What period can be called the axis era of China culture?

The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period can be called the axis era of China culture.

Jaspers believes that 800 BC to 200 BC, especially 600 BC to 300 BC, is the "axis era" of human civilization. Cultural historians borrowed this concept and called the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period the "Axis Age" of China culture.

In China's Axial Age, a unique attachment gene of China culture and a secularized birthmark as a thinker were formed. However, the philosophers in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are still the rational spiritual landscape of China Axis Age.

Only in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, among the pre-Qin philosophers, did the classical spirit show great vitality and the ability to transform the world. As karl jaspers said, it was the axis of human civilization. The rational sun illuminates both the east and the west. Greek philosophers and pre-Qin philosophers lived side by side, and there was no more magnificent period for mankind.

About historical consciousness:

In the axial age, the awakening of human rationality began with the awakening of historical consciousness, which was manifested as human's conscious or rational understanding of time. People have discovered the significance of recording history, and human beings can accumulate experience and wisdom according to their own time sequence.

Tracing back to the source, the awakening of historical consciousness should start with Homer and Duke Zhou. Greece has Homer's epic, Homer is a bard, telling the origin and history of ancient Greece by rap, and the Greek city-state system was born in the cradle of "epic".

The Duke of Zhou also had a History of Poetry, in which the feudal system of the Western Zhou Dynasty was born. The History of Poetry is a "song of ancestor worship" in the Western Zhou Dynasty. In short, people in the Western Zhou Dynasty praised their ancestors and summarized their historical experience. In short, both epic and poetic history are aware of the trajectory of human activities in time.