vines and bushes, you can see the ruins of the ruins. Huge stones are piled up in the ruins.

The air is very humid.

Broken walls, broken walls, and flat stones are covered with green moss, which has become a paradise for insects and snakes living in a dark and humid environment. From time to time, centipedes and insects can be seen from under the stones. It ran out of the gap and drilled back again.

Chen Rui took out a handgun from the Pregnant Sea Pearl Space and chopped off the vines and bushes that blocked his sight.

Walk into the ruins of the ancient city.

The ruins of the ancient city gave Chen Rui a very desolate feeling, and the air was filled with a depressing breath, very dull.

There was a dead silence all around, and the silence was so sad.

Ruined walls, overgrown with weeds. The half-buried stones, utensils, and struggling bones seemed to silently tell Chen Rui the tragedy that happened here thousands of years ago.

A once glorious ancient city was destroyed in an instant.

Buried by landslide-induced mudslides.

in the ruins of the ancient city.

What Chen Rui found the most were the bones buried in the mound, layer upon layer, so many that Chen Rui's scalp tingled.

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