With a history of 5,000 years, Chinese civilization, in the end there is no fault?

Thousands of years, the Chinese civilization, despite the tribulations, but still uninterrupted, a lineage, even the Yuan and Qing dynasties did not make it a break.

1, the so-called Huaxia civilization, originating from the last three generations, is not equivalent to the civilization within China

Six archaeological cultural zones

For the origin of Chinese civilization, the famous archaeologist Su Bingqi has put forward ? The sky is full of stars? that China's Neolithic period can be divided into six plates:

One is the Central Plains culture represented by the Yangshao culture, which is traditionally known as the Yellow River culture center;

Two is the Oriental represented by the Dawenkou culture in the Taishan area, which is characterized by the black pottery culture that is different from the red pottery of the Yangshao culture;

Three is the Hubei and its neighboring areas, which is represented by the Ba Shu culture and the Chu culture;

Three is the Hubei and its neighboring areas, which is represented by the Ba Shu culture and the Chu culture;

Fifthly, the Poyang Lake and the Pearl River Delta are the central axis of the Poyang Lake and the Pearl River Delta. Pearl River Delta as the central axis of the southern region;

Sixth is from Longdong to the Hetao and then to the north of the Great Wall in western Liaoning, the most representative is the Inner Mongolia Chifeng of the Hongshan culture and Gansu Dahuwan culture.

The six plates, Yangshao culture? Longshan culture? Erlitou culture? Shang Dynasty are in a single lineage, the main lineage that gave rise to the Chinese civilization, while other Neolithic cultures such as Liangzhu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River do not have a legacy, at least not one that has been discovered today.

Even if Liangzhu has entered the age of civilization, it can only show that there has been a more ancient civilization in China, but can not say that the Chinese civilization originated from Liangzhu.

So, today's Chinese civilization originated from the Xia, Shang and Zhou, its text can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty, the ritual system can be traced back to the Zhou Duke of the system of rites and music, and the name of the Chinese summer from the Xia Dynasty? China has a great etiquette, so it is called summer; the beauty of the clothing chapter, called China.

Whether another civilization still existed in China before the last three generations, look forward to new discoveries in archaeology.

The Chinese civilization mentioned in this article is not broken, and its starting point is the last three generations.

2, since the beginning of the last three generations, there are four nodes in the development of Chinese civilization in ancient times

Six countries died

The king of Qin swept away the Six Nations, so that our country put an end to the feudalism era of states, and then entered the era of the great unity of the imperial system.

Compared with the six eastern states, Qin was obviously less civilized.

Death of Southern Chen

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the imperial system has been in place since ? Han, Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen? and then in 589 A.D., Southern Chen was destroyed by the Sui Dynasty.

So far, it can be called the first empire of China that originated from the last three generations and became the first empire of Qin and Han.

Death of the Southern Song Dynasty

The Sui Dynasty, which destroyed Southern Chen, originated from the Northern Wei Dynasty, which unified the north in 439 AD.

Unlike Europe, where there was no Rome after Rome, China had the Sui and Tang dynasties after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the Chinese Xia of the Sui and Tang dynasties was the new Chinese Xia after the integration of the Xianbei and other nomadic peoples into the Chinese Xia.

The empire was passed on between the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Song dynasty, until the Southern Song dynasty was destroyed by the Yuan dynasty in 1279 AD.

The Sui and Tang dynasties can be called the second empire of China.

Death of Southern Ming

The unification of the Yuan Dynasty was the first major unification of nomadic and farming regions in China's ancient history, and its origins lie in the establishment of the Liao Dynasty by Yelu Abaoji in 916 AD.

The establishment of Liao was an epoch-making historical event in China's history, since then there has been a regime beyond the Great Wall with a system similar to that of the Central Plains, and it eventually led to the unification of the Yuan Dynasty's farming and pastoral regions.

The establishment of Liao was an epoch-making event in China's ancient history and a real turning point

After the Yuan Dynasty, there was no longer any long period of division similar to the North and South Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in China, and unification really became the mainstream.

In 1368 A.D., Ming destroyed Yuan.

And it was the Qing Dynasty that finally exterminated the Southern Ming, the year was 1662 A.D. Emperor Yongli was hanged in Kunming by Wu Sangui.

The end of the Ming dynasty marked the end of the last traditional Han dynasty in China. If the Sui and Tang dynasties were the new Huaxia, then the Qing dynasty was the true unification of the Han, Manchu, Mongol, Muslim and Tibetan peoples.

If there were no ethnic divisions in today's China, the Manchus would have been as much a part of China as the Xianbei.

The death of the six states ~ the death of the Southern Chen ~ the death of the Southern Song ~ the death of the Southern Ming, these four nodes did not produce a new civilization, the Chinese civilization has not disappeared, Confucianism core remains the same, the culture of the Taoist tradition remains the same, the same text.

In addition, when we talk about the Harappan civilization of ancient India, the Ganges civilization of Iran and the Persian civilization of Iran, we can see that the Chinese civilization has not disappeared. Ganges civilization, Iran's Persian civilization? Islamic civilization, it is not difficult to find that Huaxia is still the original Huaxia.

3. The greatest threat to Chinese civilization in ancient times was Buddhism

From the realm of thought and culture, or ideology, the only invasion our country suffered in ancient times was Buddhism.

The period of the Sui and Tang dynasties of the North and South Dynasties was the heyday of Buddhism in China, also known as the ? Age of Buddhism?

The Tang Dynasty's Han Yu advocated the ? Ancient Writing Movement? was not merely a restoration of the tradition of the articles of the two Han dynasties, but its real purpose was to restore the ancient Confucian Taoism, which, compared with Europe, was the real ? This is the real Renaissance compared to Europe. because the ancient Greek civilization that Europeans accepted from Arabia was not originally European at that time.

To the Song Dynasty, the formation of the science of integration of Confucianism, Buddhism, Buddhism as one of the hundred schools of thought into China.

Today's China is facing a change that has not been seen for 3,000 years, namely the invasion of Western industrial civilization, which is the second civilization invasion that China has faced since the last three generations.

Today's China is witnessing the revival of traditional civilization, and the day when traditional civilization is fully integrated with Western civilization will be the day of the true renaissance of China.