Why is China s 5,000 year history less than nearly 200 years old?

This is a question of quantitative and qualitative change. 5,000 years of development is long, but it stays on the basis of an agrarian society, and the limit of the level of productivity determines that whenever the dynasty reaches its peak, the contradiction between the consumption of population and the market level will make the country turbulent, and then consume the population to adapt to the level of productivity, and so on. And capitalism.

It is a new system that has greatly liberated the productive forces, which has made the productive forces grow almost unlimitedly, and thus the country will be higher and higher.

Rapid development, out of the lower level of the cycle.

Most of China's 5,000-year history is a feudal society, and some concepts of feudal society are deep-rooted, which greatly hinders its own development.

Development, sometimes has nothing to do with how long it takes. Then why don't you look at it this way, in which aspect of China's reform and opening up over the past 30 years has not been as rapid as that of the United States over the past 200 years?

The achievements of scientific and technological development at that time were not tight, and only the four major inventions we know today remained. It is just that the four great inventions have played a huge role in promoting the development of Chinese and world history in modern and modern times. Moreover, most of the inventions at that time were related to agriculture, and in the current era of industrialization of the non-small-scale peasant economy, it is obviously not very practical.

Therefore, there are bound to be many inventions that will be forgotten.

Neither man nor the advanced animals of the past, 5,000 years ago or today, 5,000 years later, cannot defeat nature. Well, there was once a civilization that was created, but due to its limited productivity, simple production tools, and low resistance to natural disasters. Therefore, it will inevitably lead to the annihilation of the former civilization.

Unless there is a continuation of human civilization, it is possible to survive until now, but there are many, and only traces of ruins remain......

There are many decisive factors in the development of history, China's thousands of years of feudal system actually greatly restricts people's freedom, people's thinking, the development of history is limited to the replacement of one cycle and another, and can not achieve the transcendence and renewal of civilization, in fact, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, China still has the opportunity to develop the budding capitalism, but it is a pity that the Qing Dynasty iron horse suddenly returned history to the original state.

Because 5,000 years of history have not developed, just one cycle after another.

The inferiority of the Chinese cultivated by Confucianism in 2000.

4,990 out of 5,000 years have been spent doing useless work.

The 5,000 years of Chinese history began with the Yellow Emperor. So it's almost 1,000 years less. The Yellow Emperor was a figure around the twenty-seventh century BC.

Moreover, his reign was established after the Battle of Banquan against the 10th Yan Emperor Emperor Yu Gang. However, many sources believe that the era of the Five Emperors is considered to be the age of legends.

Scholars generally believe that the Five Emperors do not refer to five people, but to the names of five tribes. This is a more plausible explanation for the 800-year reign.

At the same time, although it is generally believed that Chinese history originated in the Xia Dynasty, based on the lack of archaeological data on the Xia Dynasty, foreign historians generally say that Chinese history began with the Shang Dynasty at the earliest. Therefore, in many Western writings, China does not have a history as long as 5,000 years.

So the 5,000-year history is determined by ourselves, and of course it is also to show that we have a long history, hehe.

The 5,000-year history should come from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, including the Yanhuang Era.

In fact, some scholars will say that China is 7,000 years old, because Fuxi is about 7,000 years ago.

Counting from the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, the reign of the Yellow Emperor was 2697 BC 2599 BC

The beginning of the Xia Dynasty in China was 2100 BC. Plus the previous era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors is almost 5,000 years.

Chinese scholars generally admit that Chinese history is 4,100 years, that is, from the Xia Dynasty, after all, the events of those mythological times are difficult to verify.

But international scholars do not recognize the views of Chinese scholars. The general national perception is that China is only more than 3,600 years old, because they do not recognize the existence of the Xia dynasty in China, which lasted for a total of 471 years. In the past, foreigners did not recognize the Shang Dynasty in China, but only recognized the history of China that began during the Republic of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which was only about 2,000 years.

Later, China carried out a project to break the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and found evidence of the existence of the early Western Zhou Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty. So foreigners recognized the history of the Shang Dynasty in China. However, the exact historical evidence of the existence of the Xia Dynasty has not yet been found, so foreigners still do not agree.

There is no uniform conclusion on the length of Chinese history, because there are different lengths according to different calculation methods. It is about 2,200 years since the Qin Dynasty, when China first established a unified and centralized empire; It is about 3,500 years from the Shang Dynasty, when writing was first used in China and became a history of letters. It is about 4,200 years since the Xia Dynasty proved by the double evidence method; It is about 4,600 years from the legendary era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors mentioned by Confucius; It is about 5,000 years from the mythological era of Pangu, God, Nuwa, etc., which is still uncertain (which is also the length in the sense of Chinese historical tradition in the perception of ordinary Chinese); It is about 10,000 years from the Neolithic Magnetic Mountain Culture, which marked the beginning of human civilization; The Paleolithic Lantian ape-man culture has a history of about 800,000 years since humans began to break away from primitive life.

At the same time, some historians believe that in the history of human civilization, the definition of "historical era" refers to the period from the time of the invention of writing, and before that, it is called "prehistoric era"; In history, it is said that Fuxi made gossip, and Cangjie made words in the Yellow Emperor era; Modern archaeology has found oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang Dynasty more than 3,350 years ago (1350 BC), pottery inscriptions from about 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, and turtle bone inscriptions with the nature of writing from about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

It can be investigated in detail, there is a basis, since the beginning of the summer of Dayu, this year is the summer calendar 4711, less than 5000 years, so it is called up and down 5000 years, about 5000 years.

It is only 5,000 years since the establishment of the country (counting from the Xia Dynasty), but the current history can be verified for less than 5,000 years (only a little before the conclusion of King Zhou You), that is, we often say that it is 5,000 years up and down, but it is not recognized in the international academic community.

It mainly depends on how to define history. The history of 5,000 years is generally understood as the late period of the clan alliance to the present, if you think that someone has a history, it can be counted from the Yuanmou people 1.7 million years ago, and if you want to look at it according to the literature, it must be counted from the Western Zhou Dynasty.