Damn, this big ocean horse deserves to be fucked by someone else. Zhou Jian cursed in his heart and didn't bother to pay attention to Linda. Instead, he asked the lobby manager about the auction of jewelry. The answer he got was that there will be an underground exchange in half an hour.
The manager came over.
At this time, Linda began to pester Zhou Jian with another question, that is, she had read various history books of China, and after repeated calculations, she still could not figure out how China calculated the splendid civilization history of five thousand years.
Regarding this question, Zhou Jian also felt overwhelmed and impatient with Linda. He had to bite the bullet and said: "It was more than four thousand years ago to the Xia Dynasty. In addition, there was also a period from the Yellow Emperor to Dayu.
Hundreds of years, if you round up, it’s almost five thousand years.”
"Rounding off? My God, history is very rigorous."
"Please, no writing has been handed down at that time. The dates are all guessed. I can't be rigorous even if I want to. Isn't the upper limit of 3500 BC of ancient Egyptian civilization also calculated." Anyway, nothing happened in this half hour.
Zhou Jian once again discussed this topic with Linda that had been discussed for a long time in the taxi.
"Well, you haven't clarified yet, how many hundreds of years did it take for the Yellow Emperor to reach Dayu?"
"Uh...probably more than four hundred years."
"As far as I know, the Xia Dynasty was a little over 2000 BC. In addition, the most recent four hundred years were 2500 BC, which is less than 5000 years. Moreover, there were only seven generations of emperors from Huangdi to Dayu. How could they survive?
Four hundred years ago? As far as I know, the average reign of the Qing Dynasty emperors in your country was only more than 20 years, and this was because the Qing Dynasty had the two longest reigning emperors, Qianlong and Kangxi. This was in modern times.
, in fact, people in ancient times usually lived shorter lives.”
Zhou Jian was speechless. This Yangma knew too much and was worthy of studying archeology.
"And as far as I know, no bronzes, writings or urban ruins earlier than the Shang Dynasty have been unearthed in China so far. That means there are no remains of civilization earlier than 1600 BC. So how can we prove the existence of the Xia Dynasty?
The written records left by some scholars of the Shang Dynasty did not expressly state that they knew that there was an earlier dynasty than their own. Books about the pre-Shang civilization, such as "Shang Shu·Xia Shu" and "Bamboo Book Annals" have already
This happened during the Warring States Period, and I have read all these books, of course in vernacular translations."
Zhou Jian retorted: "Who told you that the earliest history book recording the Xia Dynasty comes from the Warring States Period? It is recorded in the oracle bone inscriptions that 'Tang' is the founding king of the Shang Dynasty, 'Chengtang', who appointed 'Yi', who was born as a slave, as the prime minister to collect intelligence.
The history of gradually conquering the cities of the old dynasties, the dynasty he overthrew was probably not the Xia Dynasty."
"Okay, even if it is the Xia Dynasty, the world-recognized signs of the emergence of civilization are: writing, bronzes, and cities. You don't object to this, right?"
Zhou Jian acquiesced that although the standards for these three civilizations were set by Yang Maozi, to be fair, they still make sense. In fact, jade articles appeared in China very early, but jade products can only be regarded as simple physical processing and have not gone through the complex process of bronze.
Chemical changes, so it cannot be counted as civilization, and neither does the same pottery.
Dayangma continued: "Okay, then how do you prove that the Xia Dynasty was a civilized dynasty with writing and bronzes, rather than a patrilineal clan tribe such as Dawenkou in the late Neolithic Age? Speaking of which, the Dawenkou site is more than 4,000 years old.
years ago, basically overlapped with the era of the Yellow Emperor. In addition, during this period, China also had many Neolithic cultural sites such as the Liangzhu Culture and the Longshan Culture similar to the Dawenkou site. Does this mean that in the 4000s?
Years ago, in the new era, clan and tribal forms were a common phenomenon in China?"
Zhou Jiandao: "Dawenkou, Longshan, etc. are in Shandong. They are not the Yellow River Basin, the birthplace of Chinese civilization. At that time, the Yellow River Basin referred to the Shaanxi, Gansu, and Shanxi regions, and was also where the Yellow Emperor tribe was located."
"Then Majiayao Culture, Henan Longshan Culture, and Hakkashuang Culture were in Shaanxi, Gansu and Henan, right? In the same era, that is to say more than 4,000 years ago, the Xia Dynasty, a slave kingdom that unified the Yellow River Basin, appeared in Henan at the same time, and
Do you think this really makes sense for the Neolithic culture of a backward primitive society? And why do all the cultural sites as small as the smallest have things that have been passed down to the present, but not the Great Xia Dynasty that unified the Yellow River Basin? The only possibility
The Erlitou site that proves the existence of civilization in the Xia Dynasty is also between the late Xia and early Shang. However, only stoneware and pottery were found in the first and second phases of Erlitou, and only bronzes and palace ruins were unearthed in the third and fourth phases. This also proves that the Xia Dynasty had no civilization.
, because the sites of the third and fourth phases are obviously from the Shang Dynasty, and no civilization relics older than 1600 BC have been unearthed in China, is it just improper protection? In Egypt, many civilization relics dating back to 3000 BC have been unearthed, such as Namer.
palette, but China has none.”
Zhou Jian had a headache. He had never heard of some of the sites Linda mentioned. After all, he was just a hobby in archeology and history, and was not as professional as Linda. However, he still said unhurriedly: "Egypt is a tropical desert.
Climate, and the Yellow River Basin in China has an East Asian monsoon climate. It has been rainy and humid since ancient times, and the rate of decay of cultural relics is incomparable."
"Please, that's other places in Egypt. The Nile Delta where the ancient Egyptian civilization is located has a Mediterranean climate, okay? It's humid and rainy in winter. And are you sure that Shaanxi and Gansu, where the Yellow River Basin is located, has always been a humid and rainy East Asian monsoon climate? And even so, it's so big
Why did the Wenkou Cultural Site leave a large number of cultural relics?”
"Nonsense, those in Dawenkou are all stoneware and pottery, so they won't rot."
Dayang Ma was angry. When history was mentioned, she first looked for evidence of cultural relics, not historical legends. "If China cannot extend its testable civilization to before 2500 BC, then it cannot be called the world."
One of the oldest civilizations in the world, because the Greek civilization in the Aegean Sea, the Mitanni Kingdom in the Mesopotamian Plain, and the Hittite civilization in Asia Minor were all civilizations of the same period as the Shang Dynasty.
The earliest Cretan civilization, ancient Indian civilization, Mycenaean civilization, and even the earliest and terrifying ancient Egyptian civilization and Sumerian civilization that can be extended to 3500 BC.”
"Please note that the civilizations I mentioned have unearthed civilizational remains and really existed. So, what is the basis for Mr. Liang Qichao's concept of the four ancient civilizations? I have not denied the Xia Dynasty, nor have I intentionally targeted it.
China, I just respect the factual evidence. If all the written records are true, then the legendary Atlantis is probably more famous than the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of China."
Zhou Jian found that the Yangma seemed to be a different person when he talked about history and archeology. He not only talked endlessly, but also went crazy. A series of historical facts and the names of ancient civilizations spoken in English made Zhou Jian unable to say a word.
At this time, Zhou Jian wanted very much to make Yang Ma speechless, but for a while he couldn't think of any words to say. Dayang Ma only recognized the facts, but he couldn't produce the facts, and he couldn't argue with them.
In terms of historical knowledge, he, a history amateur, was obviously not as good as Dayang Ma, who had a professional background. At this moment, Zhou Jian saw a man walking behind Dayang Ma, and then reached out and patted Dayang Ma's butt...
