Chinese civilization lasted for five thousand years. This is just a traditional saying. In fact, Chinese civilization lasted for more than five thousand years. Generally speaking, this 5000 years is counted from the time of Dayu's flood control. According to the current research, Dayu's flood control time should be more than 2200 BC, that is, more than 4200 years ago. However, the 5,000-year-old theory of civilization has a long history, which cannot be clearly verified by the academic level at that time. So it can only be roughly said to be 5

Recently, the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties dating project has achieved breakthrough results. Experts have published the chronology of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and determined that the beginning year of Xia Dynasty was about 2070 BC. The Yellow Emperor lived for about 1000 years in summer. In this way, it started from the Yellow Belt and has a history of five thousand years.

Generally speaking, the history of civilization is marked by cities, bronzes and characters. Archaeologists discovered an ancient city site belonging to the era of the Yellow Emperor in Huaiyang, Henan Province-Pingliangtai ancient city site, where bronzes and characters symbolizing civilization were found. As far as writing is concerned, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is generally regarded as the oldest writing, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions estimated that it was about 3,000 years ago. 1986, archaeologists discovered bone carving characters of the Yellow Emperor era in Shaanxi, which experts believe is the oldest writing in China. Scientists also found that the middle and late Dabokou culture in Shandong Province? Quot "Wen Tao" is in the same strain as Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. It is estimated that "Wen Tao" was about 5,000 years ago. 1993 in may, archaeologists discovered another kind of "Wen Tao" in the ruins of an ancient city, which was quite different from Oracle Bone Inscriptions. "Wen Tao" is carved on a piece of pottery, and 1 1 buildings are arranged in five rows. The first line is 3 Yu, and all the other lines are 2 characters, with uniform text size and slender strokes. Wen Tao is also close to 5,000 years ago. Experts also found the river map and Luo Shu. The river map is engraved with a natural number arrangement diagram of one to ten, and Luoshu is engraved with a natural number arrangement diagram of one to nine. These figures were carved on tortoise shells about five or six thousand years ago, which is called "Heluo culture". Some people call it the source of China culture.

1979, archaeologists discovered an ancient city and an altar more than 6000 years ago in Chengtoushan site, Hunan province. The civilization degree of Hemudu site about 7000 years ago also strongly proves that the civilization history of China is more than 5000 years.