Why did ancient Luoyang people invent Luoyang shovel?
At the beginning of the founding of New China, in order to cooperate with the national large-scale economic construction, archaeological work in various places was arduous. Luoyang shovel can quickly, conveniently and relatively accurately judge the underground remains and remains in a certain area, so it is widely used in the exploration work before archaeological excavation. The first generation of explorers in many archaeological research institutions used to be grave robbers. Since then, Luoyang shovel has officially become the main tool of archaeological exploration, officially named "exploration shovel", and has formed a series of operation methods.
In archaeology, the principle of Luoyang shovel is very simple. Just like core sampling in geology, shovel actually samples the underground soil layer at a fixed point and depth, from which we can observe the level, soil quality and soil color of the underground cultural accumulation of a site, and judge the age of each layer of cultural accumulation according to the inclusions in each layer of soil. If the boreholes are distributed in a certain direction (mostly in the north-south direction) and a certain density (generally 5 meters and 10 meters), we can infer the distribution of underground cultural accumulation in a certain area according to the changes of boreholes in different positions, so as to prepare for the next work, such as finding a burial hole in a cemetery for the next cleaning and finding a suitable location for excavation. In traditional archaeological exploration, except for looking for the tomb entrance, most of them only have a rough judgment on the accumulation status and the distribution of the ruins in various parts of the site. Some recent shovels are equipped with RTK satellite positioning system, which can accurately locate the position of each probe hole and greatly improve the accuracy. Since Zhang Changping, a teacher of Wuhan University, took over the Panlongcheng site in Wuhan, Hubei Province, a large-scale national exploration has been carried out throughout the site. Using RTK to locate each probe hole accurately, record the soil sample information of each probe hole in detail, and establish the exploration database and retrieval system, so as to better observe the distribution of underground deposits in various areas of the site, which is a remarkable archaeological exploration work in recent years.
Attach photos of archaeological exploration:
Conduct a general survey at a site in Shandong Province. This kind of exploration is generally a few people standing in a row, distributed at a certain distance, pulling the net forward or backward.
During the exploration in Xiangyang last year, the soil samples from the exploration holes were arranged in the order from shallow to deep, and the color change of underground soil could be clearly seen.
The carbide mixed in the soil sample of the probe hole may be ash pit soil.
The soil sample in the probe hole is mixed with braised soil, which is related to the abandonment of buildings.
Friends who often read tomb-robbing novels must be no strangers. In all kinds of grave robbing works, grave robbers have an indispensable artifact, that is Luoyang shovel. With this shovel, the location of the grave will be decided in minutes. What artifact is this Luoyang shovel? How can a shovel locate an ancient tomb?
The magic of Luoyang shovel, in a word, can easily take out the underground soil samples completely! Neither a steel shovel nor a short-handled hoe can do this. Grave robbers will make a simple analysis of the site through the dirt they bring up. In the jargon of the circle, it is called "looking at the soil". If you find cooked soil that has been manually moved, there may be ancient tombs or ancient buildings underground. If you have a good eye, you can even judge what age the tomb belongs to, what funerary objects are in it, and what direction the coffin faces, which is more accurate than the analysis and measurement with modern exploration instruments.
Then the question is, why can Luoyang shovel carry soil completely, but other shovels can't? Looking closely at Luoyang shovel, we can see that the shovel head of Luoyang shovel is U-shaped, and the soil particles are fixed in the U-shaped pipe and cannot move by using the tension of mutual extrusion after being pressed into the U-shaped pipe, so that the soil layer is completely lifted. However, it is very important to establish radian during molding. If you are not careful, the shovel will take no soil. Usually, to build a small shovel needs to go through 20 processes, such as embryo making, calcination, heat treatment, molding and polishing. Due to this complexity, it can only be built by hand at present. Now only a few workshops in Luoyang make Luoyang shovel.
Today, the practical value of Luoyang shovel has been fully recognized by the archaeological community. In the early 1970s, when an archaeological delegation from China visited Albania, it also presented a refined Luoyang shovel as a gift. From grave robbery to archaeology, Luoyang shovel achieved a gorgeous turn by its own strength.
It was not invented in Luoyang, Henan Province, but the production tool of the people in the yellow land along the Huaihe River and the wisdom of the working people. Luoyang shovel is mainly used to dig wells in Huanghuai area. The wellhead is small and the well is deep, which is not convenient for people to enter. Only shovels have to be turned into tools to borrow soil. Later, the well was useless, and it was always used to dig tombs and found Luoyang shovel.
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Is Luoyang Shovel the "Fifth Great Invention" in ancient China? What is it mainly used for?
Uncle Tong told you that the main function of this ferroalloy shovel now is to do soil drilling, cultural relics archaeology and foundation drilling.
In the early years, Luoyang people invented an iron detector. Because of its origin, everyone calls it Luoyang shovel. It should be like this. If foreigners invented this thing, according to our custom, it is called "foreign shovel".
Luoyang shovel has been officially used as a special tool for field archaeologists. Figures are drawn in textbooks, and its use method is introduced, which has been popularized throughout the country, thus forming a unique archaeological drilling technology in China and becoming a symbol of archaeological drilling tools in China.
A few years ago, in the Chanhe area of Luoyang, when the urban construction was developing rapidly, you could often see the Luoyang shovel built by the blacksmith shop on the roadside.
It can be said that Luoyang shovel is also one of the best archaeological tools in the world. Luoyang shovel is widely used in national infrastructure, scientific research and industry.
A Luoyang shovel has gone through thousands of years.
In recent years, Luoyang Shovel has been endowed with more cultural symbols. Thus, in Luoyang, Luoyang Shovel Museum came into being.
At present, Luoyang shovel museum has been approved by the municipal cultural relics department and declared to the provincial cultural relics bureau.
I will tell you the most reliable answers to all questions about Luoyang, as long as you want, as long as I have them.
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Luoyang shovel was not invented in ancient times, but in the early years of the Republic of China. Luoyang people used to call it a shovel. The name was changed only after the reform and opening up.
The renamed leader also considered that its archaeological effect was greater than grave robbery. After all, after liberation, archaeology and infrastructure were used more.
There are several producers in Xiaoli village. How can you sell grave robbery tools in public? They also have registered trademarks.
We traveled to Sanmenxia, and the little girl wanted to tell us about Luoyang shovel. We all smiled and refused, because we were too clear that the village where Luoyang shovel was made was only one kilometer away from us.
The comments and comments on Luoyang shovel on the Internet are a bit extreme. Grave robbers not only exist now, but also in the dynasties when Luoyang shovel was not invented.
It is not necessary to use Luoyang shovel to explore the tomb, but its effect is recognized by the industry, very powerful and very scientific. In addition, people's experts have basically judged the expectation, smell and theoretical experience of the location of the feng shui treasure ... where there is a big tomb.
There are also horses poking and squeezing during the day and wandering around at night. ...
Luoyang shovel is a tool invented by Li Yazi, a grave robber in Luoyang. Luoyang has been the capital of emperors since ancient times, so there are many tombs of emperors and generals around Luoyang, but Luoyang is also often attacked by wars and dynasties change. Once the war broke out, people fled, and the tombs of emperors and generals were left unattended. At this time, grave robbers will show their talents. For the convenience and accuracy of grave robbery, they invented the shovel. When this shovel digs into the ground, it will shovel up the soil in the ground. Experienced grave robbers can judge whether there are tombs underground according to the soil quality of the soil layer they bring up. Later, in the early 20th century, a man named Li Yazi near Luoyang invented the "Luoyang shovel" on the basis of the ancients.
On Mangshan Mountain in Luoyang, Henan Province, there is a steep mound, where there are few places to lie cows and there are extremely rich buried objects. After Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, China's ancient cultural relics and exquisite handicrafts were valued by western businessmen and "bought at a high price on the black market". Due to the need of excavating the tomb-opener, Luoyang concave shovel spread among the people in the middle of Ming Dynasty.
Since then, Luoyang shovel has been gradually improved for future generations. The earliest place that was widely used was tomb raiding, but now it has become an archaeological tool. Juxian Wei, a famous archaeologist, witnessed the scene of grave robbers using Luoyang shovel on 1928, and applied it to archaeological drilling, which played an important role in the excavation of famous ancient city sites such as Yin Ruins and Yanshi Mall in China. Nowadays, it is the basic skill of every archaeologist to learn to use Luoyang shovel to distinguish soil quality.