Approaching Myanmar

 

Approaching Myanmar

 

Agudengba, the incarnation of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, was born in Zixian County, Shigatse region. Agudengba was born into the family of the aristocratic manor owner Ludzodeva. He was the son of a serf at birth. The God of the Snow Land told Agudengba: Only when you live among people who are poor and have lost their freedom can you feel the suffering of the poor. You must do more useful things for the people and help them become wise and diligent to get rich. You must also punish those evildoers and lazy people, so that they will not dare to misbehave again.

When Agudenba grew up, he left his hometown and wandered around. He has gone to India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, and now he is traveling from Bangladesh to Myanmar with his partner Dawa girl, and his young partner hunter Chu Sanxing and his wife Xiang Qima.

The hunter Chu Sanxing took his two hounds Dahuang and Dahei. Agudengba gave the big gray donkey newly bought from the market to the Dawa girl as a mount. He led the donkey Mahu, and the four of them embarked on the journey into Myanmar. border.

Xiang Qima told the Dawa girl: The main rivers in Myanmar include the Irrawaddy River, Chindwin River, Salween River and Sitang River. The Irrawaddy River originates from the Nyingchi region of Tibet, China, flows south through central Myanmar, and finally empties into the Andaman Sea. Most of Myanmar's population lives in the Irrawaddy River Basin, which is the most important river in Myanmar. If we go further we will reach the Irrawaddy River.

Chu Sanxing said to Agudengba: My ancestors lived in Sichuan, China, and later moved to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Later, when they moved here, they actually came here through the third Silk Road, the "Southern Silk Road". The Southern Silk Road once had an indissoluble bond with Bangladesh.

Mr. Chu Sanxing’s father is a historian in Myanmar and has profound research on the culture and history of the Western Regions.

Chu Sanxing told Agudengba: Anthropologists have discovered ancient ape fossils dating back 10,000 years in the Bundang Mountains west of Mandalay. The Myanmar archaeological community named the discovered fossils "Bama Man". This is the earliest Homo erectus in Myanmar.

A large number of Paleolithic tools have been found along the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar, in Southern Shan State, and in the Yan'an Qiang. This is the Anyat culture of the Paleolithic Age in Myanmar. "Anyat" means "upper Burmese people" in Burmese. The main stone tools used by the Anyat people are hand picks, chopping tools and chopping tools. Large choppers are made from long strips of gravel or petrified wood. The hand pick is essentially a long-axis chopping tool, and the chopping tool is the stone core tool left after hitting the stone flakes from the pebbles. Judging from the shape of the Anyat stone tools, they belong to the same type as the Zhoukoudian culture in China and the Bataan culture in Java, Indonesia, but are different from the hand-axe-shaped stone tools popular in Europe, Africa and western Asia. One thing is obvious. No one can prove that the Anyat and Javanese stone tools were passed down from Zhoukoudian in China. They were Paleolithic tools that appeared at the same time, nor were they spread here from Europe or Africa.

In the Paleolithic Age, the Anyat people used stone knives and axes to hunt, fish, and pick in the mountains, hills, plains, seasides, and rivers of Myanmar, and lived a carefree life. At that time, among the Anyat people There are two popular sayings. The first one is "to live depends on the sky, to live depends on the earth, and to eat or drink depends on the air", which fully illustrates the character of the Anyat people.

Chu Sanxing said: I like zoology and archeology. I chose to be a hunter because I wanted to get more first-hand inspection and research information. My mother is a linguist. She not only studies the origin of Eurasian languages, but also studies animal languages, and understands many characteristics of animal language communication.

Agudengba was very surprised. It turned out that Chu Sanxing was not only a young hunter, but also a scholar with rich knowledge. He had parents with high IQs.

Xiang Qima said to girl Dawa: Chu Sanxing’s parents and my parents both live in Myanmar. We went to Myanmar because we both have a deep love for our parents.

Chu Sanxing said to Agudengba:

Some scholars around the world have determined that the "Southern Silk Road" did exist in history. This "Southern Silk Road" played an important role in the cultural, technological and commercial exchanges between China, especially the Sichuan and Yunnan regions, and the Indian subcontinent. Connectivity. The world also agrees: China's sericulture and silk weaving technologies first originated in Sichuan and Yunnan, and were later introduced to the Indian subcontinent and Persia via the "Southern Silk Road". As early as 2,400 years ago, Chinese silk had been commonly used among the nobility of the Indian subcontinent. In fact, the native place of tea and sesame is the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and they were probably spread westward through the "Southern Silk Road".

Chu Sanxing said to Agudengba again:

Rice cultivation techniques in Asia may have originated in both Yunnan, China, and Assam, India. In fact, Chinese gourds, bitter gourds, eggplants, sugar cane, lentils, etc. were all introduced to China from the Indian subcontinent.

Chu Sanxing continued to Agudenba:

Some people say that iron tools and iron-smelting technology also entered various countries in the Indian subcontinent through the "Southern Silk Road" and spread to Central Asia and even ancient Rome. I don’t agree with this statement. The reason is very simple. The legendary eras of Huangdi, Yandi, Zhuansuo, Emperor Ku, Yao, and Shun were about 3000-2000 BC. That was an important era for the origin of Chinese civilization, and it was also the time when copper and stone were used together. era, or the late Yangshao period to the entire Longshan period. But from about 4300 BC to 3500 BC, primitive cities appeared in the Sumer area. In about 3100 BC, King Menes of Upper Egypt unified Upper and Lower Egypt. From about 3000 BC to 2600 BC, the Aegean region entered the Early Bronze Age. Obviously, the Sumerian civilization and the ancient Indus civilization were thousands of years earlier than the ancient Chinese civilization. ​

If you compare the Neolithic Age with the Paleolithic Age, the scope of activities was even greater. There are traces of the activities of primitive people in Myanmar in the vast area starting from the Arakan River and Chindon River Basin in the west, to the Shan State Plateau in the east, from the Kachin Mountains in the north, to the Tanassar Forest in the south. From this, the cultures represented by Padaling, Lepanchipo and Taumagong were born. The tools back then were also more diverse. Several pieces of Neolithic stone tools have been excavated from the Padaling, Lebanquipo, and Taumagong cultural sites, including stone adzes, stone chisels, stone hammers, stone mills, and flat stone rings. Moreover, production tools have also improved greatly. Finer ground stone tools replaced the rougher ones. The primitive people of Myanmar used these ground stone tools to hunt wild animals, cut down trees to build houses, and dig soil to cultivate the land. They gradually transitioned from fishing, hunting, and gathering to food production. From relying on the sky to make a living to relying on your own hard-working hands to create a new life.

Chu Sanxing and Xiang Qima sang a Burmese song "We Are Anyat" together：

 

Do you know Myanmar?

Maybe you are familiar with it,

Know that Myanmar is in Southeast Asia,

It borders Yunnan, China.

 

In your understanding,

Maybe you are biased,

Think Myanmar is weak and poor,

That's your cognitive bias.

 

I want to tell you proudly,

Myanmar has a large land area.

Among the countries of Indochina,

Myanmar ranks second in territory.

 

One day in heaven and one year on earth,

Our ancestors were here,

Hundreds of thousands of years, carefree,

We are the descendants of Anyat.

 

In the distant Paleolithic Age,

There are human traces here,

Ten thousand years ago, far from now,

Where did time go in a blink of an eye?

 

The rise of the Bagan dynasty after AD

With those things about great unification,

Have its own national system,

Since then, Myanmar has become independent.

 

With the accumulation of knowledge and the power of science,

From the Shan State Plateau to the coast of Tanah Sarin,

From Arakan to the Salween River Basin,

The Anyat people brought about change in Myanmar.