Once upon a time, Chinese culture was quite popular in the West. Some people who like to be innovative, or even those with ulterior motives, have made up the lies that the oldest dynasty in China were established by white people. Belief in Chinese civilization and interpret the historical view of national nihilism to the extreme.
In ancient China, there was no archaeological in the modern sense, but only the " philology " that drilled the old paper pile. A knowledge like "How many ways to write the character Hui" belongs to philology. In the late Qing Dynasty, with the deepening of the Westernization Movement, some Western academic research methods and ideas were spread to China. For example, stratigraphy is a knowledge that Chinese people have never been exposed to. As pharmacies of Anyang discovered that some oracle bones used as medicines have texts that are relatively similar to Chinese characters, the prelude to Chinese archaeological research has opened. A large number of Chinese students followed Western scholars to learn archaeological theory and practical experience, and eventually became a big shot. For example, Mr. Liang Siyong. Liang Siyong is the son of Mr. Liang Qichao and Mr. Liang Sicheng's brother.
With the arrival of a group of Western archaeologists such as Antesen , field archaeological exploration and excavation gradually deepened. During archaeological excavations, Anderson discovered that many artifacts unearthed in China, especially some pottery, are very similar to those they have seen in Central and West Asia in the past. Based on the historical cognition level at that time, it was concluded that these cultures were all passed down from the West, which was an important basis for the "Chinese culture in the West" that was popular during the Republic of China period.
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With the growth of the Chinese local archaeological team and the continuous emergence of archaeological excavations, the source of Chinese culture in the West - pottery from ancient times came from the West, and there is no market. According to the research of Chinese scholars, the transmission paths of some painted pottery are not from west to east, but from east to west, with a decrease in age.
Over the years, some doubts have emerged. Based on hearsay and lack of professionalism, they judged that China's oldest civilization came from Ancient Egyptian and from Indian Harapa culture. It is even said that the ancient Chinese were Jews and and the Caucasians. How did this misunderstanding come about?
As we mentioned earlier, archaeology, stratigraphy, and cultural identification and protection methods of physical and chemical methods such as carbon 14 chronological measurement all come from the West. Most of the physical anthropological data obtained by Westerners in archaeological practice are from the West. This arises a problem. After the data such as height, width, and length of the skull are modeled, problems will arise when applied to the remains of ancient Chinese people. Based on this kind of copying and blunder, some people concluded that during the Shang Dynasty, there were a large number of white people, even some black people, in Shandong, China. The reality is that the differences between skull are actually only the differences between the paleo-Eastern, paleo-Northeast, and paleo-South Asians. With the gradual popularization of molecular anthropology, the accurate conclusion we can now draw is that during the Shang Dynasty and even earlier Yangshao culture period, the ancient people in the Central Plains had the closest relationship with the modern Central Plains people.
Of course, we do not rule out that the DNA of certain tribes, or even a royal family, comes from the West, and even belongs to the same branch as the Y chromosome of the Indians. But these data have nothing to do with ethnology . After sequencing the Y chromosome of the Kong surname Qufu, it was found that 9,000 years ago shared the same ancestor as today's Mongolian . But we know that the Chinese nation has only appeared for 5,000 years, and talk about the farther-reaching kinship , and humans also share the ancestors with chimpanzees. These have long gone beyond the time frame that defines race.
We also do not rule out that some important production technologies and manufacturing processes come from Central Asia, West Asia, and even more distant Africa. For example, the cultivation and domestication of wheat, cattle, horses and sheep are both from West Asia. But this does not mean that the ancient tribes that planted wheat and fed cattle, horses and sheep in the Central Plains at that time were all white people from the West.Just as Africans are using Huawei mobile phone , it does not mean that they must be yellow people from China in the past.
