The Book of Rites of Shangshu comes from the wall of Confucius. Is it a pity that Confucius copied those five articles? Sun Bin's The Art of War was unearthed in Yinxing Mountain, Linyi, Shandong Province on 1972. Whether it's ancient bronzes, Chu bamboo slips or Dunhuang scrolls. So little, so little. Letters from the Warring States Period unearthed in Mawangdui recorded Su Qin's comments on lobbying the six countries. It has a great relationship with Su Qin recorded in Historical Records. The truth is slowly restored bit by bit. It is said that a Confucius screen was recently unearthed from Houhai Tomb in Nanchang. Presumably, the landlord asked this question because so much gold was unearthed in Houhai Tomb. But for me, gold is not the most precious. What I am looking forward to most is the 3,000 bamboo slips. Liu He, the sea queen, is an emperor and a Confucian. It is best to record a lost book, even a few words.
Tell me an archaeology that I think is more romantic.
Buried for hundreds of years, those literati and poets in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties didn't know that such a lovely poem would have been forgotten in the precipitation of history if it weren't for this porcelain. Do you know how many poems Li Bai wrote, how many Du Fu wrote, and how many they left behind, less than one tenth. Zhang, a great genius who wrote Moonlit Night on the River, left only two songs, and Wang Zhihuan, a genius who wrote Heron House, left only four songs. Further on, Kyoto, Japan, preserved by Liang Sicheng during World War II, escaped the bombing by the US military, so he preserved a pair of Mo Xiang funeral stickers of Wang Xizhi in Kyoto at that time. Without Liang Sicheng, the funeral stickers would have disappeared long ago, and we don't know how and when they disappeared. This is what we know, but we don't know. Those will always be a mystery.
Sometimes I often want to study what Chinese characters are like. From Oracle bones to inscriptions on bronze inscriptions, to big seal script and small seal script, to Han Li, and then to regular script and cursive script. And simplified from traditional Chinese characters to simplified Chinese characters. The stars have changed. Chinese characters bear the fire of Chinese civilization and reveal the blood of Chinese culture, from the beauty of righteousness to the beauty of balance and embellishment, from the beauty of pronunciation to the beauty of structural collocation, and then to the beauty of overall charm.
What is archaeology for, not for cultural relics, but for the context of the 5,000-year civilization of the whole Chinese nation behind it. It is the restoration and inheritance of cultural interpretation to the greatest extent.