What is the main content of the story-telling historical reading "Five Thousand Years of China"?

Main contents: Taking time as the longitude, events and figures as the latitude, threading the needle and leading the lead, starting from the legend of Pangu's creation, this paper shows the essence of China's 5,000-year history and culture, and provides readers with a shortcut to understand history. Clearly outline the ins and outs of historical events and the truth and falsehood of historical figures.

Our great motherland has a long history. According to the ancient tradition, from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the present, it has a history of about 4,000 years, which is usually called "five thousand years up and down". There are many myths and historical stories circulating in this period. So there is a book "Five Thousand Years in China".

The history of China refers to the history of China from the emergence of Chinese civilization to the present. China has a long history, which is about 5,000 years from the period of Xuanyuan (also known as Gongsun Xuanyuan), the tribe of the Yellow Emperor. It is about 4600 years since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. About 4 100 years since Xia dynasty; It is about 2240 years since the first unified centralized Qin Dynasty in China.

China has experienced many regime changes and dynasty changes. It was once the most powerful country in the world and attracted worldwide attention in economy, culture, science and technology.

In prehistoric times, Emperor Yanhuang of China was honored as the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation.

The Xia Dynasty, the earliest country in China, appeared in the 2nd/kloc-0th century BC. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty promoted the development of productive forces and social changes, forming a situation in which a hundred schools of thought contend. In 22 1 BC, Qin Shihuang established the first unified autocratic centralized empire in the history of China, and the Western Han Dynasty further consolidated and developed the unified situation.

During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, China fell into a state of separatism. During the Five Dynasties Rebellion, the trend of China's external integration was strengthened, and many ethnic groups gradually gathered in the conflict of separatist regimes. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the central government had closer ties with the ethnic minorities in the border areas, and the economy was prosperous, and science, technology and culture were highly developed. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, multiculturalism collided and blended, and economy and science and technology developed to a new height. In the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, the social economy was highly developed, and capitalism sprouted in Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

/kloc-In the middle of the 9th century, after the Opium War, China began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The Xinhai Revolution of 19 1 1 overthrew the monarchy and established the * * * and political power. After Yuan Shikai's death, China entered a chaotic period of warlord separatism. After the national revolution, agrarian revolution, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the war of liberation, People's Republic of China (PRC) was finally established in 1949.

From 1966 to 1976 after the Cultural Revolution. After 1978, China began to implement the policy of reform and opening up, and China's economy developed rapidly. 20 1 1 China surpassed Japan to become the second largest economy in the world.

References:

History of China-Baidu Encyclopedia