For every villager who comes to visit, the teachers and students of the Xiamen University Archaeological Team will enthusiastically explain it.
Xiamen University students and villagers of Dianji Village worked together at the excavation site.
"You said these pottery pieces are as long as 5,000 years?!"
On the 18th, after hearing the explanation of the xiamen university archaeology team, Wu Zhixiong, a villager in Dianji Village, Xianyang Town, Pucheng County, widened his eyes in surprise. In front of his eyes, the exhibition hall of more than 20 square meters was clear and clean. Not long ago, this was just an ordinary reading room in the village department of Dianji Village, and it was the archaeology team of Xiamen University that changed its appearance.
In the display cases, clay pots, clay pots, net pendants, stone pendants and some pottery pieces printed with ornaments quietly tell the ancient history... They are the latest archaeological discoveries made by the archaeological team in Dianji Village.
Si is the Burrow, but Wu Dexin. This small archaeological exhibition hall allows villagers to understand the past of the land under their feet without leaving the village. For the fruits of their labor, the archaeologists are very happy to tell. What they relish most is the story that when a group of burnt earth was first discovered, it was thought to be a kiln, and after a few days it felt like a stove. Everyone scraped it with their hands for a while, and they thought it looked like some kind of building, and some experts judged it to be a collapsed wall - the answer is still being studied, but this process of stripping away the cocoon has repeatedly made visitors addicted: "It turns out that archaeology is also quite interesting, as if solving a case!" ”
If it were not for this exhibition, the villagers of Dianji Village would not have known that the land where their ancestors lived had originally bred the light of ancient civilization.
In the village of Dianji, there is a site of Madaoping, dating back to the Neolithic period about 5,000 years ago. Since October last year, the Department of History of Xiamen University, together with the Nanping Cultural Relics Protection Center and the Pucheng County Museum, has organized Xiamen masters and students to conduct a three-month archaeological excavation here.
Although this excavation is the third time that the Xiamen University archaeological team has come to Dianji Village, the villagers do not know or care much about what the archaeologists on the mountain are tinkering with every day.
"I've never been to a museum." This is the most common sentence heard by Xiamen University students when conducting rural surveys in the village. For the villagers, daily labor takes up most of their time, and the archaeological team is just a bunch of strangers.
However, in the eyes of the students, providing food and accommodation for the archaeological team and the participation of villagers and helpers in the on-site excavation have made this small mountain village in northern Fujian have long been deeply connected with archaeology.
Wu Zhibin, secretary of the party branch of Dianji Village, said frankly: "When the archaeological team came a few times before, we also wanted to do something, but no one in the village understood these things about archaeology. In order to share the archaeological results with the villagers, Xiamen masters and students decided to use local materials and hold an archaeological exhibition in the village. Although there is no precedent to follow, and the teachers and students have really had a headache for a while, with the support of the village committee and the villagers, a group of "archaeological work exhibitions" showing the archaeological work process have been set up along the road in the village, and the "archaeological discovery exhibition" arranged in the reading room of the village department has also become a "net red attraction" in the village.
On the day of the launch, Jiang Fusun, a villager in his 80s, happily became a volunteer docent: "This is a treasure excavated from the Madaoping site in our village, which has a history of 5,000 years!" ”
The students were also very proud. They envision the Madaoping site as a long-term field archaeology practice and research base, and strive to give play to the role of archaeology in rural revitalization.