Chapter 273: 272【Archaeology】

"When a new civilization colonizes a new land and migrates part or all of it to a new home, it will encounter the challenges of a new, untamed natural environment. Western civilization, at its origins, encountered the natural environment north of the Alps. The challenges of forests, rainfall and severe cold, but its elder civilization, ancient Greece, did not encounter such a situation. When the ancient Indian civilization originated, it encountered the challenge of humid tropical forests in the Ganges River Basin, while its elder civilization, Sumeria In the far branch of the Indus Valley, I have not encountered it...

The long-term comfort of the natural environment cannot make civilization develop forward, it also needs the stimulation of a difficult environment. The primitive civilization developed step by step by overcoming difficulties. Let's talk about Chinese civilization first. Everyone must have heard the story of Dayu's flood control. The flood of the Yellow River brought endless disasters to the Chinese ancestors... Well, that's all for today's lesson. "

Zhou Hexuan clapped the chalk dust on his hands, put away the handouts and announced that get out of class was over.

Wu Jinding quickly ran over and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, this is the handout from last time. My classmates and I have already finished copying it."

"Well, do you still know the characters I wrote?" Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile.

Wu Jinding sweated wildly, it's good not to mention this, but when he mentioned Zhou Hexuan's words, he was extremely troubled. Not to mention the ugly writing, there are also various shortcomings, and many times it can only be guessed.

Zhou Hexuan handed him the lecture notes for this class and asked, "Is there anything else?"

Wu Jinding came back to his senses: "It's like this, the school has approved the archaeological funds, and Professor Li is going to take us to Shandong to excavate the remains."

"When are you leaving?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"It will be at the beginning of next month," Wu Jinding said excitedly, "isn't Mr. Zhou interested? Let's go and have a look together!"

"Okay." Zhou Hexuan thought for a while, went to Shandong for a trip in early November, and then came back to get married in time.

Five days later, the Longshan site archaeological team officially set off.

The "Founder of Chinese Archeology" Mr. Li Ji was the leader of the team, and most of the team members were teachers and students of Tsinghua University. Even He Shiji and Wei Juxian, who just graduated from Tsinghua University, volunteered to join the archaeological team.

The crowd brought all kinds of archaeological tools and set off from Beiping in a mighty way. What awaited them was a shocking discovery in the Chinese archaeological field.

At this moment, the students of Peking University are still engaged in the school nursing movement, and Li Shizeng's education reform has been mired in a quagmire.

Because the situation in Shandong was too chaotic, the archaeological team could only take a detour, taking the same road that Zhou Hexuan went to Shandong at the beginning—taking a boat from Tianjin to Qingdao, and then heading to Jinan along the Jiaoji line.

It's funny to say that Jinan is still occupied by the Japanese, and Sun Liangcheng, the chairman of Shandong Province, is aggrieved enough.

Whether it is by boat or train, the journey is very smooth and fast. After arriving at Jinan Station, you can only take horse-drawn carts and ox carts.

It's just that the situation in Shandong makes everyone feel bad. Although the disaster situation has improved, what they see on the road is still extremely desolate. Many villages were completely empty, and there was no human habitation at all. The situation of "the bones of the dead are exposed in the wild, and there are no chickens crowing for thousands of miles" is really happening before our eyes.

Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the Central Plains War in the year after next. Shandong, which has finally regained some vitality, will be smashed again by then. The people of Shandong these days are really suffering.

On the rickety bullock cart, He Shiji asked: "Teacher, I heard that there are bandits everywhere in Shandong. There shouldn't be any accidents in this archaeology, right?"

"Bah, bah, bah! Don't talk about frustration." Another student named Wang Jing shouted quickly.

Wu Jinding smiled and said: "Don't worry, Licheng is relatively peaceful. There is a leader from the Red Spear Society called Huang Ziming. He formed a security team last year and occupied all the counties around Jinan. He wiped out the bandits everywhere. Gotta clean up."

Wei Juxian said worriedly: "I'm afraid that the security group is no different from bandits."

Li Ji turned around and asked Zhou Hexuan: "Didn't Mingcheng say that he has already contacted the local government? Where are they?"

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "You will know when you get there."

Amid the uneasiness of the archaeological team, the convoy soon came to a place called Dongjia Town. Everyone was preparing to enter the town to rest, eat something and continue on their way, only to find that there was an army stationed at the entrance of the town.

"A card that accepts likin?" Li Ji stood up and looked around, uncertainly.

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said nothing, got out of the car and strode towards the soldiers, shouting from a distance: "I am Zhou Hexuan!"

A man who looked like a military officer ran up to Zhou Hexuan and saluted respectfully: "Zou Huaiping, Commander of the Third Battalion of Luzhong Security Regiment, is here waiting for Mr. Zhou and all the scholars under the order of Commander Huang. Please, Zhou Hexuan." Mister instructions!"

"Well, very good," Zhou Hexuan turned around and shouted, "Come here, they are our own people."

Only then did the archaeologists approach boldly, and they were all very surprised to see that the soldiers were extremely respectful to Zhou Hexuan.

Li Ji said with a smile: "Mingcheng really travels all over the world."

Zhou Hexuan explained casually: "The head of the security team, Huang Ziming, is my friend."

Wu Jinding suggested: "Mr. Zhou, do we need to pay a visit to Captain Huang?"

"No, he's probably busy." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

The battalion commander Zou Huaiping said: "Regimental Commander Huang is raising military salaries, and he said that he will visit Mr. Zhou in Longshan Town in person sometime later."

"Well, let's go." Zhou Hexuan nodded.

Everyone had lunch in Dongjia Town, and was escorted by the security team to Longshan Town, where they stayed that night.

Because the location of the ruins involved farmland, Li Ji first called on the mayor of the town, paid for the consent of the landlord, and then summoned people to start the excavation.

More than 20 farmers were hired, and the physical work of digging archaeological pits was naturally impossible for the team members to do it themselves.

In fact, there is no need to dig a hole at all.

Not long after arriving at the ground, He Shiji excitedly lay down on the ground and shouted: "I found black pottery shards!"

"Is this black pottery?" Zhou Hexuan ran over quickly, only to see He Shiji carefully holding the pottery in his hands. In Zhou Hexuan's view, these are just ordinary pottery fragments, and even if they see them, they would dismiss them.

He Shiji wiped the pottery carefully with a rag, and said: "I heard from Xuedi Wu that the pottery here is unique, and it is the first discovery in the archaeological field in the world. We can't burn black pottery of this quality now. Look at its tire wall. (less than 1 mm) how thin it is, and this decoration... Hey, unlike the checkered pattern Wu Xuedi mentioned, this piece of black pottery is made of Jomon."

The ingenious craftsmanship of the black pottery unearthed from the Longshan Culture was not fully deciphered until the end of the 1980s. The wisdom of the Chinese ancestors is really amazing.

He Shiji and Wu Jinding immediately took other students to search for black pottery cultural relics unearthed naturally.

While Li Ji was in charge of geological survey, Wei Juxian took out a strangely shaped shovel, selected a land and drilled down.

Students who like to read tomb robbery novels probably know that this thing is called Luoyang shovel.

And it was Wei Juxian in front of him who first used Luoyang shovel to do archaeology. He is a student who just graduated from Tsinghua University. Half a year ago, he saw a tomb robber using a Luoyang shovel. He was surprised and had an idea in a flash.

Although this archaeological team is basically students, but just pick one out, they will all be famous figures in the Chinese archaeological field in the future.