What were the traffic conditions during the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" period?Probably far beyond our phenomenon. In many anime film and television dramas, there was basically no means of transportation during the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" period, and it was very advanced to be able to ride beasts. In the eyes of some experts, the most advanced vehicles and ships were invented by the Sumerians of the Two Rivers Valley more than 5,000 years ago. Ancient Chinese books also record that Xi Zhong invented the car more than 4,000 years ago.
However, modern Chinese archaeology has subverted our traditional perception, and there should have been a means of transportation far beyond our imagination in ancient China. More than 5,200 years ago, the site of Nanzuo in Gansu Province has unearthed utensils with cultural characteristics of Liangzhu, ZhejiangMore than 5,300 years ago, the site of Liangzhu, Zhejiang, unearthed jade with the cultural characteristics of Hongshan in Inner Mongolia. From Gansu to Zhejiang, from Zhejiang to Inner Mongolia, they are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, thousands of miles apart, but modern archaeology proves that there is a close cultural exchange between them.
In addition, cultural exchanges in various places in ancient China were very common, such as from Liaoning to Henan, and then to Hunan, all of which unearthed cultural relics of the ancients advocating "dragons and phoenixes";For example, the jade cong of Liangzhu has been found in the ruins of Taosi in Shanxi and the ruins of Shiyun in Shaanxi;For example, from Chifeng in Inner Mongolia to Lingjiatan in Anhui, from Liangzhu in Zhejiang to Shijiahe in Hubei, the unearthed jade has obvious common characteristics;For example, the site of Baodun in Sichuan not only has the imprint of Dadiwan culture in Gansu, but also adopts the urban construction technology of Shijiahe culture in HubeiFor example, from the island of Taiwan across the sea to the inaccessible Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, from the icy northeast forests and snow fields to the next door to Xinjiang thousands of miles away, the painted pottery of Yangshao culture has been unearthed.
These archaeological discoveries all show that in China four or five thousand years ago, or even six or seven thousand years ago, the Chinese ancestors in the north and south of the great river, up and down the Yellow River, and inside and outside the Guanxi had extensive exchanges and exchanges. The distance between the places is long, along the way need to cross the mountains and mountains, cross the river, but also need to carry some food, utensils, etc., basically it is impossible to walk completely on two legs, theoretically it should have been invented to be able to travel.
This is also evidenced by modern archaeological discoveries. For example, the world's earliest canoe and wooden wheel axle have been unearthed at the site of the cross-lake bridge in Zhejiang, more than 8,000 years ago, indicating that China invented boats and vehicles more than 8,000 years ago, which is much earlier than all other parts of the world, including ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon. The invention of the boat and car is a great revolution in human transportation, which has greatly changed the transportation conditions of human beings and promoted the exchange of personnel and commodities between various places.
More than 8,000 years ago, boats and vehicles were invented in the cross-lake bridge period, and it is not surprising that there were cultural exchanges between Nanzuo in Gansu, Liangzhu in Zhejiang, and Hongshan in Inner Mongolia more than 5,000 years ago. As for the Yellow Emperor period and Yao Shunyu era, which were more than 3,000 years later than the cross-lake bridge, how could they still walk barefoot and march to fight?