The inscription on the inner wall of Li Chan clearly records that the battle of "Wu Wang Zhengshang" took place on the morning of Jiazi Day in a certain year, and the "Sui" star was in full swing. Due to the lack of physical data, the specific date of Makino War has been controversial in the history circle for thousands of years, and there are dozens of ages calculated by scholars in previous dynasties according to relevant records. During the implementation of the "Xia Shang Zhou Dating Project", carbon dating experts used carbon samples unearthed from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to date, and gave the age range of the Battle of Wu Wang from 65438 BC to 1020 BC. According to the astronomical phenomena recorded in the inscription "Jiazi" and "Mu" in the sky, astronomers calculated that the time of attacking Zhou was 65438 BC+65438 BC+0.046 BC. It can be seen that this famous battle in ancient history has an absolute age; It provides an important chronological basis for the division of Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
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Li Chan's discovery not only clarified the previous doubts about the specific date of King Wu's attack, but also confirmed some specific historical facts recorded in Shangshu Pastoral Oath, Yizhoushu Tianxia Prison and other documents. For example, Wu Wangchen attacked Jiazi, and every year (wood) stars were in the sky, which confirmed the record that "Jiazi was not cold in the morning, and Solo's commercial suburbs were covered with wood leaves" in Shangshu Pastoral Oath, and it was also consistent with the records in ancient documents such as A Brief Training of Huainan Zibing. For another example, Li Chan's inscription confirms the correct record of "Destroying the country in one day" contained in ancient books. In a word, Li Chan's inscription has very important historical value.
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