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2009 is destined to be a very important year in the history of China.
This year, China, symbolized by the people of China, celebrated its 60th birthday.
Sixty years, as a time span, has special significance in the long river of history, because it has the function of watershed.
Since Qin Shihuang unified China, more than 2,200 years ago, ten dynasties, large and small, were established on the land of China. However, there are only a dozen dynasties whose political life can exceed 60 years.
There is an ancient proverb in China: Life is seventy years old.
Confucius once said: sixty is pleasant to listen to. Sixty years is almost a period of effective operation of individual life. In modern society, most countries in the world take 60 as the retirement age. Even in the most authoritarian era in history, few rulers ruled for more than 60 years.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Emperor Kangxi of China, as outstanding emperors in ancient times, all started the prosperous times of their respective times, but they were not in power for more than 60 years (50 years for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, 43 years for Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and 60 years for Emperor Kangxi).
Personal life is like this, so is family fate. "Being rich for three generations" has always been the curse of ancient China, but few families have been able to get rid of it for two thousand years.
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