The mainland is one of the four major ancient civilizations in the world, with a very long history, from the Yellow Emperor to the present nearly 5,000 years of history, there are many vivid stories, but also many myths and legends.
The origin of mankind has a pangu groundbreaking myth: it is said that the universe was originally a chaotic mass, there was no light and no sound in it, Pangu used a giant axe to split this chaos into two, and the piece above it became higher and higher, forming what we call the sky. The piece below became lower and lower, thicker and thicker, becoming what we call the earth, and Pangu was the giant who stood between heaven and earth, and after his death, the various parts of his body became the sun, the moon, the stars, the hills, rivers and forests, the grasslands, and so on.
There is also a myth of Nüwa's creation of all things: it is said that in the beginning, the heavens and the earth did not know why they had undergone a great destruction: the heavens fell, the flooded, the fire burned, and all living things were destroyed. At this time, a goddess named Nuwa filled the sky with colored stones, stopped the flood with ash, extinguished the fire, and then slowly created creatures and humans.
Of course, myths are only myths and cannot be taken seriously.
With the progress of science, people have proved according to the fossils excavated underground that there is an ape-man who transformed from an ancient ape as the earliest ancestor of mankind. Ape-men are not as physically powerful as ferocious beasts, but unlike animals, ape-men are able to make and use tools. Archaeologists divide the stages of development into different stages of development according to different substantive tools and related activity remains, and call the stage of making only simple stone tools paleolithic; the stage of mastering the grinding and processing of stone tools is called the Neolithic, in the Neolithic Age, primitive people can not only make stone axes and stone hammers, but also grind the bones of wild beasts into bone needles, which are used to sew animal skins into clothes.
In 1927, China discovered the Fossil Officus pekingensis, which has a history of 4.5 million years, the Lantian ape man unearthed in Shaanxi has a history of 88 years, and the Yuanmou ape man discovered in the 80s has a history of 1.7 million years. In 1999, archaeologists excavated a large number of stone products and bone products in the Fanchang Herringbone Cave in Anhui Province, and after joint identification by experts, it was confirmed that these stone tools were early human remains from 2 million to 2.4 million years ago.
In the process of evolution of millions of years, the ape people and modern people are getting closer and closer, such as the primitive mountaintop cave people found from the Dragon Bone Mountain in Zhoukoudian, Beijing, the shape is basically the same as that of modern people, they constitute the primitive society at that time, from the perspective of the use of tools, the culture of the Neolithic era in the mainland has Dawenkou culture, Hongshan culture, Majiayao culture, Qijia culture, etc., they are much more reliable than the groundbreaking myth.