Confucius' first stop around the world was to defend his country. Why?
Confucius and Wei, one of the series murals of "Confucius and Wei-the second hometown after ten years" in Luzi Temple in Puyang, traveled around the world. In 497 BC, dozens of Confucius and his disciples arrived in Diqiu (now Puyang) from Shandong, and started their global political career for 14 years.
Guo Wei existed in Shang Dynasty. After Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, Wei Chengzhou sealed the country with Ji's surname. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Wei's ruling center was Qixian and Xunxian. In 629 BC, Wei successfully moved the capital to Diqiu; In 24 BC1year, Wei moved the capital (now Qinyang); During the Warring States Period, Duwei Diqiu was named Puyang because it was located in the Yang of Pushui. In 209 BC, Qin Ershi abolished Wei Jun as Shu Ren, and the country perished. Ceng Wei has moved the capital four times, with a history of more than 800 years. He was a vassal state that still existed nominally after the reunification of Qin.
Confucius traveled around the world, and his first stop was in Diqiu. "Dewey's Diqiu has disappeared today. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, it was submerged by the Yellow River and buried deep underground. It was not until 2005 that the tip of the iceberg was exposed due to the excavation of the Yucheng site. " Li Zhongyi, an expert in Puyang literature and history, said. On March 9, 2009, the reporter came to Puyang to look for the long-lost Dewey Diqiu.
About 10 km south of Puyang County, the reporter came to Gaocheng Village, Wuxing Township, an obscure village lying quietly on the flat and open old Yellow River. Gao, the old branch secretary of the village, took us to the south of the village and pointed to a green wilderness and said, "This is the place where the ruins of Gaocheng were originally excavated, and now it has been backfilled."
In April, 2005, Henan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Puyang Institute of Cultural Relics Protection conducted drilling and trial excavation on the four walls of Gaocheng Site, and four exploratory trenches were excavated at that time. "When digging, there was a once-in-a-century flood in Puyang City, and the exploration points excavated at the construction site became puddles." Gao Kuisheng, a villager who participated in the excavation, said. Later, we had to drill wells to drain water, and it was very difficult to dig. The trench was not dug to the end, and only two meters of rammed earth was dug in the deepest trench.
From April 2005 to May 2006, the excavation work came to an end temporarily, and the excavation results initially proved that the site was an ancient city site with an area of about 910.6 million square meters. The plan shape of the city site is roughly rectangular, and the preservation height is 6-9 meters. The base of the city wall is about 70 meters wide, and the top is 20-30 meters wide. There is a moat outside the city wall. The north wall is about 2420m long, the east wall is about 3790m long, the west wall is 3986m long and the south wall is 236 1 m long. The top of the four walls of the ancient city ruins is covered by the silt layer of the Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties with a thickness of 4-5 meters, and the moat and cultural layer in the city are overlapped by the silt layer of the Han Dynasty with a thickness of 6-8 meters.