What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Chinese civilization has a long history and a long history, from the beginning of the summer to the qing dynasty, more than 4,000 years. In the history of China for more than 4,000 years, there have been many dynastic changes, a total of more than 20 dynasties, and if you count those divided regimes, there are even more. Basically every few hundred years is a reincarnation, and it is precisely in this constant war and chaos and reunification that the ancestors of the Chinese nation have retained and developed.
Looking at the ancient Chinese historical dynasties, those more famous dynasties, such as Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing, have only lasted for a few hundred years, and the longest dynasty in ancient China is the Zhou Dynasty, which still counts the Eastern Zhou and the Western Zhou, adding up to 800 years, but everyone knows that the Zhou Dynasty in the last 300 years or so can be regarded as the survival of the name, said to be the Zhou Tianzi, but the status is not as good as the princely states.
So the question is, why is it that Our dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, but the Roman Empire lasted for more than 1400 years? From 27 BC to 1453 AD. Not to mention the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire continued for a long time, from 550 BC to 651 AD, adding up to more than 1100 years.
Whether it is the Roman Empire or the Persian Empire, it is equivalent to a certain period of China, for example, from the Qin Dynasty to the establishment of a feudal imperial system in China, then the period from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties can be regarded as the Chinese Empire, and the ancient Roman Empire and the Persian Empire are actually such a concept.
Let's start with Rome. The Roman Empire was divided into the Roman Empire, as well as the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Rome. The Roman Empire was transformed from the Roman Republic, Octavian called the Emperor Rome into an imperial system, and once expanded to cover the entire Mediterranean region, spanning Asia, Africa and Europe, with a territory of 5 million square kilometers in its heyday, and was one of the largest monarchies in the world's ancient history.
However, the glory of the Roman Empire lasted only for more than 400 years, and in 359 AD, the emperor of the Roman Empire split the empire in two, becoming the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire.
The Western Roman Empire was conquered by the Germans in 476 AD, but in 962 the Holy Roman Empire was established with the East Frankish Kingdom as the core; the Eastern Roman Empire was the Byzantine Empire as we know it, although it was extremely powerful, but it was also overthrown many times during the period, and was not attacked by the Ottoman Turkish Empire until 1453 AD.
The situation in the Persian Empire was more complicated. In 550 BC, the Persian Empire was established, also known as the Achaemenid Dynasty, which was the ancient regime of Iran. In 330 BC, the Persian Empire collapsed, and after a scuffle, the Sabbath Empire was established in 247 BC, maintaining the rule of the Persian Empire.
Why does the Sabbath Empire maintain Persian rule? Because the previous Achaemenid dynasty was also called the First Persian Empire, this Sabbath Empire was the Second Persian Empire, and after that there was a Persian Third Empire, the Sassanid Dynasty established in 224 AD, until its demise in 651 AD.
Therefore, if you really want to calculate, the Persian Empire has also experienced more than 1100 years of history, but in fact, whether it is Rome or Persia, in fact, it has experienced regime change internally, so it is common to say that dynastic changes since ancient times, not that foreign regimes are longer than our own.