10 reasons to be proud of China

1. Chinese culture, also known as Huaxia civilization. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations and the longest lasting civilization in the world, often referred to as one of the world's four ancient civilizations.

2. Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world, with a history of more than 4,500 years. It is one of the three oldest writing systems in the world. Among them, the Sacred Script of ancient Egypt and the cuneiform of the Sumerians in the Two River Basins have been lost, and only the Chinese characters are still in use today.

3. China is one of the birthplaces of the world's early human civilizations, and was one of the first regions in the world to use fire, invent bows and arrows and pottery, and to see the emergence of agriculture and animal husbandry, observation of astronomy, and the creation of medicine.

4. The Xia Dynasty invented the stem and branch chronology and the decimal system. The Western Zhou Dynasty used the gui table to measure the sun and shadow to determine the seasons; the Spring and Autumn Period determined the twenty-eight constellations; the later period produced the ancient tetrad calendar, Chinese medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, decimal value system, equatorial coordinate system, engraving and printing, papermaking, movable-type printing, gunpowder, compass, porcelain, silk, metal smelting and casting, and deep plowing and cultivation .

5, China is an ancient country of mathematics, China's ancient handed down the "nine chapters of arithmetic", "nine chapters of mathematics" is an ancient mathematical masterpieces. Ancient countries around the world used to have ten, twelve, twenty, sixty and other kinds of progression system, now unified use of decimal value system. Wang Yusheng said, China is the world's first country to adopt the decimal system, in the history of world mathematics has an extremely important position. Unearthed Yin Shang oracle bones have been one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and a hundred, thousand, ten thousand and other words of the combined text to keep track of the number of the largest number of more than 20,000, recording the number of enemy annihilated in the war, the number of prisoners, as well as the number of heads of cattle and sheep. Later, the decimal value system was developed into the decimal value system of the chip counting and bead counting, which is a revolutionary invention of counting and calculation, and it is still in use today.

6, China is also an ancient country of astronomy, China is the world's first written records of sunspots, Halley's Comet, supernovas and other celestial phenomena in the country, China's ancient astronomical calculations using the equatorial coordinates have been adopted by the modern astronomy, China has become the leading country in the world to adopt the equatorial coordinates. Ancient astronomers in the astronomical calculations in accordance with the Earth's rotation of the equatorial plane and the rotation of the ecliptic plane to determine the coordinate system, the ancient Chinese astronomical calculations using the equatorial coordinates to the equator of the 28 constellations based on the study of the sun, the moon, the five stars of the movement of the West according to the coordinates of the ecliptic, there is the so-called Zodiac twelve palaces, which is a system of two different coordinates. China's surviving ancient observatory instruments, such as the Beijing Ancient Observatory's multiple observatories, are all in equatorial coordinates. Modern astronomical research has proved that equatorial coordinates are superior to ecliptic coordinates, and modern astronomy has replaced the ecliptic coordinate system with the equatorial coordinate system.

7. Classical Chinese Poetry: Guo Feng (国风), Chu Rhetoric (楚辞), Han Lefu (汉乐府), Wei Jin Style (魏晋风骨), Northern Dynasty Folk Songs (北朝民歌), Southern Dynasty Wu Songs (南朝吴歌西曲), Southern Dynasty Palace Poetry (南朝宫体诗), Tang Poetry (唐詩), Tang Wudaiyi (唐五代词), Song Poetry (宋诗), Song Lyrics (宋词), Yuanqu Qu (元曲), Mingqu (明曲), Ming Shansong (明山歌), Qing Lyrics (qing lyrics), Qing Poetry (清詩). Myths, Six Dynasties, Tang legends, Song novels, Ming and Qing novels

Classical Chinese Drama: Hundred Operas of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty Miscellaneous Dramas

Classical Chinese Philosophy: Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Mohism, Yin and Yang, Zong and Heng, Agricultural, Military, Nominalism, Miscellaneous Philosophies, Ch'an, Tantric, Pure Land, Tien-t'ai, Avatamsaka, Sanshou, Vaisnava, Ruling, Rationality, Psychology, Daoism, Moslems, and so on, Mazu worship and so on.

Chinese classical music: including Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, Yu, xiao, flute, suona, ocarina, sheng, lusheng, zheng, guqin, yangqin, pipa, ruan, yueqin, sanxian, liuqin, gongs, drums, boards, bang bangs, erhu, banshu, leather beard, horse-head qin, and so on.

Ancient Chinese Games : Jousting: Jiaojie, Sumo, Tug-of-War, Cockfighting, Bullfighting, Cricket Fighting, Birdfighting,

Athletics: Loam Throwing, Pitcher Throwing, Cuju, Jou, Bow Striking, Step Striking, Wooden Shooting, Swinging, Shuttlecock

Combat of Wits: Nine Linking Rings, Jigsaw Puzzle Board, Go, Chess, Guessing and Shooting: Shooting Overlays, Hidden Hooks, Riddles, Liquor Orders

Gambling: Siches, Six Bamboos, Simaroubou, Double land, five wood, throw Qiong, colorful war, paikou, tianjiu, mahjong

Cards: leaf play, horse hanging tiles, silent and cards

8, China's maritime history is the world's first

Zheng He had reached more than 30 countries, such as Java, Sumatra, Sulu, Pahang, Zhenyao, Guri, Siam, Adan, Tienfang, Zofar, Kulmus, Mukdusu, etc., and the furthest to the East Coast of Africa, the Red Sea, Mecca, and the sea of the world, and the world's largest city. East coast of Africa, the Red Sea, Mecca, and possibly Australia. These records represent the peak of China's maritime exploration, 80 years earlier than Western explorers such as Da Gama and Columbus. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was ahead of the West during the same period in terms of seafaring technology, the size of its fleet, the distance it traveled, the duration of its voyages, and the areas it covered.

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Our country has so much splendid and glorious history. I believe that after reading my article, you can not help but marvel! Yes, being a descendant of the Chinese nation, Yan Huang, I can't help but feel proud too. But these glories only represent our country's yesterday, it has already passed. Today, we Chinese people are creating a new history:

July 11 evening in Lausanne, Switzerland, held in the men's 110-meter hurdles race, China's Liu Xiang to 12 seconds 88 results to win the championship, which breaks the nearly 13 years, by the British celebrity Colin? The world record of 12 seconds 91 seconds held by the British general Colin Jackson. Liu Xiang has undoubtedly become the superstar of the 2006 Lausanne Athletics Super Grand Prix. If the men's 110 meters hurdles race in the Athens Olympic Games, Liu Xiang with 12 seconds 91 times tied the British famous Colin Jackson held for 11 years. Jackson held the world record for 11 years, is a double male than shoulder, then, two years after the incident today, it can be called "hero on hero". Liu Xiang, a black hair, yellow skin of the yellow race, once again "Xiang" to serve the world.

Liu Xiang, he is my favorite sports athlete, he is in the sports field constantly refreshing records, constantly beyond their own, this spirit in his body is what I want to learn, I believe that as long as everyone like him constantly beyond their own, then our country will have a colorful today, like the United States of America as the world's superpowers. Let's work together!