Summary: | Chinese civilization is the only ancient civilization thriving to this day
seems to be a common view in the historical academia and Chinese
society as well. Culture is a way that human beings actively adapt to
the surroundings and keep consistence with environmental change. All
cultures created by human beings are changing, so is the Chinese culture.
The physical and cultural evolution presented by the archaeological
discoveries and related historical researches show that Chinese culture
is multi-sourced and multicultural. This is the secret for the Chinese
culture to retain its vitality. The reasons that Chinese civilization is the
only civilization thriving to this day among all of ancient civilizations
in the world include the ancestral worship, the identity to common
ancestors, traditions of writing pedigrees and history books, the longhistory Chinese character system and the creative thinking and cultural
methods of interpreting new thoughts by using traditional Chinese
thinking and cultural structures. Especially in modern times, impacted
by the nationalism trend, the national state narration built for meeting the
requirement of the national state“historical memory”left us the strong
impression of Chinese civilization being the only continued civilization
and fostered the affective identification with the common history.
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