China is 2000 years old.

Genie of my lamp @patriamreminisci wrote an article titled < a herf = "https://steemit.com/china/@patriamreminisci/let-s-dispense-with-this-china-is-5-000-years-old-myth-shall-we "> Let's Dispense With this "China Is 5,000 Years Old" Myth, Shall We?

I'm sorry that @patriamreminisci hasn't recently posted a Chinese version of the Arabian Nightmare. He made his last posting two months ago. Perhaps he is stuck in the lamp.

He surely was a great tabloid writer. It's like a Conan Barbarian fighting a war with the Chinese. The culture, racial shock, and hardships that modern American face in China were certainly fun.

I was very interested in the history of China, so the way he analyzed Chinese history was particularly interesting.

"Fun Fact: China has Almost Never Actually Been Called "China." One of the biggest surprises for early students of Mandarin (or expats struggling to get a survival grasp on the language) is that no word even vaguely resembling "China" has ever existed in the Mandarin Language. The Mandarin word for the country, at least in its shortened form, is Zhong Guo (中国), which literally translates as "Central Nation," though the Chinese like to dress it up in a more palatable Tolkien-esque style as "Middle Kingdom" for Western listeners, and it is also worthy of note that this term never existed as a name prior to Sun Zhongshan's 1911 revolution. Prior to that, the nation we call "China" never even had a name other than the name of the ruling Dynasty, a fact much lamented by the 19th century reformer Liang QiChao (Lee, p. 46). Since the 1911 revolution was not only the first official use of the country's current name, but also a paradigm shift in its mode of government (from an imperial monarchy to at-least-nominally a republic), one might make a case for this being the beginning of "China as we know it," making the country a spry 108 years old, but considering that there was very little cultural discontinuity between pre-1911 and post-1911, that seems a bridge too far. However, an examination of where the Western name "China" came from does give us some clues as to the country's actual genesis. From about 475 B.C to 271 B.C., during what is known as the "Warring States Period (Metropolitan Museum of Art)," the plains of what is today called "China" were home to a collection of warring kingdoms that had nothing in common except the Han ethnicity and languages which were all derived from the same cave-drawings (Han J., p. 15 - 21). These kingdoms had different customs, laws, languages (2), religions and ways of life, and completely separate political agendas (Cao, 55). They even -quite frequently-fought wars against one another. Essentially, think of the Greek City-States, except more separate since the Greek city-states all spoke the same language and had the same pantheon of gods."

The above quote is an analysis by @patriamreminisci of the origins of Chinese civilization, similar to my thoughts.

I think the birth of Chinese civilization was about 3000 years ago, and the national birth of China was 2000 years ago. The Chinese claim that Chinese civilization is 5,000 years old, but it is actually about 3000 years old, similar to Greek and Roman civilizations.

However, the Chinese boasted that China was the center of the world, so they believed China should not lag behind ancient Mesopotamia and Egyptian civilizations. So, the modern Chinese government manipulated the birth year of Chinese civilization as 5,000 years ago. According to archaeological excavations and research, the first civilization in China was born about 3,000 years ago, but the Chinese government ignored the findings.

I will write about the history of China in the future.