Over the last 40 years, mainland scholars have been laboring to find the relationship between the Hsia period and the neolithic period which preceded it and the Shang-Chou period that followed. From the existing data, people are still pretty much in the dark about the Hsia dynasty in the "Three Dynasties."
四十年來，大陸考古學者盡力在尋找夏代及與其上下連接的新石器時代，和商周等時期的關係，但從目前的一些考古資料來看，大家對「三代」中夏代的認識，其實還很模糊。