Chapter 1,167 Old Friend

On the shelf is a huge painted pottery tripod with three pointed legs. It has an open mouth, a closed neck and a flat belly. The tripod body is decorated with horizontal stripes and there are three pointed legs at the bottom.

In terms of shape, the shape of the pottery tripod and the structure of the character "Xia" are almost identical.

Ouyang Fa said: "According to legend, after Dayu established his country as the capital, he cast it into a nine tripod with copper from the nine herdsmen in the world. "Mozi·Gengzhu" records: The Xia Hou clan lost it, but the Yin people received it."

"But from the inspection here, we can already conclude that bronze was very popular in the Shang Dynasty, and the bronze wares before were more like the ones you hold in your hands Mingrun."

"We have overestimated the Xia Dynasty's metal smelting technology. Mozi's records should refer to Guo Zuo, or to the shape of the tripod and its symbolic meaning."

Su You opened his backpack and took out a pen and paper: "The character Xia in the bronze inscriptions is like the shape of the tripod around the character 'page', with the addition of hands and feet. If the character Xia comes from the character 'ding', isn't this... superfluous?"

Ouyang laughed and said: "I also raised this objection at the time, but Bachelor Sima said that this word was created in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, so there is a bloody historical event hidden in it."

Su You reacted immediately: "Shang Tang killed Xia Jie!"

Ouyang Fa nodded: "Yes, it's Xia Jie. Mingrun should know that the word Jie is added to the stone."

Su You said: "Zhe Xing! "Erya": Sacrifice to the wind is called Zhe! The wind follows the bird, and the black bird produces business. Merchants use Zhen Xing to sacrifice their ancestors, not without reason."

Ouyang Fa nodded: "Erya's note says: Zeng, use the animal's head, hooves, and skin, break them as a sacrifice!"

"Cut the flesh from the bones, break off the limbs, and then cut off the head."

Su You looked at the inscription "Xia" on the inscription: "How miserable! Maybe it's time to cook..."

Ouyang Fa shook his head: "Actually, this is in the same vein as today's sacrifices. Today's sacrifices have to offer the best food to their ancestors, but the ingredients at that time were prisoners of war..."

Su You shuddered and shook his head: "If you follow what Academician Sima said, then the word Xia was specially made by merchants to celebrate this great victory. It is a recreation of the scene where Shang Tang killed Xia Jie and offered sacrifices to his ancestors."

"The day this word was born was the day the Xia Dynasty fell!"

"This statement has the flavor of "Bamboo Book Chronicles"..."

Ouyang Fa asked: "Does Mingrun think that Scholar Sima's argument makes sense?"

Su You said: "There is indeed some truth. According to this idea, the Yangcheng pottery tripod should be a ritual vessel. Do you have any evidence for this?"

Ouyang Fa said: "Another reason why Academician Sima is so sure is that these pottery tripods are indeed ritual vessels."

"The evidence is in the decoration."

"The patterns on Yangcheng pottery are very special. Look at Mingrun..."

"This pottery pot is decorated with sun patterns, and there are exactly twelve of them, indicating that people at that time already knew the astronomical concept of twelve months as a year."

Su You felt it was very magical: "What about these three moons?"

Ouyang Fa said: "March is one season..."

"What about these two comets?"

"Well, I think it means that the ancestors knew that after the comet disappears, it will come back again?"

Needless to say about the constellations, Su You nodded: "It makes sense, no matter what, these are astronomical symbols."

Ouyang Fa said: "These were discovered on the sedimentary layer long ago beneath the Shang Dynasty sedimentary layer. Based on the thickness of the Shang Dynasty sedimentary layer, these cultural relics were from one thousand to three thousand years before the Shang Dynasty. This is a Chinese clan that has existed since the Three Dynasties

Since then, I have been diligently pursuing astronomical knowledge and calendars."

Su You held up a pottery basin. The base of the pottery basin was gray pottery, but it was covered with a layer of white mud and refired to form a white coat on top of the gray pottery: “This is the transitional product between ceramics.

Before the discovery of raw materials, the ancients already knew how to use fine mud to bake surface coatings."

After finishing speaking, he stamped his foot: "Oh, I think Sima Junshi, a historian, is too honest! You have made such a big noise, how can you still wait for the New Year?"

Ouyang Fa reminded: "This matter was promoted by Bachelor Sima. He said that many doubts have yet to be confirmed..."

Su You rolled his eyes: "I know it was Sima Bachelor who promoted the promotion. I will talk to him when I go to Xijing. Can't you quickly sort out the results that can be confirmed at this stage and send them to Bianjing before the end of the year?

Does Your Majesty know?"

"Next year is the first year of restructuring. Next year the General Assembly will announce major changes. Do you understand the political impact?!"

Ouyang Fa was not a fool, and he immediately reacted: "Yes, yes, yes, we are not those sycophants in history who offered auspiciousness. We have actually discovered the remains of three generations! It just fits the important event of restructuring!"

"Didn't Prime Minister Anshi want to enact the rule of three generations? Hey, hey, let's show him the real rule of three generations!"

"I finally understand." Su You rolled his eyes a few times: "I seem to know what to send in the telegram to Bianjing..."

He put down the pottery basin and said with a smile: "It's really amazing that you guys, Huang Zhongzhengyin and heliocentric theory, before your achievements, have to give way to this jackpot..."

That night the two of them studied the cultural relics and studied the patterns with great interest.

Su You now has a lot of classics in his belly. Although he is not as good as Ouyang Fa from a family of gold and stone, he has more methodologies than Ouyang Fa.

Ouyang Fa was greatly inspired by Su You's method of dividing the three ancient dynasties. Now with the accumulation of cultural relics as evidence, the division method of the Paleolithic Age, the Neolithic Age, and the Bronze Age is also reasonable.

Counting back from now, six thousand years ago, it belonged to the Paleolithic period, which was marked by the making of tools, and corresponded to ancient tribal leaders such as Fuxi of the Sui people.

The period between 6,000 and 3,500 years belongs to the Neolithic period, which is marked by polished stone tools and corresponds to the Xiong tribe, ending with the Xiong tribe.

The period from 3500 to 3000 belongs to the late Neolithic Age, represented by the emergence of pottery and the use of both pottery and stone, which corresponds to the Huangdi period.

In the third thousand years, represented by the beginning of metal tools, the era entered the Xia Dynasty.

The two enthusiastically searched for classics, inspired each other, chatted with great interest, and finally fell asleep.

When he got up the next day, Su You took Ouyang Fa to find Old Liu Tou, and then went to the north of the city to have a bowl of braised noodles.

The so-called braising refers to the method of frying or boiling raw materials, cutting them, and adding auxiliary ingredients, seasonings, and stock into a pot to make them.

Zhengzhou connects Xijing and Tokyo. Food from both sides converges here. Nowadays, pasta is very popular.

The noodles for braised noodles are made from refined white flour, mixed with an appropriate amount of salt and alkali, and mixed with warm water to form a dough that is softer than dumpling noodles. Knead it repeatedly to make it tougher, leave it for a period of time, and then roll it into a dough that is four fingers wide and 20 inches wide.

Spread vegetable oil on the outside of a centimeter-long dough piece, lay it out one by one, cover it with a bamboo basket tied with a damp cloth and set aside.

The soup uses the best tender mutton, together with the mutton bones that are split to reveal the marrow in the middle, and is simmered for more than three hours. First, bring to a boil over high heat, and then simmer over low heat. Seven or eight Chinese medicines are added to the soup to absorb all the bone oil.

Simmer until the soup is white and shiny.

When the guests arrive, fry the mutton in mutton soup in a small pot, add kelp shreds, tofu shreds, fungus, mushrooms, green vegetables, quail eggs, etc., then cut into slices, add salt to the pot, and take out coriander when serving.

, spicy rice oil, sugar garlic and other small dishes are served.

Su You is very addicted to it. In winter, if you eat a bowl of this in the morning, it will keep you warm for most of the day.

After breakfast, Su You officially started working. Today, he was accompanied by the real manager of Zhengzhou - Tongpan Zhao Meng.

When Zhao Meng saw Su You, he didn't know how to greet him: "We meet again after twenty years. Mingrun is already a member of the Song Dynasty, but Brother Yu is in a state of decline. It's really a bit embarrassing to meet an old friend."

Su You cupped his hands and said, "Brother Nian, you are so polite. You are just loyal to the country."

Zhao Meng is the oblique cousin of Shi Dongxiu and Erqi Niang, so he also has some relationship with Su You.

At that time, everyone went to the imperial examination together. Among the Meishan fellows, the five people who passed the imperial examination were Su You, Shi Yuan, Yang Peng, Zhao Meng and Ren Guan.

Afterwards, in the examination of the Ministry of Rites, Su You, Zhao Meng and Ren Guan passed, so they were in the same year, but Shi Yuan and Yang Peng failed.

Su You was the third-highest-ranked actress, and she was only fourteen at the time, so she stole the show.

After that, he was promoted continuously, and at the age of thirty-three, he became the young master and the Duke of the country.

However, Zhao Meng and Ren Guanzhong were on the B list or at the bottom of the B list, so their careers were ruined.

After twenty years of wandering, Ren Guan was now serving as magistrate in a remote area of ​​Guangdong. Zhao Meng was lucky enough to be appointed magistrate of Zhengzhou.

Before Zhengzhou became Xifu, it was actually quite miserable. With a population of only more than 40,000, it could not become a lower state in the middle of Shu.

Someone wrote a poem joking about Zhengzhou at that time - "There were no three temples in the north and south, and there was only one street in the east and west. There were no feasts at four o'clock and eight o'clock in the morning, and there were no boundary signs at midnight."

If you want to be rich, build roads first.

After the land and water routes were developed, Zhengzhou has now become an industrial town. In just ten years, the population has increased to more than 300,000, and taxes have increased more than ten times. Last year, it was upgraded to a prefectural level.
Chapter completed!