陶寺古城与纪事文字

The Ancient City of Taosi and Written Records

陶寺古城遗址分宫城和郭城两部分,总面积达280万平方米,即文献记载的尧都平阳。这里出土骨耜上的“辰”字和扁壶残片上的“文尧”两字,不但证明了尧舜时期已进入有文字记录的信史时代,而且还有力地证明了这座古城址就是尧都平阳故城。

The ancient city ruins Taosi consists of a palace city and an outer city,and covers an area of 2.8 million square meters.At the city ruins,two inscriptions were found.One is“辰(chen)”inscribed on a bone soil tilling tool,and the other is“文尧(wen yao)”on a pottery fragment.The inscriptions suggest that Yao and Shun lived in a time of written records.