Chinese History

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Eastern Zhou DynastyEastern Zhou DynastyChinese history refers to the history of China from the birth of Chinese civilization to the present. China has a long history, about 4100 years since Xia Dynasty (Erligang culture in Neolithic Age), and 2240 years since the first centralized Qin Dynasty in China.

In mythology and legend, the two emperors Yan and Huang in prehistory were honored as the human ancestors of the Chinese nation.

In 2070 BC, Erlitou Culture (Xia) appeared in the Neolithic age. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty promoted the development of productive forces and social reform, and formed a situation of ideological contention. In 221 B.C., the first emperor of Qin established the first unified autocratic centralized empire in Chinese history - the Qin Dynasty. The Western Han Dynasty further consolidated and developed the situation of unification. During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the southern and Northern Dynasties, China fell into a situation of separation and secession. During the period of "five random" China, the trend of integration of different ethnic groups in China was strengthened, and many ethnic groups gradually converged in the conflict of separate regimes. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the central government and the ethnic minorities in the border areas were more closely linked, with economic prosperity and high development of science, technology and culture. In the song and Yuan Dynasties, mDynastyDynastyDynastyulti cultures collided and mingled, and the economy and technology developed to a new height. In the heyday of Ming Dynasty, the social economy was highly developed, and at the end of Ming Dynasty, capitalism sprouted in Jiangnan area.

In the middle of the 19th century, after the Opium War, China began to fall into a semi colonial and semi feudal society. In 1911, the revolution of 1911 overthrew the imperial system and established the Republican government. After Yuan Shikai's death, China entered a period of warlord separatism and chaos. After the national revolution, the agrarian revolution, the Anti Japanese War and the liberation war, the people's Republic of China was finally established in 1949. After the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. After 1978, China began to implement the policy of reform and opening up, and its economy developed rapidly. In 2011, China surpassed Japan to become the second largest economy in the world.