The Longshan culture eity-site at Mengzhuang, Huixian, Henan, is the largest in the same category of ruins known so far across the Central Plains. Concerning the fall of the city, the author believes that it was destr...The Longshan culture eity-site at Mengzhuang, Huixian, Henan, is the largest in the same category of ruins known so far across the Central Plains. Concerning the fall of the city, the author believes that it was destroyed by a flood around 2100 BC in the late Longshan culture judging from its geographical location and environments, its topographical features in ancient and present times, the changes in its cultural aspect, the records of relevant texts, as well as its condition of preservation, ineluding the remaining height of its walls and the breaches in the middle of its western wall. This period saw the founding of the Xia dynasty and Great Yu' s regulating rivers and watercourses, so the exploration of the traces of floods on then sites is of great significance to the study of the starting point of the Xia dynasty.展开更多
文摘The Longshan culture eity-site at Mengzhuang, Huixian, Henan, is the largest in the same category of ruins known so far across the Central Plains. Concerning the fall of the city, the author believes that it was destroyed by a flood around 2100 BC in the late Longshan culture judging from its geographical location and environments, its topographical features in ancient and present times, the changes in its cultural aspect, the records of relevant texts, as well as its condition of preservation, ineluding the remaining height of its walls and the breaches in the middle of its western wall. This period saw the founding of the Xia dynasty and Great Yu' s regulating rivers and watercourses, so the exploration of the traces of floods on then sites is of great significance to the study of the starting point of the Xia dynasty.
