In fact, ancient civilizations that once flourished and flourished in human history once mysteriously disappeared from the earth. Why did the country suddenly disappear?
What catastrophe destroyed it?
This is a puzzling mystery through the ages, and the biggest mystery in archaeology today.
According to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato more than 2,000 years ago, in 590 BC, the Athenian legislator Solon visited Egypt, and an old priest in Egypt told him:
In the distant past, your land has inhabited one of the wisest and noblest races ever, and you are but the remnants of this race.
Because of the strong earthquakes and floods there, the storms of the day and the night, this brave people completely disappeared.
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Ancient civilizations all took rivers and river basins as their birthplace| and the four ancient countries had their own scripts and calendars
The period of ancient civilization.
They all have rivers and river basins as their source.
Different periods are often occupied by different civilizations, and the regional environment theory is roughly: Nile civilization, Two River Basin civilization, Indus River and Ganges River basin civilization, Yellow River, Yangtze River Basin civilization and so on.
Corresponding to ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon, ancient India and ancient China, and are known as the four ancient civilizations.
The four ancient kingdoms all have their own writings, calendars and characteristic buildings.
It is said that civilized ChinaTown is a modern large-scale tourist park with the theme of hundreds of inventions in ancient China, in the form of traditional handicraft production and scientific and technological dynamics.
The World Invention Park shows 300 world-leading scientific and technological discoveries in modern and modern Times, as well as the development process of the four ancient civilizations of ancient Egypt, India, Babylon and China.
It can be seen that the influence of the four ancient countries is far-reaching.
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The influence of the four ancient kingdoms on future generations is far-reaching| the only civilization that has been completely inherited is the Chinese civilization
Water lilies, which are widely distributed on the earth, have accumulated a rich and colorful cultural heritage in the process of the development of human civilization.
It is said that ancient Egypt, one of the four ancient countries in the world, was the earliest country to cultivate water lilies, and the ancient Egyptians regarded water lilies as a symbol of the "sun god".
In fact, ancient India was also one of the birthplaces of water lilies.
China is one of the four ancient countries with the earliest developed civilization in the world, and it has superior conditions in nature.
From the Pamir Plateau to the seashore, with the Ussuri River as the radius, to the south it becomes a semi-circular area, with orderly mountains, systematic rivers, splendid fields, on which a great Chinese nation lives.
It is a sublime symbol of civilization in itself.
As one of the four ancient countries, India has a high degree of development in its ancient legal system.
The reform of the legal system implemented during the British colonial period has promoted the process of modernization of India's legal system to a certain extent, and formed a unique modern legal system system after India's independence.
In recent years, the Indian government has implemented comprehensive economic reforms, and the speed of economic development has also attracted attention.
At present, India has reached a high level in high-tech fields such as astrophysics, space technology, molecular biology, software industry and electronic technology.
However, the Indian civilization, the Egyptian civilization, and the two river basin civilizations have not been inherited in a complete sense.
Only the Chinese civilization has a relatively good inheritance.
We often say that Chinese culture includes the I Ching and the ideas of Confucius, Meng, Lao Zhuang, etc., and that China and Greece, Egypt, and India are the cultures of the four ancient peoples.
These four cultural systems have a common principle, which is to pay attention to the law of cause and effect.
If we study further, why do these four ancient civilizations have this common ground?
Then pay attention to antiquity and ancient times.
That is to say, the human beings of the last ice age may have developed their culture to the common crystallization of the highest wisdom.
When human culture reached the ice age of the highest wisdom, the earth was suddenly destroyed, and the few remaining human beings left a little principle of the crystallization of the ancestral culture.
It can be seen that in the history of mankind, the disappearance of ancient civilizations is a common thing, which often occurs, and the disappearance of Indian civilization, Egyptian civilization, Two River Basin civilization and other civilizations is the same reason, which is nothing more than natural disasters and human war damage is too great.
Seeing the pyramids and the Sphinx is a relic of a civilization.
In fact, there are four recognized standards of civilization in the world today:
The first is to have a city with a certain population size.
For example, Chang'an, Xianyang and so on.
The second is to have words to accumulate and inherit human thought and culture.
For example, oracle bones, etc., with the text will have cultural inheritance, Huaxia classics "Tao Te Ching", "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic" and other human minds and Chinese medicine can be passed down.
Only such a civilization can continue to develop.
The third is to have more complex public buildings.
Take the Great Wall, for example.
The fourth is the invention and use of metallurgy.
In fact, China is recognized as one of the four ancient countries in the world that invented metal smelting.
So, where did the fire of smelting and casting civilization ignite in the land of China?
Mr. Guo Moruo, a famous historical archaeologist, once proposed that Wuyue was probably the earliest place to invent metallurgy, which is by no means empty.
It is not only the basis for the hegemony of the Yue kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but also a sign that Chinese civilization is ahead of the world, such as the Yue King's Gou Jian Sword, which was the most advanced metallurgical technology in that era.
In short, the influence of the four ancient kingdoms on future generations is far-reaching, and the only civilization that has been completely inherited is the Chinese civilization.
Let's talk about the stories of the four ancient countries, welcome to pay attention!
The author | Gong Liuhui