We know that people often compete with each other, such as who earns more money, or who marries a daughter-in-law, etc., in fact, the same is true between countries, and there will also be competitions in various aspects.
China is one of the four major ancient civilizations in the world, but there have always been a large number of Western scholars constantly smearing our Chinese historical civilization, such as attacking our Chinese history for more than 3,000 years, and there is no 5,000-year-old ancient civilization at all, because in the eyes of Western scholars, no written record of history is not real history.
For this reason, as our native scholars and experts, we naturally also vigorously argue that archaeological work at this time is a very good weapon, and many evidences can be excavated from archaeology that can prove the history of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years.
In fact, over the years too many archaeological results have slapped the face of these Western scholars who question our Chinese civilization, let's continue to introduce an ancient site, the discovery of this ancient site has been a harsh lesson for Western scholars, let them not be blindly questioned, to question or have to come up with favorable evidence.
We should know the Xia Dynasty, in fact, the Xia Dynasty has not been recognized by the West, just like the Shang Dynasty was not recognized, but later archaeology unearthed oracle bones, etc., so as to force Western scholars to recognize the true existence of the Shang Dynasty.
However, at the end of the 1950s, the archaeological team accidentally discovered the Xia Ruins, which is actually the Erlitou site in Luoyang, and from this time on, the archaeological team began to gradually carry out the history of the Xia culture.
Don't say that the Erlitou site is indeed very large, covering an area of 3 square kilometers, that is to say, 3 square kilometers, this scale is shocking, and in the Erlitou site, our archaeological team found many cultural relics, including Longshan culture, Yangshao culture, Eastern Zhou, Western Han and other periods.
Moreover, in the subsequent archaeology, the archaeological team excavated "9 of China's best" in the Erlitou site, such as the discovery of China's earliest "Forbidden City", China's earliest ruts, China's earliest turquoise tool manufacturing workshop, China's earliest bronze ceremonial vessel group and so on.
These "9 chinese bests" are undoubtedly slowly making the Erlitou site an inseparable and important part of the history of Chinese civilization, so as to better let our experts understand China's ancient historical civilization, but also let Western scholars face it, let them know the long history of Chinese civilization.
From the archaeology of the Erlitou site to now, it has been basically confirmed that this should be an ancient site in the middle and late Xia Dynasty, and I believe that in the subsequent archaeology, our experts can find more historical civilizations.