中国历史文化概况（英文版） 全套课件.ppt

Unit 1 Origins and History 学习任务 整体上掌握Text A和Text B 两篇文章的内容，包括背景资料，单词，相关专有名词等。 完成Text A 和Text B 的课后题目。 浏览Text C。 Text A Early Chinese History 导读 中国是世界文明古国，中华文明亦称华夏文明，是世界上最古老的文明之一，也是世界上持续时间最长的文明之一。中华文明史源远流长，若从黄帝时代算起，约有4700年。举世公认，中国是历史最悠久的文明古国之一。一般认为，中华文明的直接源头有两个，即黄河文明、长江文明，中华文明是两种区域文明交流、融合、升华的果实。中国历史自黄帝时代算起则约有5000年。 有历史学者认为，在人类文明史中，“历史时代”的定义是指从有文字时起算，在那之前则称为“史前时代”；历史中传说伏羲做八卦，黄帝时代仓颉造文字；近代考古发现了3350多年前（前1350年）商朝的甲骨文、约4000年前至5000年前的陶文、约5000年前至7000年前具有文字性质的龟骨契刻符号。 Notes 1. The Yangshao culture (仰韶文化) : a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the central Yellow River in China. The Yangshao culture is dated from around 5000 BC to 3000 BC. The culture is named after Yangshao, the first excavated representative village of this culture, which was discovered in 1921 in Henan Province by the Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960). The culture flourished mainly in the provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi. 2. The Longshan culture (龙山文化) : a late Neolithic culture in China, centered on the central and lower Yellow River and dated from about 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The Longshan culture is named after the town of Longshan in the east of the area under the administration of the city of Jinan, Shandong Province, where the first archaeological find (in 1928) and excavation (in 1930 and 1931) of this culture took place at the Chengziya Archaeological Site. 3. The Bronze Age (青铜器时代) :is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age. The term Stone Age implies the inability to smelt any ore, the term Bronze Age implies the inability to smelt iron ore and the term Iron Age implies the ability to manufacture artifacts in any of the three types of hard material. Their arrangement in the archaeological chronology reflects the difficulty of manufacture in the history of technology. 4. Confucius (孔子)： a C