In addition to the conjecture that Dayu came from Liangzhu.

In fact, Wei Lai had another guess in his mind.

That is, the ancient Liangzhu Kingdom may also be the legendary "Yu Dynasty".

This is a result he based on existing archaeological findings and historical records, which were mutually confirmed.

But it's just his personal guess.

The source of the speculation is this:

"Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan Zhengyi" says: "China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; it has the beauty of uniforms, so it is called Hua."

China’s “great etiquette” also originated from Liangzhu culture.

In addition to the Six Chinese Utensils, which are important symbols of the Chinese ritual system, the circular mounds used by emperors of all dynasties to worship the sky and the shrines used to worship the earth are the most important ritual systems of the ancient Chinese people, and they all originated from the Liangzhu Culture.

Regarding the Circle Qiu, it is a circular altar for worshiping the sky. "Zhou Li·Chun Guan·Da Si Yue" records: "On the winter solstice, it is played on the Circle Qiu on the ground. It tells us that on the winter solstice, the king of Zhou will offer sacrifices at the Circle Qiu.

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In the consciousness of the ancients, the sky is round, that is, the sky is round and the place is round, so the circular mound is round. The Burning Sacrifice is a ceremony of burning firewood to worship the sky, and it is held in the circular mound. Therefore, the circular mound has two characteristics: one is round, and the other is circular mound.

There is a burning sacrifice.

Relics of circular mounds used for burning sacrifices have been discovered in Liangzhu ancient city, Wujin Si Dun, Haining Lotus Leaf, Daze Temple, Shanghai Guangfulin, Jinshan Tomb, Fuquan Mountain and other Liangzhu sites.

You may not know what the Circular Qiu is. The Circular Qiu Altar in the south of the Temple of Heaven is the central building of the Temple of Heaven. The Temple of Heaven is the Circular Qiu. It was built in the Jiajing year of the Ming Dynasty and was the place where the emperor worshiped the sky on the winter solstice.

The Temple of Heaven is a three-story open-air round platform with carved mugwort bluestone, white marble railings and carved railings. The two walls are square on the outside and round on the inside, symbolizing the "round sky and square place".

The stone components of the circular mound altar, steps, and railings are all nine or multiples of nine, that is, the Yang number, which is used to symbolize heaven.

The circular stone slab in the center of the altar is called the Tianxin Stone.

The source of such an important ritual and form of the emperor's sacrifice was the circle mound created by the Liangzhu culture.

Regarding "She", it is also called Shesi, also known as Sheji. "She" is an altar for worshiping the God of Earth, "She", and "Ji" is the god of agriculture, referring to agriculture; in ancient times, agriculture was the foundation of the world, and "Sheji" was also called "Sheji".

It refers to the country, and it is a ritual inherited by all dynasties in China.

"Guanzi Qingchongwu": "There is a king of Yu... who seals the land as a community and builds trees as a village, so that the first people know the etiquette." "Huainanzi·Qi Su Xun": "There is a sacrifice to the Yu family, and the community uses soil."

Pre-Qin documents clearly indicate that social sacrifices originated from the Yu Dynasty and were inherited by the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Field archeology proves that social sacrifices originated from the Liangzhu culture. They can be found in hundreds of Liangzhu sites across Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui, and have formed the basic form of later generations. The above-mentioned classics record that social sacrifices originated in the Yu Dynasty, and

Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest social sacrifice remains are found throughout the Liangzhu culture but are not found in other earlier cultures. This shows that the ancient Liangzhu country was probably the Yu Dynasty before the Xia Dynasty.

This is the dual evidence method of archeology.

Regarding the chronology of the Yu Dynasty, "Han Feizi·Xianxue" says: "Yin, Zhou was more than seven hundred years old, Yu, Xia was more than two thousand years old", "Today we want to judge Yao and Shun's way before three thousand years old".

Han Feizi was born in about 280 BC and died in 233 BC.

According to his statement "Now I want to judge Yao, and Shun's way was three thousand years ago", the forward 3000 years is exactly around 3300 BC. From this, it can be deduced that the Yu Dynasty was established before about 3300 BC. What a coincidence.

It exactly matches the age of about 5,300 years ago according to the isotope detection results of the Liangzhu Culture.

It is completely consistent with the conclusion that the ancient Liangzhu Kingdom was the Yu Dynasty based on the dual evidence method of "social sacrifice" records and archaeological evidence.

Regarding the Diwang of the Yu Dynasty, all dynasty names in later generations were named after the fiefdom of Diwang.

For example, Xia originated from Daxia, Shang came from Shangqiu, and the Yu Dynasty was named because its place looked like Yu (Wu).

The oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin Ruins have found the word "Wu", which means "Yu", which means that Wu was named earlier than the time when Taibo went to Wu in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

According to "Shuowen Jiezi", the character "Yu" is derived from the character "Wu".

"Yu" and "Wu" are related, and the ancient pronunciation is in the fish department. "Yu" and "Wu" have been inseparable since ancient times. There is no doubt among all ancient scholars, and it is also common in all ancient classics.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the Yu Dynasty was named after the land of Wu and Yue in southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, and northern Zhejiang.

It is once again completely consistent with the conclusion that the ancient Liangzhu Kingdom was the Yu Dynasty drawn by the dual evidence method of "social sacrifice" ancient records and archaeological evidence.

Starting from the capital, it doesn't take long to reach Hangzhou even if you take a train.

Yuhang, where the Liangzhu ruins are located, is a district of Hangzhou.

The Liangzhu ruins are very large, spanning three modern town-level administrative units.

However, the core and essence areas of the Liangzhu ruins are all in Pingyao Town. The core is located in the ancient city of Liangzhu. "Fanshan, Mojiao Mountain, Huiguan Mountain, and 11 dams" are all within the territory of Pingyao.

The Liangzhu Ancient City ruins are located on Fengdu Road, Pingyao Town, Yuhang District, Hz City, ZJ Province, at the border of the mountains and hills of western Zhejiang and the Hangzhou-Jiahu Plain.

The terrain here is higher in the west and lower in the east. Both the south and north are branches of the Tianmu Mountains. Dongtiao River and Liangzhu Port flow eastward from the north and south sides of the city respectively. Two natural hills, Fengshan and Pheasant, are used to form the walls of the city respectively.

Southwest corner and Northeast corner.

The Liangzhu ancient city ruins cover a total area of ​​3 square kilometers. The Liangzhu culture dates from 5300 to 4300 years ago and continued to develop for about 1000 years. It belongs to the archaeological culture of the late Neolithic Age.

Distributed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, a total of 136 sites have been discovered. Here, more than 300 high-level cemeteries, altars, jade ritual systems, and large palace foundations have been discovered.

The ruins of Liangzhu Ancient City are known as the "First City in China". The peripheral water conservancy system of Liangzhu Ancient City is the earliest large-scale water conservancy project in China so far known, and is also the earliest dam in the world. Liangzhu Ancient City is a region on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China and around Taihu Lake.

Regional centers of power and belief in early states.

"The pottery unearthed in Liangzhu is most distinctive with its clay-gray body and polished black leather pottery. It is wheel-made and has regular shapes, mostly with ring feet. It is decorated with holes, bamboo patterns, string patterns, and is also painted."

"A lot of jade articles have been found, including bis, congs, huangs, rings, beads, etc. Most of them were unearthed in tombs."

"Same type of sites as the Liangzhu site are widely distributed in southern Jiangsu on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and to the area south of the Qiantang River. They are collectively called the "Liangzhu Culture" in the archaeological community."

On the way to Hangzhou, Kong Jianwen continued to introduce Liangzhu culture.

Liangzhu culture is a culture of considerable scope.

The ancient city of Liangzhu now discovered in Yuhang is just a capital city, similar to the city-states of ancient Greece.

But this does not mean that Liangzhu people only have this city.

In fact, similar sites of the Liangzhu Culture have been discovered from the southern Jiangsu area on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the Qiantang River area.

In other words, the scope of Liangzhu people's rule at that time should have included Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

Yuhang is the capital area.

This is why most historians believe that Liangzhu was a feudal state that had entered the era of centralization, rather than a tribe.

"At the end of 1982, archaeologists unearthed a large number of stone tools, jades, pottery and other relics at the Pukou Yingpanshan site on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Among them, the earliest dragon-shaped jade ornaments were unearthed. One of the two dragons is a "head-headed dragon."

The neck is raised upwards, while the other one is a "bowed dragon" with the head bent downwards."

"In 1986 and 1987, a large number of funerary objects were unearthed from Liangzhu tombs, of which more than 90% were jade articles. Jade articles symbolizing wealth, jade congs symbolizing divine power, and jade axes symbolizing military power provided precious information for studying the origins of classes.

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"It also caused many major museums in the world to re-evaluate and rename their old jade collections, pushing back the history of some Liangzhu jades that were originally mistaken for Han jades by more than 2,000 years."

"Furthermore, the fragments of silk fabrics unearthed from the Liangzhu Culture were first transcribed and then woven. This is the earliest silk fabric found in my country so far. This piece of silk that dates back to 4,700-5,200 years ago can be called "the first piece of silk in the world." "

"Mr. Wang Suijin and others have argued that the "origin of silk" originated in the Yangtze River Delta. In ancient times, the Yellow River and the northwest were passed northward from Hemudu, Liangzhu and other Jiangnan silk cultures."

"In 1994, another super-giant building foundation was discovered, covering an area of ​​more than 300,000 square meters. It was confirmed to be a large artificially piled earth platform, with the thickest soil layer reaching 10.2 meters. The scale of the project is rare in the world."

“The archaeological community believes that the Liangzhu Culture is a source of Chinese civilization.”

Kong Jianwen's narrations are all commonplace topics.

No one felt anything special.

However, Professor Li then said with profound meaning: "Now, there is a saying in academic circles that the ancient Liangzhu Kingdom may be the legendary country of the Chengjiu clan."

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Chapter completed!