Summer self-driving tour, which is exactly forty days. It starts from Chifeng Hongshan culture and ends from Niuheliang Hongshan culture. It is perfect!
crossed Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, and Qinghai, and then crossed the northern and southern Xinjiang along the Xinjiang border. The journey was healthy, safe and smooth. The most rare thing was that it was lucky enough to avoid the epidemic and break out from the cracks of the epidemic circulating in many places! Thank God!
Hongshan Culture is a developed civilization in northern China at the same time as the Yangshao culture in the Central Plains. It was named after its earliest discovery was in Hongshan, Chifeng, and became famous after the Niuheliang site in Chaoyang. The discovery of the Niuheliang site pushed the history of Chinese civilization forward for a full 1,000 years. It is known as the dawn of Chinese civilization, and appeared at the same time as the ancient civilization in the Mesopotamia of Egypt, India, and .
Archaeological inference that about five or six thousand years ago, in the mountainous areas of western Liaoning, there was a primitive civilization society with the prototype of the country.
The weather was so good that day when I went to Niuheliang Ruins Park, the sky was blue and the clouds were so beautiful!
large-scale sculpture of goddess at the entrance of the park
We visited four exhibition halls, Hongshan Cultural Exhibition Center, Comprehensive Pavilion, Goddess Temple and Altar, and Jishizuang Exhibition Hall.
Niuheliang-Hongshan Culture Exhibition Center , in addition to comprehensively introduce the process context of Hongshan culture excavation, it also has an exhibition hall to commemorate Mr. Su Bingqi, the main founder of New China archaeology.
Comprehensive Pavilion Needless to say, the subtitles of each section clearly summarize the content of the exhibition hall: Dawn of civilization, Hongshan Ancient Kingdom, the ancestor of humanities, the altar of praying for blessings, the tomb of the ancient king, the beginning of the jade ceremony, the charming Hongshan, and there is also a temporary exhibition hall.
Goddess Temple was discovered in 1983 and proved to be the earliest temple in China. The unearthed goddess avatar shocked the archaeological circles at home and abroad and was called the "Communist ancestor of the Chinese nation." The goddess’ avatar is located facing a mountain in the distance. The mountain looks like a pig’s head, and the most famous representative symbol of Hongshan culture is " Jade Pig Dragon ", which feels so magical!
altar and stone tomb exhibition hall are designed in the shape of a jade pig dragon. Walking in the exhibition hall, I was shocked and shocked when I listened to the tour guide's explanation! The stone altars and tombs are regular and can be seen, and that was from five or six thousand years ago! The tour guide also said that the railway built by the Japanese invaders back then was so close to the ruins, which was a great blessing! Once the Japanese discovered the treasures of Chinese culture here were stolen!
Fortunately, I spent 100 yuan to hire a small tour guide to accompany me to explain the whole process. Otherwise, facing the ruins of ancient pits more than 5,000 years ago, I could only watch the excitement.
Niuheliang Hongshan Culture Exhibition Center
Comprehensive Pavilion
Goddess Temple Ruins
Jade Pig Dragon
2 Numerous numbers of Jishizuo
exquisite pottery pictures
painted wall
with cover colored pottery urn
Niuheliang site gathers the splendid Chinese civilization. Create many "sources" and "first".
Chinese sacrificial culture originated from Niuheliang. The altar here is the first altar in China. Together with the goddess temple, it was the place where the ancestors carried out large-scale sacrificial activities at that time, indicating that the primitive Chinese religious culture had been formed five or six thousand years ago. The goddess temple and goddess portraits reflect the worship of the leader in the matriarchal society at that time. The Niuheliang Jishi Tomb is the earliest royal tomb in China.
A large number of exquisite jade, pottery, stone and bone tools were unearthed from the Niuheliang site. Especially jade artifacts, which cannot be imitated by people today, have a profound impact on the formation of traditional jade culture. The "goddess" avatar unearthed from Niuheliang is the earliest large-scale clay sculpture found in China. The tour guide said that from the perspective of facial features, it is closer to , Mongolian . The pottery statue of pregnant women is the earliest nude female portrait found in China, and also a painted pottery jar with a belly diameter of one meter, which is the king of painted pottery in China.
Another shocking thing is that an old man holding a jade turtle was unearthed from a large stone tomb in Niuheliang that is shaped like a later imperial tomb. This mysterious old man from ancient times is likely to be Huangdi . This makes the biggest mystery in Chinese history, the life experience of Huangdi, no longer a mystery.
Niuheliang Ruins Park is so well built! Taking the scenic spot battery car , I saw archaeologists working on the road. The visit in the morning was very comfortable, and the enthusiasm and simplicity of the scenic spot service staff made me feel at home! Interested parents should really take their children to see if they have time, which will definitely benefit, but remember to ask the tour guide to explain.
Leave Lingyuan to Jinzhou Yi County, where will be the last stop of this trip.
Goddess avatar
Large altar
Goddess demobilization image
Three Sovereigns Five Emperors
