Before the transformation of the old city, it was originally a village called Wuli Tomb (also called "Tomb", which will not be mentioned below). The reason for taking this name is that there is an ancient tomb five miles away from the old town of Leling, which is one of the earliest villages in Leling. Now, this ancient tomb is located in Longshan Cultural Relics Park, hence the name of the park.
This ancient tomb is platform-shaped, about 90 meters long from east to west, 40 meters wide from north to south and nearly 3 meters high. This is a yellow mound site. There is a famous golden jujube tree in Leling. Especially in late autumn and winter, the leaves of jujube trees are all gone, the branches are sparse and the posture is flat. At the same time, when the north wind blows in the air, the grass on the ground is scattered and yellow. In case of snow and Fei Ying, people can't help but feel a thrill, and their hearts seem to have undergone earth-shaking changes. In an instant, it has been a lot of reincarnation.
It is unclear when and by whom Wulizhong Village was built, except that Wang Zushang of the village moved from Wuding House (now Huimin County, Shandong Province) during Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. But when it comes to this ancient grave in this village, it is really well known. To make this clear, we have to go back to the ancient time and space more than 4000 years ago.
According to legend, in the Neolithic Age, Leling was low and flat, facing the sea in the east. Because it was close to the mouth of the Old Yellow River, there was sometimes the danger of flooding and seawater intrusion. As Mencius recorded: "When Yao was there, the world was not flat, and the floods crossed and flooded all over the world." "Water in retrograde, flooding in China, the land of the snake dragon, the heart is uncertain. The nest is below and the camp is above. " Therefore, our ancestors had to live in the highlands, build nests in houses, and live a primitive and simple life of hunting, fishing and farming.
At that time, there were three ancient rivers in Leling, namely Jinjing River, Ma Jiahe River and Goupan River. According to legend, it is an important water system among the nine major water systems of the Yellow River dredged by Dayu. After the governance of our ancestors, it has become a fertile land, with fertile soil, abundant water, lush vegetation and dense forests, attracting more ancestors to live here.
According to legend, around these three ancient rivers, there were three primitive tribes living in Leling, namely, the Ying people in the lower reaches, the poor people in the lower reaches of Ma Jiahe and the Luzhong people in the Goupan River basin. They lived from the late primitive society to Dayu period, about 2500 BC to 2000 BC.
At the same time, according to historical records, they all belong to Dongyi tribe, and they all take birds as totems or emblems, so they are also called bird yi. The most famous is the bird totem of Luzhong clan. Because their ancestors helped Emperor Yao and Shun "teach people in the four seasons of heaven and earth" and observed the images of the sun, moon and stars for a long time, they took the tripod symbolizing the sun as the object of totem worship. It is for this reason that a unique sculpture of the Sun Ding stands at the gate of the Longshan Cultural Relics Park in Leling.
In 1950s and 1960s, when a villager in Wulizhong Village plowed and dug a hole here, he accidentally discovered a brick tomb of Han Dynasty, which awakened the historical soul that had been sleeping underground for thousands of years. After hearing the news, Shandong archaeologists quickly carried out further excavation and textual research, and successively unearthed Neolithic relics such as stone axes and stone sickles, as well as Shang and Zhou dynasty relics such as bone cones, antlers, Oracle bones, pottery spinning wheels and feet, as well as some Han bricks and Tang jars. Later, after investigation and identification by the archaeological team, stone axes, stone sickles and other unearthed places were Longshan cultural sites.
Longshan culture refers to a cultural relic in the late Neolithic period in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. About 4000 years ago, it was named after it was first discovered in Longshan Town, Licheng, Shandong Province.
The discovery of Longshan cultural site in Wulizhong Village undoubtedly proves that as early as 4000 years ago, human beings lived and multiplied in Leling. It reveals the humanistic origin of Leling history and its historical position in Chinese civilization, which seems to make ancient legends within reach. At the same time, the site also broke through the distribution boundary of Neolithic culture in Shandong Province, and expanded the horizon of understanding the material civilization of primitive society. 1956 was declared as the first batch of cultural relics protection units in Laoling City by the province, and 1977 was listed as the provincial key cultural relics protection unit.
Here, the latest discovery was made in February, 20 14, when cultural relics experts re-excavated it, they inadvertently unearthed the largest "antlers hoe" in Longshan culture period in the province, which was about 50 cm long, smooth in texture, complete in shape and meticulous in processing. It is a tool for our ancestors' production and life, made of antlers. Besides,
The villagers nearby mistakenly thought that this tall burial tomb was the tomb of Liu Chan, the late ruler of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period. This statement is contrary to the official history and probably originated from the romantic association of the idiom "I don't think about Shu". According to the brick tomb of Han Dynasty, some people speculated that it was the tomb of a Hou Wang named Shi Gao who was sealed in Leling, but they did not provide enough evidence.
In September, 20 13, with the transformation of the old city and the advancement of urbanization, Wulizhong village was demolished by the whole village, and the villagers were relocated and unified into modern buildings, and their lives were very comfortable. It was during this period that three new residential areas named "Longshan" were established around the Longshan cultural site, as well as clean and beautiful facilities such as Longshan School and Longshan Park. It is said that it is expected that a Longshan Culture Museum will be planned here in the later period, which is naturally perfect.
Although times have changed, when we stay here and hold our breath, it seems that we can still hear the sound of our ancestors knocking on stone tools more than 4,000 years ago, the sound of fishing and hunting, and the singing of looking up at the stars. Now, the Longshan context has become one of the "New Eight Scenes of Leling". We believe that with the continuous improvement and improvement of the surrounding environment of Longshan cultural site, Leling, a Millennium-blessed land, will be revived and prospered again.