Grind the shovel into a spoon! She is the first generation of female archaeologists in New China and discovered the tomb of female general Fu Hao

A room full of books

Even half of the bed is filled with books.

The owner of this house is 92 years old.

She led the excavation

Tomb of Fu Hao, China's First Female General

She is the first generation of female archaeologists in New China

Zheng Zhenxiang

【Awakening the Three Thousand Years of Dormant History of the Shang Dynasty】

May 16, 1976

This is the first time in Chinese archaeological history

A day worth recording

The archaeological team led by Zheng Zhenxiang

On a high ground in the northwest corner of Xiaotun Village, Anyang

Carry out excavation work

When the archaeological team excavated more than five meters deep

Found all hard soil

If we dig any further, groundwater will seep out.

Most people are ready to give up

But Zheng Zhenxiang insisted on continuing

She believes that the rammed earth

Unreasonable

We must get to the bottom of this

Even if workers question

She still persisted in digging deeper

At a depth of eight meters

The shovel was finally brought out

Amazing red patent leather

This is the crucial shovel.

A Shang Dynasty tomb that has been sleeping for more than 3,000 years

Show your true colors

This is the tomb of Fu Hao, the earliest female general in China.

1,928 funerary objects of different materials were unearthed

The most representative

Bronze artifacts at the level of development of Yinxu culture

A total of 468 items

Triple-linked cauldrons, paired square yi, large copper axe, etc.

Precious cultural relics have been discovered one after another

In the past, only the oracle bone script

Royal life in the Shang Dynasty suddenly became real

The discovery of Fu Hao's tomb was rated as

"One of the top ten archaeological discoveries in the world at that time"

▲Precious cultural relics unearthed from Fu Hao’s tomb

【The only archaeological girl】

1952

Zheng Zhenxiang entered the Archaeology Department of Peking University

She was the only girl in the archaeology department that year.

At that time, someone asked her

"You are a girl studying archaeology.

Aren’t you scared when you see those bones?”

She replied:

“Don’t be afraid, in my opinion

These bones are like pottery jars.

nothing"

After graduation, Zheng Zhenxiang

A passion for field archaeology

Leaving the bustling capital Beijing

Came to the Chinese archaeological holy land she had longed for

Anyang Yin Ruins

Since then, he has been devoted to archaeology in Anyang for more than 40 years.

She almost ran through every inch of Yinxu

I have a clear understanding of the layout of the ruins there.

This solid experience reserve

Let her face the opportunity of Fu Hao's tomb

Confident, professional, decisive

“Archaeologists don’t leave the field

It's like an actor not going on stage

It’s impossible to achieve results.”

This is the belief that Zheng Zhenxiang adheres to throughout his life.

She put this belief into practice in her life.

Over forty years

Nearly half a lifetime

Dedicated the best years to the career I love most

[Shoving Shrink]

In the eyes of many people

Archaeology is a romantic discipline

Excavating the Imperial Tombs and Solving Historical Mysteries

But in Zheng Zhenxiang's eyes

This is a subject that requires

Great patience and carefulness

Eliminate boring and repetitive subjects

Zheng Zhenxiang has an archaeological shovel for digging

Under long-term high-intensity use

It was worn out to the size of a spoon.

"If it is worn down, it will become deformed after repeated use."

Zheng Zhenxiang said it lightly

It seems that "it's hard to dig in one shovel at a time"

Compared with her love for archaeology

All seem "should be" and "not worth mentioning"

【Diary that cannot be taken away】

Zheng Zhenxiang, 92 years old this year

In an old apartment in Beijing

I have lived here for almost 30 years.

She said, what was it like when we moved in?

How is it still like now?

The furniture has never been changed

Perhaps in the minds of archaeologists

“Old” is not a pity

In this small apartment

Everywhere is piled with the things she has devoted her life to.

Books and archaeological materials

Because my memory is not as good as before

Zheng Zhenxiang specially made a genealogy of the relationship between Shang Dynasty characters

On the cabinet in her bedroom

"If you forget, just look at it. It's a habit."

"I like to read about the Shang Dynasty and Shang culture"

Zheng Zhenxiang said this

She has many diaries.

Facing visiting guests

I will never tire of reminding you that you can only look but not take.

Looks like a child guarding a treasure

In fact, it is recorded there

It's not a special secret

Instead, it is densely packed with reading notes and thinking paragraphs

Not for publication

Not for anyone to see.

Just for the sake of "knowledge"

On the cover page of a diary

Zheng Zhenxiang quoted this sentence

“Don’t wait for luck to come

Try to acquire knowledge.”

She also wrote this famous quote

"In the dark place beneath the soil

To find diamonds

In deep and careful thought

To discover the truth

Great China, Eternal Rivers

It is generation after generation

Archaeologists like Zheng Zhenxiang

Hard work and unremitting efforts

Exploring the genetic code of the Chinese nation

Recreate the glory and splendor of history for the world

Source: WeChat public account "Communist Youth League Central Committee" (ID: gqtzy2014) compiled from CCTV News Client, Weibo @Global Times

Editor: Liang Taihua

Proofread by Hou Shubing

Proofread by Jia Wencheng and Liu Zihao

On-duty editor: Zhong Yanan