Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties are the bronze age in the archaeological history of China, and also the origin of Chinese civilization with Central Plains culture as the main body. In the late Neolithic period, that is, the legendary Three Emperors and Five Emperors, there has been no exact archaeological and documentary evidence.
Xia Qi, Shang Tang and Wu Zhou were three generations of founding monarchs. There are still many questions about the dating of many events in the Three Dynasties, even though it has been documented since Confucius.
Bronze culture reached its peak in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Besides Oracle Bone Inscriptions, a large number of inscriptions carved on bronzes are also important written records.
In prehistoric times, China had a formal historical record of human development, including early ape-man, late ape-man, matriarchal clan, and the legendary history of three emperors and five emperors, until the Xia Dynasty was finally established. This period has the longest time span, from 6.5438+0.7 million years ago to 2.65438+0 century BC. Apes are Yuanmou people in Yunnan and Lantian people in Shaanxi. Later, the head structure of Beijingers made new progress. Beijingers use crude stone tools and live a very hard primitive life.
Since then, matriarchal clans and patrilineal clans have a common ancestor, which vividly reflects the fact of ancient matriarchal clans from the Chinese character "surname". The matriarchal clan gradually declined after its heyday and spread to the paternal clan period. At the same time, monogamous families were formed and primitive society began to disintegrate.