"Common Sense of Ancient Chinese Culture" Author: Wang Li, Chief Editor / Ma Hanlin, etc. Written / Jiang Liangfu, Ye Shengtao, etc. Reviewed / Liu Leyuan, Revised Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

◎Editor's Recommendation

Do you know the complicated truth about King Wu's conquest of Shang? Do you know the earliest physical object of cats we can see? Do you know that the famous Simuwu Ding has a fake ear? Do you know that Meng Jiangnu's surname is Jiang, not Meng? Do you know that the pants worn by people wearing deep clothes in the Han Dynasty were open-crotch hakama that exposed their buttocks? Do you know what the oldest heart knot looks like? Do you know the truth about the Yellow Emperor's battle with Chiyou? Do you know that the oldest wine bottle appeared 6,000 years ago? Do you know what the word "fishy" in pork originally meant? Do you know how incredible China has experienced three large-scale cooling in the past 3,500 years?

Wonderful content: Based on the black and white version, the full-color version has been carefully checked and proofread, and has improved and supplemented new archaeological knowledge related to ancient Chinese culture, and further improved the image resolution.

Excellent printing: The text is printed on high-quality Japanese imported paper using the top-level German Heidelberg four-color printing press. The printing color is calibrated according to the actual cultural relics in order to achieve a high degree of restoration of the images of the cultural relics.

◎Introduction

This book is a concise reading of ancient Chinese cultural knowledge, co-written by Professor Wang Li and many experts. It has undergone four important revisions in the 50 years since its publication. It is still the most important and comprehensive basic reference book for the public to understand the ancient Chinese culture. The book is divided into 14 aspects, including etiquette, clan system, diet, clothing, etc. This book was published in Hong Kong and Taiwan and translated into Japanese, Korean and other languages, and is popular at home and abroad.

This revision breaks the previous pattern. Lewis Eden, a sinologist who teaches in the United States, was specially invited to take the achievements of the golden age of Chinese archaeology as the starting point, and through the "new evidence of ancient history" that combines modern archaeological discoveries with traditional documents, the latest cultural research results are supplemented from the perspective of archaeology and anthropology. The revised manuscript and picture annotations are not empty words, but are easy to understand and full of new ideas. The high level is the leader among similar publications in decades. Some pictures that match the manuscript have been added to the revised content, and the high resolution of the photos of some key cultural relics is also amazing. The completed revised manuscript is very practical and interesting. The revision committee also cleared the obstacles of words and basic concepts for interested middle school students to read this book.