How did China s 5,000 year history come to be?

It is formed in historical time.

China does not have a history of 5,000 years.

If we count from the era of the emergence of the history of letters, about 841 B.C., the history of letters appeared in China. In total, the history of Chinese civilization is only 2,900 years.

If we count from the establishment of the Zhou ritual system by King Wen of Zhou in the 11th century BC, there is only a history of civilization of 3,100 years at most.

If you count from the appearance of writing, the oracle bone inscription actually appeared about 13 BC, which is about 3300 years old in civilization.

If we count from the Yellow Emperor, the first ancestor of the Chinese nation, Chinese history is about 4,600 years. However, the specific age of the Yellow Emperor is unknown, and the age that has been verified now is only speculation.

China before the Yellow Emperor is not a history of civilization. Before the Yellow Emperor, they still drank blood and wore animal skins and leaves.

In comparison, ancient Egypt was the earliest civilization. The ancient Egyptians began building pyramids more than 6,000 years ago. It shows that they already had a considerable degree of civilization at that time.

At the same time, human beings were still primitive people, drinking blood, wearing animal skins and leaves, and living in caves.

There are definitely 55,000 years, and it is recorded in the history books.

Generally speaking, 5,000 years is counted from Dayu's control of the water.

According to the current research, the time of Dayu's water control should be more than 2200 years BC. That is, more than 4,200 years ago, but the theory of 5,000 years of civilization has long existed, and it is naturally not clear with the academic level at that time, so it can only be roughly said that it is 5,000 years.

There is no uniform conclusion on the length of Chinese history, because there are different lengths according to different calculation methods.

The Three Emperors and Five Emperors and even the earlier Pangu and Nuwa, that is a legend, maybe there is or may not, which requires archaeologists to give a clear study, but one thing is clear, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and Nuwa must have been very effective tribal leaders in ancient times.

These leaders must have led the Chinese nation to either progress in life or the glory of war, so they were remembered by later generations, after all, the earliest historical inheritance was passed down by word of mouth.

Whether there are 5,000 years of Chinese history or not is an issue that has been debated between Chinese historiography and foreign historiography since the end of the Qing Dynasty. Chinese scholars agree that there are 5,000 years, while foreigners agree that there is none.

The issue is the identification of evidence. China uses historical evidence, and foreigners don't believe it, saying that archaeological evidence must be used. Before the 30s, foreigners did not even recognize the existence of Yin Shang, for the same reason that we did not recognize the Japanese god Amaterasu - there is no archaeological evidence corresponding to this direction except for writing.

But since Yin Ruins were not discovered, foreigners also had to admit the existence of Yin Shang.

But Xia's existence, foreigners know that they don't recognize it today. When I was lecturing in Japan, I found that all Japanese college students had studied the Chinese dynasties and could memorize them, but they all started from Shang. Nobody knows.

Why? Because there is no archaeological evidence.

Some people say, isn't the Hongshan culture about 5,000 years old? Foreigners will say, how can you prove that it is the Xia mentioned in your "Historical Records". To say early, the early Hemudu can be more than 7,000 years ago.

It's useless, because we can't prove that it was the ancestors of the Chinese. A Japanese brick family has proved that the Hemudu people migrated from Yunnan about 8,000 years ago and immigrated to Japan thousands of years ago, and the lifestyle of the Hemudu people is the same as that of the ancient Japanese, and it is not the Yellow River culture of the Chinese people at all, and as a result, the Hemudu people have become the ancestors of the Japanese (Torigoshi Kenzaburo hypothesis).

In a word, there is no archaeological evidence to link the relics with the descriptions in the history books, and all the relics of civilization found on Chinese soil can only stay on the "so-and-so civilization" and cannot be classified into the genealogy of Chinese civilization. But there has been a breakthrough recently, which is the ruins of Erlitou. The people of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties are desperately digging up evidence, trying to prove that Erlitou is the capital of Xia, and if it is proved successful, Chinese history will extend to 5,000 years without suspense.

I wish them success, but don't want them to fake.

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 Texts":

In our country, 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 an exact date": refers to the history in 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.

No, China has only had historical records from the Shang Dynasty, and it has not been 5,000 years since 2070 BC during the Xia Yu period.

The history books record 3,000 years, and then there are legendary dynasties. We, the sons and daughters of China, think that there are 5,000 years, and foreigners have grasped this point and have not let it go, and there is no historical record, and foreigners do not recognize that there are 5,000 years, but only 3,000 years.

I don't know what to say downstairs by relying on bai, and now du in China's Xia Shang Zhi Zhou Dynasty Project clearly pointed out.

The return of the Xia Dynasty began in 2070 BC, and this is the answer.

Even if you count the history of China, it is a little more than 4,000 years.

The previous Yellow Emperor Yandi is currently untestable, and I don't know how to calculate the 5,000 years.

Finally, I would like to say that the "Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasty Project" is not recognized internationally, but I think it is basically reliable, but even so, China's well-documented history is a little more than 4,000 years.

More, go and see, the general history of China, that is more complete.

Chinese civilization is restored.

Also known as the Chinese civilization, it is one of the oldest civilizations in the world and one of the longest lasting civilizations in the world. The history of Chinese civilization has a long history, if it is counted from the time of the Yellow Emperor, it is about 5,000 years. The earliest Australopithecus discovered so far lived in the southern part of the Yangtze River in China 4.5 million years ago.

Archaeological evidence shows that the "Peking Man" was restored at the Zhoukoudian site from 2.24 million to 2.24 million.

250,000 years ago, there were Homo erectus in China, and the current archaeological discoveries include Xiaodzhenzi, Yuanmou Man, Lantian Man, Nanjing Homo Erectus, Beijing Homo Erectus, etc. These are the earliest known traces of hominids.

China entered a patrilineal society about 4,000 years ago. Its main cultural relics are represented by Longshan culture, Qijia culture, Dawenkou culture and Liangzhu culture. At this time, it belongs to the Late Neolithic period archaeologically.

The earliest hereditary dynasty, the Xia Dynasty, lasted from about 2070 to 1600 BC.

If the Yellow Emperor wants to ask Sima Qian to make history.

Sima Qian engraved history on the shell of a tortoise.

Will it be 5000 years!

It is internationally recognized that China has a history of 5,000 years, but many Chinese scholars say that China's history is at least 7,000 years, that is, the Xia Dynasty, but there is no strong evidence of its existence until now. Therefore, it is internationally recognized that China's history is 5,000 years.

You suspect that I am in a hurry with you.

Not only 5,000 years.

Emperor Shun in the fourth millennium BC, what do you say?

Some. Counted from the time of the Yellow Emperor.

According to ancient tradition, from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the present, there is a history of about 4,000 years, which is usually called "up and down 5,000 years".

But I think that the era of the Yellow Emperor and Yao Shunyu should be the era of legends. To date, the exact date of China can be traced back to 841 BC, the first year of the Western Zhou Republic. If Chinese history begins in 841 B.C., it is not entirely true.

Because the question itself has different answers.

1. Emphasizing "China":

1. Exaggeration, starting with dinosaurs, because there are dinosaurs and there is life.

2. Starting from the opening of Pangu and the primitive society, opening "Five Thousand Years Up and Down" and history textbooks, the first page is basically this. Or the beginning of the era of the Yuanmou people.

3. Start with the Three Emperors and Five Emperors.

3. Starting from the Xia Dynasty, the first slave dynasty.

2. Emphasizing "History":

2. Starting from the "Historical Records", the "Historical Records" created the "Twenty-five History", and there was an official official revision of history.