History of Chinese Civilization (Part 1) 1.7 The Condensation of China Yu and Xia

We just talked about the kiln Talking about the Taosi ruins And we are between the kiln and Taosi ruins Established a connection Er, because there are ceramic ruins The artifacts that were unearthed, uh And the nature of those artifacts help us understand How was China formed? So what about the process of such a formation? Uh, it also revealed to us Some unique qualities of Chinese culture And what about some of these unique qualities? In the classics left to us by our ancestors All are reflected So based on these excavation materials, We compare the classics with it Basically we can do this Between the Taosi ruins and the kiln site establish contact So what's next for us? Talk about Yu uh so with In fact, it can also be done to a certain extent Proven by archaeological excavations So what is this archaeological excavation? Hey, this archaeological excavation is the Erlitou site. So what about this ruins? It was first discovered in Yanshi County, Henan This Erlitou Well, what happens next? A large number of these ruins were excavated We both belong to the same pedigree as him So what now? There are many archaeologists And the historians? Everyone thinks that this Erlitou ruins It should be the capital of Yu Where is the capital of Yu? So where do we go from here? I saw a very interesting phenomenon. Yao's capital was north of the Yellow River That is, in the southern Hebei region In Xiangfen, Shanxi And Yu's capital is south of the Yellow River It was also near present-day Luoyang Well, what about this? We can also say that early China Just when China was born In fact, where is its center? There was a transfer Just move from north to south. From the north of the Yellow River Moved to the south of the Yellow River What about here? In fact, let’s just talk about Yu by the way. uh i don't know When I mentioned Yu What will everyone think of? At least when I first learned this history Where is our teacher? The Yu I talked about I immediately thought of it Mr. Hu Jiegang's A very interesting statement this I remember it seemed to be in this article by Lu Xun also mentioned What about this rain? Just a bug Hey, the rain is heavy rain Just a worm Uh, this is a change in ancient history in the 20th century. A very interesting idea proposed by the Ancient History Bian School A point of view that has attracted widespread attention So what about such a point of view? It also has a great influence right From such a point of view It greatly promoted the ancient history school This spread of the relics trend ah We have just mentioned this relic trend right So one of the main positions of the relics trend of thought is that The classics left by our ancestors Especially the Six Classics Or we say the Five Classics What about this record in the Five Classics? None are reliable It’s all the Warring States Period Even those people in the Qin and Han Dynasties they made it up In order to cater to the political needs of the time, they Made up this ancient history Well, what about Yu? It's made up What about Yao and Shun? It's also made up But what? This archeology we introduced from the West It actually proves to us Yao, Shun and Yu At least it's all true. We may not be able to uh I can say with absolute certainty that there is a real person. But in our classics Those events recorded in the era of Yao, Shun and Yu It did happen to him to that For example, these two capitals In fact, in our classics They are all very clearly documented We are also our scholars That is, according to the records in these classics Exploring consciously This is also Chinese archeology Studying is very different from Western archeology Everyone knows that, right? What about Western archeology? It developed very early uh Also very developed But what about in the West? What about archeology? It can be said to be an independent discipline But it’s different in China From the moment archaeological autobiography was introduced to China It has a very close relationship with history Moreover, it is not an ordinary history actually It is similar to those classics that record ancient history have a close relationship That is to say, it is closely related to the Five Classics Well, a lot of our archeology Archaeological excavations are organized based on the records of the Five Classics Vice versa What about archaeological excavation? Does it depend on the records of the Five Classics? Hey, so where does that come from? As for this material that was excavated? give a coherent explanation Hey, everyone knows that, right? You can dig it out from this underground They are all scattered utensils. But what about these utensils? what does it mean What's the point of it? What is the connection between these artifacts? Hey, what can they tell us? lifestyle What kind of lifestyle do people have What kind of religious concepts do people have? Right? What kind of political system is there? What kind of socioeconomic form is there? That depends only on the objects themselves It's hard to figure it out What about Chinese archeology? very fortunately These classics left by our ancestors How do we go through these classics? It can be excavated from the ground These scattered artifacts a coherent explanation But what about us now some archaeologists especially young archaeologists They still don't remember well They always think that this archeology It's history Even a slave of Confucian classics. Depend on him no independent status So they just uh I hope to strengthen the independence of archeology I don't rely on this classic I rely on these artifacts excavated Yeah, let's construct a narrative about history. What do I think? This is purely a competition between oneself and oneself It's not necessary We have this book This set of classics It can be said that among all major civilizations in the world unique Where are our classics? left a legacy about our ancient history living record What about these records? Well, from these existing archaeological excavations, we Uh, let's compare it with this classic In fact, you find that most of it is believable So here we are today Hey we should break Nico Such a thought bubble in my opinion He is a thought bubble Right uh We can trust it today We uh Can What about these classics left to us by our ancestors? There is a kind of warmth and respect With a sense of warmth and respect we to look at our classics Uh, I think so Have such an attitude we can understand more accurately Our Chinese history