Did Ancient Chinese Explore America? by Charlotte Harris Rees

Author:Charlotte Harris Rees
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: d Ancient Chinese Explore America, Chinese Explore, Shan Hai Jing, Heneriette Mertz, Hendon Harris, Charlotte Harris Rees, Joseph Needham, Edward Payson Vining, North American History
Publisher: Torchflame Books
Published: 2014-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

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On the way up, the tram operator pointed out Totem Rock. It is said to be a natural formation, but looks like a totem pole. Though it appears to be stacked rocks, we were told that it is all connected and is the equivalent of a seven storey building.

Totem Rock

I could not help but recall that from extremely early dates that there were totem poles in China. It is said that Chinese invented the totem pole. Even the word “totem” is Chinese. A totem pole in China at Sichuan Province Sanxingdui archeological site is dated to 2050 BC.115 There is still a totem pole today in Tiananmen Square.

In 1973 my father, Dr. Hendon Harris, Jr. stated in The Asiatic Fathers of America: “The record of Asia is written into the stones of America and into the bodies of its early people.” Now DNA establishes the connection of Native Americans to Asians. Petroglyphs, which, of course, are written on stone, are all over America’s Southwest.

At the edge of Albuquerque to the northwest of Manzano Peak we visited Boca Negra Canyon, which is part of Petroglyph National Monument. There carved on black volcanic rock are over 20,000 petroglyphs. According to a brochure from the National Park Service:

Archeologists, currently using relative dating methods along the escarpment are arriving at the conclusion that the petroglyphs were created between circa 1000 BC and the 1700s. Many contemporary American Indian people in this region believe that the petroglyphs are as old as time.116

In Asiatic Echoes: The Identification of Chinese Pictograms in North American Rock Writing (2011) and in his 2012 addendum to that book, Dr. John Ruskamp, Jr. shows a total of seven different ancient Chinese characters found at Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque. Chinese writing evolved over the years and these are the ancient forms of those characters, though most are still recognizable as Chinese.

Pictograms for guo (fruit tree), zhou (something that floats like a boat), and tian (field) at this location are discussed in Ruskamp’s first book117 and the pictograms for wen (culture), hua (flower), quan (dog), and tu (ground) in the 2012 addendum.

The pictogram for tian (田) is an enclosed square with a cross in the middle dividing the field into four sections. Tian can mean:

A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop.

A portion or land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource e.g. oil field.

A garden of flowers.

A Chinese surname. 118

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