中国的安阳 世界的殷墟

Anyang of China and Yinxu of the world

一位学者曾这样谈过“废墟”: ……没有废墟就无所谓昨天,没有昨天就无所谓今天和明天。废墟是课本,让我们把一门地理读成历史;废墟是过程,人生就是从旧的废墟出发,走向新的废墟……因此废墟是起点。废墟是进化的长链。我们,挟带着废墟走向现代。关于人类的“废墟”,人们可以从旅行家那里听到一长串响亮的名字:埃及的金字塔、印度的哈拉帕、英国的巨石阵、意大利的庞贝城……悠长深邃的中国历史,也给我们留下了无数的“废墟”。 2000年,中国权威的考古学术刊物《考古》杂志策划主持了一次被称为“20世纪中国百项考古大发现”的评选活动,殷墟的最高得票数使它在成千上万的“废墟”中备受注目。参加投票活动的有中固近百名知名考古学家。殷墟,铸就了一个响亮的名字!

Yinxu locating Xiaotun village of Anyang City in Henan Province, was the last capital site of Shang Dynasty in history record of Warring States Period. Yinxu has been famous because Wang Yirong in phage of Qing Dynasty found words in one of Chinese traditional medicines named Dragon Bones. 1928, liji as the leader of an archeology team in central academe presided the work of unearthing. Nowadays, with decades efforts of scholars, we have made great progress in this field. For example, we made the ages of Yangshao, Longshan and Shang culture clear; proved up bound of Yinxu buildings sites, unearthed ten thousands bones and found large number of wares made of bronze, jade, bones, crockery and stones; at the turn of centuries, we have found 'Huanbei City in Shang Dynasty' at the north bank of Huan River. For 70 years, these findings have exhibited brilliant oriental culture 3,000 years ago.