Chapter 332 Hongshan Culture
The friends had almost left, and the leisurely and comfortable life lasted for less than a week, when Dong Jianye, the boss of the special department, came to visit.
As the saying goes, there is nothing wrong without going to the Three Treasures Palace.
Dong Jianye, the big boss, is a very busy man. He suddenly visited in person today, and Lu Fei's little heart immediately skipped a beat.
Entering Lu Fei's bedroom, Dong Jianye first gave Lu Fei two pieces of good news.
First, Zhang Xianzhong's shipwreck treasures and Leyang's tomb in Bianliang were successfully excavated, and Lu Fei bore the brunt of the credit.
The superiors discussed meritorious deeds and promoted instructor Lu Feixuanlong's military rank from captain to major.
This matter has been confirmed, and Dong Jianye has revealed the inside information to Lu Fei in advance.
Lu Fei was not particularly excited about this.
As an instructor, I am just a decoration. In fact, it is useless. Even if I want to show off, I will be restricted everywhere.
The first one was inside information, and then Dong Jianye personally issued a letter of appointment to Lu Fei.
Comrade Lu Fei was appointed as the special consultant for historical archeology of the China Special Division.
The benefits include five insurances and one fund, a two-bedroom and one-living-unit building in the second ring road of Tiandu City, plus a domestically produced mobility scooter, and an annual salary of 300,000 yuan.
In Dong Jianye's words, this treatment is much better than that of a special boss like him.
Within the Special Branch Personnel Department, they are very rare.
Dong Jianye thought that Lu Fei would be very excited when the appointment and benefits were announced.
Unexpectedly, Lu Fei was not only not excited, but instead frowned.
There is no free lunch in the world. I have nothing to do with the special department, so why should I be given a special adviser anywhere? There must be something fishy in this.
After Lu Fei inquired carefully, it turned out to be true.
Something is going on in this special area, and something big and difficult is going on.
The reason why I gave Lu Fei this sweet spot was to ask Lu Fei to help.
That’s all.
Lu Fei asked for details and couldn't help but gasped.
It turned out that half a month ago, when Yu Huaqiang, an archaeological consultant of the Jilin Museum, was visiting the antique market, he saw a piece of ancient jade in a store.
It stands to reason that it is normal to see ancient jade in the antique market, but what is abnormal is that this piece of ancient jade is so special and shocking.
This turned out to be a Red Mountain Jade Turtle.
Yu Huaqiang spent 20,000 yuan to buy this jade turtle and studied it carefully, and finally determined that it was the Hongshan Jade Turtle. This was serious.
What is Hongshan Jade? Is it serious to add the word "Hongshan Jade" to Mao?
As the saying goes, if you wear leather pants with cotton pants, there must be a reason.
The word "Hongshan" represents Hongshan culture.
Anyone who studies history and archeology knows that whenever the words culture and civilization appear, it is definitely a big event.
Hongshan Culture originated from central and southern Inner Mongolia to the western part of Northeast China. It started five to six thousand years ago and is one of the earliest cultural traces of Chinese civilization.
The distribution range is in the Rehe area in the western part of Northeast China, starting from the central and southern regions of Inner Mongolia in the north, to northern Hebei in the south, to western Liaoning in the east, and the upper reaches of the Xilamulun River, Laoha River and Daling River in the Liaohe River Basin.
The Hongshan cultural relics were first discovered in 1921.
In 1935, a mountain in the eastern suburbs of Chifeng was excavated, and this mountain was called Hongshan.
Legend has it that the Red Mountain in Chifeng was originally called "Jiu Nu Mountain".
In ancient times, nine fairies broke the rules of heaven. The Queen Mother of the West was furious. The nine fairies panicked and accidentally knocked over the rouge box. The rouge spilled on the banks of the Yingjin River, and nine red peaks appeared.
Mongolian Yuan Dynasty
In ancient times, the Mongolians called it Ulan Hada, which was translated into Chinese as "red mountain peak", so it was later called "Red Mountain".
It is precisely because of this mountain that the Chinese Academy of Sciences named it Hongshan Culture.
Since the 1970s, large-scale archaeological surveys have been carried out in Zhaowu Dameng (now Chifeng City) and Chaoyang areas in northern Liaoning, and nearly a thousand ruins have been discovered.
Large-scale excavations were also carried out at the Lingyuan, Kazuodongshanzui, and Jianping Niuheliang ruins in the Songling Mountains and Nurul Tiger Mountains, bringing the study of Hongshan culture to a new stage.
In 2014, Chifeng City and Chaoyang City jointly signed the "Memorandum on Joint Application for World Cultural Heritage of Hongshan Cultural Site" and announced that they would jointly apply for Hongshan Culture as a World Cultural Heritage.
The Hongshan Culture is centered on the Xilamulun River, Laoha River, and Daling River, the middle tributaries of the Liao River Basin, with a distribution area of 200,000 square kilometers. It dates back about five to six thousand years ago and lasted for two thousand years.
The social form of Hongshan Culture was in the heyday of matrilineal clan society in the early stage. The main social structure was tribal groups linked by female blood groups. In the later period, it gradually transitioned to patrilineal clans.
The economic form is mainly agriculture, with animal husbandry, fishing and hunting coexisting.
Its remains include Neolithic culture with unique painted pottery and zigzag pottery coexisting with microlithic tools.
The age of the Hongshan Culture has been carbon-14 dated to approximately 4000 to 3000 BC, with the main body being 5500 years ago.
Residents of the Hongshan Culture were mainly engaged in agriculture, raising pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock, as well as fishing and hunting.
Among the stone tools, tobacco leaf-shaped, straw-shaped stone blades, and cinnamon leaf-shaped double-hole stone knives are distinctive farming tools. There are also ground and forged double-hole stone knives, stone blades, shouldered stone hoes, stone millstones, and stone mills. Rods and stone arrowheads, etc.
Microlithic tools are developed, scraping in microlithic tools
The utensils, stone blades, stone arrowheads and other utensils are small, exquisite and exquisite in craftsmanship.
These excavations not only confirm the origin of civilization in China, but also prove the supreme wisdom of our ancestors.
Therefore, any object unearthed from the Hongshan Culture is not called an antique, but a national treasure.
China has clear legal restrictions on this, and it is strictly prohibited for anyone to trade or sell any objects of the Hongshan Culture, not even a stone.
Yu Huaqiang confirmed that the jade turtle he bought was a product of Hongshan Culture, and he did not hesitate to report it to his superiors immediately.
Jilin Museum did not dare to delay and reported it to Jia Yuan, the boss of China Cultural Protection Bureau, as quickly as possible.
That same day, Kong Fanlong received Jia Yuan's summary report and the Jade Turtle's photo.
Kong Fanlong attached great importance to this. The reason why he left Lu Fei and returned to Tiandu City was because of the appearance of this Red Mountain Jade Turtle.
Before Kong Fanlong arrived at Tianducheng, the latest situation emerged.
Anti-smuggling officers at Baotou Mandula Port intercepted two cross-border smugglers.
Two red mountain jade birds were found on the bodies of the two smugglers.
Good guy, this is smuggling a national treasure out of the country!
The incident has now become completely serious.
Kong Fanlong was furious when he received the news and ordered the entire three northeastern provinces and Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia to thoroughly investigate the matter, especially at the entry and exit points.
This investigation shocked everyone.
In five days, a summary of reports from the three northeastern provinces, including Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, turned out to be the discovery of more than 110 Hongshan national treasures in folk antique markets, almost all over the Northeast.
Not only that, among the smuggled cultural relics inspected at several major entry and exit ports, there were more than 30 Hongshan jade articles.
What is certain is that some Hongshan national treasures have definitely flowed overseas.
