"Senior sister, senior brother!" When Chen Kan and Weng Xiupin were chatting, the door was opened, and a girl stood at the door, this girl's eyes were very clear, giving people a very clean feeling, with a shallow smile on her face, beautiful and lovely.

"Dong Bing, hurry in, it's hot outside!" Weng Xiupin hurriedly said.

"Well, it's okay."

"Aren't you having something at home? Coming back so soon? Chen Kan asked.

"I told her about the advance of this ancient history annual meeting, if I hadn't told her, I guess when you told her, the meeting would have been over." Weng Xiupin gave Chen Kan a roll of his eyes and said.

Chen Kan could only touch his nose in embarrassment, this was indeed his mistake, if it wasn't for Weng Xiupin's reminder, Chen Kan wouldn't know about it at all.

The annual meeting is very important for newcomers like Dong Bing, this is her first battle into the academic circle, when Chen Kan participated in the annual meeting for the first time, she was also excited for a long time, and specially wrote a high-quality paper, but because of too little qualifications to speak on stage, it was finally included in the "conference proceedings".

When Chen Kan first entered this circle, he was also personally led by a senior brother, but this senior brother was more miserable, because Chen Kan's level was already very high at that time, he couldn't take it, and in the end it could only be brought by Teacher Sang himself.

Teacher Sang "handed" Dong Bing to Chen Kan, in fact, he asked Chen Kan to take her, although Chen Kan's current middle school is not very good, but Chen Kan's status in the younger generation of the academic circle is still very high, especially Chen Kan is still a student that Zeng Lao fancies.

"Senior brother taught me a lot." Dong Bing hurriedly said, this is a very cautious and cautious girl, according to Teacher Sang, she is a rich second generation, but Chen Kan really can't see this.

Of course, I can't understand how a rich second generation, or such a beautiful girl, would choose to study boring history, I can only sigh, this person is really amazing.

"Have you figured out what to write this time?" Weng Xiupin asked with a smile.

"I thought about it carefully on the way here, and I want to write about Yuan Shao." Dong Bing said crisply, and then looked at Chen Kan, she hoped to be recognized by Chen Kan.

Chen Kan smiled and nodded, when Dong Bing read Chen Kan's handouts before, she saw Chen Kan's comments about Yuan Shao, she was interested in Yuan Shao, these days, in addition to helping Chen Kan sort out, she also collected a lot of materials about Yuan Shao.

"That's a good idea, and I've recently discovered some new materials, so it's a perfectly feasible idea."

"But the Three Kingdoms is not easy to write, and it is not easy for you to choose this direction." Weng Xiupin said.

"I know, but I'd like to give it a try."

"I've got your back!"

Weng Xiupin's words are not wrong, it is very difficult to study the Three Kingdoms.

The most important thing in the study of ancient Chinese history is the historical data, and there must be enough historical materials to do research, and in the whole history, the one with the least historical materials is naturally the three dynasties of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, because it has been too long, and the historical materials are too few, and most of them are legends.

Even the Xia Dynasty and Dayu don't know if they exist, there is such a sentence in the academic world, "Dayu is a worm", this sentence is to say that there is a "worm" in the word "Yu" on the one hand, and on the other hand, it means that this person does not exist.

The second place in the scarcity of historical materials is naturally the Spring and Autumn Warring States and the Qin Dynasty, which is also too far away, and the third place is not the Han Dynasty after the Qin Dynasty, but the Three Kingdoms.

Among these three periods of history, the most difficult to study is the Three Kingdoms period, and now there are very few experts in the academic community who specialize in the study of the Three Kingdoms, which is comparable to the giant panda.

Because the time of the Three Kingdoms period is too short, about the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou, basically historians will not study, but sociologists and anthropologists are interested; Regarding the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the history of thought is also very rich, and the thoughts of the hundred schools of thought can be studied without too much material, but the Three Kingdoms are the most difficult to study.

In this case, if you want to break through, there are two ways.

One is Chen Kan's method, using new methods to research new things on the basis of old materials, but this is very difficult, and innovation is very difficult, otherwise Chen Kan would not have won the top 100 graduate theses with this.

The second way, which is more depending on luck, is to look at the archaeological discoveries, if there are archaeological discoveries of some new materials of this era, then based on these new materials, there may be new research results.

But this one really depends on luck.

You may say that those tombs are there, wouldn't it be good to dig them up directly, and the materials will be unearthed, how can it be relied on luck?

This involves a regulation in the Chinese archaeological community, which has a rule that "within a hundred years, you cannot take the initiative to excavate ancient tombs", and the archaeological excavations we see now are basically "rescue excavations".

The so-called "rescue excavation" is to protect the tomb, and the excavation, such as the tomb is stolen, in this case, it must be excavated, otherwise the damage will be more serious, and for example, when the Three Gorges Dam was built, because the Three Gorges Dam will flood a large area, the tombs in these areas will be excavated protectively.

As for why there is this regulation, in fact, this is also after a bloody lesson, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was no such regulation, when the archaeological community concentrated manpower and material resources to excavate the tomb of the Wanli Emperor in the Ming Tombs.

Why choose the Wanli Emperor?

There is a reason for this, because the most famous point of the Wanli Emperor is that he did not go to court for twenty-three years, and there are many inferences about this reason, and historians at that time speculated that the Wanli Emperor was very likely to take drugs, so he wanted to "open the coffin for autopsy", and the results proved that the Wanli Emperor was indeed a drug addict.

This is not the key, the key is because of the lack of technology at that time, resulting in many burial goods were not able to protect them in the first time, and there was huge damage when they came into contact with the air, and a large number of documents, pictures, and utensils were oxidized the moment they came into contact with the air.

This caused huge losses, so the archaeological community set a rule of "no excavation for a hundred years", so whether or not to excavate new materials is completely up to luck.

Fortunately, Dong Bing's luck is very good, last year in the Yangtze River basin excavated a cemetery of the Three Kingdoms period, there are a large number of bamboo slips, which contains some materials about Yuan Shao, which provides new materials and possibilities for Dong Bing's research.

"When the time comes, I hope that my senior sister will give me some advice!"

"With your senior brother here, he is better than me." Weng Xiupin said with a smile.