What is the origin of civilization?

Origin: 1. The word "civilization" in Chinese originated from the Book of Changes, saying that "seeing dragons in the fields makes the world civilized." ("dry a classical Chinese"). The real dragon is in the field, and you will be awed to see a person with high moral quality. The world will have a prosperous time of civilization and peace. This kind of divination generally means that there will be wise leaders or cultivated and moral people to lead the world and educate the people. )

2. The word "civilization" in English comes from the Latin word "Civis", which means urban residents, and its essential meaning is people's ability to live in cities and social groups. By extension, it refers to the advanced state of social and cultural development and the process of reaching this state, involving a wide range of fields.

Civilization, precipitated by history, is conducive to enhancing human adaptation and cognition to the objective world, and conforms to the sum of humanistic spirit, inventions, public order and good customs that are pursued by human spirit and can be recognized and accepted by most people.

In modern Chinese, civilization refers to a state of social progress, as opposed to the word "barbarism". Civilization and culture have similar meanings, but there are also differences. Culture refers to a way of existence. Having culture means a certain civilization, but having no culture does not mean being "barbaric".

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In a sense, the essential difference between China civilization and western civilization lies in their different ways of treating tribal civilization and national civilization.

Chinese civilization has completely deconstructed the basic structure of tribal organizations with the blood hierarchy system, and the huge tribal organization structure has disintegrated into a granular family organization structure;

Western civilization, on the other hand, inherited more tribal organizational structures, and at the same time completely transformed the basic structure of tribal civilization in the national competition.

Looking back at the development history of western civilization, we can see that it is national civilization that constitutes the foundation and subject of western civilization. Until the 1940s, the history of Europe was always a war-torn history, like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China.

This endless conflict and cooperation between nations is the fundamental reason for the formation of the characteristics of western civilization. Different from the completely conquered Chinese tribal civilization, the western civilization is based on an individual "complete" national civilization entity, which avoids the basic characteristics of the Chinese unified autocratic society that has remained unchanged for thousands of years and the "thousand people" model of each individual that constitutes the basic unit of society.

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