Five Thousand Years Up and Down is a book that simply narrates the history of China, covering from the traditional prehistoric legends in China to more than five thousand years in Ming and Qing Dynasties. This book describes far-reaching events and people in history. This book is helpful for history lovers to have a rough understanding of the history of China, and connect the historical outlines.
Another book, Five Thousand Years Up and Down in the World, is a book describing events and people that have always had a long-term impact on countries around the world.
Five thousand years in China
Author: Lin Handa, a famous linguist and educator, has a long history of China culture, which has been recorded for thousands of years. On the land of China, wonderful stories are constantly staged, and all-powerful figures appear, leaving many touching stories. China culture is the source of our life. Five Thousand Years Up and Down in China is a story-telling historical reading. This set of books, the editor chooses important and famous people and events, arranges and cuts them according to historical materials, and writes them in popular modern language, with no description or fiction. However, this book is not limited to history, but covers a wide range of fields such as philosophy, military affairs, art and education, which makes this book an extensive introduction to all levels of China culture from a general historical introduction.
Our great motherland has a long history. According to the ancient tradition, from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the present, it has a history of about 4,000 years, which is usually called "five thousand years up and down".
In the 5,000-year history, there are many touching and meaningful stories. Many of them are recorded in writing. As for the ancient situation five thousand years ago, there is no written record, but some myths and legends are circulating.
Where did our ancestors come from? In ancient times, there was a myth that Pangu opened heaven and earth. It says that before the heavens and the earth opened, the universe was just a mass of chaotic gas, and there was no light or sound in it. At this time, a Pangu appeared and split the chaos with a big axe. Light gas rises to the surface and becomes the sky; Heavy gas sinks and becomes the ground.
From then on, the sky was ten feet high, the ground was ten feet thick, and Pangu himself was ten feet high. In this way, in 18,000 years, the sky will be high and the ground will be thick. Of course, Pangu also became a giant with indomitable spirit. Later, when Pangu died, all parts of his body became the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, vegetation and so on.
This is the creation myth.
Myth is just a myth after all, and no one will believe there is such a thing now. But people like this myth. Speaking of history, they often say that it started with "Pangu created the world". This is because it symbolizes the great spirit and rich creativity of human beings to conquer nature.
So, where should human history begin? Later, with the development of science, the fossils excavated from the ground proved that the earliest ancestors of mankind were apes transformed from ancient apes.
Scientists in China have excavated many ape-man skeleton fossils and relics all over the country, and we can see that the earliest hominids in our country have a history of more than one million years. Yuanmou ape-man found in Yunnan, about1700,000 years ago; Lantian ape-man unearthed in Shaanxi is about 800,000 years ago. Take the famous Peking man as an example. It has a history of 400,000 to 500,000 years.
Here, let's start with Beijingers. Beijingers live in Zhoukoudian area. At that time, the climate in northern China was milder and wetter than it is now. Under the mountain, there are trees, shrubs and lush weeds. Fierce tigers, leopards, wolves, bears and other wild animals haunt forests and Shan Ye. Elephants, rhinoceroses, cows and sika deer also grow there.
The strength of ape-man can't compare with these fierce beasts, but the fundamental difference between them and any animal is that ape-man can make and use tools. This tool is very simple, one is a stick and the other is a stone. There are many sticks in the Woods, but they have all been cut down; As for the stone, it was smashed by hand. Although rough, it is a tool made by people after all.
They use this simple tool to collect fruits and dig the roots of plants to eat. They also used sticks and stone tools to fight wild animals and look for food.
However, this tool is too simple after all. The food they get is very limited. They can't live independently, so they have to live in groups and work together to deal with the invasion of wild animals. This kind of crowd is called primitive crowd.
Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and apes have evolved through hard struggle. The remains of another primitive man were found in the cave at the top of Gulong Mountain in Zhoukoudian, Beijing. The appearance of this primitive man is no different from that of modern people. We call them Neanderthals.
Neanderthals' labor tools have been greatly improved. They can not only smash stones into axes and hammers, but also grind the bones of wild animals into bone needles. Don't look at this little spicule. At that time, it was not a simple thing for people to sharpen bone needles. With bone needles, people can sew animal skins into their clothes, instead of being naked as in the period of Peking man.
Neanderthals also lived in groups. But their social life has been fixed according to blood relationship. Members of a collective are descendants of Mr. Tongzu, that is, people of the same clan. In this way, human society has entered the period of clan commune.
[Edit this paragraph] Book information
Title: Up and Down 5,000 Years
Author: Editorial Board of Growing and Reading Series
Publisher: Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd
Publication date: April 2009
ISBN: 9787546303 154
Format: 16
Pricing: 15.80 yuan
[Edit this paragraph] Introduction
This pinyin coloring book "Up and Down Five Thousand Years" carefully selects nine historical stories from the legendary Pangu Tiankai to Wuchang Uprising, and unfolds popular and interesting stories in chronological order. There are all-powerful princes and generals, brave men, outstanding scientists and inventors, ordinary people who have made contributions in history, and notorious bad guys in history. The language of this book is vivid and easy to understand. There are more than 0/00 carefully drawn illustrations in the book/kloc, which make children understand history more intuitively with realistic historical pictures. In order to facilitate children's reading, we use the phonetic notation rules that conform to the teaching norms to annotate the full text, so that children can read independently. I hope this book can become a "good friend" for children's growth.
[Edit this paragraph] Book Catalogue
The beginning of the world
Nvwa Patches up the Sky
Shennong tasted a hundred herbs.
The Yellow Emperor fought against Chiyou.
Yaoshun chanrang
Giant flood of shad
Shang Tang extinguishes summer.
Wu Ding and Fu Shuo.
Wangwenfang county
King Wu's attack
Fire fighting prince
Qi Huangong reused Guan Zhong.
Cao Gui outsmarted the Qi army.
(of an unknown person) achieved amazing results at the first attempt.
Sun Wu's training
Gou Jian's service is very hard.
Confucius traveled around the world.
The Reforms of Shang Yang
Learn the bunt of all ethnic groups in the history of China, and also learn their martial arts such as horse riding and archery.
Return the jade to Zhao intact-return it to its original owner.
Qu Yuan threw ginger.
Zhao Kuo on paper
Provide their own services
The emperor and the assassin
Qin Shihuang unified the six countries.
Meng Jiangnu cry the Great Wall
Calling a deer a horse-deliberate misinterpretation
Xiang Yu burned his bridges.
Crawl between someone's legs-the cup of shame
Hongmen Banquet-A banquet with ulterior motives
lay exposed/open to attacks on all sides
Flying general Li Guang
Suwu shepherd
Sima Qian wrote Historical Records.
Zhao Sai
Ma Yuan is old and strong.
The seismograph invented by Zhang Heng.
Yellow Turbans Uprising
Cao Cao began his army.
make three calls at the thatched cottage/repeatedly request sb to take up a post
Battle of red cliff
Guan Yu flooded the seventh army
The Seven Steps of Cao Zhi's Poetry
Luxun's burning win-win situation
Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times.
Eliminating the "Three Harms" in Early Zhou Dynasty
Wang Xizhi's book became a goose.
Battle of feishui
"Three Musts" painter Gu Kaizhi
riding the winds and breaking the waves
Hua Mulan joined the army.
Emperor Yang Di dug the Grand Canal.
Li Chunqiao built the Zhao Zhouqiao.
Wei Zhi, outspoken and protesting.
Princess Wencheng entered Tibet.
Xuanzang studied the classics.
Li Bai, "Poet Fairy"
An Shi Rebellion in 755-763 A.D.
Guo Ziyi rode back to Uighur alone.
Duan is not afraid of rape.
Huang Chao (875-884)
"Emperor" Shi Jingtang
The supporters put on the imperial robe-they were acclaimed as emperors.
Relieve from military duties by drinking.
Bao daren
Painter Mifei
Beat Jin Wu's martial arts.
This thorough dedication of the neuromicroscope will go down in history forever.
Guda at the "Head Fish Banquet"
Genghis Khan unified Mongolia.
Kyle Poirot came to China.
Weaver Huang Daopo
Guo Shoujing and Chronicle of Service
Wang Mian studied painting.
Bigfoot Ma Huanghou
Zheng he's voyages
Shang Lu lianzhong sanyuan
Outstanding Qi Jiguang.
Harry, get the coffin ready and go to the top.
Strike case
Huang taiji skillfully used double agents.
The Emperor of Shaolin Kung Fu
Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan Province Province.
Kangxi outsmarted Ao Bai.
Zheng Banqiao became a county magistrate.
Corrupt officials in Shenyang
Lin zexu humen cigarettes
The First Opium War (1840- 1842)
Taiping rebellion
Burning Yuanmingyuan
Hold a court session behind a screen
Sino-Japanese naval battle
Wuchang Uprising