As for cultural relics archaeology, Shen Kuo's attainments are also profound. He attached great importance to cultural relics, used cultural relics to research literature records and correct customs fallacies, so as to correctly understand the production, life and technology of our ancestors. In the embryonic stage of archaeology in the early Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo inherited the tradition of this discipline for less than a hundred years, and then devoted himself to research, put forward principled opinions, and realized the important significance and role of this discipline. He expressed this view in article 325 of Bi Tan. Wherever he went, he carefully collected unearthed cultural relics, carefully observed the age, shape, patterns and characters of various unearthed cultural relics, and made detailed textual research. Ancient weapons, ancient musical instruments, ancient paintings, ancient books, manuscripts, etc. Widely collected and deeply studied. Such as the crossbow machine in Haizhou (article 33 1), the one in Youguan (article 3 19), the bronze medal (article 322), the ancient mirror of Qiaobo (article 360), the ancient bronze pheasant cooking (article 365438+) and the tomb of Jeju (article 365438+) His collection of ancient cultural relics is obviously different from many collectors at that time, but as a reliable material to study the living conditions of ancient ancestors, he found the fallacies recorded in ancient books through research. For example, the view that the three-body diagram is not valid (article 3 19) is much earlier than other archaeologists in China. These are enough to illustrate Shen Kuo's important contribution to the study of ancient history and cultural relics archaeology (Yang Weisheng's Shen Kuo's Contribution to History, published in Shen Kuo Research).