Did Chinese civilization last for five thousand years?

The history of Chinese civilization has not existed for thousands of years.

As we all know, the traditional view is that the civilization of China has a history of 5,000 years, but how many people know who "calculated" this splendid civilization of 5,000 years? Many western historical experts disagree. Many people think that China has entered the era of civilization in 3000 years. It is said that even the latest History of China in Cambridge mentioned things before the pre-Qin Dynasty when it talked about the ancient history of China. Because it is not clear, it is only a rough explanation.

As a China person, how does it feel to face such a bad fact? Is it embarrassing? In fact, the so-called 5000 years is only considered to be the result of invention. Generally speaking, we modern people regard the Yellow Emperor as our humanistic ancestor and the so-called Yellow Emperor calendar as the origin of civilization, which means that it has been 5000 years since the Yellow Emperor began to modern times. In fact, is this really the case? Now we attribute the basis of the existence of the Yellow Emperor to the Historical Records written by Sima Qian, but there is no specific record of the birth and death year of the Yellow Emperor in the Historical Records. Although he listed his old man's house at the top of the chronicle of the Five Emperors, he did not record the year of the chronicle of the Five Emperors. Perhaps Sima Qian was not sure himself, so he recorded it and gave it to future generations. So who made these 5000 years?

As can be seen from the dictionary, the source of this number of years is this: in each calendar year, the year used by People's Daily is accepted by most revolutionaries. After the Wuchang Uprising, the military government of Hubei province took this as the basis, and the statements of the provinces also adopted this statement. When Sun Yat-sen became interim president, he electrified all provinces, taking 4609 as the first year of the Republic of China. This calendar has been handed down to this day, but it has also become a "truth." It is quite subtle with the current summer vacation. Many people know that students have winter and summer vacations every year, but why are there so few? It turns out that this tradition is a festival made by European farmers' children for centuries to adapt to the law of wheat sowing and harvesting, which is fundamentally different from the original intention of making festivals now, but now children don't need to plant and cut wheat, so isn't it a good time for children to keep such a long holiday?

On the other hand, this irresponsible newspaper that casually says that China has a civilization history of about 5,000 years has not delayed us from understanding the truth of history? It seems that this hat is very exciting to wear on everyone's head and can greatly enhance national pride! In fact, this so-called 5000 years is based on the fact that the fortune-teller of the Song Dynasty called the first year of Yao as the year of 2000, and after Lu's argument, it was determined that this year was equivalent to 2357 BC. They are not historians, but Huang Shi is a wonderful book, and who knows how it was worked out. They are the masters of the Eye of Heaven.

This is actually a major fallacy and loss. Some people say that the so-called history is contemporary history. As for whether it is in line with the facts, no one can say clearly. Although Sima Qian was rigorous in his studies, he did not jump out of such a trap. He took the plot of a Yellow River and an emperor as a prison, closely United in the center of the "imperial court", ignoring the situation in the north and south Yangtze River basins and other regions, and compiled "centralized information" as the golden rule. In fact, according to archaeological discoveries since the 1970s, we are not a yellow "mainland nation" with closed doors. As early as 7000 years ago, Hemudu people had already made an expedition to Hawaii today, and also had the earliest rice in the world. More than 9000 years ago, the Hanjiang Plain in Hunan Province has entered a very rich and civilized stage. How would you feel? In addition, archaeological discoveries have repeatedly confirmed that things that can represent Chinese civilization, such as silk, tea, porcelain, lacquerware, etc., all originated in the south. What would you think if you knew that more than half of the 200 most important inventions that affected mankind were created by them?

Perhaps in the near future, we can proudly say that we have a history of 10,000 years of civilization, but this embarrassing title of "descendants of the Chinese people" may continue as long as the United front needs it.