昆仑在蜀:基于考古、神话与地理实证的华夏文明岷山本源新考 —— 兼论巴蜀神圣共同体、上古九州与炎黄涿鹿的地缘重构 Kunlun in Shu: A New Investigation on the Minshan Origin of Huaxia Civilization Based on Archaeological, Mythological and Geographical Evidence — Geopolitical Reconstruction of the Bashu Sacred Community, Ancient Nine Provinces and the Yan-Huang Zhuolu Tradition

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Abstract (English)

Traditional historiography, framed by "Central Plains centrism," places the origin of Chinese civilization entirely in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. However, this system contains fatal flaws that cannot be reconciled. This paper re-examines the core source region of ancient civilization using a five-dimensional mutual verification system: immutable mountains and rivers, pre-Qin bronze inscriptions, prehistoric archaeology, living indigenous folk customs, and mythological geography.

This study integrates over twenty core sites and multiple key discoveries, spanning from the approximately 200,000-year-old Daocheng Piluo site to the Song-Yuan mountain defense systems, traversing the entirety of human and civilizational history. Among them, the Mengxi River site complex (80,000-60,000 BP) pushes the history of human activity in this region back to the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, providing an ultra-deep-time human ecological substrate for the birth of civilization; the Baodun Culture fills the evolutionary link from sacred mountain to royal capital; the Shizhudi site, with its continuous cultural deposits spanning thousands of years and the coexistence of multiple cultural factors, becomes a perfect microcosm of a "cultural melting pot"; the Song-Yuan mountain city system and successive ancient county seats ultimately confirm the eternal logic of the "geopolitical functional continuum."

This paper proposes and demonstrates the core thesis that "Min Mountain is Kunlun," and ultimately introduces the theoretical model of the "Bashu Sacred Community": a political-economic-religious-belief entity rooted in the sacred mountain worship of Min Mountain (Kunlun), sharing common ancestral memories of the Qiang-Jiang, Yan-Huang, and Yu the Great, possessing a highly developed water and land transportation network and a "Southwest Dual External Exchange Corridor," and marked by the unique boat-coffin burial custom. This entity is the most important and unique source within the "pluralistic yet unified" pattern of Chinese civilization.

New in v2.0.2: This paper adds a dedicated chapter on "The Ancient Sea and the Three-River Water System," demonstrating that the ancient "Sea" was not an ocean but a vast inland water body, locking the Chongqing Yangtze River confluence as the "Eastern Sea" described in the Shan Hai Jing. Through the cross-fixation of the two waterways "Hei Shui flows southward into the Sea" and "Luo Shui flows eastward into the Sea," it completes the restoration of the integrated cosmic geography of Kunlun (Min Mountain) → Three Rivers (Min River / Fu River / Luo River) → Eastern Sea (Chongqing). Simultaneously, it adds an examination of the geography of Emperor Ku's "cultivation at the Luo River," demonstrating that the Luo River where Emperor Ku cultivated is the Yazi River (ancient Luo River) in Sichuan, formally integrating Emperor Ku into the northern Sichuan Ancestral Matrix, thereby completing the inheritance loop of the Five Emperors lineage — Yellow Emperor → Xuanxiao → Jiaoji → Emperor Ku → Yao → Shun → Yu — within a radius of just over a hundred kilometers in northern Sichuan.