How to understand the history of our Chinese nation? There is a common saying that Chinese civilization has a continuous history of 5,000 years, which is enough to be proud of. However, the concept of the history of civilization comes from the West, not our nation's own concept, nor our national view of history, so why mistakenly use the Westerners' view of history to describe our Chinese history? This is a sign of a lack of cultural self-confidence. Can I say that we have 5,000 years of civilization history with my Chinese view of history? The ancestors refused to do so. We should view our own history as follows: Our Chinese nation has an extremely long history and has an orderly and continuous inheritance.
I once saw an article on the Tianya Forum: Ancient cultural relics testify: Chinese civilization is the only ancient civilization. Whether we are the only ancient civilization, I don't know, but inspired by him, there is this article.
What is historical materialism? Schools teach a lot of conceptual ideas but not necessarily the essence, in short, historical materialism means that people cannot make history as they wish; The opposite, historical idealism, believes that people can make history as they want. Looking at the history of the Chinese nation and the ancient Western civilization compiled by Westerners from this point of view, there is a difference between historical materialism and historical idealism.
Let's make a simple comparison.
According to archaeological findings, since Homo erectus came to the land of China, they have never left and never become extinct, but have been living and multiplying on this land. From million-year-old sites to hundreds of thousands of years to hundreds of thousands of years, tens of thousands of years and nearly 10,000 years of sites, they can be found on the land of China. Judging from the remaining human skeletons, its race has not been significantly broken, but has been in the same vein. Not only the human race is in the same lineage, but the stone culture is also in the same lineage and has never been broken. You can find CCTV to interview the program of paleoanthropological researcher Wu Xinzhi, or you can search on the Internet, it is not difficult to understand this fact. Therefore, from the archaeological evidence, we can see that the history of the Chinese nation is extremely long and continuous.
At one time, modern Homo sapiens came from Africa, and was supported by modern genetic theory, but this theory and the archaeological evidence of the world, especially China, there is irreconcilable contradiction, but those 'genetic experts' turn their eyes and do not explain the cause of this major contradiction. Now the latest research results of the Huangshi team of Central South University deny the old theory that modern Homo sapiens came from Africa, believing that it has major problems that cannot be explained in theory, so it is impossible to provide evidence for the theory that modern Homo sapiens came from Africa, and his research proposes a more factual evolutionary theory - the theory of the upper limit of genetic diversity, which guides the use of ancient DNA to find evidence that modern East Asians came from China, and has achieved a perfect combination with archaeological facts.
Not only archaeological evidence, but also the historical legends of our nation prove this. From Pangu to the creation of people by Nuwa, to the Chao clan, the Flint clan, the Fuxi Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor's ancestor, from the ancient knotted rope rule to the invention and use of hieroglyphics, the picture scroll of human history is displayed one by one in our historical legends. For example, the creation of Nuwa and the replenishment of heaven implies the information of human matriarchal clan society, the Flintstones imply the historical fact that our ancestors learned to drill wood for fire, the deeds of Zhu Zu include the invention and use of silk, and Fuxi Shennong contains the transformation from a fishing and hunting society to an agricultural society, and so on. We all know that the early days of human society were a classless society, and the ancients described the yearning for the avenue, which is the memory of the primitive communist society; In the early days of human beings, it was a group marriage system, and the legend of those merchants and Zhou people and other ancestors, who only knew that their mother did not know their father, is the memory of this. As for the legends after entering the agricultural society, there are even more, and we can basically treat them as the history of faith. Our ancestors were able to integrate the development of history into historical legends, which obviously shows the fact that the history of our Chinese nation has a long history and an orderly inheritance. Compared with the myths and legends of other Western ancient civilizations, whether it is ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon, or ancient Greece or ancient Jews, they obviously do not have such a legend throughout history, but just some man-made myths. For example, in the Bible, God actually created men first, and women are actually men's ribs, without historical knowledge.
In addition to archaeological evidence and historical legends, we also have writing. We are the only people in the world who communicate with words, and the other peoples use languages (this is a big problem, and I will write articles slowly in the future). From language to writing is a remarkable evolution in human history, it is said that ancient Egyptians and ancient Sumerians invented hieroglyphics, but they failed to persist and develop, and eventually writing degenerated into language symbols. Only we, the Chinese nation, insisted on using writing for communication, and eventually evolved hieroglyphs into ideograms and replaced language as our communication tool. In Chinese characters, a lot of historical information is hinted. For example, the word female is a sitting human figure, while the male character is a person working in the field, suggesting the message of human matriarchal clan society, and men did not achieve a dominant social status until agricultural civilization. The oracle bone of the emperor character refers to the descendants of women and their peers, indicating that the early emperors were women and the memory of matrilineal clan society. In ancient times, the word B is very similar to a rope, and the word ten, the earliest is like a knotted rope, and the early word winter is the image of a knotted rope at both ends. Ancient humans lived in caves, and we have the word cave, and we have the word poor. The word poor in the oracle bone script represents the image of a person walking to the end in a cave without a road, so there are usages such as wanting to be poor, exhausted, exhausted, and so on. The earth has a large class of mineral deposits, which we call metals today, indicated by the words next to the word gold, which stems from the first discovery and use of gold by humans; The earliest currency of mankind was shellfish, as we can know from the words next to a large number of shellfish. The history hidden in the oracle bone is waiting for experts to decipher, and here is just a little bit of what I know. Whether it is ancient Egyptian script or two rivers cuneiform, is there such rich historical information?
In addition to the three major evidences of archaeology, historical legends and writings, there are also some circumstantial evidence that can show that the history of our nation is extremely long and inherited. For example, the Book of Poetry: Broken Bamboo, Continued Bamboo; Flying soil, chasing by head. It records the hunting scenes of the early ancestors; Li Bai's "Shu Road Difficulty": Silkworm bushes and fish crows, how dazed is the founding of the country! Erlai is 48,000 years old, and does not communicate with Qin Sai. Things from 40,000 or 50,000 years ago are passed down from generation to generation. Wang Dongyue, a famous folk philosopher, said that only China has retained the oldest thinking of mankind, while other peoples in the West have only theological thinking and have lost the oldest way of thinking of mankind. For example, only our Chinese nation has recorded a large number of astronomical phenomena, such as solar eclipses, supernova explosions, and so on, and only our Chinese nation attaches importance to history and has special historical officials and a large number of historical records, and so on. How much circumstantial evidence is there for those ancient civilizations in the West?
All kinds of facts show that the history of our Chinese nation goes back to ancient times, and the inheritance is orderly and continuous.
Looking at the ancient civilizations of the West by our standards, which one can find so much evidence to prove itself?