Why can Chinese people directly enter the farming civilization from hunting without going through the nomadic stage?

The farming world and the nomadic world of human beings were almost formed at the same time, so there is no situation that only Chinese civilization entered the farming civilization without going through the nomadic stage.

About 65,438+0,000 years ago, mankind began to transition from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age. During this period, mankind began to divide into two different paths:

First, from food gatherers to food producers, or domesticated plants, thus entering the agricultural society.

The second is to combine with animal husbandry and enter nomadic society through domesticating animals.

At first, there was no difference between farming and nomadism. The areas suitable for farming in this world are all areas with abundant rainfall, abundant rivers and fertile soil, and such areas are all in the big river basin south of Eurasia.

Most areas suitable for nomadism are areas with less rainfall and vast grasslands, which are distributed in the northern part of Eurasia.

With the development of the Neolithic Age, a dividing line across the whole Eurasia was gradually formed between the farming area and the nomadic area. This line extends from Daxinganling, Yanshan, Yinshan, Qilian, Kunlun, Hindu Kush, Sagros and Gogasso to Carpathian in Europe.

We now know that areas suitable for farming are richer and more stable, so there are surplus labor, handicrafts, metal smelting, construction, sacrifice, social management and so on. Differentiation began, and human civilization was born, about 4000- 3000 BC.

Therefore, Asia-Europe two river basins, ancient Egypt, ancient India, China, Greece and so on gradually entered the era of civilization.

On the other hand, nomadic areas are different. Due to the slow development of productive forces and the limited division of social strata, they have always been unable to enter civilized society and have been in a primitive state for a long time.

Finally, the Eurasian continent gradually formed a situation of farming in the south and traveling in the north, rich in the south and poor in the north. Humans are always eager for wealth, so are nomadic people. Therefore, nomadic people have been invading south, and farming people have been fighting back and being conquered, which has formed the main line of human civilization history for thousands of years.

In the process of invasion and counter-attack, the civilized region expanded, and many nomadic people merged into the farming society. Modern farming civilization entered the industrial age, nomadic people had no advantage, and the farming world and the resulting industrial civilization eventually swept the world.