Rizhao Stop 9: Ju County Museum.

Ju culture, Qi culture, and Lu culture are known as the three major cultures of Shandong. Upon entering the Ju County Museum, you will see a ceramic wall in the lobby that condenses Ju culture. What interests me most is: 20 characters of pottery script were found on a large zun vessel unearthed from the Linyang River, Dazhujiacun, and Hangtou sites in Ju County (Fig. 17), [Fig. 18 shows the distribution of the pictographic script sites.] There are 8 types in total, which are recognized by the academic community as the prototypes of Chinese characters (Figs. 9–16). (Fig. 9) I saw a replica of a similar picture at the Ancient China exhibition in the National Museum of China. I will verify whether it is a replica of this one next time I go there. (Fig. 16) The sun, moon, and mountain symbols were found on the pottery zun vessel, and similar symbols were also found at the Qianzhai site in Zhucheng, Shandong, the Yuchisi site in Mengcheng, Anhui, and the Xiaojiawujie site of the Shijiahe culture in Hubei. They have become symbolic totems of the Dawenkou culture. The large pottery zun vessel of the Dawenkou culture exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of China was unearthed from the Yuchisi site in Mengcheng, Anhui. These "characters" excite me, a person who talks about the thinking of creating characters...