Usually we say that the Chinese culture in five thousand, but really they mature into the threshold of civilization, is 4200 years from now. The 21st century b.c., the Chinese culture into the mature threshold of civilization.
4200 years ago, we entered the threshold of mature civilization, that is in the world championship? Just like athletes must have a place, what is the name what? Certainly not the first name. We Chinese people like to say big king, not the first name is very sad, but in fact is not the first name. Who is the first name? The first is the place where life is very bad now in Iraq. The place called the ancient Babylon civilization. If there is a little bit bigger call two river civilization (the Euphrates and the Tigris) and two river civilization in the west is called the mesopotamian civilization. It was found that the earliest human civilization. The earliest civilization mature. In some sense is the civilization highly ripe, only the dawn, Chinese civilization is far off, they had much earlier than us.
Who is the second? Also not us. Second is the edge of the Nile river in Egypt, this is the second. Third should be supposed to India, the fourth is China, a total of four major civilizations. But because of this little, to India's archaeological discoveries in six hundred and seventy in China, is more archaeological achievements. So there will be some people said the Chinese civilization has become the third in the world. True, however, is likely to push forward China's rankings, up to the third place is a very important cultural sites in Inner Mongolia chifeng city hongshan culture, the early, but the need of international recognition. Four major civilizations, Babylon civilization, Egyptian civilization, Indian civilization, Chinese civilization.
