The Rising and Deepening of the Research Activities of the Ba Culture (Part Two)
There are three stages of research activities of Ba culture.The first stage(1930-1949),has very few archaeological files,so the researchers mainly began to study from the historical documents.Many famous old history expert,such as Wu Zhihua,Gu Jiegang,Xu Zhongshu,Dong Zuobing,Tong Shuye,Wei Juxian and so on,studied the origin and the related problems of Ba and Shu culture and proposed the concept of Ba culture,which was the first climate of the Ba culture study.The second stage(1950-1979),the archaeologists carried out investigations and excavating work in the Three Gorge region.According to the excavating files of funerary objects of warring states periods of China in the Baolun Temple of Guangyuan city,Dongsunba of Ba County,Xiaotianxi of Fulin,combined with the related historic document recordings,the experts proposed the concept of Ba culture,and further believed that these funerary files belong to the latest Ba culture relics.In the 1970s,another people's habitant relics of the latest new Stone Age and Xia and Shang dynasties in the east of Three Gorges were continuously found by the archaeologists.The experts thought it belongs to the early Ba culture relics according to the characteristics of culture.A series of influential research books and papers were published,which was the second climate of the Ba culture study.The third stage(1980-2010),the archaeologists excavated a lot of Ba people's relics and funerals,which make the judgment of Ba culture origin from the Xiashang dynasties to the latest new Stone Age.A group of Ba culture study groups were established and many academic activities of Ba culture were held.A series of publishing of Ba culture study were constructed,which was the highest climate of Ba culture study.The rising and deepening of Ba culture study in the last 80 years were summarized.