Look at Wushan people 2 million years ago. It was an ancient human fossil found in a cave in damiao town, Wushan County. It is said that at this time, "man" has been able to walk upright, has stepped out of the genus of "ape" and began to enter the category of human life. It used to be said that there were no human fossils in China 654.38 million years ago. So human ancestors came from Africa, and Asian Homo erectus spread from Africa. Now, if Wushan people are homo erectus, not only the ancestors of Sichuanese, but also the ancestors of Asia and even human beings may step into the "just visit of human evolution" from here.
From the anthropological point of view, Homo sapiens began to create a decentralized culture in China from 65,438+10,000 years ago. This process lasted until 10000 years ago, which is called Paleolithic Age. At this stage, Ziyang fossils found in Dali, Shaanxi, Maba, Guangdong, Changyang, Hubei, Zhoukoudian cave in Beijing, and Monopterus albus Creek in Ziyang, Sichuan, all belong to human fossils in the late Paleolithic period.
From 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, there were Yingpanliang Site in Guangyuan, Biandan Mountain Site in Mianyang, Daxi Site in Wushan, Sanxingdui Culture Phase I in Guanghan, Lizhou Site in Xichang, and cultural sites in the upper reaches of Qingyi River and Minjiang River in Chengdu. These Neolithic cultural sites provide us with evidence that our ancestors engaged in economic activities such as fishing, hunting, gathering and animal husbandry around the basin.
4500 years ago, the Baodun cultural site discovered in Xinjin County, Chengdu was an archaeological culture in the gestation period of civilization, and there appeared a settlement form with obvious functional signs-"city". Followed by Tancheng in Dujiangyan, Sandaoyan Ancient City in Pixian County, and Yufu City Site in Wenjiang County. These cultural sites show that traces of our ancestors' activities have entered around Chengdu Plain and will soon cross the threshold of civilized society.
4700 ~ 3000 years ago, there was Sanxingdui cultural site in Guanghan, where a solid city wall stood tall and a deep ditch was dug outside. Thousands of large bronzes, goldsmiths and jades rare in the world are buried in two sacrificial pits outside the wall of Chengnan City. There are dense living quarters, palaces and handicraft workshops in Fiona Fang's 2.6 square kilometers city circle, which shows that our ancestors established a highly developed bronze culture here.
At the same time, a large-scale wooden palace complex appeared on the 12th Bridge Site in Chengdu 13 floor. In Yang Zishan, Chengdu, a three-story and four-story earthen sacrificial platform with a height of10m stands tall on the plain. All this shows that our ancestors created a splendid center of ancient civilization in Chengdu Plain 3000 years ago.
On the basis of this civilization center, stands an ancient Shu kingdom that can be compared with Xia and Shang civilizations in the Central Plains. This kingdom, which was founded in Xia and Shang Dynasties, ended at the end of the Warring States Period (3 16 BC) and lasted for 1500 ~ 1600 years. Combined with ancient legends and documents, this kingdom has experienced Can Cong, Guanbai, Yufu, Du Yu, Ming Kai and other dynasties.
Around this center, there are several other sources and components of early Shu civilization. This was formed on the basis of Neolithic multiculturalism, with the upper reaches of Minjiang River, Biandan Mountain in Mianyang, Qingyi River Basin in Dadu River, Three Gorges in East Sichuan and Yichang in West Hubei as fulcrums, forming a broad spatial framework.
From the above brief overview, we have roughly combed how the ancestors of Sichuanese moved from distant times to the basin and to us step by step. If we really want to know who our ancestors are, can you tell whose descendants you are? Are you from Wushan or Ziyang? Can Cong, Guanbai and Yufu, or Du Yu and Ming Kai? We should not regard these erratic legends as our ancestors, but as the descendants of the culture they created.