Hua Xu Mausoleum's Visit to Hua Xu

On November 8, 28, the reporter came to Hua Xu Town, Lantian County. After leaving Changping Highway from the north of the town and traveling hundreds of meters northwards, the reporter's line of sight finally got rid of the shackles of houses beside the road.

In this village, which is called Mengyan Village by the local people, with Lishan Mountain in the north and Bahe River in the south, an inconspicuous mound suddenly appeared on a loess platform about 2 meters high and 2 meters in circumference. Prompted by Zeng Honggen, the accompanying deputy director of Lantian County Archives Bureau, the reporter connected the mound in front of him with the "Hua Xu Mausoleum" bearing the origin of the Chinese nation.

according to the guidance of local people, the reporter visited Hua Xu ditch and Hua Xu kiln, which are close to the west of Mengyan village, and the existing geomorphological features here are very consistent with Hua Xu Zhu (the place where Hua Xushi and his children lived) recorded in Lantian County Records. There is also a legend circulating in the local area, that is, the place where Hua Xushi lived after she became pregnant. This legend has been circulating for many years, and no one knows its starting time.

"Hua Xushi is an outstanding leader of matriarchal clan society in China." Zeng Honggen said that the social form of Hua Xu clan was described in the Records of Lantian County and Liezi, an ancient book. There are also records about "Hua Xu Guo" in many ancient books, and this record may refer to the Hua Xushi ethnic group. The word "Huaxia" should be "Hua Xu" and "Xia" should be "people", so "Huaxia" is probably "people from the kingdom of Huaxu".

In ancient times, Tibetans and Han people probably called "people" Xia-the word "Xia" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Ruins is a word of "people"; Biography of Yuejueshu Wu Neizhuan: "Yue people call people" Xia ",so far Zhuang Dong (Baiyue) still calls" people "Zi", and Min dialect also calls "people" Zi "(Xia). It can be seen that "Huaxia" means "Hua Xu people", just as early Indians called themselves "Aryans" and thought they were from Aryan (Central Asia).

Before that, Ceng Hong Gen visited nearby villages around the ruins of the ancient Huaxu Kingdom, Hua Xu Valley and Hua Xu Mausoleum. He believes that many villages still retain the impressions of ancient Hua Xushi tribes to a certain extent, which can confirm the ruins. Today, there is Wa's village in the lower reaches of the Red River in Hua Xu Town, and the Red River is called Nuwa Valley in history books. The original name of Shanghua Village in Bailuyuan is Nuwa Village. Near Mengyan Village, there is a village called Shiqizhai. Most people in the village believe that they are descendants of members of the ancient ceremonial guards. Famous scholars such as Shi Xingbang, Liu Shi 'e and Ren life's core monuments were also invited to Lantian. From the perspectives of anthropology, archaeology and folklore, they made textual research on the origin of matriarchal clan, the formation of Hua Xushi ethnic group, the historical inheritance and the comparison between the existing relics and historical legends. After that, they thought that the ancient country of Hua Xu, which existed from the time before Fuxi was born to the time when Yanhuang appeared, was equivalent to the middle and late period of Yangshao culture, mainly covering western Gansu, Weihe River Basin in Shaanxi and a section of the Yellow River Basin.

"Of course, we don't think that the ancient country of Huaxu is already a grand and hierarchical kingdom." According to the analysis of hundreds of houses, central squares and thousands of tombs unearthed in Banpo, Jiangzhai, Majiayao and other places, there are pottery burning, textile, leather making, and even bronze wares, businesses and martyrs. These ruins surrounded by large trenches with a width of 6-8 meters and a depth of 5-6 meters should be a grass-roots "ancient town", and these "ancient towns" are.

According to Liezi in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "The country of Hua Xushi is in the west of Hezhou and the north of Taizhou, and I don't know that the country of Qi is tens of millions of miles away ..." Because of Qin Shihuang's burning books and burying Confucianism, Chinese culture suffered another catastrophe after 55 years of war. Therefore, Sima Qian, who paid attention to historical materials, began to regard the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor of China in Historical Records. As a result, the word "Hua" in China and China was lost in the dust of history.

Shi Xingbang, executive director of China Archaeological Society, former director of Shaanxi Archaeological Research Institute and director of Shaanxi Cultural Relics Academic Committee, thinks that "all ethnic groups in the world, especially those with rich ancient traditional cultures, trace back to her historical source and have a mythical legend era. Because there was no written record before the emergence of civilization, they had to pass on what they thought was familiar and important from generation to generation by oral legend. These historical materials, which we call' shadow history', are not virtual, but reflections on certain real historical materials, and there is a certain basis. "