[Epic of Five Thousand Years of Civilization: The Eternal Legend of China]
When most parts of the world were still shrouded in ignorance, the ancestors of Yangshao had already picked up painted pottery with human faces and fish patterns on the banks of the Yellow River. This fire of civilization that came from the Neolithic Age refined the earliest characters on the bronze tripods of the Xia and Shang Dynasties, and burst out the light of a hundred schools of thought in the flames of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Qin Shihuang used the Great Wall as his pen, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used the Silk Road as his road to engrave the coordinates of civilization into human genes. The Huxuan Dance in Chang'an in the prosperous Tang Dynasty broke down regional boundaries, and the sails of merchant ships in the Song and Yuan Dynasties pierced the fog of the ocean. The glazed tiles of the Forbidden City reflect the rise and fall of dynasties, while the scent of movable type printing never dissipates. Five thousand years is not a dusty chronicle, but a legend that will never fade - from the inscriptions on oracle bones to the trajectories of quantum satellites, this land has always used civilization codes to talk to the world.
