哪个文化更古老？中国或日本 [美国媒体]

What culture is older China or Japan's?

哪个文化更古老？中国或日本


Mark Werner, I listen to PRI's The World religiously.
Answered 23h ago
According to the Wiki article:

根据维基百科：

History of Japan - Wikipedia

日本史---维基百科

Japan was settled in prehistoric times (as long as 40,000 years ago) by primitive hunters crossing land bridges that connected what are now the islands of Japan from the mainland, primarily the Korean Peninsula.

原始人于史前时代（40000年前）穿过大陆桥（主要与朝鲜半岛连接在一起，后来分割为群岛）定居日本。

I don’t know if you could speak of these peoples as having a “culture” beyond that of hunter-gatherers, but peoples had been living in the area we now call China for longer than that… Among the first waves of immigration of modern humans from Africa.

我不知道你能否把这些以狩猎采集为生的人们当作有“文化”，但在人类第一次走出非洲的浪潮里，当时在如今被称为中国的地方的那批人的定居时间比如今称为日本的地方长。

Ken Lyn
Ken Lyn, China at Teaching (2000-present)
Answered 15h ago
First of all, Japanese culture is not the same thing as Chinese culture but just a partially copy of Chinese culture.

日本文化无法和中国相提并论，它只是复制了部分中国文化。

Ancient Chinese were a group of ancient Qiang ethnics(the O3) who were the origins of Chinese and Tibetans. They moved from the East side of Tibetan pleateau to the plain of the North China about 15,000 years ago. They lived along the middle and upper reaches of the yellow river, when began the origins of the Chinese culture. The first widely -known Dynasty of China is Xia beginning about 4000 years ago although there is still some controversy about it. Afterwards, China formed a steady writing and speaking system and expanded quite a large circle of area called Sino-culture Sphere:

古中国人属于古羌人（O3）的一支，XZ人和古羌人同源。15000年前，他们从XZ东部迁徙到中国北部平原，居住在黄河中游和下游，中国文化自此起源。第一个广为人知的中国朝代是大约4000年前的夏朝（有争议）。之后，中国形成了稳定的书写及语言系统，在此基础上扩张成为一个巨大的中国文化圈。



The aborigins in Japan are Negritos(the D2) who went out of Africa 100,000 years ago and went into Japan during the last ice age.However, they are only very small part of Japanese population at present.They lived in caves until the Ferrying people came. Most of modern Japanese were from NorthEast China call Fuyu people who were the ancestors of both Koguryos(the O2b- they have the same ancestors as the O3 in central China long time ago but were not direct ancestors of Korean) and Japanese. They went across the Tsushima Strait during 300 B.C and 800.A D. Since these people had already been sinicized before they came to Japan, they were readily to absord Chinese culture and kept learning from China for a long time. They spoke a kind of Fuyu Language which was completely different from Chinese language and had disappeared in Northeast China but evolved into Modern Japanese in Japan. They also used Chinese characters to express the vocal meaning and developed the most part of Japanese culture.

日本土着属于十万年前走出非洲并在上个冰期到达日本的矮黑人（D2），他们只占现今日本人口的一小部分。他们住在洞穴里直到渡来人的到来。大多数现代日本人来自中国东北的扶余人，他们也是高句丽人（O2，和中国核心的O3在很久以前有共同祖先，但不是朝鲜人的祖先）和日本人的祖先。在公元前300年他们越过对马岛，在公元800年到达日本之前，扶余人已全部汉化，他们吸收中国文化并在长期内继续向中国学习。扶余人的语言和汉语截然不同，虽然它已消失在中国东北但却最终发展成现代日语。扶余人采用汉字表达声音并发展出了大部分的日本文化。

the Japanese aborigins and the ferrying people:

日本土着和渡来人：



old Japanese :

旧日本人：



So, here comes the conclusion: Chinese culture is much older than Japanese culture.

结论：中国文化远远古老于日本。

Hope to help you.

希望对你有帮助。

John Thiel
John Thiel, Film & Television Actor at SAG-AFTRA (2013-present)
Answered 20h ago
China’s, easily. It's not even close.

很容易，中国比较古老。两者实际上关系并不密切。

Japanese culture is not native to the land. It displaced other cultures not unlike European cultures displaced native cultures in the United States, and evolved with the introduction of foreign technologies, foods, religions, art, you name it from all over the world, particularly China and Korea.

日本的文化不是本土原生的。它文化的取代不像欧洲文化取代美国原生文化，它是在引进外国的技术、食物、宗教、艺术、你能说出名字的世界各地的文化的过程中逐渐形成的，特别是中国和朝鲜。

There is very little in Japan we can even say is native to Japanese culture. Nearly all of it is adapted from foreign cultures over thousands of years.

日本只有一点可被称为本土的文化。数千年来，几乎所有的日本文化都来自外部。

China on the other hand, you can trace back their writing, clothing, native technologies such as silk, family structure just about everything to nowhere other than China. The only really big foreign introductions to Chinese culture were rice and peanuts—which caused the population to explode.

中国是不同的，你可以追溯他们的文字、服饰、丝绸等本土技术。家庭组织在当时除中国外的地方都不存在。仅有的外来文化是水稻和花生，这些导致了中国人口大爆炸。

China was a civilization when the rest of us were living in caves.

中国成为文明时我们还在住山洞。

Michel McGill
Michel McGill, Born, lived and worked in China.
Answered 21h ago
Chinese culture is older. Chinese culture is the oldest of the world. China is one of the four Civilizations of Human Cradles. And China is the only Cradle Civilization lasts to modern time.

中国文化更古老，在世界上也是最古老的文化之一。中国属于四大文明发源地之一，是唯一延续到现代的文明古国。

Japan as a civilization is as old as Islam civilization. It is not a ancient cradle civilization. Japan did not have their written language until they learn from China. That’s why Japanese contains Chinese characters. Just as Polish is using Latin alphabet, we bet that Roman civilization is older that Polish civilization.

日本文明和伊斯兰文明一样古老，但不是文明发源地。日本没有自己的书面文字直到从中国学习。这就是日本文字掺杂中文的原因，相当于波兰人使用拉丁字母，我敢说罗马文明比波兰古老。

Jacky Lee
Jacky Lee
Answered 23h ago
China has more than 5000 years culture and Japan had learned lots from China on Dynasty Tang .

中国有超过5000年的文化，日本在中国唐朝时从那里学了好多东西。

When China was on Dynasty Tang, it was the one of the greatest time for Chinese. At that moment, China was the biggest and strongest country in the world (Even until now, the Chinese of ChinaTown means Tang People’s street). During the same time, Japanese was still living like savager. So, Japanese had traveled to China and learn whatever they could learn, the female Japanese were proud to have children of Tang’s people.

唐朝时的中国处于历史上最伟大的时代（知道现在，中国城仍被称为唐人街）。当时的日本人像野人一样生活。所以日本人跑到中国学习所有能学的，日本女人以怀上唐人的孩子为傲。

Shubham Nishad
Shubham Nishad, studied at Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management and Technology
Answered 23h ago
Though it is very hard to answer such questions but I think Chinese culture should be older than Japan's culture. In earlier days people used to settle near the banks of river. Like for example, Indus valley civilians started when people settled at the bank of Indus river. China has more rivers and longer rivers. Also China's population hints that it was a developed civilization back then when fertile land was the only requirement of human for occupation. And culture is formed once we have a civilization.

尽管这个问题很难回答，但我认为中国文化应该比日本古老。
早期人类经常定居在河岸附近。例如，印度河文明始于人们在印度河沿岸定居。中国有更多和更长的河流，同时中国的人口暗示了中国发达的文明，占据肥沃的土地是过去人类唯一的追求。