How long is the history of Chinese civilization, 5000 years, 4000 years or 3000 years?

5000 years.

China has a long history, about 5,000 years since the time of Ji Xuanyuan (also known as Gongsun Xuanyuan) of the Yellow Emperor tribe; about 4,600 years since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors; nearly 4,100 years since the Xia Dynasty; and about 2,240 years since the Qin Dynasty, the first great unification of China with a centralized system of power.

Around 2070 BC, the Xia Dynasty, the earliest state in China, emerged. The Eastern Zhou advanced the development of productive forces and social change, and a hundred schools of thought were formed. In 221 B.C., Qin Shi Huang established the Qin Dynasty, the first unified authoritarian centralized empire in Chinese history, and the Western Han Dynasty further consolidated and developed the great unification.

During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, China fell into fragmentation, and during the Five-Hu Rebellion, the tendency of foreigners to integrate into China intensified, and many ethnic groups gradually converged in the conflicts between the separate regimes. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the central government had closer ties with the ethnic minorities at the border, and there was economic prosperity and a high degree of technological and cultural development.

The Song and Yuan dynasties were characterized by multiculturalism, economic and technological development to new heights. During the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, the social economy was highly developed, and the sprout of capitalism appeared in the Jiangnan area at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In the mid-19th century, China began to fall into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society after the Opium War. 1911, the Xinhai Revolution, overthrew the imperial system, and established the **** and system of government. After the death of Yuan Shikai, China entered a chaotic period of warlordism. Later, after the National Revolution, the Agrarian Revolution, the War of Resistance against Japan and the War of Liberation, the People's Republic of China was finally established in 1949.

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The Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Chinese People's Liberation Army. For example, when Yao was old, he ceded the throne to Shun, who was a wise and capable man. Shun gave the throne to Yu, who gathered the tribes at Mount Tu to make an alliance to conquer the Sanmiao once again.

On one occasion, when the tribes met at Huiji (Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province), the leader of the Fangfeng clan was executed by Yu for being late for the meeting. Ancient documents also record that Yu paid tribute to the vassal tribes according to the distance they traveled, which shows the Xia clan's economic control over its neighboring tribes.

Yu had elected Gaotao, a respected leader of the Yan surname in the east, as his successor to show his respect for the traditional system of cedation. However, Gaotao did not wait for the cession and died before Yu. Yu then appointed Bo Yi, the leader of the Eastern Barbarians, as his successor.

After Yu's death, Yi (Bo Yi, or Bo Yi, as some believe, was not Bo Yi, but rather two men of the same era), in accordance with the tradition of the tribal confederation, performed the funeral rites for Yu, hung up the mourning and observed the mourning for three years. After the three years of mourning were over, Yi was not given a position of power, while Qi, with the support of the people, was given a position of power.

From then on, the system of cession was replaced by the system of hereditary succession, which marked the replacement of the long primitive society by a private society.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese History