二里头文化或夏代有没有文字?这是学术界探讨已久的问题。早在三十年代,古文字学家唐兰先生即认为我国在夏代初年就有了文字。后来,郭沫若先生更认为仰韶文化和龙山文化『彩陶和黑陶上的刻画应该就是汉字的原始阶段。』而另有学者则至今对夏代有文字持怀疑乃至否定的态度。如王玉哲先生即倾向于认为『夏族在当时可能还未行用文字』,但他承认『同时代的先商文化已经有文字了』 There is no text in the Erlitou culture or the Xia Dynasty? This is a long-standing issue that has long been discussed by academics. As early as the thirties, Mr. Tang Lan, an ancient philistinist, believed that there was a text in our country in early Xia Dynasty. Later, Mr. Guo Moruo even believed that Yangshao culture and Longshan culture “should be portrayed on painted pottery and black pottery as the original stage of Chinese characters. Others, however, have so far held a skeptical and even negative attitude towards the Xia dialect. For example, Mr. Wang Yuzhe tended to think that ”the Xia nationality may not yet have the text at that time,“ but he admitted that ”the contemporary pre-Shang culture is already written"