"Time is something that catches people off guard, sometimes it is sunny and sometimes it is windy and sometimes it rains......"

Archaeological work is a very time-consuming affair.

Unconsciously, everyone from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has been in Jingzhou for more than three months.

time, unconsciously came to the end of December 2018.

Generally speaking, archaeological work is concentrated in spring, summer and autumn, and field archaeology is basically not carried out in winter.

This is because in the past, when Chinese archaeology was just beginning, there were more cases of archaeological work in the north.

After all, the Central Plains is the birthplace of Chinese civilization, and there are many ruins and tombs.

In the winter in the north, the land will freeze, and there will be heavy snowfall, which is not suitable for archaeological work, so there is no excavation in winter.

But Jingzhou is different.

Jingzhou is located in the Yangtze River basin in the south, and although its geographical location is relatively close to the north, the temperature in December is still around 5°C.

The coldest temperature is not until the end of January, when the temperature drops below freezing.

Therefore, the archaeologists of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Hubei Institute of Archaeology, in order to catch up with the schedule, are still stepping up the archaeological excavation of the Han tombs in Fenghuang Mountain.

The archaeological excavation of the Lajia site has also been carried out for half a year.

Just when Chen Han was busy cleaning up the burial goods in the coffin of Tomb No. 168 in the freezing cold.

The excavation project of the Lajia ruins in Qinghai has finally made the first phase of the results report.

After more than half a year of cleaning and excavation by archaeologists in half of China, the first phase of the Lajia site project has excavated nearly 4,000 square meters.

Among them, the first bowl of noodles found by Chen Han and them from 4,000 years ago, as well as the high-level burial area where suspected tribal leaders were buried, as well as the altar area, residential area, pottery area and square have all excavated a large part.

Cumulatively, a total of more than 6,000 pieces of pottery and stone tools of various types, and nearly 500 pieces of jade and semi-finished jade have been unearthed!

A series of archaeological excavation briefings, as well as geological research and archaeological field investigation reports on the causes of the destruction of the Lajia site, have been published in domestic archaeological journals one after another.

The program "Archaeology in Progress" also made a special program for this purpose.

It's just that when the programs and achievement reports were fermented on the Internet one after another, the public opinion generated was somewhat distorted from the original intention of doing science popularization work at the top.

On mainstream social networking sites such as Zhihu, Weibo, and Douban, #喇家遗址#的词条 have all been on the front row of hot searches under the guidance of the official.

All kinds of popular science articles and videos about the excavation results of the Lajia ruins appeared under the entry, which sparked heated discussions.

It can be seen that this should be a conscious hype hot spot in the Chinese archaeological circle.

In this Internet age, if you don't hype up some hot topics to attract attention, you will be forgotten by the public.

However, what the officials who led the hype of this topic did not expect was.

The announcement of the excavation results of the Lajia site this time not only did not arouse the public's enthusiasm for archaeology, but ushered in a day full of complaints and "debates"!

It is different from when Chen Han and his team announced the research results of "Lajia Ruins Noodles".

At that time, the research results of Lajia millet noodles were announced, and there was a complete set of millet noodles restoration process!

Moreover, there is unearthed physical evidence, and the evidence is ironclad.

No one can dispute that the world's first bowl of noodles was unearthed in China.

So after the topic exploded at that time, most of the public opinion was one-sided cheers and pride.

However, the announcement of the overall excavation results of the Lajia site this time has caused a lot of heated discussion.

"A Neolithic site about 4,000 years ago? And it was destroyed by earthquakes and great floods? ”

"People who have been dead for thousands of years are still going to be dug up and exhibited? Is there any humanity left? ”

"It really makes the ancients die restlessly!"

"I don't know whose ancestors were dug up, and it's still extinct."

"So many bodies dug up, hundreds? How much does this damage yin morality? ”

"Isn't this desecration of corpses? No, blasphemy bones! ”

"What kind of archaeological excavation, it's just an official tomb robbery!"

"Hey, this Lajia tribe is really miserable, it has escaped tomb robbers for more than 4,000 years, and in the end, it has not escaped the so-called archaeological experts."

"Damn, more than 4,000 square meters, isn't this a blatant tomb robbery?"

A large number of netizens, who don't know whether it is anti-collusion or really very ignorant, appeared under the news of the relevant report of the Lajia site, criticizing and abusing them wantonly.

At the outset, there were also professionals and semi-professionals who were already concerned with the field of archaeology, who refuted them below these comments.

However, there are far fewer people who truly understand and understand the meaning and role of archaeological work than those who are ignorant.

Soon, these sane netizens who popularized science and explained archaeological work were drowned in the comments.

Critical comments from archaeologists quickly dominated the hot comments of major related news.

Ordinary people are relatively easy to conform to the herd, and it is easier for them to follow the crowd.

In the traditional concept of the Chinese people, digging graves is certainly not a good thing.

More often than not, ordinary people who don't have any special views on archaeology, or who don't understand archaeological work, naturally feel that these words are very reasonable after seeing these criticisms, and then echo them.

That's it.

After all, the general public does not know much about archaeology, nor does it understand the difference between archaeology and tomb robbing, let alone how important archaeology is to the development of anthropology.

People in the circle already know that there is still a long way to go for the popularization of archaeology.

It is clear that it is not possible to change the public's perception and impression of archaeology in a short period of time.

This is also the reason why the official hype about the excavation results of the Lajia site this time is to popularize and popularize the meaning and importance of archaeology to the public.

But!

An even more frustrating scene happened.

On social platforms such as Weibo and Douyin, a group of influential so-called folk history scholars and big V marketing accounts jumped out one after another to conduct various distorted analyses of the excavation results of the Lajia ruins.

What "The great flood found at the Lajia site confirms the authenticity of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and the record of the Classic of Mountains and Seas is the lost civilization of China! ”

There are also some marketing accounts, swearing that the Lajia site is the tribe of Di Yao, which was flooded, so there was Dayu to control the water later.

There are even people who have made videos very seriously, linking the Lajia ruins with the ancient tribes who have lived for 500 years in the myths and legends of the Book of Mountains and Seas.

It is said that the Lajia tribe is because the lifespan is as high as 500 years, so it suffered from the curse of heaven and was exterminated by the earthquake and the great flood from the sky, so that there are ordinary people who have a lifespan of only 100 years in our later life!

These seemingly outrageous marketing videos and articles, but anyone who has seen a little bit of the report on the excavation results of the Lajia ruins will laugh and scoff at it.

But, what makes people feel ridiculous.

Not many people read the official reports, which were carefully investigated and carefully investigated by scientists, and were full of dry goods and full of science.

These videos and articles, which are full of myths and legends, and are full of drama and gimmicks, are often millions of views and clicks.

And, captured a large number of fans and readers!

These true, nine-point fake so-called "popular science" and "decryption" videos have become a hot topic on the Internet and the widely spread "truth" of the Lajia ruins!

This absurd situation has completely blinded the official staff.

This generation of netizens doesn't even have the most basic ability to distinguish between true and false information?

This occupation of the high ground of public opinion, to carry out popular science work, whoever likes to do it, they really can't do it!