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Dr. Li Xueqin and Wang Zhenzhong are researchers at the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, specializing in ancient Chinese history and culture for many years. As early as 1994, he published the book "A Comparative Study of the Origin of Chinese Civilization", which has been familiar to the academic community and has aroused many repercussions with his unique insights. "The Origin of the Ancient Chinese State and the Formation of Royal Power" is another of his recent masterpieces, supported by the National Social Science Fund, and is also a key project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which can be regarded as the continuation and development of "A Comparative Study of the Origin of Chinese Civilization" in terms of content nature. "The Origin of the Ancient Chinese State and the Formation of Royal Power" is a large book of about 600,000 words, and I read some of its chapters earlier this year, and I felt that its arguments were professional and innovative. After the Spring Festival, Dr. Epicenter sent the full manuscript, which allowed him to understand the overall concept of the book and further understand the novelty and peculiarities of his views. He did not give up, and repeatedly asked me to write a small preface, because the printing was imminent and time was urgent, so I could only casually talk about some thoughts after reading, and whether I could have it or not was at the right time. First of all, I would like to say that the theme discussed in Dr. Epicenter's book, that is, the origin of the Chinese state, is the core link of exploring the origin of Chinese civilization, which is of great significance. Everyone knows that China has a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, but at what time, where and what kind of process did the splendid Chinese civilization come into being? The key to answering this question depends on the country. With the state, it is the era of civilization, which anyone who has read Engels' "The Family, Private Property and the Origin of the State" will remember. Archaeologist Mr. Xia Nai said in "The Origin of Chinese Civilization" that "civilization" refers to the stage in which a society has disintegrated from the clan system and entered a class society with state organization." Many academic predecessors have explored the origin of the ancient Chinese state. Guo Moruo's 1929 book A Study of Ancient Chinese Society, published in 1930, indicates that he considered the book "a sequel to Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State." The method of research was to use him as a guide, and in addition to what he knew, the Indians of the Americas, the ancient Greece and Rome of Europe, and provided the ancient China that he did not mention. Mr. Guo Moruo, the first director of the Institute of History, succeeded him as the second director, Mr. Hou Wailu, published Classical Chinese Social History (later renamed Ancient Chinese Social History) in 1943, which discussed the way the Chinese state was formed and the evolution of its early form. Then there is Mr. Yin Da, who has been a historical leader for a long time, and in 1943 he also discussed the collapse of clan society and the initial form of the state in his book "Chinese Primitive Society". Until 1983, when he wrote the preface to the inaugural journal of Prehistoric Studies entitled "Heartfelt Wishes", this is still the subject of this issue, and this is his last scholarly article. From these it is not difficult to see that historical research attaches importance to the tradition of ancient civilizations and the study of the origin of countries, Dr. Wang Zhenzhong has inherited this tradition and made his own innovations. Dr. Wang Zhenzhong's "The Origin of the Ancient Chinese State and the Formation of Royal Power" adopts a multidisciplinary research method, starting from the collation and analysis of a large number of archaeological discovery materials, trying to integrate and explain various ancient history and legends in the handed down texts, and putting forward a series of innovative theoretical views to build a new system. Many people know that since Mr. Wang Guowei advocated the implementation of the "double evidence method" in the study of ancient history in 1925, in which ancient book records and underground materials corroborate each other, most scholars who study ancient times have tried to cooperate and complement each other with history and archaeology. Mr. Yin Da's "Primitive Society in China" put it well: "Ancient legends are not rumors without historical facts, they are not absurd myths, they must insinuate many specific facts, and there must be indispensable historical facts as a prime." This is our general estimate of ancient Chinese legends. "Many of the insights in Dr. Wang Zhenzhong's book belong to this regard, which are enough to cause everyone to think deeply. I would also like to suggest that readers of this "The Origin of the Ancient Chinese State and the Formation of Royal Power" may wish to read the "epilogue" of the whole book after opening the book. The author begins his "Epilogue" by saying: "The study of the origin of the state and civilization is both a practical and a theoretical problem in archaeology, and it needs to be closely integrated. "I think this is very correct, the origin and formation of ancient countries and civilizations is, in the final analysis, a theoretical issue. If the research on such a major topic is not raised to the level of theory, it cannot be said that there will be real results. Dr. Wang Zhenzhong's theoretical innovation is further refined and sublimated in the "conclusion" of the book, and the historical picture of the origin and development of ancient Chinese countries is unfolded in his narrative and discussion. In a letter to me, Dr. Wang Zhenzhong described his pursuit of "combining theoretical innovation and empirical research" when he wrote this book. I think his book does that. This masterpiece is a systematic display, further deepening and improvement of the academic systems of "the three-form evolution of the settlement of the origin path of civilization and the state" proposed by him in recent years, the "state-kingdom-empire" theory that passed through after entering the national society, and the theory that "Xia Shang was a composite state structure". In the book, he also analyzes and criticizes the chiefdom theory and social stratification theory popular in academia in recent years, and proposes that "settlement form and social form should be the mainstay, and the chiefdom theory and social stratification theory should be integrated". These theoretical views of Dr. Wang Zhenzhong are implemented throughout his book, and I hope readers will pay attention to them. February 28, 2013（AI翻译）
