In the archaeological group of "personally experiencing Yin Ruins and witnessing growth", there are the youngest archaeology professors in the country, scholars from the Academy of Social Sciences, and visitors from the world, I am a middle school history teacher, I always feel a little out of place, I have not kept up with everyone's pace, but the experience of Yin Ruins is a memory that I cherish, and I am also very emotional in my heart, and I have a decade of time. In 2011, he went to Yin Ruins for internship and participated in the archaeological excavation work in the north of Liujiazhuang in Yin Ruins, which was the longest time of all internships. Because he was bent on archaeological work at that time, he seized every opportunity to learn knowledge, learn from the master of the technician, learn from the lead teacher, and even learn from the contractor. From fieldwork to excavation, from warehouse collation to the preparation of reports, I have participated in it, but then I have entered the circle of secondary education by mistake, and while doing my job well, I have never forgotten my identity as an archaeologist, the experience of Yin Ruins, and the scholarly style have become important materials for my teaching work.
I studied at Anyang Normal College as an undergraduate, and my graduate students were at Shaanxi Normal University, so when I learned that I wanted to return to Yin Ruins for archaeological excavations, I was very excited, one was to return to my homeland, there were too many friends and stories in the city that I was familiar with; the second place I went was Yin Ruins, and every archaeologist knew the meaning behind Yin Ruins; it was the birthplace of Chinese archaeology, the place where oracle bones were found, and it was the "Huangpu Military Academy" of archaeologists, and it was the honor of every archaeologist to come to Yin Ruins for internship and excavation. When I was a bachelor, I had several contacts with Yin Xu, mainly to participate in related activities held on World Museum Day, listen to teachers' explanations, try to simulate archaeology, and then resolutely changed my studies to archaeology when I was studying for graduate school.
The four brothers at the same door were excited for a long time on the train to Yin Ruins, planning how to leave their own traces in Yin Ruins. On the first day, Teacher He Yuling received us, arranged accommodation, distributed kits and bicycles. After a brief exchange, we went straight to the construction site. Originally expected that the construction site of Yin Ruins must be large, but after arriving at the scene, it was still shocked, one hundred and ten meters were generously arranged, the engineering team of Guangla Soil used 3, the wind tricycle was constantly transferred, there were hot air balloon photography, there were large ditches, there were traces of roads and ruts in the Yin Ruins period, there were mural tombs of the Tang Dynasty, there were large sacrificial pits, there were abandoned pottery workshops and kiln sites, and there were all kinds of intricate tombs to break the relationship, here I opened the real archaeological world for the first time, and I also met many good teachers and friends here Although I also conducted related internships in many places later, Yin Xu's shock and growth were the most profound.
Figure 1: On the way to the construction site
Figure 2: Excavated bronze tombs
Professional knowledge does not dare to get an axe, talk about a few interesting things to share with the public, and understand the feelings and bones of archaeologists.
During the internship, Mr. Zheng Zhenxiang and Chen Zhida returned to the workstation to hand over the relevant materials after retirement, and some materials needed to be sorted out. The two elders are more than 80 years old, the workstation has made thoughtful arrangements, and a few of our young graduates watched from a distance, especially wanting to communicate with the two teachers, but they were also afraid of taking the risk and disturbing them. When the noise passed, near noon to eat, I went to wash the dishes, found Teacher Zheng walking towards me, I hurried over to help you, said Teacher Zheng what you need, I will bring it to you? She said it's okay, I'm just talking to you. Take Teacher Zheng into our dormitory, listen to Teacher Zheng talk about the excavation of the Yin Ruins in the past, the excavation of the tomb of the woman, and Guo Moruo's inspection; he said that his physical strength was not good, otherwise he would have to give us a good lesson last time. Later, the two gentlemen pushed away the arranged hotel, the food and accommodation were in the workstation, and they also specifically looked for four of us to communicate, take a group photo, and point out the younger generations. Although I have not seen each other since graduation, whether I have seen them on film and television or mentioned in books, I feel unusually kind, and the simplicity and seriousness, rigor and kindness of archaeologists are so precious.
Figure 3: Group photo of working teachers and students (fourth and fifth from the left: Mr. Zheng Zhenxiang and Mr. Chen Zhida)
On the construction site, a pottery water pipe from the Yin Ruins period was excavated, involving the drainage of the rammed earth building courtyard of the courtyard, and many observers observed how several of us could not figure it out, so we asked Teacher He. Teacher He didn't say a word, he directly squatted down and began to scrape the noodles, do micro trench exploration, and then told us to do more hands, don't take it for granted, look at the evidence to speak, and do archaeology boldly to do practice. The seriousness with which things were done and the rigorous analysis of the monuments are still impressive. Later, in a probe party, the opening position of a tomb was really inaccurate, and it did not meet the conventional size, Teacher He called us together to discuss, drilling and scraping, and finally found that it was almost the coincidence of two vertical pit tombs. In addition to the tombs of the Yin Ruins period, there are also Song tombs, Tang tombs, etc., and I did not expect that the cultural accumulation in the Yin Ruins site was so complicated.
During the internship, Professor Jing Zhichun of the University of British Columbia in Canada took students to Yin Hui to study and communicate, which also brought a different experience to our lives. Each of us was assigned two "foreign apprentices", one of my apprentices was a Doctor of Yale University, one was an undergraduate at Columbia University, one was Chinese, and one was a standard blonde. In the early days, I also tried to communicate in English, but after a day of trying, I gave up and let the Chinese apprentice act as an interpreter. Through the differences in Chinese and Western archaeological tools, we can see the civilization behind them, and we can see the exchange of cultures from different research methods. Regarding the expedition, there are several impressive things, a 33-year-old engineer re-learned archaeology to meet his father's wishes, in order to write the soil color directly with saliva and mud with his hands, in order to do pottery kiln firing experiments to go to the mountains to pick up cow dung in the heat of nearly 40 degrees to keep the furnace temperature, etc. There was also a small episode where shells left over from the Japanese invasion of China were found in a modern well at the construction site, and we directly led a foreign delegation to conduct an on-site briefing on the "evidence of Japan's invasion of China" on the spot, and several Students from South Korea and the Philippines also told some of their own domestic history. Enthusiastic foreign friends often called a few of us to go to the skewers to drink beer in the evening, and we used a few simple words such as "Cheers" and "Drink all" to let them experience the "Chinese archaeologists" again in the liquor store.
In addition, the delicious food, quiet environment, academic exchanges and wolf dogs after the curfew at night, the planting of fruit trees, tea parties, barbecues, coffee parties have left a deep impression; Teacher He, Teacher Yue, Teacher Niu, Teacher Liu and the technicians of the workstation have given us great professional help, the first bone class, the first cultural relics protection, the first cultural relics photography, the first time to paint the tomb door, the first time to touch the oracle bones, the first time to find the robbery cave and so on are all happening in Yin Ruins.
Figure 4. Participated in the recording of archaeological science popularization programs
When I graduated with a master's degree, I gave up the examination for the actual factors, and I also became a teacher because of the preparation problem, but the belief and principle of "I am an archaeologist, I can also enter the school", "the poor and the poor fall into the Yellow Spring, and use my hands and feet to find things", I require that I must do better, use the method of archaeological typology to participate in class management, classify the students and the class problems, and solve them one by one in the order of priority; use the endurance of archaeological artifact restoration to solve student problems and accompany students to grow up slowly; use the humility, steadfastness of archaeologists, Rigorous characteristics urge themselves to grow rapidly. At the same time, in order to give full play to the advantages and influence of archaeology, I opened the "Tomb Raider" public archaeology school course in the school, which was unanimously praised by the students.
In the process of opening public archaeology courses, it has received strong support and help from the leaders of the unit, and the school pays special attention to the cultivation of students' comprehensive quality and learning ability, emphasizing the cultivation of ideals and beliefs and social responsibilities; at the same time, it has also received help and guidance from many archaeologists and predecessors in the museum industry. Many teachers have only one side, but they all contribute without hesitation at key moments, and the selflessness and kindness of archaeologists make me feel warm. Archaeologists think more comprehensively, do things more pragmatically, communicate more directly, and have more sincere feelings, which are all conducive to communication with students. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to all the teachers!
Figure 5: Zhou Ligang archaeologist of Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology gave a lecture at the school
Figure 6: Regrettably failed to excavate the pit pit
Figure 7. Shi Cheng
This summer vacation unit arranged relevant study activities, the itinerary happens to have Yin Xu cultural education, this year is also the tenth anniversary of my Yin Xu internship day, I am very happy to be able to revisit the old place, to visit Teacher He and other old friends, to see the place where once stayed, to visit the Yin Xu Museum. The bronze cellar pit was later discovered in the expedition I was in charge of, and looking at the display in the display cases, I still regret that I have not been able to excavate it myself. After understanding this matter, as long as the naughty students come to Yin Ruins, they will definitely go to this place to punch in the card and send it to me, which can also be regarded as a kind of "master's inheritance"!
Author: Kang Shilei
Review: He Yuling
Editor-in-charge: Han Han
Reprinted from: Chinese Archaeological Network, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences