著名学者易中天的通史著作《易中天中华史》(第一部《中华根》,浙江文艺出版社,2013年12月),封面打出“3700年以来,我们的命运和选择”的字样,颠覆了人们“中华5000年”的一贯用法。有记者直截了当地问:“我们可是习惯了说中华民族具有5000年光辉灿烂的文明,你就不怕引人误解?”易中天答:“我认为如果把中华文明分为史前史和文明史,分界就在二里头……从二里头算起,我们是3700年文明史。这是考古考证出来的说法。” The famous scholar Yi Zhongtian’s general history of Yi Zhongtian (the first “China root”, Zhejiang literature and Art Publishing House, December 2013), the cover of the play “3700 years since our destiny and choice,” the words, subversion People “5000 years of China ” consistent usage. A journalist asked bluntly: “But we are accustomed to say that the Chinese nation has 5000 years of glorious civilization, you are not afraid of misleading? ” Yi Zhongtian A: "I think that if the Chinese civilization is divided into prehistory and history of civilization , Demarcation is two miles inside ... ... from the two miles count, we are 3700 years of civilized history.This is the argument archaeological textual research.