While the three major coastal cultures and the cultural circles of central China declined, the Central Plains culture transitioned to the Bronze Age, and the Xia Shang Zhou was transmitted here.
"The Contrast of Chinese and Western Civilizations" Learning Experience
Chapter 1: The Development of Ancient Civilizations in Central and European Europe
Session 2: Roots
Eurasian life from Paleolithic gathering and fishing and hunting, step by step to The Neolithic sedentary agriculture, during which there were different development paths.
In China, in the process from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic, there is the so-called Mesolithic Age, that is, the stage of fishing, hunting and gathering, and on this basis, the Neolithic culture was quickly developed in various places.
In the Mesolithic Era, in the case of the Central Plains, from the Yangshao culture to the Longshan culture, large villages have emerged, and the difference between rich and poor has appeared in the villages, which is particularly significant in the performance of tombs.
This large-scale Neolithic culture, reaching a certain cultural height and complexity, coexisted in China on the Asian continent, and its common feature is to go beyond the fishing and hunting stage and enter agricultural production.
Ancient Chinese humans have developed a fairly high degree of agricultural production.
Verse 3: The Collapse and Metamorphosis of Primitive Tribes
Four thousand years ago, the Asian continent underwent tremendous changes, and the Shijiahe culture in the three major coastal cultures of China and central China suddenly declined, with smaller villages, fewer populations, and lower cultural levels.
The cause of this recession may be climate change, but why haven't other regions changed the same?
The main reason may be due to the excessive disparity between the upper and lower levels of the social structure, the excessive consumption of people's strength by the upper ruling class, the boasting of power with the construction and production of etiquette, and the excessive consumption of manpower and material resources, resulting in social collapse.
But the Central Plains culture, such as the Miaodigou culture, is indeed a pure agricultural culture, from today's Guanzhong in the west to the east of Henan in the east, in this narrow strip, along the Yellow River, the ancient culture pulled down, laid the core of the future Central Plains.
In the ancient Chinese legend of the Xia Shang Dynasty, the area where the Xia culture is located is exactly similar to the easternmost Erlitou in the middle of the Miaodigou period.
China's Neolithic culture gradually developed, gradually merging from scattered agricultural villages into several large cultural areas, and finally forming a huge core area in the Central Plains.
Here, the Chinese Xia and Shang Dynasties passed on, and it was also here that the state form developed, from the primitive tribe to the large-scale kingdom of the Shang Dynasty and the kingdom of the Western Zhou feudal system.
The overall development process is cohesive and integrated.
This region faces little foreign cultural interference and few immigrants, which is a native civilization system.
