The stories overlap to some extent with some of the most famous Chinese novels, since the two genres have always borrowed liberally from each other, novels often being compilations of folk traditions, and folk tales (and theatricals) being extracted stories from novels until it is difficult to be sure which came first.
http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbtales.html
History of the Chinese Language. The Historical Phonology of Chinese. In his monumental work, Etudes sur la phonologie chinoise (1925-26), the great Swedish sinologue Bernhard Karlgren divided the long history of Chinese phonology into the following periods: Proto-Chinese: the period preceding the earliest literary documents.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~yu25s/classweb/worldpolitics/Site/History_of_the_Chinese_Language.html
The first jadeite reached China from Burma (now known as Myanmar) in the late 1700s, and late eighteenth and early nineteenth century carvers created masterpieces that are still unsurpassed in concept, design, and technical execution. The Chinese associate jade with clarity of mind and purity of spirit.
http://www.gia.edu/jade-history-lore
HHHII ISSSTTTOOORRRYYY OOOFFF C CCHHHIIN NNE EESSSEEE CCAAALLLEENNDDDAAARRR. The Chinese civilization is the only one which has developed and. used two parallel calendar systems, and thereby, one might say, has. enjoyed the best of both worlds, lunar and solar. Both solar and lunar. calendars take as their basic counting unit, the year, corresponding with.
http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/gem-projects/hm/Chinese_Calendar.pdf
About 1.3 billion people (one-fifth of the world) speak some form of Chinese, making it the language with the most native speakers. The Chinese language, spoken in the form of Standard Mandarin, is the official language in the largest part of mainland China and Taiwan, one of the four in Singapore, and an official idiom of the United Nations.
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China's last dynasty was the Qing (1644–1912), which was replaced by the Republic of China in 1912, and in the mainland by the People's Republic of China in 1949, resulting in two de facto states claiming to be the legitimate government of all China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China
Old Chinese. Old Chinese, sometimes known as “Archaic Chinese”, was the common language during the early and middle Zhou Dynasty (11th to 7th centuries B.C.), whose texts include inscriptions on bronze artifacts, the poetry of the “Shijing”, the history of the “Shujing”, and portions of the Yijing.
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The ancient relationship between this gemstone and humanity persisted into modern times among native societies in New Zealand and parts of North America. In China it evolved into an artistic tradition that has flourished for more than 3,000 years. In Central America, the Mayans and the Aztecs prized jadeite jade. They used it for medicinal purposes as well as for jewelry, ornaments, and religious artifacts.
http://www.gia.edu/jade-history-lore
The Earliest Dynasties (Periods 01-04, 2207-222 BC) Reserving the number 1 for a legendary period that Chinese historians traditionally regarded as prehistoric, the Xià 夏 (Period 2), Shāng 商 (Period 3), and Zhōu 周 (period 4) dynasties are remembered by Chinese historians as the first three of the historical dynasties.
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Written records of the history of China can be found from as early as 1500 BC under the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC). Ancient historical texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian (ca. 100 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (before 296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC), which had no system of writing on a durable medium, before the Shang.
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how old is the chinese history
The Chinese history is 1500 BC old.