The word "China" first appeared in Zhou Dynasty documents, specifically, in an inscription on the bronze "He Zun" from the early Western Zhou Dynasty. There is such a sentence in the inscription: "When King Wu is a merchant of Dayi, the court tells Yu Tian and says: Yu Qi's house is China, and he is a servant of the people." The meaning of this sentence is: King Wu defeated the Dayi Shang, and then he sacrificed to heaven in the temple and said: I want to live in the world's **, so as to rule the people. This is the earliest documentary record of the word "China" seen so far, where "China" means "the ** of the world" Archaeological artifacts confirm that China first appeared on He Zun in the Western Zhou Dynasty. He Zun is a bronze vessel with a 122-character inscription that includes the phrase "China". The "China" in the inscription refers to the "** of the country", which means the ** who lives in the world. He Zun's discovery provides us with evidence of the earliest use of the phrase "China." This is the earliest known occurrence of the word "China", and the words "zhong" and "guo" have not been used together in the previously discovered Yin Shang oracle bone inscriptions
The self-proclaimed Chinese Zhou dynasty, which included the Western and Eastern Zhou dynasties, existed from 1046 BC to 256 BC, for a total of about 791 years. If we calculate the year 2024, then about 2778 years have passed since the end of the Zhou Dynasty.
This is ancient China or old China, if according to the new China, by 2024, the People's Republic of China will have been established for 75 years.