In the conference room of the Faculty Building of Beijing University, professors and lecturers walked in one after another. They were all temporarily notified that everyone in Kyoto would gather in the school conference room for a meeting.
A few young teachers still looked a little unhappy. After all, there were still many days before the start of the school year at Beijing University. What could be done by calling them to a meeting at this time.
The conference room that could only seat more than ten people was now packed with more than thirty people. Professor Zhu Changping was discussing something quietly with several familiar professors. About three minutes later, Director You and Dean Gao walked into the conference room, and the noise inside immediately stopped.
"Professor Zhu, the mood on everyone's faces seems a bit unhappy. Please tell me what you know and let everyone know why you are so anxious to have them come to school for the meeting."
Director You smiled and said, breaking the slightly awkward atmosphere in the conference room.
On the projection screen in front of the conference room, Professor Zhu Changping's mobile phone has been connected. He is operating the mobile phone, and a photo appears on the projection screen.
They are all pieces of black pottery, and there are many of them and many types. The eyes of the people in the classroom were immediately attracted. It could be seen that the black pottery had just been unearthed, and the surface was stained with mud and had not yet dried.
"The photos you see are real, and my student Li Mo took them one by one and sent them to me today. You may have noticed that these black pottery were just unearthed today."
Several professors already knew the whole story. After all, they had seen three black pottery items that Li Mo bought in the market years ago, and one of the eggshell black pottery cups was even more exquisite.
"Professor Zhu, can you tell me what's going on?" One of the young lecturers raised his hand and asked.
Zhu Changping pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with a smile: "This matter started from years ago. My student Li Mo found three pieces of black pottery in the old alley of Dongjiaomin Lane. After appraisal by Professor Zhang Hao of Qing Dynasty, those pieces were All three items are from the late Neolithic Age, and based on the sophistication of the black pottery, it is speculated that they may have come from a large-scale Neolithic tomb. Therefore, based on the few clues he obtained, classmate Li Mo has been sending People are secretly pursuing it, and just the day before yesterday he personally went to the place where he finally traced it, just to check whether there are really large tombs from the late Neolithic period."
"Professor Zhu, are all these black pottery unearthed from that large tomb?"
"Judging from these quantities, it seems to be quite consistent, but judging from the types of black pottery, it seems that the specifications are far beyond that."
"Classmate Li Mo is really awesome. You can find such Neolithic tombs. Professor Zhu, I volunteered to sign up to assist classmate Li Mo."
"I'll sign up too."
Many young lecturers raised their hands and rushed to get there. The unhappiness on their faces when they came had long been forgotten, and now they wanted to fly over immediately. Since last year, the status of the History Department of Peking University has been steadily rising, and the bonus at the end of the year has increased many times compared to previous years, making teachers in other departments envious.
They all know in their hearts that their progress will be faster if they follow the footsteps of classmate Li Mo.
Look at Teacher Zheng Bin, who has been sitting in the corner silently. He was also an ordinary lecturer before, but after being selected to join the Xiang Yu Treasure Project Team last year, he was basically responsible for the work in the Kyoto Museum on a temporary basis if the professors and experts were not present. Work.
If this continues, it will no longer be difficult for him to evaluate professional titles and nominate associate professors in the future.
So when they heard that classmate Li Mo had found another Neolithic tomb, they all raised their hands to sign up, fearing that they would be late and not have a place.
"Everyone be quiet and listen to Professor Zhu continue."
Director You is also happy. Look at how motivated these young teachers are. If they can all be trained, then the History Department of Peking University will have successors, and there will not be an embarrassing situation where there is no shortage of jobs.
"A few years ago, I discussed with the professors that if the tomb is really found, the team will be led by Professor Zhang Hao of Qingdao University, and we at Peking University will send a young team there to study. But today Li Mo called and said Changes have occurred.”
Professor Zhu Changping didn't drop the bomb until this moment, and even other professors didn't know. They had always thought that what Li Mo had found was a large tomb from the late Neolithic Age. Are there other important things that he had not explained?
"Li Mo fed back the news that there was no Neolithic tomb in the ground, but it was probably a cultural site that had not been discovered in the late Neolithic. And the more than 100 black artifacts he unearthed today The pottery is just a pit, and it has not been cleaned up so far.”
"What, is it a new Neolithic cultural site? Professor Zhu, did Li Mo make a mistake?" Gu Hao
"If it is a Neolithic cultural site, it will be a big project to completely excavate it. Can Li Mo really confirm it?"
Not to mention the young teachers, even a few professors were a little skeptical.
Professor Zhu Changping coughed twice and said firmly: "I trust Li Mo's judgment, so the archaeological project of cultural sites in this new era must be led by us at Peking University."
Yes, the miracle created by Li Mo made everyone give up 80% of their thoughts immediately.
"Professor Zhu, how do you think the next work should be arranged?" Director You felt as if he had eaten honey. Judging from his work performance, promotion is inevitable.
Dean Gao also always had a smile on his face. Although he did not fully support Li Mo's work, at least he could not hold him back.
"That's what I plan to do, I'm going to..."
Before Professor Zhu Changping finished speaking, he saw a video request from the chat account. He subconsciously clicked to accept and saw dialog boxes appearing on the huge projection screen. One was from Professor Zhu and the other was from Li Mo. .
At this moment, Li Mo's face was still stained with dirt, and there was also a lot of dirt on his collar and chest. As soon as Zhu Changping was connected, before he could speak, he heard him saying anxiously: "Teacher, we have made a major discovery. It is really an amazing discovery. I will switch the camera direction and you can take a closer look."
The camera switched and what appeared on the large projection screen was a huge pottery, like a water tank commonly used in rural areas. Everyone in the conference room stretched their heads to look at the picture. As the picture got closer, the carved patterns on the outside of the pottery jar appeared in everyone's eyes.
"This is like an ancient scene of offering sacrifices to heaven." Professor Zhu Changping was a little stunned. A huge pottery unearthed from the Neolithic Age actually had 'sacrifice to heaven' engraved on it. This had never been seen on pottery unearthed before.
"Teacher, this is not the most important thing. Look at the other side."
Li Mo moved, and the camera moved with him. When nearly a hundred complex symbols appeared on the other side of the projection screen, the entire conference room fell silent.
Professor Zhang, who has studied ancient characters, especially oracle bone inscriptions, was the first to come to his senses. He pointed at one of the complex symbols and shouted: "That, that symbol is very similar to the 'di' in the oracle bone inscriptions, and that one is similar to the 'di' in the oracle bone inscriptions." Ming' is very similar, my God, what kind of characters are these? Are they the characters before Oracle?"
Professor Zhang is regarded as an authority on ancient writing. When he shouted, the entire quiet conference room burst into shouts.
Oracle bone inscriptions have always been recognized as the earliest writing, a text that can clearly express its meaning. However, no older writing has been found before oracle bone inscriptions.
Some people say that pottery inscriptions were written before oracle bone inscriptions, but countless scholars have not been able to find any connection between them. But what has to be said is that oracle bone inscriptions cannot appear out of thin air, nor can they appear concentratedly in a certain historical period. So there must be an ancient writing in this historical process that connects the past and the next.
Oracle bone inscriptions evolved from those ancient writings.
The hundreds of complex symbols carved on the pottery jar are basically unknown, but several of them are very similar to later oracle bone inscriptions. Does this mean that they are an ancient writing before oracle bone inscriptions.
If it is confirmed, the black pottery jar is simply the most culturally valuable antiquities in history.
The symbols engraved on the black pottery are probably an astronomical ritual, and the black pottery jar is also the oldest inscribed antiquities unearthed so far.
But now it's all speculation, but even a probability of only one in 10,000 is enough to make everyone in the conference room excited.
"Take action immediately and charter a car to rush there early tomorrow morning. Director You, you will be responsible for all work arrangements. I will communicate with the school leaders and report to the relevant superior departments immediately."
Dean Gao slapped the table and decided.
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