It is said how great the ancient Egyptian and ancient Babylonian civilizations were, but in the author's opinion, the ancient Egyptian and ancient Babylonian civilizations cannot be compared with the ancient Chinese civilizations at all, both in terms of regional scope and the time when the civilization appeared.
Judging from modern archaeological discoveries, the area of Chinese civilization in ancient times was very broad, from the sea in the east, to the river in the west, to the Wuling in the south, and to the northeast in the north, and its area was far beyond the comparison of ancient Egypt or ancient Babylon, which only had hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. In terms of regional scope, even if we do not consider the two national ancient cultures of Longshan and Yangshao, which cover most of China, there are at least five regional ancient civilizations that are comparable to ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon.
The first is the Northeast region, mainly Xinglongwa culture and Hongshan culture, which covers the current northern Hebei, eastern Inner Mongolia and the three northeastern provinces, and even includes the current Korean Peninsula and parts of Outer Mongolia and Siberia, which is the birthplace of Chinese dragon culture and jade culture. Its scope is far greater than that of ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon in its heyday.
The second is the northwest region, mainly Majiayao culture and Qijia culture, which covers the current Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, as well as the western part of Inner Mongolia and the western part of Sichuan, which is one of the important origins of Chinese civilization and has created the pinnacle of human painted pottery art.
The third is the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, mainly Pengtoushan culture, Gaomiao culture and Daxi culture, which includes Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Chongqing, as well as eastern Sichuan, southwestern Anhui, southern Henan and other regions, which is an important origin of the Yangtze River civilization and the main birthplace of China's urban civilization.
The fourth is the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, mainly Shangshan culture, cross-lake bridge culture, Hemudu culture and Liangzhu culture, its range includes Zhejiang, Shanghai, eastern Jiangxi, southern Anhui, southern Jiangsu, is the birthplace of rice agriculture in the world, but also one of the origins of China's textile culture.
The fifth is the Haidai area in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which mainly includes the Houli culture, the Beixin culture and the Dawenkou culture, which includes the whole territory of Shandong, the central and northern parts of Jiangsu, the northern part of Anhui, the central and eastern parts of Henan and the southeastern part of Hebei, which is the core area of the Dongyi culture and one of the main sources of Chinese civilization.
These five major cultural areas, not only in the region can be compared with ancient Egypt or ancient Babylon, in the degree of civilization and the time of the emergence of civilization is not far behind, unearthed the world's earliest painted pottery, boats, wineries, medicine pots, bone flutes, writing, bronze knives, gossip symbols, river Tuluo book, rice farming, wine-making relics and so on.
If there are still people who believe that ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon are the birthplace of human civilization, it is that they do not understand or turn a blind eye to the ancient Chinese civilization as shown by modern archaeology. More than 1,000 years ago, or even more than 10,000 years ago, when the Chinese ancestors ate the grain they planted, the painted pottery burned by the users, the bone flute that played the seven-level scale, the rice wine brewed from rice, the widely used words were written, the livestock were raised, and the ancient Egyptians and ancient Babylonians were singing and dancing.
The splendor and splendor of ancient Chinese civilization is far beyond our imagination, and it is not a short article that can be described in detail, more detailed content is described in the "History of Ancient Chinese Civilization", welcome to subscribe and put forward valuable comments.