What does Jin Shijia do?
[Edit this paragraph] Epigraphy is the predecessor of China archaeology, that is, the subject of studying ancient artifacts, with a history of 1000 years, which began in the Northern Song Dynasty in China. "Gold" refers to copper, bronze and bronze with inscriptions and characters on it; "Stone" refers to stone carving, stone carving with words. Then, on these bronzes and stone carvings with words, according to the materials, I checked the ancient economy and ancient history books, found problems, corrected them and supplemented many problems. Because he studies physical objects, he has something in common with archaeology, but it is not the same as archaeology in the scientific sense later. Archaeology in the scientific sense first includes field excavation, field investigation, stratigraphy, typology, archaeological culture and a set of methodological theories. Epigraphy refers to an archaeology in the ancient traditional culture of China. Its main research objects are bronzes and stone tablets of past dynasties, especially the inscriptions and rubbings on them. Broadly speaking, it also includes bamboo slips, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, jade, bricks, clay, military symbols, funerary wares and other general cultural relics. The study of epigraphy involves philology, history, calligraphy, literature, library science and so on. It appeared in the Han Dynasty, but it was most developed in the Song and Qing Dynasties. The excavation of Shi Guwen in the Song Dynasty and the discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the late Qing Dynasty are important milestones in epigraphy. Epigraphy is not equal to modern archaeology. In contemporary times, epigraphy is often combined with other disciplines, rather than an independent knowledge. Metallography in Song Dynasty: Zhao Mingcheng and Ouyang Xiu; Qing Dynasty: Luo Zhenyu, Wang Guowei and Wang.