Author: Li Zhaoliang
Edit: Yi de
In 2011, the Smithsonian Institute published a 512-page tome, The Smithsonian Chronology of World History, weighing two kilograms.
Speaking of Zheng He's first voyage to sea was in 1405, Zheng He's captain was 440 feet, but the chapter on the Great Discoveries in World Geography does not mention Zheng He. There was the travel route of Marco Polo, the route of Ibn Battuta, and there was no shipping route from the Yuan Dynasty to the Middle East and Europe. In the chapter on the Great Discovery of Geography, there are only five routes of Spain, Portugal, England, France, and the Netherlands. Not to mention the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty When China arrived in Persia (Iran).
Paine 1997, a 680-page, illustrated, with only two lines and 30 words on Zheng He's scratch horn. If you only read the above two books, China's maritime history is lackluster.
Smithsonian studies all 19 museums, 9 research centers, 140 affiliated museums, is currently the world's largest museum research institute system, has a huge impact on the world's academic community.
There are many more places worth discussing and adding in this "Smithsonian Chronology":
Shell coins are believed to have been started in the Maldives with 1200 BC. The Maldives is rich in shellfish, but it is highly suspected to be the birthplace of shellfish coins.
(Puyang Clam Dragon)▼
The first dragon in Puyang China is arranged with shells, which may be the origin of the money, and the Chinese use of shells to represent valuables should have a history of 6,000 years. The Western Zhou Dynasty already had gilded copper shell coins.
There is no Chinese square hole coin, only a knife coin. Knife coins are earlier than square hole coins, but Square hole coins that have been used in China for more than 2,000 years should be included.
(Square hole money)▼
There is a chapter on writing, with Egyptian hieroglyphs and no Chinese oracle bones.
(Oracle)▼
The big map of the ancient empire, only the Middle East, Egypt, no China, no Qin Empire.
A chapter on the history of medicine, there is no history of Chinese medicine, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and Materia Medica.
The history of agriculture is not as old as the world's oldest and largest agricultural power - China. The plough is considered to be an invention of the European Middle Ages, and the plow of the Chinese Han and Tang Dynasties was not loaded.
(European Middle Ages)▼
Chinese tea, silk, porcelain were not loaded.
The chapter on the history of astronomy does not mention China at all. China is the first country to observe the stars and celestial phenomena and has the concept of constellations. The Hokuto cult has a history of more than 6,000 years.
(Celestial Column Division of Fields)▼
The printing invention is a reference to the Metal Word Trapette Printing of Korea in 1377.
The editors did not completely ignore China. In 1692, Kangxi's edict of tolerance stated that "Westerners have not violated the law, and it is really inappropriate to prohibit them." Accordingly, the catholic churches of all places remain as usual" are placed on the most conspicuous page in the largest printed form.
The above is only a preliminary brief turn, and there should be some debatable points in it. If it is one or two omissions, it is understandable in the vast history of the world. However, the reduction of the length of all Chinese participation, or the complete omission, makes one doubt the intentions of the editors. Such examples are found in foreign literature. There are probably no more than two reasons: 1. Chinese is too difficult to understand, and 2. Eurocentrism. Or both.
China's understanding of the West is far easier than the West's understanding of China. It seems that China also wants to build a huge museum system, and also draw up a "chronology of world history", published in European characters, to balance it. It is hoped that in the future, Chinese scholars will pay attention to publishing papers and works in internationally accepted languages, introducing Chinese history and culture, and making up for the lack of understanding in the West. Hopefully, Confucius Institutes will take the foundation of language teaching to a higher level, martial arts, paper-cutting, Chinese knots, these as interest is possible. An introduction to Chinese philosophy, science and technology, and cultural history is the focus. There are more, bigger projects worth supporting.
Editor's Note
The West has forged a large number of cultural relics according to the standard of "physical evidence first", so that it can make up world history at will. Having mastered the world's right to speak, they also eliminated Chinese cultural relics and Chinese historical records from museums and academic publications through the reverse operation of "physical evidence first", so that China could be erased in world history.
Because the entire history of the world is a pseudo-history made up in a Western-centrism, and the Chinese messenger has posed a serious challenge to the pseudo-history of the world, only by eliminating China can the pseudo-history of the world be established.