Human civilization, that is, material civilization and spiritual civilization established by human beings, is collectively called human civilization.
In anthropology and archaeology, civilization can also mean that human evolution broke away from the inherent barbarism of animals and established a society with wisdom and fair rules, such as China civilization, Indian civilization, Greek civilization and Egyptian civilization. It also refers to cultural groups, such as Buddhist civilization, Taoist civilization and Confucian civilization.
The criteria for judging the emergence of civilization are mainly the emergence of moral etiquette, the emergence of characters and the establishment of a national fair rule system. Cultural change plays a great role in the emergence of civilization. The change of farming methods, the division of labor, the emergence of the ruling class, that is, the central government, and the emergence of social classes are all important features of civilization.
When the development of human society has established reasonable rules and completely divorced from the law of the jungle and the beasts of the jungle, civilization will really appear. Civilized society is the opposite of the law of the jungle and the law of the jungle. For example, China historian Lu Zhenyu's Lecture Notes on the History of China: "Only when there were nests did our ancestors begin to distinguish themselves from animals ... human history began." This is a vivid example of human leaving the animal kingdom and entering human civilization.