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On Chinese Civilization Being the Only Continued Civilization in the Viewpoint of the Modern National History Construction
Chinese civilization is the only ancient civilization thriving to this day
seems to be a common view in the historical academia and Chinese
society as well. Culture is a way that human beings actively adapt to
the surroundings and keep consistence with environmental change. All
cultures created by human beings are changing, so is the Chinese culture.
The physical and cultural evolution presented by the archaeological
discoveries and related historical researches show that Chinese culture
is multi-sourced and multicultural. This is the secret for the Chinese
culture to retain its vitality. The reasons that Chinese civilization is the
only civilization thriving to this day among all of ancient civilizations
in the world include the ancestral worship, the identity to common
ancestors, traditions of writing pedigrees and history books, the longhistory Chinese character system and the creative thinking and cultural
methods of interpreting new thoughts by using traditional Chinese
thinking and cultural structures. Especially in modern times, impacted
by the nationalism trend, the national state narration built for meeting the
requirement of the national state“historical memory”left us the strong
impression of Chinese civilization being the only continued civilization
and fostered the affective identification with the common history
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AMS Radiocarbon Dating of the Fengxi Site in Shaanxi, China
The Fengxi site is near the Feng River in Shaanxi Province, China. Feng City was the capital of the vassal state of Zhou, and the Zhou people lived in this area until the end of the Western Zhou. Serial samples of charcoal, bone, and charred millet were collected from the site and dated by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). A sequence model with 6 phases of the Western Zhou dynasty was constructed and the 14C ages were calibrated with OxCal v 3.9. The results showed that the site was used from 1170-1070 BC until 825-755 BC, and the Conquest of Shang by King Wu most probably occurred during 1060-1000 BC.The Radiocarbon archives are made available by Radiocarbon and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact [email protected] for further information.Migrated from OJS platform February 202