About history, whether in China or in the West, there are many controversies. For example, westerners will say that Egypt is the oldest history; Many folklore scholars in China will say that China's culture can be traced back to Huang San and inherited from the Five Emperors, followed by Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and China is the oldest country in the world. Aside from the question of who is right and who is wrong in these two viewpoints, we can see that this debate contains not only historical facts, but also metaphysical history and culture.
These stories are not only history, but also culture, which is an important part of China people's national self-confidence. From this perspective, we can understand why we should talk about history. Past events? There will be such a heated argument.
At the beginning, the history of China recognized by the West was only over 2,000 years, because they thought that the Shang Dynasty would not exist without cultural relics. However, with the discovery of Yin Ruins and conclusive evidence of cultural relics, the western world gradually recognized the existence of Shang Dynasty, and the history of China was relaxed from more than 2,000 years to more than 3,600 years. In their view, it is incredible that China has a history of more than 3,600 years, but in China's view, it is not three emperors and five emperors. What's going on? Up and down for five thousand years? And then what?
Therefore, many of us hope that westerners can recognize the existence of the Xia Dynasty, but western historians firmly oppose it: how can a dynasty without archaeological discoveries be believed? Can the records in Historical Records prove the existence of Xia Dynasty? Can the writings of a hundred schools of thought contend prove the existence of the Xia Dynasty? Just because almost all the ancient documents in China recorded the existence of the Xia Dynasty, can we prove the existence of the Xia Dynasty?
For traditional China people, it is really hard for westerners to understand such a persistent attitude towards archaeology. After all, archaeology is also very close to digging graves. No matter how bad people are in China, they don't like to dig ancestral graves. But since westerners want to dig up some evidence, we will look for it according to their ideas. Then I found the remains of Erlitou. Its historical age is 1750 BC to 1500 BC, which is just within the time interval of Xia Dynasty recorded in Chinese history.
Erlitou site has been regarded as the focus of historical archaeology since it was excavated in Wangcun, Dengfeng County, Henan Province in 1952, in which experts were specially sent there for research. Many experts and professors linked the history of Xia Dynasty with Erlitou's discovery through careful comparison and research, and wrote a chronology of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. However, this report was ridiculed by western scholars.
Ni Dewei, a former professor at Stafford University, proudly said: The international academic community should tear this chronology of Xia, Shang and Zhou into pieces! ? In fact, I really can't understand that even if the report is unscientific, a professor at Stanford University can completely point out its unscientific place. Why can he say such things as a boor so angrily? It can be seen that this report touches on not only history, but also many metaphysical things.
Of course, later, the West also gave reasons for not recognizing the history of the Xia Dynasty. Secondly, it has no related ancient Chinese characters. But this formulation is very unreasonable for traditional scholars in China, because ancient dynasties may not have modern significance? Words? . Written by Zhouyi:? There is a knot in ancient times, and the post-saints use books easily. ? It can be seen that in ancient times, people did not record things with modern words, but used items such as ropes as markers. Where can people find words that suit them?
In fact, the record of human tying knots in primitive times is not only the record of our ancient documents in China, but also the habit of Peruvian Indians. That is to say, in modern times, some ethnic groups without words are still using knot notes to record information.
It can be seen that the development of human civilization itself has developed from no words to words. Can they say that people without words are not people? According to our idea, the ancient Egypt they discovered had characters nearly ten thousand years ago, which is unreasonable! But we won't send it out because of this? Tear it to pieces! ? Such rude words.
However, there are still many scholars and professors in China who study according to the ideas given by the West. For example, an old professor in guizhou minzu university named Changcheng Wang thinks that even if the Xia Dynasty existed, it was not in China, but in Punjab province. In other words, he regarded the Xia Dynasty as the Harappan civilization, also known as? Tianzhu empire? . This statement, but with a little knowledge of history, is not reliable for anyone who has read the basic history books, so it was finally rejected.
What is the truth of history? We believe that real experts will solve this problem. Numerous books such as Shangshu and Shiji have no truth. I'm afraid this answer is a disgrace to the IQ of all ancient people in China and all modern people in China.