"We mustn't think of primitive people as simple," warns Li Xueqin. A Sumerian script once found in Mesopotamia, once it could be deciphered, turned out to be a lament on society's declining morals rather than some mystical or solemn matter. The Dinggong inscription could quite easily be something along similar lines.
「也別把原始人想得太簡單」，李學勤說，曾經發現在兩河流域的蘇米爾古文字，經後人釋讀，結果說的是世風日下的慨嘆，而非什麼神秘或嚴肅的事情，說不定丁公陶文也可作如是觀。