“When a new civilization opens up new lands and migrates partially or completely to its new homeland, it will encounter the challenges of a new, untamed natural environment. When Western civilization originated, it encountered the mountains north of the Alps.
Forests, rainfall and severe cold challenges, but its elder civilization, ancient Greece, did not encounter such situations. When the ancient Indian civilization originated, it encountered the challenge of the humid tropical forests in the Ganges River Basin, while its elder civilization, the Sumerian civilization
But it has not been encountered in the distant branches of the Indus River Basin...
The long-term comfort of the natural environment does not allow civilization to move forward. It also needs the stimulation of a difficult environment. Primitive civilization grows step by step by overcoming difficulties. Let's talk about Chinese civilization first. Everyone must have heard the story of Dayu's flood control.
, the flooding of the Yellow River brought endless disasters to the Chinese ancestors...Okay, that’s it for today’s lesson.”
Zhou Hexuan patted the chalk dust on his hands, put away his handouts and announced the end of get out of class.
Wu Jinding quickly ran over and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, these are the lecture notes from last time. My classmates and I have already copied them."
"Well, everyone still recognizes my handwriting, right?" Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile.
Wu Jinding was sweating violently. It would have been better not to mention this. When it came to Zhou Hexuan's calligraphy, he was extremely troubled. Not only was the writing ugly, but there were also various shortcomings, and most of the time he could only guess.
Zhou Hexuan handed him the lecture notes for this class and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Wu Jinding came back to his senses: "That's right, the school has approved archaeological funding, and Professor Li is going to take us to Shandong to dig for ruins."
"When will you leave?" Zhou Hexuan asked.
"At the beginning of next month," Wu Jinding said excitedly, "Isn't Mr. Zhou interested? Let's go and see it together!"
"Okay." Zhou Hexuan thought for a while and decided to go to Shandong for a trip in early November and then come back to get married.
Five days later, the Longshan ruins archaeological team officially set out.
Mr. Li Ji, the "founder of Chinese archeology", is the leader of the team, and most of the team members are teachers and students from Tsinghua University. Even He Shiji and Wei Juxian, who just graduated from Tsinghua University, took the initiative to join the archaeological team.
Everyone brought various archaeological tools and marched out of Peiping. What awaited them was a shocking discovery in the Chinese archaeological world.
At this moment, students at Peking University are still engaged in the school protection movement, and Li Shizeng's educational reform is in a quagmire.
Because the situation in Shandong was so chaotic, the archaeological team had no choice but to take a detour, taking the exact same route that Zhou Hexuan took to Shandong, from Tianjin to Qingdao by boat, and then along the Jiaoji Line to Jinan.
It's funny to say that Jinan is still occupied by the Japanese, and Sun Liangcheng, the chairman of Shandong Province, is quite frustrated.
Whether by boat or train, the journey is very smooth and fast. After arriving at Jinan Station, you can only take horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts.
It’s just that the situation in Shandong made everyone feel bad. Although the disaster situation has improved, the roads are still extremely desolate. Many villages are completely empty, with no human habitation at all. The situation of "white bones exposed in the wild and no roosters crowing for thousands of miles" is true.
life before your eyes.
Zhou Hexuan thought of the Central Plains War the year after next, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Shandong, which had finally recovered some strength, would be beaten to pieces by then. The people of Shandong in these years were really miserable.
On the rickety bullock cart, He Shiji asked: "Teacher, I heard that there are bandits everywhere in Shandong. Will there be any accidents in this archeology?"
"Bah, bah, bah! Stop saying such depressing words." Another student named Wang Jing shouted quickly.
Wu Jinding smiled and said: "Don't worry, Licheng is relatively peaceful. There is a leader named Huang Ziming who came from the Red Spear Association. He formed a security group last year and occupied all the counties around Jinan. He wiped out the bandits from all over the place.
It has to be clean."
Wei Juxian said worriedly: "I'm just afraid that the security team is no different from bandits."
Li Ji turned back and asked Zhou Hexuan: "Didn't Mingcheng say that he has contacted the local government? Where are they?"
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "You will know when you get there."
Amidst the uneasiness of the archaeological team, the convoy soon arrived at a place called Dongjia Town. Everyone was preparing to go into the town to rest and eat something before continuing on the road, but they found that there were actually troops stationed at the entrance of the town.
"The one who charges 10 cents for setting up a card?" Li Ji stood up and looked around, uncertainly.
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said nothing, got out of the car and strode towards the soldiers, shouting from a distance: "I am Zhou Hexuan!"
A man who looked like an officer immediately ran up from the opposite side, rushed to Zhou Hexuan and saluted politely: "Zou Huaiping, commander of the third battalion of the Central Shandong Security Regiment, is here to wait for Mr. Zhou and other great scholars on the order of Captain Huang. Please ask Zhou
Instructions sir!"
"Well, very good," Zhou Hexuan turned around and shouted, "Come all over, they are our own people."
The archaeological team members boldly approached Zhou Hexuan and were surprised to see that the soldiers were extremely respectful to Zhou Hexuan.
Li Ji smiled and said: "Mingcheng really has friends all over the world."
Zhou Hexuan explained casually: "Huang Ziming, the leader of the security team, is my friend."
Wu Jinding suggested: "Mr. Zhou, do we need to pay a visit to Captain Huang?"
"No need, he is probably busy." Zhou Hexuan smiled.
The battalion commander named Zou Huaiping said: "Captain Huang is raising military pay. He said he would go to Longshan Town to meet Mr. Zhou in person another day."
"Well, let's go." Zhou Hexuan nodded.
After everyone had lunch in Dongjia Town, they were escorted by the security team to Longshan Town and stayed in the town that night.
Because the site of the ruins involved farmland, Li Ji first visited the town mayor, paid for the landowner's consent, and then gathered people to start digging.
More than 20 farmers were employed, and it was naturally impossible for the team members to do such physical work as digging archaeological pits themselves.
In fact, there is no need to dig a hole at all.
Not long after arriving at the field, He Shiji lay down on the ground excitedly and shouted: "I found black pottery fragments!"
"Is this black pottery?" Zhou Hexuan ran over quickly and saw He Shiji carefully holding the pottery piece in his hand. In Zhou Hexuan's view, this was just a very ordinary piece of pottery, and he would not look at it even if he saw it.
He Shiji carefully wiped the pottery pieces with a rag. He said: "I heard from Wu Xuedi that the pottery here is unique and the first time it has been discovered in the world of archaeology. We can't make black pottery of this quality now. Look at its side walls."
(Less than 1 mm) How thin it is, and this pattern... Hey, it’s different from the checkered pattern that Wu Xuedi mentioned, this black pottery piece is made of corded pattern.”
The ingenious craftsmanship of the black pottery unearthed from the Longshan Culture was not completely deciphered until the late 1980s. The wisdom of the Chinese ancestors is truly amazing.
He Shiji and Wu Jinding immediately took other students to search for black pottery cultural relics unearthed naturally.
Li Ji was responsible for surveying the geology, and Wei Juxian took out a strange-shaped shovel, selected a piece of land and drilled underneath.
Students who like to read tomb robbing novels probably know that this thing is called Luoyang shovel.
The first person to use the Luoyang shovel for archeology was none other than Wei Juxian. He was a recent graduate from Tsinghua University. He saw a tomb robber using a Luoyang shovel half a year ago. He was surprised and suddenly had an idea.
Even though this archaeological team is basically composed of students, if you pick anyone out at random, they will all be famous figures in the Chinese archaeological community in the future.