It has a history of more than 4000 years, which is usually called "up and down five thousand years".
In the 5,000-year history, there are many touching and meaningful stories, many of which are recorded in words.
There were no written records in ancient times 5000 years ago, but there were some myths and legends circulating.
Where did our ancestors come from? In ancient times, there was a myth that Pangu created heaven and earth, saying
The point is that before the creation of heaven and earth, the universe was just a chaotic gas with no light and no sound in it. At this moment, it came out.
A Pangu was killed, and this chaos was split by a big axe. Light gas floated up and became the sky; Heavy gas sinks,
It became land.
From then on, the sky was ten feet high and the earth was ten feet thick, and Pangu himself grew ten feet every day.
18000, the sky was very high and the ground was very thick. Of course, Pangu became an indomitable giant. Later, Pangu
After Shi died, all parts of his body became the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, vegetation and so on.
This is the creation myth.
Myth is just a myth after all. No one will believe such a thing now. But people like this myth. Speaking of which,
It is often said that history began with "Pangu opened the heavens and the earth", because it symbolizes the great spirit and rich creativity of human beings in conquering nature.
Creative power.
So, where should human history begin? Later, with the development of science, people dug out of the ground.
Stone proves that the earliest ancestor of mankind was an ape-man transformed from an ancient ape.
Scientists in China have unearthed many fossils and remains of ape-man bones all over the country, and we can see our ancestors.
The earliest hominids in China have a history of more than one million years. There are about 170 Yuanmou apes found in Yunnan.
100,000 years of history; Lantian ape-man unearthed in Shaanxi is about 800,000 years ago. Take the famous Beijingers as an example, there are also four.
It has a history of 500 thousand years.
Here, let's start with Beijingers. Beijingers live in Zhoukoudian area. The climate in northern China at that time.
It is milder and wetter than it is now. Trees, shrubs and lush weeds are growing all over the mountains. Fierce tiger, leopard, wolf, bear and other fields.
Animals can be found in forests and Shan Ye. Elephants and rhinos also grow there.
Cattle and sika deer.
The strength of ape-man can't compare with these fierce beasts, but the fundamental difference between them and any animal is that ape-man can.
Enough to make and use tools. This tool is very simple, one is a stick and the other is a stone. There are many branches in the forest.
But it was cut down; Although rough, stone is a man-made tool.
It is this simple tool that they use to collect fruits and dig the roots of plants to eat. They also use sticks and stone tools to go into the wild.
Animals fight and hunt.
However, this tool is too simple after all. The food they get is very limited. They can't live independently.
Live in groups, and Qi Xin will work together to deal with the attack of wild animals. This kind of person is called primitive man.
Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and apes have evolved in hard struggle. In the cave at the top of Gulong Mountain in Zhoukoudian, Beijing, he developed.
Now there is another kind of remains of primitive people. This primitive man is no different from modern man. We call it.
Neanderthals
Neanderthals' labor tools have been greatly improved. Not only can they smash stones into axes and hammers, but they can also smash them.
The bones of wild animals are ground into bone needles. Don't look at this little spicule. It was not easy for people to sharpen bone needles at that time.
Simple things. With bone needles, people can sew animal skins into clothes instead of being naked like Beijingers.
Neanderthals also lived in groups. But their group life has been fixed according to blood relationship. A group.
All the members come from the same clan, that is, people from the same clan. In this way, human society entered the clan commune.
It's the time.