Common sense of ancient Chinese culture

◎Editor's recommendation

Do you know the complicated truth about King Wu conquering business? Do you know the earliest real thing about cats that we can see? Did you know that the famous Simu Wuding has a fake ear? Do you know that Meng Jiang's surname is Jiang and not Meng? Do you know that the pants worn by people wearing deep clothes in the Han Dynasty were open crotch hakamas that showed their buttocks? Do you know what the oldest concentric knot looks like? Do you know the truth about Huangdi's battle with Chiyou? Did you know that the oldest wine bottles were found 6,000 years ago? Do you know what the word "fishy" in pork originally meant? Do you know how incredible three large-scale cooling China has experienced in the past 3,500 years?

Wonderful content: The full-color version is based on the black-and-white version, refined and corrected, perfecting and adding new archaeological knowledge related to ancient Chinese culture, and further improving the power of image analysis.

Excellent printing: The content is made of high-quality Japanese imported paper, printed with the top-grade German Heidelberg four-color printing machine, and the printing color is corrected according to the cultural relics in order to achieve a high degree of restoration of the cultural relics.

◎Introduction

This book is chaired by Professor Wang Li and co-edited by many experts. It has gone through 4 important revisions in the past 50 years since its publication. It is still the most important and comprehensive book for the public to understand the appearance of ancient Chinese culture. Basic reference book. The book is divided into 14 aspects including etiquette, patriarchal clan, diet, and clothing. This book was once published in Hong Kong and Taiwan and translated into Japanese, Korean and other languages ​​and is popular at home and abroad.

This revision breaks through the previous model, specially hired Liu Yuan (Lewis Eden), an expert in Sinology who teaches in the United States, and takes the achievements of the golden age of Chinese archaeology as the starting point, through the combination of modern archaeological discoveries and traditional documents. ", from the perspective of archaeology and anthropology to supplement the latest cultural research results. There is no empty talk in the revised manuscript and picture annotations. It is easy to understand and full of new ideas. The high level is the leader among similar publications for decades. Some pictures matching the manuscript have been added to the revised content, and the high resolution of photos of some key cultural relics is also amazing. The completed revised version of the manuscript is very practical and interesting. The revision committee has also cleared the barriers of words and basic concepts for interested middle school students to read this book.