How many years is China s history?

The exact date of China's history is the first year of the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, 841 BC, 2847 years ago. However, it cannot be said that the history of our country is less than 3,000 years, or that the history before this is unreliable. Because "there is an exact chronology", "there is a written test", "entering the era of civilization (i.e., the history of civilization)" and "the history of the activities of our people (i.e., the history of the people in general)" are completely different concepts

1) The "history" of a country or people: it is counted from the time when there is credible evidence that the country has begun to have human beings. Because the so-called "history" is the history of human activities, and with human beings, there will be human history.

The so-called evidence here refers to archaeological excavations of human sites, relics, and especially bones. It is physical evidence, and it cannot be based solely on myths and legends, such as the biblical "Genesis" that God first created the man Adam and then took a rib from Adam to create the woman Eve, which should be regarded as the beginning of human history, but should be judged based on the ruins and bones of the "East Africans" discovered by paleoanthropologists and archaeologists and the dating determined by scientific methods (about 3 million years ago) that the known world history should begin more than 3 million years ago. When the history of our country began, we should not start from the "Pangu Kaitian", but should be counted from the known and recognized by the academic community about 1.7 million years ago.

2) "History of Civilization": "History" in the narrow sense refers to "history of civilization", and what people generally call "history" in the past and present refers to "history of civilization". For example, when we say that Egypt has a history of more than 5,500 years and China has a history of more than 4,000 years, we both refer to the "history of civilization".

The more consistent definition of the so-called "history of civilization" refers to the history after the establishment of the state, because with the state, people can produce a true scientific culture, including writing. In this sense, the "history of civilization" in our country should be counted from the establishment of the Xia Dynasty in the 21st century BC, although people often follow the old habit to take the legendary era of the Yellow Emperor 5,000 years ago as our "civilization".

3) "History with written records": In China, it refers to the history that began with the Shang Dynasty. Because although the Banpo site in the matriarchal clan era in China has found symbols that are suspected of writing, they are only suspected and have not been deciphered.

The Shang Dynasty, on the other hand, had a large number of oracle bone inscriptions as evidence. Of course, the oracle bone script was already a relatively mature script, and the basic composition of Chinese characters, such as pictograms, signifiers, meanings, pretenses, and morphophonics, were already in place at that time, so if China could discover earlier characters in the future, China's "history with words to examine" would be advanced.

4) "History with exact dates": refers to the history of which the absolute date can be accurately dated. China's "exact history" began in the "first year of the Republic" of the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, in 841 BC.

If the Xia Dynasty existed, it should have been 4100 years by now, and there was no writing at that time, and it was only an approximate budget for the Chinese people. As for whether it was counted before the Xia Dynasty, I don't know, you can say whatever you want, anyway, you can be proud of yourself if you say it for a long time, the Koreans say they have a history of 6,500 years, and the Japanese also say that they have a history of more than 7,000 years, which is more "long" than the history of the Koreans.

If according to the most authentic algorithm, Chinese writing has existed since the Shang Dynasty, if it starts from the Shang Dynasty, the history is 3500-3600 years, and the international community recognizes us as this, so the Xia Dynasty has not yet been recognized by the international academic community. Even if the Xia Dynasty did exist, China would be only 4,100 years old, not the 5,000 years as our history books say.

In other words, Chinese history for more than 3,500-3,600 years is based on historiography, while many of the previous ones had no written records, and only relied on some legends and rumors to explore. But no matter what, I still believe in our 5,000-year history. Because I am a member of the Chinese nation.

Hehe, I found it in the book, I hope it will help you.

In fact, there are no 5,000 years at all, even from the legendary Yellow Emperor, it is only 4,000 years, not to mention that the Yellow Emperor does not exist at all. From the Xia Dynasty to 2070 BC, it has only been 4081 years so far. What's more, there are still doubts about the existence of the Xia Dynasty, and it is not recognized internationally, because there is no archaeological data to prove the existence of the Xia Dynasty.

4000, the international community believes that supermarkets used to be legendary times, should be because there is no evidence to prove their existence, China also admits 4000 years to the outside world, and the country will deceive us.

The history of 5,000 years is only calculated from the beginning of the Xia Dynasty, for example, the history before the Xia Dynasty is vague, so it can only be said that it is 5,000 years old.

One theory is that the Xia Dynasty has a history of 5,000 years, but the international community does not agree with this statement, thinking that China only had writing in the Shang Dynasty, so that China has only more than 4,000 years of history.

Since the summer, around 4200 years, before the summer, the era of the three emperors and five emperors, four or five hundred years, four thousand six or seven hundred years.

China has a history of about 5,000 years.

According to the historical records, from the ancient legend of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Yellow Emperor.

Emperor Yan, Yao Shunyu.

At the beginning, it was about 3,000 B.C., and China has a history of about 5,000 years. Among them, the history before the Shang Dynasty is not recorded in the written record of Yanjuzhou, which belongs to the history of legends and needs to be confirmed by archaeology.

Xia Dynasty. c. 2070-1600 BC) was the first dynasty, which lasted for nearly 440 years, and its main activity area was a rough shelter belt in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is equivalent to today's Shanxi, Henan, and Hebei. Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 246 BC) In 221 AD, Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms and established the first unified ** centralized dynasty, the north was the Xiongnu and Donghu ethnic groups, and at this time there was no peace with the Western Regions.

Contact. It is generally believed that there are two direct sources of Chinese civilization, namely: the Yellow River civilization and the Yangtze River civilization.

The Chinese civilization is mainly the fruit of the exchange and sublimation of these two regional civilizations. Some historians believe that in the history of human civilization, the definition of "historical era" is calculated from the time after the creation of writing, and the period before it is called "prehistoric era".

Prehistoric: Chao and Suiren.

Fuxi, Shennong (Yandi).

The Yellow Emperor (Xuanyuan) is revered as the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation. China's primitive society, which originated from the Yuanmou people about 1.7 million years ago, went through two periods: primitive people and clan communes. The clan commune went through two stages: the matrilineal clan commune and the patrilineal clan commune.

China has a history of about 5,000 years. If you start from the period of the Yellow Emperor about 2700 B.C., the history of China is about 4700 years, and if you round off the hundreds, it is 5,000 years old. Chinese history refers to the history of China from the opening of Pangu to the 21st century.

China has a long history, about 5,000 years from the mythological era of Pangu, Nuwa, Houyi and so on; It is about 4,600 years from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors; It is about 4,100 years since the Xia Dynasty; It is about 2,200 years since the Qin Dynasty, the first great unification of China.

As far as the present is concerned, the beginning of Chinese civilization should be the Erlitou culture, and its typical site is the Ersheng Sullitou site of Yanshi in Henan. The Erlitou site is divided into four phases, and the scale of the settlement has become very large since the second phase, with an area of 3 million square meters, and the previous Neolithic period, only the Taosi site has a similar scale (2.8 million square meters), and from the third phase, there are bronze workshops and other handicraft workshops. Erlitou ruins show the characteristics of the city, bronze smelting, royal palace and other civilizations, although there is no writing, but from the perspective of cultural inheritance, Erlitou --- Zhengzhou**--- Yinxu are in the same line, and Yinxu just unearthed the world-famous oracle bone inscription, and it is confirmed that it is the site of the late Shang Dynasty (the capital after Pangeng moved the capital), so the Erlitou culture can be regarded as the Shang culture at least from the third period (if Zhengzhou ** is the capital of Shangtang, Erlitou is the first Shang culture; If not, then Erlitou is the early Shang culture), and the history of China (the history of civilization) should begin here.

If you do the math, the historical era of China may have begun around 1700 BC (according to the latest carbon-14 dating results, the Erlitou site is about 1750 BC and 1530 BC). China was in a prehistoric era (or part of a protohistoric era). Therefore, the history of China is at most 3,700 years, starting from the beginning of the Shang civilization.

The history of China recorded in writing from the beginning is 3,717 years, and from the records of the "Historical Records" it should be 4,734 years.

It should be 1.72 million years from the beginning of the Yuanmou people (primitive people).

The Shang Dynasty was established about 1700 BC, so it is 1700 + 2022, that is, 3723 years of the cavity cherry year, which is the history of China that has written to record things, and the Shang Dynasty was preceded by the Xia Dynasty, the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors, and the ancient mythology of the Wu Kai era