The inscribed potsherd was discovered at Ding gong Village in the Yuancheng district of Zouping County in Shandong Province, some three hours drive from the provincial capital Jinan. The whole village comprises only thirty-odd households, totalling something over 200 souls. Before the economic reforms, it was a quiet farming village where people literally "worked from dawn till dusk."
文字陶片發現在山東省鄒平縣苑城鄉的丁公村，距離濟南約莫三個小時車程，全村只有卅多戶人家、村民二百多人，在經濟改革以前，這兒不折不扣是個「日出而作、日落而息」的寧靜農村。