How to Evaluate Professor Guo Jingyun's New Theory on the Origin of China Civilization

Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties —— From myth to historical facts, the traditional preconceptions about China's ancient civilization and the historical view of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties were abandoned. According to the clues given by archaeological data, historical facts and mythological data, it was put forward that the earliest civilization in China was born in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the civilization in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River came down in one continuous line from Qujialing-Shijiahe to Panlongcheng. In fact, the legendary Shang Dynasty had two completely different entities. One was originally developed from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and Panlongcheng may be the legendary soup merchant capital. The other is Yin Shang, a northern grassland group with Yin Ruins in Anyang as its capital.

Professor Guo believes that 3500 years ago, the northern nationalities came to Yin Ruins to build their capital, and after another 100 years, they defeated Panlongcheng and established themselves as "Shang", and gradually merged the story of "Southern Shang" with their own genealogy to emphasize the legitimacy of "Yin Zong" regime and the inheritance of local regime. Since then, the ancient civilization that originally existed in Jianghan Valley has been submerged in later literature. Professor Guo believes that there are many such examples in world history. The god history of losers often becomes the glorious history of winners. In West Asia, the Babylonian Amorite North Renye Fang, who was later than Sumerian civilization, borrowed Sumerian history, and wrote the former king of Sumerian as his own holy king, which merged with his own history. Later, the Hittites borrowed the history of Babylon, so the history of the two nations merged together, making the biography of their former king more complicated. It was not until modern times that this historical truth was gradually restored through archaeological discoveries and research. After the victory of the northern nationalities in China, they not only mastered the territory and resources in the south, but also mastered their own original civilization achievements and heroic stories.