Historians have found that the cultural history of China has a history of about 4,000 years, which is usually called "five thousand years up and down". Chinese civilization is the only ancient civilization in the world that has not been interrupted and continues to this day, and the ancient Shu civilization is an important tributary of this long history.
China has a long history, about 5,000 years from the Ji Xuanyuan period of the Yellow Emperor tribe. 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. In prehistoric times, Emperor Yanhuang of China was honored as the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation. Around 2070 BC, the Xia Dynasty, the earliest country in China, appeared. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty promoted the development of productive forces and social changes, forming a situation in which a hundred schools of thought contend.
The origin of China in five thousand years.
Sima Qian's Historical Records did not list Huang San, but put Yanhuang at the top of the chronicles of the Five Emperors, but he did not specify the date of the Yellow Emperor, not even Zhuan Xu, Yao and Shun. The current literature and history reference books generally set the date of the Yellow Emperor in the 26th century BC, that is, around 4600.
Mr. Song Jian said in his article "Beyond Doubting the Ancient, Out of Confusion" that the era of the Yellow Emperor used in People's Daily was probably calculated by historians in Tokyo at that time. Professor Shi said that the source is: Lu called the first year of Yao as the year according to Shao Yong's Yellow Poetry Book, and speculated that this year was 2357 BC.
According to the Records of Emperor Ji by Huangfu Mi in Jin Dynasty, the reign of the Yellow Emperor was 65,438+000 years, that of Jintian was 84 years, that of Zhuan Xu was 78 years, that of Emperor Zhi was 9 years, and that of the first year of the Yellow Emperor was 2698. According to historical records, from the era of the Yellow Emperor, that is, 2698 BC to this year, it is 4704 years, less than 5000 years, close to 5000 years. This is the real source of the "five thousand years" theory.