Similar development East and West: Further, Dinggong is a site belonging to Longshan Culture (about 4000 years ago). For many years now scholars have been anxious to get their hands on some Longshan script; though some had been discovered in Shandong and Henan, the numbers were extremely limited.
另外，它出土於「龍山時期」（距今四千年左右）的文化遺址，多年來學者一直在努力尋找龍山時期的文字，山東、河南曾發現過幾個，但數量極少。