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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
The ancient people of Xiaohe Cemetery in Tarim Basin used the heavenly stems and earthly branches to record the events and the spirit of HuangDiNeiJing to express their hope of reproduction and life, which showed they had the same ancestors as the ancient Chinese.
Paper long abstract:
Lots of relics were unearthed in Xiaohe with figures 7 and 12+1, which were symbols of + and ♀ meaning resurrection and hope of life.
The bottomless coffins were womb-like with bunches of small branches bond on their top to represent his/her children. Wooden rods like trunks and leaves before coffins signified penises and vulvas, showed life producing process.
The oracle of figure 7 was +, figure to describe life cycles in HuangDiNeiJing. It was originated from Big Dipper consisting of 7 bright stars. The seventh in earthly stems, called noon (Wu), meant sexual intercourse. The figure 12+1 represented the first stem, called son (Zi), whose oracle was ♀ in which a fruit on crucifix stood for result of Wu, offspring of sexual activities.
In Xiaohe, the female were decorated with bird feathers to show they belonged to bird-tribe, and the male were decorated with earrings and snakes of 7 heads, which showed people in Xiaohe married with snake-tribe in Sichuan Basin where lots of relics, such as bronze kneeling statues with a 7-head snake and female apparels engraved on some rituals same as apparels of steeple-hats and pointed-valenkis in Xiaohe, were unearthed.
In Maiping ruins, Sichuan, a tribe head in bottomless coffin was with white features decorated 7-earrings on ears. Now there are folk customs erecting small branches to pledge for offspring and wearing steeple dresses in funerals.
Historic documents recorded that the fief of Emperor Huang's grandson, An, located in the west, where his offspring founded Parthian.
Exploring human origins: exciting discoveries at the start of the 21st century
Session 1 Tuesday 6 August, 2013, -