The mysterious sun wheel of Sanguine may hide the heartbreaking past of the ancient Stu people

A mysterious bronze artifact was unearthed at Sanguine, the sun wheel, which was jokingly called the "steering wheel" and "wheel".

Sanguine Museum Sun Wheel

It is said to be a sun wheel because it looks like the sun, so the industry agreed that it is related to the ancient Stu people's sun worship, so named.

But, who can say what it means? The author dares to make a fool of himself today.

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Okay, let's get to the point.

Sun worship, is common worship of many ancient people, just like the mountains and rivers. So, were the ancient Stu people also sun worshipers? If so, what does the circle outside the sun wheel represent?

For this question, the author agrees with the geologist Lou Shinning, who interpreted their intentions from the psychology of the people at that time. And the attitude of people to the sun at that time should be analyzed from the perspective of climatology because the sun gives different feelings in different climates. To solve this puzzle, we have to start with the climate of ancient Stu.

7500-4500 years ago, the Earth was in the Atlantic warm period, and the temperature was high, ideal for crops, thus ushering in a great agricultural explosion for humans and the development of tools toward the middle and late Neolithic period.

With this came a population explosion, and the Tangshan, Dangerous, and Tangshan cultures of China, including the Loansharking culture of Sichuan, began to flourish.

But, the high temperature also brought a serious sea in, the sea level rose and flooded all the low-lying North China Plain and the middle and lower Yangtze River Plain, which is the legendary prehistoric Great Flood era in our history.

Although the Sichuan basin was not flooded by the sea, it was also reduced to a swamp under the raging floods of the upper Yangtze River. Therefore, people at that time lived in highlands, from Anshan to Tangshan Mountains, Loews Plateau, Lining Mountains, West Sichuan Plateau, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Angling ......

Originally, the ancient Stu ancestors lived happily in the Min Mountains (actually, there are also Ganglion Mountains and Dalian Mountains) in the western Sichuan Plateau, happily raising silkworms (Silkworm Clump), and no one ever thought of running to the Chengdu Plain to grab survival resources with wild animals.

However, the climate changed their lives.

By 5000-4500 years ago, glaciers began to move (i.e. ice advance) and the global climate entered a sub-northern period of catastrophic change. Ice-in and sea-in are two relative concepts. Ice-in means that the ice cap expanded and the climate became colder, while the river began to reduce its flow.

Next to the Jam songs is the Gong Snow Mountain, the Gong Snow Mountain ice into the western plateau of Sichuan became abnormally cold, no longer suitable for crop growth and human life in large numbers, so the Jam son began to be forced to migrate to the lowlands.

It is no coincidence that the ancient people of the Tangshan Mountains, Lining Mountains, and Tanisha Mountains also began to advance to the lowlands of the North China Plain at the same time (the sea advance had ended at this time). It was in this context that the Longhand culture was born, and the Yellow Emperor was about to take the stage of history.

The new climate brought a new way of life to the ancient Stu people, and as the Min River (also including the Xinjiang and Tu rivers) decreased in volume, the Chengdu plain was no longer a swampy land, and people lived by water, establishing many settlements in the lowlands. These are the sites of the great ancient cities of Chengdu that are included in the Bandung culture.

However, with the intensification of ice advancement, the water flow became less and less, while the sun kept shining on the earth, the land began to crack, and the crop yield was dismal. People only prayed to the heavens to give manna to moisten the earth and let everything recover. It was probably in this context that the witch praying for rain was born.

However, this is not only true for the Chengdu Plain but also for the rest of the world, including, of course, our Central Plains (North China Plain). During the same period, myths such as Ho Y shooting the sun emerged in the Central Plains.

Why are there 10 suns in the sky? Why did Ho Y shoot the sun? Wasn't the sun worshiped? This all fully reflects the emotions of people at that time toward the sun: not only worship but also fear.

Reflected the ancient Stu people is the same reason, they are also afraid of the sun's strong light, and they need more: rain!

So, the circle outside the sun wheel, we can find a reasonable explanation: it expresses the ancient Stu people's fear of the sun, so they use a circle to limit it so that the land will not be so dry so that the grain harvest a little more. This creative art is not at all abstract, but very practical.

However, in the Kinshasa period, things changed again. As a result of the warm period in the middle and late Sang dynasty, the ice receded, the river flow was abundant, and people were no longer afraid of the sun, so the sun motif became again: the sun god bird.

At this time, the sun is no longer bound but surrounded by four sacred birds, a thriving state. This is how the climate has transformed people.

However, there are many joys and sorrows. Although the new climate brought precious water, it also made those settlements originally built in the lowlands face extinction.

We can see that all the ancient cities of the Bandung culture were built with tall walls, all for waterproofing because there were no doors. And the walls are trapezoidal in cross-section, steep on the outside and slow on the inside, not a dam.

Unfortunately, even the tallest walls could not stop the flooding, so the Bandung people eventually abandoned the early city site and migrated to the highlands around the Chengdu Plain. This led to the later important source of copper ore, and the ancient Stu people were about to usher in their most glorious moment - the Bronze Age!