China has a glorious civilization of 5,000 years, but is it really only 5,000 years?Judging from the artifacts unearthed so far, it seems that this sentence has been gradually overturned. In 1963, a bronze statue was unearthed in Jia Village, Baoji City, which became the "treasure of the town" of the Baoji City Museum.
So what is the history of this bronze statue?Can it have such a high status as soon as it is unearthed?
In fact, when the bronze statue was unearthed, it did not have such a high status, just the "treasure of the town hall" of Baoji City, but after 12 years, experts have not studied it thoroughly, and do not know its true value. Until 1975, when the bronze expert Ma Chengyuan saw it, he muttered in his heart, because the expert did not see the inscription on the bronze statue, logically speaking, in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, all large bronzes cast will have inscriptions on them to record its origin.
And this bronze statue, a lot of small size, it is impossible to have no inscription, so under the research of experts, the inscription was found at the bottom of the bronze statue, from the inscription not only learned the origin of the bronze statue and its owner, and even found the word "China" in the inscription, this is in all the historical materials, the first time as a phrase appeared, it can be seen that three thousand years ago, the word China has appeared. However, China 3,000 years ago was not what China is now, but what it meant as a central city.
On this bronze statue, it is recorded that the heartbeat of two ambitious young men in ancient times, and a dialogue about the development of the dynasty, and not forgetting the original intention, three thousand years ago, King Wu cut down the Zhou, overthrew the rule of the Shang Dynasty, and established the Zhou Dynasty, known as the Western Zhou Dynasty, in 1043 BC, King Wu died, and passed the throne to the king of Zhou Cheng Ji Yu, but Ji Yu was only 12 years old at that time. Due to the brutality of his father, King Shang, the people of the world were miserable, coupled with years of conquest, the Western Zhou Dynasty at that time could be described as poor, and King Zhou Cheng, who was only 12 years old, took over such a country.
Fortunately, King Zhou Cheng, with the assistance of his fourth uncle, decided to protect the country forever. According to the last wishes of his father, King Shang, King Zhou Cheng established a new capital as soon as he ascended the throne. Here, King Zhou Cheng met a very talented teenager, He. Because the two were of the same age, they admired the great deeds of their father, so they became good friends who talked about everything, and He decided to build a bronze statue at that time, so as to remember the exploits of his father and the new king, as well as the new king's admonition to himself.
At this point, He Zun appeared, and after learning about this history, He Zun's status skyrocketed, and thus became the treasure of the town.
If this is not the oldest cultural relic, then the bone flute unearthed in 1979, with a history of 9,000 years, can blow the most ancient sound.
When the bone flute was first unearthed, even the experts didn't know what it was, only that it was made of animal bones, with seven holes in it, and it could blow sound. So what kind of instrument is it?Through the study of historical materials, before the Han Dynasty, China's flute was played vertically, and during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions and introduced the horizontal flute.
And this bone flute is the earliest musical instrument found in China so far, the Jiahu bone flute. The emergence of the bone flute has changed one of the most traditional concepts of people, and it has always been generally believed that the traditional ** of the Oriental people is the pentatonic mode, while the ** of the Westerners is dominated by the seven-tone mode. Later, with the cultural exchanges between the East and the West, the pentatonic scale was gradually replaced by the seven-tone scale, but the emergence of the Jiahu bone flute told people that as early as 8,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Chinese had begun to use the seven-tone scale to create **, so people overturned the previous conclusion.
So is the seven-tone scale Western or Eastern?In fact, it is difficult for experts to explain this point clearly, after all, China's written history is only 3,000 years, and it is indeed impossible to verify the events of 8,000 years ago.
As early as thousands of years ago, the reason why the bone flute appeared must have nothing to do with **, because in the Neolithic Age, people were worried about food and clothing, and there was no extra energy to study**. The only explanation should be a sound made by people when they hunt, and so far the ancient ** appeared.