Professor Li Ji was one of founders of archeology and the first anthropologist in China. He worked all his life for archcological
study in China, wtote many papers and books and had maily Pupils. Though his contribution was mainly refleCted in the
excavation of the Shang sites in Anyang from 1929 to 1937 and the study of cultural remains from the Shang sites from that bine through 1979, he reaped rich fruits in other parts of the areheological research in China, for example, he also did important works in the realm of the Paleolithic archeological research. Professor Pei Wenchong said that: "it is difficult to study stone artifacts discovered from toe. 1 at
Zhoukoudian, I began to learn archeology and learn from Professor Li Ji at first" (Pei, 1934). The excavation process in toe.1 at Zhoukoudinn was reformed in 1932. The new excavation adopted a method including a combination of test ditch and test square. This method had been used in the excavation of early stage in Shang sites in Anyand under the supervision of professor Li Ji. When Upper Cave was excavated in 1933 Professor Pei adopted other excavation method which was formulated and named as "three dimension sauce record process" by Professor Li Ji and was used at first time in 1926 in excavation of the Neolithic site at Xiyin village of Xia County, Shanxi Province. In addition, Li Ji had contributed interesting ideas to the study of Zhoukoudianian culture. In the Present Paper ProfeSsor Li Ji's ide story is briefly introduced for helping the readers to know the historic background on which he gained the great achievements in the field of archeology.