"Archaeological New Voice" Reveals the Code of Inheritance of Chinese Civilization
2024-04-19
On the south bank of the Huai River, a tomb of the State of Chu, which had been silent for more than 2000 years during the Warring States period, was slowly unveiled, bringing a heavyweight "new sound" from the archaeological community this year. This is the Wuwangdun Tomb located in Xuwa Village, Sanhe Town, High tech Zone, Huainan City, Anhui Province. It is the largest, highest ranking, and most complex large-scale high-level tomb of the Chu State that has been scientifically excavated to date. Reporters learned from the important progress meeting of the "Archaeological China" major project held by the National Cutural Heritage Administration in Huainan City, Anhui Province on the 16th that after nearly four years of excavation, more than 1000 pieces of numbered cultural relics, including bronze ritual vessels, household utensils, lacquer wood wares, musical instruments and figurines, have been extracted from Tomb 1 of Wuwangdun. In addition, archaeologists have discovered and collected over 100 lines and nearly a thousand Chu style ink scripts in the tomb. "These can comprehensively reflect the political, economic, cultural, technological, and social landscape of the Chu state during the Warring States period." Gong Xicheng, a researcher at the Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the head of the Wuwangdun Archaeology Project, said that the Wuwangdun No.1 Tomb was in a critical period of the disintegration of the feudal state system and the imminent formation of a unified state, which is of great significance for studying the historical evolution of Zhou, Qin, Chu, and Han, as well as the formation of a centralized unified state and culture during the Qin and Han dynasties. Archaeology is an important source of knowledge for shaping national historical cognition, and new historical materials represented by Wu Wangdun continuously demonstrate to the world the long-standing roots and development of ancient Chinese civilization through scientific evidence. Historians have proposed that Chu culture embodies the spirit of progress, unity, openness, harmony, and patriotism. In the view of Shen Hanqing, the former director of the Huainan Museum, the phased excavation results of Tomb No. 1 of Wuwangdun fully demonstrate that during the transition period from the late Warring States period to the Qin and Han dynasties, people from various regions and river basins of China communicated with each other, and the ideological core of a unified multi-ethnic country continued to develop and continue to this day, becoming a cultural gene that Chinese people use daily without realizing. The Renzi Cave site, which dates back 2 million years, the Mopanshan site, which dates back about 6000 years, and the Fengyang Mingzhongdu site, which was founded in the 14th century... A number of new archaeological discoveries on the Jianghuai River continue to be presented to the world, becoming the essential carrier of the continuity and continuity of Chinese civilization. Professor Fang Hui from the School of History and Culture of Shandong University believes that many new archaeological discoveries that fill gaps, link gaps, and rewrite cognition actually have long-term academic accumulation, which is the result of careful planning, scientific layout, and accumulation. In recent years, the deep integration of various disciplinary knowledge, advanced technological methods, and archaeological research practices has enabled researchers to capture more traces from the same cultural relics, extract massive amounts of information that were previously difficult to obtain, and provide a continuous source of power for the construction of archaeology with Chinese characteristics, style, and atmosphere. Zhang Zhiguo, a researcher from the Archaeological Research Center of the National Cutural Heritage Administration, said that during the excavation of tomb 1 at Wuwangdun, archaeologists built a hypoxia archaeological laboratory to provide a safe and stable temporary storage place for a large number of organic cultural relics. In addition to traditional text and image recording, archaeologists also use digital scanning, surveying and mapping methods to collect real-time spatial information of the excavation area. They have established high-precision three-dimensional digital models for the burial mound, filling soil, and each layer of the wooden coffin. At the same time, infrared imaging is used to
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