The paper I just wrote turned out to be true

Chapter 26 Doubts Are Enough, History Halved
"Welcome Professor Li Xiuxian to give a report!"

Under the auspices of Director Liping of Beihe University, the report officially started. Professor Li Xiuxian was in good spirits and looked like he was about 50 years old.

He took a handbag, turned on his computer, and quickly connected to the ppt in front of him.

"Good afternoon, teachers and students."

"I'm Li Xiuxian. I'm very happy to be able to come to Beihe University to give a report today. I won't be useless anymore, because the teachers here are all acquaintances, so I will directly enter the topic."

"The name of my report is the significance of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties and Civilization Exploration Project."

"First of all, these two projects were not actually proposed by our historians. This dates back to the 90s."

"At that time, Director Song, who is the one in my picture, led a team to study abroad, and in the process of communicating with the scientific community in Israel, he met the vice president of the Israeli Academy of Sciences, a famous Assyriologist, and an expert on the ancient history of the Middle East and Israel. Mr Tedmore."

"This old gentleman gave us the latest achievements in Assyria research as a commemorative gift. The general idea of ​​this material is: In the middle of the 19th century, several scholars successfully deciphered The cuneiform characters on the official documents, and then through a series of scientific and technological means, constructed the age framework of the ancient Babylonian Kingdom."

"Then when our group visited Egypt, they were shocked by the Egyptian pyramids. The ancient history of Egypt has also been constructed, which shocked us."

"This is the introduction. Later, after the inspection team returned to China, under the organization of Director Song, they held many symposiums to discuss the construction of the chronological history of Xia, Shang and Zhou in our country."

Professor Li Xiuxian paused for a moment.

"At that time, there was a lot of suspicion of Xia Shang in the domestic and international community."

"Mr. Guo Moruo once asserted in 1929: ""Shangshu" began with Tang Yu, and "Historical Records" began with Huangdi, but these are unreliable. The Shang Dynasty is the real beginning of Chinese history. "

"Fan Wenlan, another historian who was contemporaneous with Guo Moruo, regarded the Five Emperors and the Xia Dynasty as legends in his "General History of China" edited by him, and expressed doubts with question marks after the Xia and Shang dynasties. Everything is considered as a hypothesis.”

"A series of cultural relics unearthed later, the world also recognized the existence of the Shang Dynasty, but there are still many doubts about the Xia Dynasty and our civilization."

Speaking of this, Professor Li Xiuxian raised his head, looked around, and said: "The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties are not conclusive, and there are many strange remarks. For example, the civilization of our country came from the west. Everyone, please read this book."

"This is World History, edited by University of Illinois Starr and published in 1964.

It declares in it: The origin of ancient Chinese civilization was later than that of Mesopotamia, and it was developed under the influence of the latter. Chinese bronzes appeared around 1500 BC, and ironmaking technology was developed after 1000 BC. imported from the West.Ancient Chinese civilization developed rapidly after the Shang Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty was from 1523-1027 BC. The cultural relics unearthed in Anyang area are the only physical evidence.

There are also many remarks that the size of the Shang Dynasty was smaller than that of Britain. "

"It is also under this circumstance that the history of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties has been included in the national major scientific research projects."

Lin Chen knew about the ins and outs of the subject before.

In fact, there can be so many "inappropriate" remarks.

In fact, it is also related to a trend of thought.

It is also known as the Suspicion School in history.

Starting with Kang, he vigorously criticized the tradition, and then expanded to deny it. With his prestige at the time, he won a lot of support.

Then there is a certain Hu who returned from studying in the United States. When he was studying in the United States, he studied under the famous professor Dewey. Hu simplified his experimentalism to "bold assumptions and careful verification", and vigorously advocated it in the Chinese academic circles. All the rage.

When I returned to China to teach, I used the method of "cutting off the crowd", discarded the ancient records of "half myth, half official history", and used "The Book of Songs" as the explanation of the era in the opening chapter "The Age of Chinese Philosophy's Ending", discarding Opened the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and Xia Shang, and started directly after King Xuan of Zhou.

He is fundamentally skeptical of the mixed records of myths and legends and historical facts in ancient China, which is why he said that "there is no history above the Eastern Zhou Dynasty".

Of course, Lin Chen also understands his attitude quite well, after all, the times and backgrounds are different.

Next, one of Hu's students carried it forward.

Gu Jiegang, a character that historians cannot avoid when studying the history of the 20th century.

He put forward a hypothesis: the concept of "Chinese ancient history formed layer by layer".

His point is threefold:
First, "The later the era, the longer the ancient history of the legend".

Second, "As time goes by, the central figure in the legend becomes bigger and bigger."

Third, we cannot know the true status of a certain event, but we can know the earliest status of a certain event in the legend.

He sorted out the ancient historical legends contained in the three books of "The Analects of Confucius" and compared them, and found that "Yu existed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and Yao and Shun did not rise until the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. The more they rise up, the more It is at the front. After Fuxi and Shennong, Yao and Shun became juniors again, not to mention Yu."

Therefore, he felt that the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and Xia, Shang and Zhou did not exist.

According to its theory, China's history is directly halved.

This trend of thought has had a huge impact, directly causing many people to lose trust in ancient history. They believe that many ancient documents are also fake.

Even if there are some scholars who object to the question, they will inevitably escape the influence. Most of them conclude that the Xia Dynasty is a legend, or that the Xia Dynasty will not have a high culture, and some are just a little historical shadow passed down orally.

Had it not been for the later discovery of oracle bone inscriptions, the Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province, I am afraid that history would have been halved directly.

After talking about Lailong, you have to think about the pulse.

Next, Professor Li explained some basic conditions for completing the project.

For example, science and technology: the detection of carbon fourteen.

When the organism is alive, the radiation amount of carbon in the body is consistent with nature. After the organism dies, the radiation amount of carbon fourteen will gradually weaken, and the half-life is about 5568 years ± 30 years.

Therefore, when inspecting the ruins, the amount of carbon radiation in the surviving animal and plant remains can be detected, and by comparing the weakened radiation amount with the half-life, you can know how many years have passed.

Lin Chen listened with gusto.

Now that there are such advanced archaeological methods, I don't know if my golden finger can turn the fake into the real.

He suddenly thought of a brain hole.

If I get a treasure and prove that it is an earlier cultural relic, will it come true?

Well, no.

A message came directly into my mind.

[recommended to dream]

(End of this chapter)