1955年秋,原河南省文化局文物工作队第一队在郑州旧城南关外发掘了一处面积不大的包含有战国时期文化遗存和商代文化遗存的遗址。根据商代地层关系和各层包含陶器特征的明显不同,可又分为上、中、下三层。其中上层和中层分别为郑州商代遗址中常见的商代二里冈期上层和商代二里冈期下层遗存。而这里的下层则为当时郑州商代遗址中尚未见过的新的商代文化类型遗存。由于这种新的商代文化类型遗存,首先是在郑州南关外发现和发掘的,为了便于和郑州商代二里冈文化类型遗存有所区别,于是就把这处遗址的下层定名为郑州商代“南关外 In the autumn of 1955, the first team of the Cultural Relics Work Team of the Cultural Bureau of Henan Province unearthed a small area outside the South Gate of the old city of Zhengzhou to contain the cultural relics of the Warring States Period and the cultural relics of Shang Dynasty. According to the stratum relations of the Shang dynasty and the obvious difference of the pottery characteristics at all levels, it can be divided into upper, middle and lower strata. Among them, the upper and middle layers are the relics of the upper Shanglizigang period and the lower one of the Shangli dilagun period, which are common in Shang dynasty ruins. The lower level here is the remains of a new Shang dynasty cultural genre not seen in the Shang dynasty ruins at that time. Because of this new Shang dynasty cultural relics, first discovered and excavated outside Zhengzhou South Gate, in order to facilitate and Zhengzhou Shang Dynasty Erlitang cultural relics are different, so put this site named the lower floor of the Zhengzhou business On behalf of "South Pass