Brief introduction of Liang Siyong
Liang Siyong (1904.1.13 ~1954.04.02), a native of Xinhui, Guangdong Province, was born in Shanghai in1904, a modern archaeologist in China and the founder of modern field archaeology. His works include Liang Siyong Archaeological Essays and so on. Through his lifelong field practice and hard work, he has made positive contributions to the development of modern archaeology and the cultivation of archaeological talents in China. Especially since the founding of New China, he has made painstaking efforts for the establishment of the archaeological cause of New China and the planning of archaeological disciplines, which is indispensable in the history of archaeology in China. Liang Siyong's many academic activities have won high praise from the archaeological circles at home and abroad. His Chinese-style textual research highlights the position of China archaeology in the history of world archaeology, and makes China archaeology enter a brand-new historical period. 1948 was elected as the first academician of academia sinica. After the founding of New China, in August 1950, he served as the deputy director of the Institute of Archaeology of China Academy of Sciences (at this time, the department has not yet been established and its members have not yet been produced).