Here was concrete evidence of the existence of the Shang dynasty, which for a time had been suspected of being a figment of early historians 'imaginations. The discoveries also defined the earliest authenticated point in Chinese history.
一度被疑為史家虛構的殷商王朝，找到了具體證據，也成為中國信史的開始。「鐵口直斷」的卜兆