The discovery of oracle bone inscriptions rebuilt knowledge of a royal dynasty which some had suspected was imaginary, and the many neolithic sites discovered in mainland China over the past few decades have not only shown up even earlier traces of written language, but have also debunked the idea which we learned from childhood, that China's central plain was the cradle of Chinese civilization.
甲骨文的出土，重建了一個原本被疑為子虛烏有的王朝；而近幾十年來，大陸不斷出土的新石器時代遺址，不但揭露更早的文字跡象，還推翻了我們自小熟讀的「中原是中華文化的搖籃」。