自二十世纪初开始，我国开始了对中华文明起源的研究，直到本世纪初，大致可分为四个阶段，分别为古史对照、考古学探索、中原中心和多元一体说讨论阶段和多元一体说阶段。其中第三阶段一元说和多元说的讨论是文明起源研究成熟的关键。

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese researchers had begun to study the origin of Chinese civilization. It can be roughly divided into four stages until the beginning of the 21th century, namely, 1. comparison of ancient history, 2. archaeological exploration, 3. debate between the Central Plains-centric view and the multi-integration view, 4. the view of multi-integration in one. Among them, the discussion of the third stage is the key to the maturity of the study of the origin of civilization.