✎“No site can fully possess the elements and symbols of the origin of civilization like the Taosi site.” As one of the three key sites in the Chinese civilization exploration project, the Taosi site 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, which entered the primary civilization stage, and to show its fruitful archaeological achievements, such as: an unprecedented city site, a magnificent palace wall, a regular cemetery, the world’s earliest observatory, the earliest text to date, and a set of ritual vessels…Cinema
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 nearby villages have developed and changed, they have been encircling and tightly surrounding the Taosi site, and rarely occupying the burden.
▲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 clear burial hierarchy, 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 gap between the rich and the poor in Taosi society is huge, and a few nobles have accumulated a large amount of wealth and formed a privileged class. At this time of social development, the prototype of the country has been formed, and a civilized society is <a href="https://comicmov.coThe Babaylan meeting has arrived. The Taosi ruins are typical representatives of early China. The capital of Yao and Shun
There are only dialects near the Taosi ruins in the country, and the sun is called “King Yao”. Is it a coincidence? Or is it a tradition 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, at the Palace City of the Taosi ruins in the Taosi ruins in 2018 href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaArchitecturers were surprised to find the remaining “Quelou”-style gate.
The tall Quelou has always been called the gate of etiquette. Two tall Quelou extend from the southern wall of the palace city, and the pattern is similar to the style of the Yingtianmen Quelou in Luoyang City during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. So the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City later followed this Quelou pattern more than 4,000 years ago.
▲The “Qulou Style” gate of the south east gate
▲The Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City
The tall Quelou gate site shows the grandeur in the palace. Above the palace, with only one main hall, the area reaches more than 540 square meters. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan square meters. The cellars outside the palace city store the country’s grain. The cellars are 5 meters in diameter and 7 meters deep. The built-in spiral ramps 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 Taosi site. Taosi site is in line with Yao in terms of age, geographical location and the degree of civilization it reflects. It is an important fulcrum and cornerstone for empirizing the journey of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years. The cemetery of Taosi site in the tomb of the king is the largest in the Yellow River Basin. More than 40 years of excavation shows that more than 4,000 years ago, the society here had serious polarizations. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks. Unlike the tombs of ordinary people, there are relatively few tombs of nobles, with very high specifications, and particularly rich burial objects. In 1980, in the M3016 tomb, a special round pottery was revealed. This is not an ordinary pottery plate, and a dragon is painted vividly in the center of the plate.
▲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 was a high-level body. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan‘s symbol of status. The dragons drawn in the Taosi Dragon Pan are all shaped like coiled dragons, with crocodile-like scale markings on their bodies, square on both sides of the head resemble bear ears, long jaws protrude, especially the image of branches holding the mouth, which is very rare. The Taosi Panlong is already very close to the image of the descendants of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties and later generations. Taosi is the original prototype of the Chinese state, so the Taosi Dragon is the true Chinese dragon.
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More than 4,000 years ago, Tao Temple had a relatively advanced astronomical calendar and the world’s earliest observatory.
A archaeologists first discovered 13 arc-shaped rammed earth pillars, and were confused by the strange combination of “walls are not like walls, and roads are not like roads”.
<a According to the records of "Shangshu Yao Dian", astronomy was very developed during the Yao Emperor's period. 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.
These 13 strange stone pillars were the observatory from more than 4,000 years ago?
These 13 strange stone pillars were the observatory from more than 4,000 years ago?
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Through years of exploration and verification, simulated observation, the ancient personnel finally discovered the secret of the observatory. It turned out that the ancestors determined the seasons and solar terms by observing the observation gaps of the pillars and the sunrise direction of Taer Mountain. The sunrise is seen from the second observation slit. Babaylan is the winter solstice day. The sunrise is the summer solstice day. Both the vernal and autumnal equinoxes see the sunrise from the 7th observation slit.
▲Taosi Ruins Observation Station
▲Restoration of Taosi Ruins Observation Station
This is the earliest observatory in the world and the ancestral source of China’s 24 solar terms. It is 500 years older than the Stonehenge Observatory in the UK.
The mysterious Babaylan‘s Zhushu text
In the excavation of H3403 in the ash pit in Taosi site in 1984, two “words” written in cinnabar on a broken flat pot caused a great sensation.
One of the red characters is not very controversial, and many scholars believe that he is very similar to the word “玉” in the oracle bone inscriptions.
▲Zhu Shu Danhu
The second controversial word is whether it is the word “Yao” or “王”.
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 beginning of “ritual and music civilization”29 musical instruments unearthed from the Taosi site, including 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.
▲Oral string calves
The drum that uses crocodile skin mask only appears in the king-level tomb. The same is true for earth drums. Among them, one pair of turtle drums, one stone chime, and one earth drum are all fixedly placed 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 instrument
In the autumn of 2002, in TaoA wooden pole was found in the mid-term tomb of the temple site, coated with black, green and red markings, which caused archaeologists to verify the “Guibei”.
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 scope and territory of the world; it can also be used to formulate a calendar.
Study proves that the wooden pole found in the M22 tomb is a ruler. The discovery of Taosi Guizhi also shows that the instrument used in ancient China’s astronomical measurements first appeared in the middle of the Taosi culture 4,100 years ago.
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All kinds of archaeological signs also show that as early as more than 4,000 years ago, Taosi entered the national stage and entered a civilized society. First, the Taosi culture period was not an equal society, but a serious social hierarchy differentiation occurred. For example, the differences in tombs mentioned above actually reflect the social status of the tomb owner. Second, the emergence of the supreme ruler of “king” in Taosi culture and Cinema society, which means that a country dominated by royal power emerges. Third, in Taosi society, the ritual system was initially formed and became the essence of the social system to be passed down in future generations. Fourth, most of the material and spiritual civilizations created by Taosi society were inherited and developed by the Xia, Shang, Zhou and later generations, and were in line with the lineage.
It can be said that Taosi was “the original Chinese and the main vein of China.”