The Inherent Reason Why The Zhongyuan Culture Is Ever Perpetual Through Contrasting Two Different Natures Of Cultures

To begin with, analyzing the characteristics of the Hongshan culture, the Liangzhu culture and the Zhongyuan culture, the author categorizes these cultures into two types of ones with different nature—the Wu culture represented by the Hongshan culture and the Liangzhu culture, the Shi culture represented by the Zhongyuan culture. Through proving the rationality and the unrationality of the different types of culture, the inherent reason is founded out why the Zhongyuan culture is ever perpetual without being interrupted.Lots of relics relative to sacrifices were found in the Hongshan culture and Liangzhu culture, which were distinctive in the Neolithic Period, including the Nushen Temple and the Jishi Grave of Hongshan culture, alter and so on which indicate that such numerous sacrificial events had taken place at the time that the two culture can be categorized as the Wu culture.It is also can be seen that the Jade of Hongshan such like the Gouyunxing Jade , the person of Jade, and varieties of jades that were craved into the animal, and the Jade of Liangzhu culture such as Zhong and Bi , which were used to sacrifice , bring forward the fact that these cultures have the strong traits of the Wu culture in another aspect, and these jades in large quantities were found in the tombs , in which there are few potteries, reveal that the activities of sacrifices were superior to the others.The pottery and the bronze Liqi which appears in the Bronze Age all along served as the most important funeral objects in the Zhongyuan region. The appearance of the Liqi does not represent that the frequence of events of sacrifice in the Zhongyuan started to increase, in the contrast, however, the fact that the types of Liqi largely derive from the ones of Shiqi per se suggest that the pottery was attached importance to in the Zhongyuan culture.The main jade of Zhongyuan, at first as Liqi, gradually evolved into the ornament in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasty, had lost the part of the article which is used in the activities of sacrifice.The frequent activities of sacrifice accelerate the falldown of the Sang dynasty. The custom e.g. the human sacrifice was abolished by degrees in the Xizhou dynasty when the oracle bones found were far less than in the latterly Shang dynasty so is can been said that the nature of Wu just a flash in the pan at the time never has dominated in the Zhongyuan culture.The persistent activities of sacrifice destroyed the Hongshan culture and the Liangzhu culture. The Wu culture represented by the two ones has been put an end to all by itself though some cultural elements of these cultures, which can not constitute the principal or typical part of the culture in which they were found, can be found in others occasionally while the Shi culture represented by the Zhongyuan culture thrive continually.