Hong Xu
CASS, Institute of Archaeology, Beijing, China
Translated by
Li Sang
Luoyang Normal University, Henan, China
ISBN 978-981-16-6386-4 e-ISBN 978-981-16-6387-1
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6387-1
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Preface
Erlitou is originally the name of an ordinary village located in the Luoyang Plain, the hinterland of the Central Plains. Like the names of thousands of villages in China, she is as simple as she could be. But just behind her, under the green wheat fields, it has hidden a glorious history of the Hua-Xia ethnic group for more than 3,000 years, which has also been forgotten by her descendants for over 3,000 years; it was not until 60 years ago that she came into the field of vision of archeologists, and since then, she has been among the halls of the history of Chinese civilization and even the history of world civilization. We also know from this that based on the accumulation of thousands of years of the Hua-Xia prehistoric culture, the earliest China came into being here.
View of distant for the excavation scene at Erlitou site
Born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and buried in the north of Mangshan Mountain. The winding mountain in the distance is Mangshan Mountain, which was regarded as Feng Shui Treasure, the first pursuit of life ideal by ancient Chinese people. Villagers call the palace area we excavated as throne room, and here is indeed the earliest throne room in China.