On the Inter-Evidence Again: The Jade Ring Unearthed from the Tombs of the Han Dynasty in Chaohu City and the Bear Totem of the Chu People

This chapter, based on the previous chapter, summarizes the interaction between the various evidences of the quadruple-evidence method, especially the mutual evidence effect between different materials in the image narrative, as a theoretical proposition of “inter-evidence”, and, by taking the interpretation of the rare white jade ring with godly bear and hornless dragon patterns unearthed from Tomb 1 of the Western Han dynasty in Beishantou village, Chaohu city, Anhui Province in1998, as an example, gives full play to the systematic reference effect of various images, with an attempt to restore the original imagination of the ancient ascension myth, and reconstructs the lost landscape of the ancient heaven.