information about chinese civilization

 History of China

Chinese civilization arose along the line of the villages of the Yellow River and Yangtze River in the Neolithic era, so it is said that the Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization, with thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the most important ancient civilizations in the world, and the written history of China can be found in Early Shang Dynasty circa 1700–1046 BC, although ancient historical texts such as the records of the Great Historian circa 100 BC and Bamboo Annals confirm the existence of the Xia dynasty before the Shang, and a great deal of Chinese culture, literature, and philosophy developed further during the 1045–1045 Zhou Dynasty. 256 BC, and in this article there is information about Chinese civilization

Chinese civilization

It is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, extending its origins for thousands of years, and the Chinese civilization has dominated a vast geographical area in East Asia, where customs and traditions differ greatly between provinces, cities and even towns as well, and as China is one of the first early civilizations, the Chinese civilization is noted as diverse and different Significantly, and its profound influence appears in many aspects, the most important of which are philosophy, virtue, etiquette and traditions, in the whole of Asia until today.

Historically, the Chinese civilization is the dominant civilization in East Asia, and was also the civilization with the most dominant influence in the region. It laid the cultural foundation of East Asian civilization, such as language, ceramics, architecture, music, literature and martial arts, as well as cuisine, visual arts, philosophy, economic foundations and religion, Even Chinese politics and history have had a significant impact on the world, and Chinese traditions and festivals are also practiced and celebrated by people throughout Asia.

It is worth noting that there are 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China, and among all these numbers, the "Han" is one of the largest groups, and throughout history many groups have been assimilated into neighboring races or disappear, the traditional identity within society has a great relationship By distinguishing the family name, Chinese traditional culture covers large geographical regions as regions are divided into independent sub-cultures, and each region often represents three ancestral themes

Arts in Chinese Civilization

Various forms of art in Chinese civilization have been influenced by great philosophers, teachers, religious figures, and even political figures. Chinese art includes all kinds of fine arts, applied arts, and performing arts. The famous Chinese pottery was one of the first forms of art in the Stone Age. Contemporary Chinese music and poetry were influenced by the book Songs of the Chinese poet and statesman Qu Yuan, and the art of Chinese painting is also highly regarded in court circles, which includes a wide variety of Shan Shui with specialized styles such as Ming Dynasty painting. Contemporary Chinese music was based on percussion on musical instruments that Recently it was endowed with stringed instruments, reeds and oboe, and paper cutting became a new art form in the Han Dynasty after the invention of paper. Finally, Chinese opera was introduced and branched out regionally by adding it to other performance forms such as miscellaneous arts.

Science in Chinese Civilization

The contributions of Chinese civilization to science, technology and scientific thought depend on the historical period from which they are taken. And before the arrival of the missionaries, Chinese science was semi-experimental, but the theoretical aspects were less developed. Nevertheless, the Chinese succeeded in outstripping the Greeks in some scientific discoveries, and they were able to keep pace with Islamic civilization[4] and one of the most important inventions of Chinese civilization was the abacus, the "shadow clock". And the four great inventions: the compass, gunpowder, papermaking, and printing, and they were among the most important technological developments, before the end of the year 1000 AD in the Middle Ages.

However, the Chinese cannot be described as one of the active nations in the field of industrial inventions despite their invention of the compass, gunpowder, printing and pottery. Until 1912, they remained content to run on their old economic ways, and despised methods and tricks that dispensed with hard work and multiplied the fruits of human efforts, and disrupted half of the world's population to increase the wealth of the other half, as if in their contempt they were predicting the evils these inventions bring to humans according to their destination their view

Chinese myths

Chinese civilization is considered a "historians' paradise"; That is because it has official historians who record everything that happened in it thousands of years ago, and they also recorded a lot of what did not happen, and that is why their statements about the eras prior to the year 76 BC are not trustworthy. AD, but these sayings tell detailed hadiths about the history of China since 3000 BC. AD, and the most pious and righteous of them describe the creation of the world as those who know the unseen do these days, and among their sayings in this regard is that “Ban Ku” the first of the creation was able to form the earth around the year 2,229,000 BC, after he continued to toil in this work eighteen thousand years, and the breath he exhaled in the course of his work gathered into winds and clouds, and his voice became thunder, and his veins became rivers, and his flesh turned into earth, and his hair grew and trees, and his bones were minerals, and his sweat was rain; As for the insects that were attached to his body, they became humans.

Chinese legends say that the first kings ruled each of them eighteen thousand years, and that they struggled to make the louse of "Pan Ku" civilized creatures, and these legends tell us that people "before these heavenly kings were like ferocious beasts, wearing skins and eating raw meat, and knowing their mothers." But they do not know their fathers.