Diary: ...Sanxingdui Ruins site

Title: Interview with the author of the tomb raiding novel during the live of the excavation at the Sanxingdui Ruins site
Chinese archaeologists announced the discovery of over 500 cultural relics, which date back over 3,200 years, during an ongoing excavation at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Guanghan, Sichuan province. Among the important cultural finds are gold and bronze masks, bronze ware, more than 100 ivory tusks, textiles and jade among other artifacts. How great is that! But CCTV (China Central Television) did something really stupid. It actually interviewed the authors of tomb raiding novels to promote them during the live of the excavation. This novel titled Grave Robbery Note is very popular in China. It is a novel series about the grave-robbing adventures of a young man hailing from a family that had been tomb-raiders for centuries. But this is very inappropriate. As Wang Wei, president of the Archaeological Society of China, said, "In recent years, there is a tendency that some media do not understand that archaeologists, collectors of cultural relics, and authors of tomb raiding mystery novels are totally different groups of people, and let the latter two cross the border to comment on archaeology as a science, which is very disgusting and unacceptable to the archaeological community. Not only do these two groups of people not know anything about archaeology, but they comment on archaeology and point fingers at it, which is very disgusting. Such a situation reveals that some media people lack the knowledge that archaeology is a rigorous science, and confuse archaeology with tomb raiding, the natural enemy of archaeology and heritage conservation, and confuse the promotion of archaeological achievements with people who write tomb raiding novels in a haphazard way, which is most infuriating and unacceptable to archaeologists. "

就如中国考古学会王巍理事长所说:“近年，往往有这种情况:有些媒体不了解考古学者，文物收藏者，盗墓类悬疑小说作者是根本不同的人群，让后两者跨界去对作为科学的考古学评头品足，这是让考古学界非常反感，非常难以接受的。因为这两类人不仅完全不懂考古，但却对考古评头品足，指手画脚，令人十分厌恶。这样的情况出现，暴露出某些媒体人缺乏对考古是一门严谨科学的认知，把考古与考古和文物保护的天敌——盗墓混为一谈，把考古成果的宣传与胡编乱造地写盗墓小说的人混为一谈，这是最让考古学家愤怒和不可接受的。”