唐际根曾对我说:“进了北大考古系,才琢磨明白,正是名字中的这个‘根’字,冥冥之中注定了,我的一生将以考古为业。”北大毕业后,唐际根被分配到中国社会科学院考古研究所。从此,他就把“根”扎在了小屯。殷墟考古队队长一干就是十几年。唐队向我讲过这样一个故事:有一次,中国社科院举办青年骨干培训班。在做自我介绍时,这位学员说,“刚下飞机,从巴黎回来”;那位学员说,“刚下飞机,从纽约回来”;轮到 Tang Jigang once said to me: “into the Peking University Department of Archeology, was pondering understand that it is the name of this ’root’ word, somewhere destined, my life will be archeology industry.” “After graduating from Peking University Tang Jiguan was assigned to the Institute of Archeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Since then, he put ”root “ tied in a small village. Yinxu archeology team leader is a dozen years. Tang team told me a story like this: Once, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences held a youth backbone training class. In a self introduction, the trainee said, ”Just disembarking from Paris,“ the student said. ”Just getting off the plane and coming back from New York."