Why don't archaeologists recognize the existence of Xia Dynasty?

Strictly speaking, the Xia Dynasty was not recognized by European and American archaeological circles. Modern archaeology, which is based on Europe and America, has three basic standards for the identification of the concept of state. First, there is a relatively mature writing and language system; Second, there is a complete social system; Third, it has walls, palaces and other buildings. In my impression, these three standards are not easy to remember, and these three categories should be supported by digging physical objects. Since the Republic of China, archaeology has borrowed from the West. As the earliest dynasty recorded in China's history books, Xia Dynasty has also found some city and architectural relics in recent years, which is earlier than Shang Dynasty. However, there is no physical archaeological evidence of earlier writing and language than Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Although there are some symbols similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions on some pottery of early civilization, the number is too small, the coverage is too small, and it is not as mature and extensive as Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Therefore, this is why western historians do not recognize the Xia Dynasty, but only recognize a certain scale of civilization, and do not think it is an ancient country.

There is also foreign prejudice against East Asians. If you want to destroy your country, you must first destroy its history. Ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon, ancient India and Mayan civilization were all extinct by western whites without exception. Today, the descendants of those civilizations have long forgotten their own history, spoken other people's languages, inherited other people's cultures and worshipped their ancestors. Although westerners are ahead of China in modern economy, culture, science and technology, they are extremely inferior in history and culture, because their written history is only a few hundred years. In order to create a strong civilization for ourselves, we must set out from history and establish a splendid ancient civilization. It's like someone likes to brag, claiming that his ancestors were so-and-so emperors or so-and-so dignitaries, which can make him different. It is based on this psychology that westerners feel extremely inferior in history, but they have created a powerful historical civilization for themselves. Because of the strength of the west in science and technology, it also creates the strength of the right to speak. For decades, the right to speak in the world has been dominated by the west, and all the rules have been formulated by westerners. In those years, China was poor and weak, and had to live by their rules. Westerners encounter China, an uninterrupted historical civilization, and fall into contradiction. On the one hand, they deeply feel the long history of China, on the other hand, they deeply feel inferior to their poor historical records. So they intentionally or unintentionally avoided China's historical problems until they saw the Xia Dynasty's problems. Because they didn't record the history of China in detail, they found a lifeline, denied China's Xia Dynasty with their right to speak, and then used the developed Internet and media to instill in China that the Xia Dynasty didn't exist. Everything they do is denying the history of China. As long as no one in China believes in this history, the history of China will perish. If anyone doesn't believe me, please look at what Spain did when it conquered America. They burned all Mayan books and forced them to learn Spanish until everyone stopped speaking their own language, so a civilization was completely destroyed.

With the excavation of Erlitou and other "pre-Shang" sites, the debate about the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty in China recorded in historical books, has become increasingly fierce. Although this debate lasted for nearly half a century, the level of the debate has not been greatly improved over the years. Except for some technical links, the pros and cons still say their own words, and there is no exchange of ideas at all, let alone persuading each other. This is really a little sad.

I have always been a staunch supporter of the theory of "Erlitou = Xia" and always thought that the Xia Dynasty actually existed. However, because we can't dig enough things, we have to dig more. In fact, foreign countries generally believe that the Xia Dynasty is promising. In fact, high standards are not a bad thing. Koreans casually compiled the history of 8,000 years ago, relying on legends and completely ignoring cultural relics, which became a joke.