中华文明胜利跨越五千年之象征性年份初探
A Preliminary Study on the Symbolic Year of Inheriting Smoothly Five Thousand Years of Chinese Civilization

摘要 中华文明的历史长度讫无定说，以致学者间的表述差距较大。本文旨在对中华文明的历史长度做出基本认定，并推测文明史跨越五千年的象征性年份。依据近百年以来考古学界的发掘与研究成果，从文字的发明、城市的出现、青铜器的铸造、国家的产生等标志，可以确定中华文明已有五千年左右的历史。文明起点之具体年份既难推定，姑且选取近似的中心点来推算中华文明跨越五千年的象征性年份。在中国轴心时代，孔子是一位继往开来的标志性人物，加之春秋战国之际铁器时代到来，经济、政治领域发生翻天覆地的变化，是古今变革的时间节点，故采用孔子为两个两千五百年之间近似的中心点较为合理。以孔子卒年推算，2021年为中华文明胜利跨越五千年的象征性年份。确立这一象征性年份，对学术研究、社会动员都具有重要意义。
Abstract：The time span of Chinese civilization has not yet been defined until now， therefore the expressions among scholars are distinctly different.The purpose of this paper is to make basic recognition for the time span of Chinese civilization and to speculate the symbolic year of inheriting smoothly five thousand years’ civilization. Based on archaeological exploration and research achievements in the recent 100 years，it regards the invention of the character， the emergence of the city， bronze casting， the establishment of countries and so on as signs of human civilization，thus it determines that Chinese civilization has a five-thousand-year history. The starting specific point of civilization is difficult to identify，so it chooses to use an approximate center point to mark the symbolic year of inheriting smoothly five thousand years of civilization. In the Axis Time，Confucius is a representative figure who continues with the past and opens up with the future. Meanwhile， the coming of Iron Age during the Warring States period and the earth-shaking changes in the economic and political fields make this period as the time point of historical change.So it is reasonable to use Confucius as an approximate center point of the five thousand years. Finally，it thinks that 2021 would be the symbolic year of inheriting smoothly five thousand years of civilization based on Confucius’s death time. It is of great significance for academic research and social mobilization to establish this symbolic year.