In the next five thousand years of Chinese history, from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the present, there have been many glorious and splendid histories, and there have also been countless literati rioters, especially in the Three Kingdoms period, there have been a large number of strategists and generals, these humanistic tao martial arts, take a random person, can tell a story of the intestines. China's history is too rich to be explained Chinese yourself. Curiously, how would the United States portray this Five Thousand Years of China?
In the more than 1,000 pages of American history, only 20 pages of China are described, and a total of 6 Chinese are recorded. Speaking of American history, don't look at more than 1,000 pages, there are actually only more than 400 years of history, starting from the original inhabitants of North America, and then talking about 1776 to 1783, the leaders in Washington won the War of Independence, founded the United States, and then gradually became a powerful country.
They can use 1,000 pages to describe their 400 years, as a Chinese person, of course, they are also very curious, what is Recorded in China in that short 20 pages?
From the chronological order, he first recorded Confucius, the reason why Confucius is recorded, of course, is related to his Confucianism, Confucianism's influence on Western countries is actually relatively small, for South Korea and other East Asian countries, the impact is relatively large, in fact, the impact on the United States is also relatively large.
Many ideas in the United States can also find a corresponding source in Confucianism, Confucius was born in 551 BC, he was revered in China as "Kong Sage", Han Yu once said: "The ancient sage, his birth is far away." "A saint is a man of high moral standing and great wisdom, and in the words of the ancients, a saint is a person who has attained the most perfect state, and at the same time the saint also refers specifically to Confucius.
The second record is Qin Shi Huang, leaving aside the half-faith history of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and Xia Shang Zhou, the record of Qin Shi Huang may be as important as their record of Washington. Even in today's China, there are movies and TELEVISION dramas related to Qin Shi Huang, as the first feudal monarch in ancient and modern China and abroad to be called an emperor, Qin Shi Huang achieved great unification and became an emperor for thousands of years.
In 246 BC, he became the monarch of the Qin state, starting from 230 BC, Qin Shi Huang spent a total of 10 years, successively annexed 6 kingdoms, and in 221 he created the imperial industry, and the use of "wang" was no longer enough to show his hegemony, so he changed his name to "emperor" and called himself "Yuan".
Qin Shi Huang was recorded, then Emperor Wudi of Han naturally will naturally be recorded, Emperor Wu of Han had such a powerful general as Huo Toyi to help him expand his territory, he was also an ambitious place, during his reign, the blow to the Xiongnu was not small, east and Korea, south of Baiyue, west of Yu Onion Ridge, during the period of Emperor Wu of Han China's territory reached the largest. At the same time, he adopted Dong Zhongshu's suggestion: "Depose the Hundred Families and respect Confucianism alone." "Zhang Qian was also sent to open the Silk Road, thus opening up the connection between China and the West, and at that time, even the queen of the Roman Empire wore Chinese silk to meet her envoys."
American history also mentions Li Shimin and Wu Zetian, these two people are the same era of people, Li Shimin Kaizhenguan rule, china at that time prospered, the people are well clothed, many people can eat fat, so there is also the Tang Dynasty to fat beauty aesthetics. In the eyes of Westerners, Datang is like a place in the legendary story, which makes them yearn for it.
However, Wu Zetian is also among them, Wu Zetian has a lot of particularities, is the only female emperor in China, when she reigned, the country also developed well, she has the ability to govern the country, in the eyes of the United States, Wu Zetian is as noble as the British empress, at the same time, the United States pays attention to equality, but also pays attention to equality between men and women, and it is no accident that Wu Zetian is recorded in textbooks.
Although the Tang Dynasty was a feudal dynasty, the two monarchs recorded in the case actually had a lot to do with the spirit of freedom and openness in the Tang Dynasty, and freedom was also the idea pursued by the United States.
In addition to the above great figures, Zheng He also appeared in American history, originally, Zheng He was just a eunuch, by virtue of his identity is not enough to be remembered, but Zheng He seven times to the West, even Columbus voyages were carried out half a century later, and at that time, the scale of Zheng He's voyage to the West was also incomparable to later people.