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Was there really a "Yu Dynasty" before the Xia Dynasty?
In ancient times, it was far more complicated than people thought, with extremely rich diversity and cruelty. The birth of kingship is very difficult. Whether Yu Chao's conjecture is true or not can be reasonably speculated according to the double evidence law on the basis of existing reliable data:

1. Archaeological speculation According to the archaeological sites discovered so far, there was no imperial power in the Yellow River valley before an unprecedented powerful military tribe appeared in ancient times, that is, there was no "dynasty". Only sticks exist. This military tribe should correspond to the ruins of He Miaomiao. Yu You, an archaeologist, has a paper on the study of military architecture of gypsum statue sites. It is mentioned that the fortification design of Shimao ancient city is consistent with the mainstream form of West Asia and Central Asia, more comprehensive and shining like you. This is by far the earliest evidence of kingship in the Yellow River Basin. If anyone says that there was royal power before this, there must be considerable evidence.

Who does this website belong to? According to the timetable, it overlaps with the Taosi site belonging to Tang Yao and also with the Xia Dynasty. If, as everyone said, there was a Yu dynasty after Yao and before Xia, then logically there would be only Shimao ruins.

Second, Yu Shun explained that there were only five dynasties from Huangdi to Dayu according to the reliable lineage of the Five Emperors recorded in historical books. In other words, no more than 150 years. If the dating project is correct and the Xia Dynasty was founded in 2070 BC, then the Yellow Emperor lived around 2200 BC. This explanation is reasonable. If Shun Di is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, he lived around 2 100 BC.

Why is his name Yu Shun? This is because of feudalism in the early days of the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor enfeoffed the surnames to fourteen sons, and asked them to supervise all ethnic groups. At that time, there were many ethnic groups, including probably the Yu family. Shun's ancestors were named the master of danger by the Yellow Emperor. Several generations later, Shun was born and got the throne according to the family inheritance law (that is, the sage abdicated). Because his land of Longxing is "in danger", it was named Yu Shun.

There are two possibilities for the location of the dangerous place, one is the fresh dangerous place in Shanxi today, and the other is Wudi. But it doesn't matter, because the military power represented by the plaster statue site is what most ethnic groups can only look up to. It is also impossible for Shun to seize power with primitive aborigines like You Yu. The Yu Shun lineage of the15th generation described in The History of the Road is probably only the product of the revival of primitive aborigines after the Millennium. As for Han Feizi's statement that Yu Shun has a history of 1000 years, it is probably just a fabricated rhetoric to counter the superiority of western Qin people.

III. Possible Truth Tang Yao and Yu Shun also said that Yaodian and Yu Shu are considered as the source of civilization. It is because of the political reform in the era of Emperor Yao, which is obvious in literature. Yao probably strengthened the loose politics left by the Yellow Emperor and established a typical court. He not only continued the system of enfeoffment, but also established the official system, such as the "Four Clans", including foreign nationalities, such as Boyi in Dongyi, Zuyue in Yin and Hou Ji in Zhou Dynasty. Shun continued to carry forward and established a stronger court.

This is a by-product of water control. It led to the expansion of water conservancy princes, but the end of Dayu tribe was too big to fail. Finally, the intra-clan inheritance law since the Yellow Emperor was reformed and changed into a narrower intra-clan inheritance, that is, the family world. At this point, the first typical dynasty began.

After the establishment of Xia Dynasty, some families of Yu, Tao, Poverty and Yi continued to exist, while others were eliminated. With the advent of technological progress, the military era symbolized by the headland was replaced by bronzes and carriages, and the world was replaced.