On February 27, 2017, the Shijiahe Stone Age Site in Tianmen City, Hubei Province was selected as the “2016 Six Major Archaeological Discoveries in Chinaâ€. The newly discovered Tanjialing Ancient City is considered to be the largest prehistoric city site in China. More than 240 pieces of exquisite jade artifacts unearthed from the site have stunned the world.
The Shijiahe ruins are located in Shijiahe Town, Tianmen City. The archaeological finds have existed since the 6500 years ago. People lived here in the most prosperous period around 4,300 years ago. The entire site consists of 40 locations, covering an area. About 8 square kilometers. The site group was discovered in 1954 with the archaeological investigation of water conservancy projects. This large-scale site group has carried out more than 10 systematic archaeological excavations since 1955. It is the largest, highest grade, longest lasting and most preserved in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Complete prehistoric settlement site.
In 2014, the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology restarted the archaeological site of the Shijiahe site. After many years of silence, the mystery of the Shijiahe site is being unveiled step by step.
In November 2015, when archaeologists searched for large-scale architectural relics at the Tanjialing site in the center of Shijiahe Ancient City, nine funeraries were discovered. Five of them were buried with jade articles. More than 240 pieces of jade were found. The newly unearthed jade objects have exquisite line carving patterns, complex openwork and fine needle-like holes. The commonly used round carving, openwork, earth-reducing and bas-relief line carving techniques represent prehistoric China and even East Asia. The highest level of jade processing technology in the region. This discovery not only rewritten people's understanding of Chinese jade culture, but also advanced the Shijiahe site by at least 500 years.
Fang Qin, director of the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that archaeological studies believed that the ancient city of Shijiahe was built in the late period of Qujialing culture, but since 2015, the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Hubei Province has carried out archaeology at the Tanjialing site at the core of Shijiahe Ancient City. The excavation reveals that the Tanjialing ruins were earlier than the city and the hustle and bustle of the Qujialing culture period. "This shows that the ancient city of Tanjialing began to build a city about 5,000 years ago and is in the critical period of the formation of Chinese civilization."
In November 2016, archaeologists carried out exploration and excavation of the Yinxintai, Tanjialing and Sanfangwan sites in the Shijiahe site, and unearthed Yupei, Yuruyi, Siamese double head, and Ghost face double-headed eagle. The number is large, the variety, and it is very beautiful and amazing. Fang Qin said: "From the perspective of unearthed jade, the ancestors of the Shijiahe culture period were particularly fond of the phoenix, and the production was also particularly particular." Wang Renxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that a large number of positive and negative were also found in the study. There are god faces on both sides, but there are differences between the eyes on both sides. One side is long and the other side is round. "This kind of jade is a unique expression of Shijiahe culture. Its meaning It is worth further discussion."
During the excavation of the Yinxintai site of the Shijiahe ruins, a 1175-square-meter ceremonial platform and a large number of ceremonial urns were discovered. A number of remains were discovered around the site, and the remains of the baby were found in some of the baboons. Liu Hui, director of the Prehistoric Archaeological Department of the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, analyzed that this is a large-scale ritual site for the Shijiahe culture stage during the Neolithic period, about 4300 years ago.
The remnants of the cylinders, which are made up of dozens of red pottery cylinders, are the core area of ​​the whole sacrificial place. Many excavation ruins are found in the excavation area. A large number of pottery cylinder bottoms are connected together, and some cylinders have Characterized by symbols, the longest remnant of a set of cylinders is three or four meters long. Some of the cylinders are partially damaged, and the basic rules of their arrangement can still be clearly seen. Although the pottery has a long time, it can clearly distinguish the color and shape. Meng Huaping, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said: "The number of tanks unearthed this time, the high degree of intensity, and the strong correlation with the altar are rare in the previously discovered prehistoric sites." Liu Hui It is believed that the pottery tank may be a unique ritual utensil for the primitive ancestors in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The style of the first and last sockets of the pottery tank is extremely rare in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, expressing some kind of spiritual sustenance of the ancestors.
According to the archaeological data, the site of Shijiahe is the center. In Hubei Province, there are 15 city sites including Tianmen Shijiahe, Tianmen Longzui, Shishou Walking Maling and Public Security Qinghe City. Most of them are about four or five thousand years ago. During this period, the central settlement Shijiahe further integrated culture and resources, led the development of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, became an important region of the origin of Chinese civilization, and together with the culture of the Yellow River Basin constituted a splendid Chinese civilization.
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