Why is it that only China remains among the four ancient civilizations?

The reasons why Chinese civilization can continue:

1. Geographical factors: closedness and regionality. It faces the sea to the east, desert to the northwest, mountains to the southwest, and primeval forests to the south. The only threat was the nomadic tribes in the north, so the Great Wall was built, and the culture of the nomadic tribes lagged behind the Central Plains. The Hus, Huns, Turks, Mongols, etc. successively fought with the Central Plains, and in most cases they suffered repeated defeats. Mongolia and the Manchus entered Mainly in the Central Plains, but the cultural system has also been Chineseized.

2. Regime form: unified centralized power, relatively stable politics.

3. The cohesion of traditional culture is strong. Foreign cultures that invaded many times have been assimilated by traditional culture, which is relatively strong. The tradition of ancestor worship: Chinese people attach great importance to history. The state has national history, families have genealogies, and local chronicles have local chronicles.

4. Demographic advantage, the Han nation has always far exceeded the invading nation in numbers.

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The origin of Chinese civilization:

China is another ancient country with a glorious civilization. From the day it entered the threshold of civilization, China has experienced the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Western Jin Dynasty, the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, Historical periods such as the Five Dynasties, Song, Liao, Xia and Jin, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.

The rulers of the past dynasties have performed plays with different contents on the historical stage based on their respective political achievements, which are either famous in history or infamy for thousands of years. Among them, during the Xia, Shang, Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn Periods, they experienced the entire process of the development of slave society.

Starting from the Warring States Period, feudal society took shape, and the Qin Dynasty established the first centralized unified feudal empire in Chinese history. After that, the Han Dynasty was a stage of rapid growth of feudal society. The Tang and Song Dynasties experienced the most glorious era of feudal society. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, feudal society flourished and declined, and finally entered the troubled modern society. .

In thousands of years of ancient history, the Chinese nation has written a magnificent historical picture with its indomitable will, spirit of exploration and outstanding intelligence, and created an extremely brilliant event in world history during the same period. Material civilization and spiritual civilization.

The Great Wall, the Grand Canal, the Forbidden City of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the colorful unearthed cultural relics all reflect bold and superb production technology; at the same time, countless outstanding figures have been produced in the fields of thought, culture, science and technology , creating extremely broad and profound achievements; and countless scientific and technological achievements, including the "four great inventions" of the compass, papermaking, gunpowder and printing, have benefited all mankind a lot.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Civilization