LEADER 04252nam 22006375 450 001 9911007360803321 005 20250524130236.0 010 $a981-9613-09-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-96-1309-0 035 $a(CKB)39124538300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-96-1309-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32130304 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32130304 035 $a(OCoLC)1521392119 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939124538300041 100 $a20250524d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlack Jade Age $eNew Evidence of 5000-Year History of China /$fby Shuxian Ye 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XXXII, 231 p. 284 illus., 271 illus. in color.) 225 0 $aHistory Series 311 08$a981-9613-08-6 327 $aThe Puzzling Origin of Chinese Civilization -- A Discourse on the Black Jade Age -- Commencement of the Black Jade Age -- The Jing, Wei, and Luo Tributaries of the Yellow River:An Investigation of the Black Jade Halberd?s Distribution -- The Black Jade of Longshan Culture in Central China?Taosi, Qingliangsi, and Donglongshan -- Tracing the Development of the Black Jade -- Conclusion: Prehistoric Black Jade Luxuries and Their Evolution. 330 $aThis book analyzes and summarizes the narrative motifs of Chinese mythology, before tracing their material and cultural elements using the new classification of Big Tradition and Small Tradition theories of culture from the field of literary anthropology, as well as related interdisciplinary theories from literary anthropology and archaeology. China?s history reaches back more than 5,000 years, while the earliest known Chinese character system, oracle bone script, was created over 3,000 years ago. Following up on a reference to black jade in The Classic of Mountains and Rivers, the author conducts an extensive survey of black jade ritual articles in the Yellow River and its tributaries, supported by the new archaeological discoveries of black jade battle axes, the primal jade ritual article used in the Central Plains 5,300 years ago. The author then establishes a chain of evidence, using quadruple-evidence methods to validate the Black Jade Age as the first age of the jade culture in the Central Plains. His goal in doing so is to flesh out the myth-enshrouded age of Emperor Yan, Emperor Huang, and Warrior Chiyou, transform it into a substantiated landscape of the origin of the Central Plains Civilization, and offer evidence-based reasoning for this two-thousand-year gap. By doing so, it arrives at unprecedented insights into the origin of Chinese civilization. Methodologically speaking, the book adopts quadruple-evidence methods from the field of literary anthropology, emphasizes intellectual exploration beyond documentary records, combines the living cultural inheritance with newly discovered cultural inheritance that has long been lost underground, makes full use of the method of physical evidence, and employs a series of physical images to form a far more complete and systematic chain of evidence, so as to successfully reconstruct the cultural contexts of China?s 5000-year history. 606 $aCultural property 606 $aArchaeology 606 $aPrehistoric peoples 606 $aChina$xHistory 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aArchaeology and Heritage 606 $aPrehistoric Archaeology 606 $aHistory of China 606 $aCultural History 615 0$aCultural property. 615 0$aArchaeology. 615 0$aPrehistoric peoples. 615 0$aChina$xHistory. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 14$aArchaeology and Heritage. 615 24$aPrehistoric Archaeology. 615 24$aHistory of China. 615 24$aCultural History. 676 $a930.1 700 $aYe$b Shuxian$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0705592 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911007360803321 996 $aBlack Jade Age$94390501 997 $aUNINA