近四十年来的中国史前研究提供了丰富多彩的背景,从此我们有了对古代中国文明作出较为科学的描述和较为确当的解说的可能。直至本世纪初,中国的老派历史家所接受的教育,完全是培养盲目信从远古时代有过一个黄金世纪——尧舜之世的说法。他们跟欧洲早期的史学家和经院学生如出一辙。这些人热衷于相信一种不受挑战的理论:自 In the past 40 years, the Chinese prehistoric research provided a rich and colorful background. From then on, we had the possibility of making a more scientific description of the ancient Chinese civilization and a more definitive explanation. Until the beginning of this century, the education accepted by the old school historians in China was nothing but to foster blind faith in the belief that there had been a golden age in ancient times, the days of Yao and Shun. They are exactly the same as early European historians and scholastic students. These people are keen to believe in a theory that is not challenged: from