Why was the bronze culture of Shang Dynasty particularly developed? How can the Xia Dynasty record history without words?

Why was the bronze culture of Shang Dynasty particularly developed? The inheritance of history. In the history of China, bronze culture did not happen overnight, but developed slowly and steadily with the further promotion of social productive forces. In ancient China, everyone mastered many production and survival skills. For example, at the site of Jiahu 9,000 years ago, everyone had already lived a typical clan life. Everyone here not only wears clothes made of animal skins, but also has the shadow of silk and satin in the types of clothes.

In ancient China, people gradually used burning pottery as a tool for fetching water and cooking. Pottery is the cultural capital and social wealth that people gradually create. More than 4,000 years ago, Dayu, a hero of water control in the history of China, forged Jiuding with natural copper ore. Since then, the ground of China has also been called Kyushu. It can be seen that since then, China people have mastered the memory of smelting and casting. The prosperity and strength of bronze culture in Yin and Shang Dynasties is inseparable from the history of Xia Dynasty, and it is also slowly developed on the basis of bronze smelting technology in the previous generation.

How can the Xia Dynasty record history without words? The history of Xia Dynasty was dictated from generation to generation. According to the statistics of China historians, the Xia Dynasty experienced the slavery dynasty from Dayu to 13 and 16 kings, which spanned more than 500 years, but did not leave any original documents and written records. This is a pity.

When I was a child, listening to the old man telling me the story of Emperor Yanhuang and his Yao Shunyu was like listening to fairy tales, such as Kuafu chasing the sun, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon and Dayu managing water. There are too many heroes in the Xia Dynasty that we are obsessed with worshipping. Although oral stories are a bit grandiose and mysterious, history is history, and they are true. There must have been writing at that time, but it is too old in today's era and the materials used have not been preserved. Only some pottery has pictograms of birds and animals, which need further confirmation by archaeologists.

Some historians have analyzed that Xia Hou was destroyed in Shang Dynasty, and a new script, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, was invented, while the original script was abandoned and destroyed, which led to the dating of scripts. Later, when Sima Qian compiled Historical Records, he could only find wise men and old people from all over the country and sort out the oral stories from generation to generation, so that the precious Historical Records of the Xia Dynasty came into being. Many records in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Mountains and Seas, which summarized the Xia Dynasty, also aroused the enthusiasm of experts who studied Xia and Shang characters.

Although the writing of Xia Dynasty has not been discovered, China has a glorious history of 5,000 years. Ancient times was a civilized country, with a strong family concept, paying attention to respecting the old and loving the young, prevailing filial piety, clan sacrifices and memorial tablets. Therefore, ancestors dictated their deeds from generation to generation. Although the Xia Dynasty perished, it is China's blessing that the cultural oral tradition of the Xia Dynasty was passed down by later generations.