The mainland is a country with a long history, and it has also bred countless excellent traditional cultures, among which Chinese characters, paintings and dramas have shown the cultural charm of the mainland.
During the most prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, many small neighboring countries sent emissaries to the mainland for exchanges, and their mission was to learn from the mainland's advanced culture and advanced management system.
Therefore, some countries in Asia today still have the shadow of ancient Chinese in terms of clothing and living habits, and one of them
Korean scholars claim that:
Chinese civilization has dominated the East for more than 10,000 years, and Korea belonged to China in ancient times
。
Professor Kim Jae-gil's point of view
Nowadays, experts and scholars from some other countries will study Chinese culture and openly express their own views, some of which have academic value and some of which are very absurd. There is such a professor in South Korea, Kim Jae-gi, who has publicly spoken that all historical evidence shows that Korea belonged to China in ancient times, and that Chinese civilization has lasted for more than 10,000 years.
Professor Kim Jae-gil's statement seems absurd to historians on the mainland
, because there is no information to support such a statement. Although this statement is absurd, it is still worth exploring.
The five thousand years of China are historical facts that most people have known since childhood
So how did this historical fact slowly become accepted by the broad masses of the people?
A message that can be well known to the public must have a person who spreads this information widely. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the door of the mainland was opened by foreign powers, so the advanced culture of the West all gushed into the mainland, influencing a group of young people.
Although foreign cultures are advanced, this is not a reason for Chinese to abandon the traditional culture of their own country, so
Young people who are truly ideologically advanced attach great importance to the protection of traditional culture
They will start from the historical classics and tell the broad masses of the people that the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor are the common ancestors of the descendants of Yanhuang, and they are also the symbols and representatives of Chinese civilization.
In modern China, there is a long process of construction of the national narrative, and those outstanding thinkers have continuously contributed to the field of education and actively exported the correct concept of nationality to the people on the mainland, and Liang Qichao is one of the representative figures. In "The Song of the Nation", Liang Qichao wrote:
"More than 5,000 years old in history, the flames of light continue to rope."
Such a sentence is a tribute to the mainland's long history and culture.
Today, much of the information we are familiar with, such as the Chinese nation and the descendants of Yan huang, was actually carried forward by Liang Qichao and some advanced thinkers of his time. Premier Sun's "Changing the Calendar to the Yuan and Electrifying the Yuan" stipulates that the Republic of China will switch to the solar calendar.
It was also declared that November 13, 4609, the year of the Yellow Emperor," was the New Year's Day of the first year of the Republic of China
。 Since then, the broad masses of the people in China have gradually begun to accept the idea that China has been up and down for five thousand years.
Respect for historical facts
The five thousand years of China are historical facts jointly identified by the sons and daughters of China, but some Western historians do not accept such historical facts. These Western historians argue that
Chinese civilization is only 3500 years old, so the remaining 1500 years of history is unacceptable to them.
The West has set the standard of civilization, and the status of mainland historians in the world historiography is not high, so many Chinese can only be silently patient with such things. So why do Western historians think that Chinese civilization is only 3500 years old?
The three elements of civilization are actually writing, the city, and the complex architecture of interest
。 At first, some historians in the West believed that Chinese civilization was only 2700 years old, and they believed that all the history before the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was fabricated by Chinese historians, after all, the earliest cultural relics from mainland archaeology at that time were after the Western Zhou Dynasty.
However, later archaeologists on the mainland found many products of the Civilization of the Shang Dynasty, including some daily necessities and sacrificial supplies, and oracle bones appeared on the sacrificial supplies, and the historians in the West were dumbfounded, and they began to acknowledge that Chinese civilization had a period of 3500 years.
The existence of the Shang Dynasty is now a matter of general recognition in the entire historical community, but there is no writing circulation in the Xia Dynasty, and our country's understanding of the Xia Dynasty is also derived from the records in ancient documents. There are many records about the culture of the Xia Dynasty in the "Records of History". In addition to the Chronicle of History,
There are also a number of historical works that still support the idea that the Xia Dynasty existed
However, Western historians still refuse to recognize the existence of the Xia Dynasty.
So why does Professor Kim Jae-gi think that Chinese civilization has exceeded 10,000 years? Perhaps, Professor Kim Jae-gil is giving a new definition of civilization,
In his eyes, the areas where early agriculture arose were considered to have produced civilizations
The budding time of mainland agriculture is tens of thousands of years ago, and under this definition, Chinese civilization does have more than 10,000 years.
The claim that Korean civilization originated in China is wrong
Professor Kim Jae-gil believes that Korean civilization originated in China, which is obviously incorrect, and in korean history, the myth about Danjun is the origin of Korea. Huan Yin was a god, and his son Huan Xiong longed for the human world very much, so Huan Yin allowed him to take thousands of people to the human world, so that everything in the human world was full of order.
At this time, there was an unremarkable cave in the human world, and there was a bear and a tiger, and they expressed their wish to Huanxiong, that is, they hoped that Huanxiong could turn them into people.
Huanxiong said that they could fulfill their wishes, but they had to eat ai and garlic for a hundred consecutive days, and during this hundred days, they could not see the sun, and the bear did Huanxiong's request, but the tiger did not do it, so the bear later became a human, and married another person, and gave birth to Tanjun.
Later, Tanjun established a state with the name of Joseon, and he ruled Korea for as long as 1500 years. The authenticity of such a story remains to be considered, but it is certain that
The claim that Korean civilization originated in China must be wrong, because China's historical development has nothing to do with Korea.
As Chinese, we must fully understand historical knowledge and try to be familiar with the cultural habits of Chinese in different historical periods. With regard to the mainland's excellent traditional culture, we must carry forward their concepts.
In the process of changing times, many advanced cultures will appear in people's worlds.
And those excellent traditional cultural works will never lose their charm.