[4] In 1959, Zheng was the leader of an excavation team working on the site of Wangwan (王湾) near Luoyang and led archaeological fieldwork training for students of Peking University.
The publication of the Luoyang excavations was written in 1960 to 1961, however, after the period of economic reforms in the early 1980s, the manuscript was edited by Zhao Zhiquan (赵芝荃) and published in 1989.
[4] At the same time, Zheng and her team conducted surveys of the area north of Xiaotun Village, taking cores from the soil using augering devices known as Luoyang spades.
[6] There was a huge number of grave goods, including bronzes, jades, precious stones and ivory, as well as a total of 1,928 bone artefacts and more than 7,000 seashells.
Zheng identified the characters Fuhao as referring to the prominent individual mentioned in the oracle bones of the Wu Ding period as presiding over rituals and leading soldiers into battle.