1. Corn and rice cultivation: China is one of the three major centers of agricultural origin in the world. About 10,000 years ago, the agricultural revolution was dominated by grain cultivation, which played a huge role in advancing the development of China's ancient civilization. The north is dominated by corn, while the south is dominated by rice, both of which are native to China. "Food for the people", the earliest Chinese grew up eating millet and rice.
2, decimal value system notation: every ten digits, to the location of the value of the number, called decimal value notation. China at the latest in the Spring and Autumn period has used this method, and can be used as the four operations. It was an original and significant invention of the Chinese in the field of mathematics, and today the decimal system is used all over the world. "Without the decimal system, the world would be a different place," one scholar claimed.
3, bronze smelting and casting: China's bronze civilization is relatively new, but technologically advanced and self-contained system. Such as the originality of the shaft wooden structure support, vertical furnace, "sulfide ore - ice copper - copper" smelting process, casting method, lost mold method and other techniques are invented by the pre-Qin miners and casting division first.
4, pig iron based iron and steel smelting technology: China as early as the late Western Zhou Dynasty has invented the pig iron smelting and casting, as a basis, the Chinese people developed a set of unique and advanced iron and steel smelting and processing technology, such as iron casting, iron casting, iron softening, iron frying, steel, etc., which has created a brilliant iron and steel civilization for the Warring States period to the recent ancient social, economic and cultural development provides a technical, material basis.
5, papermaking: the Western Han Dynasty has invented papermaking, the promotion and application of which fundamentally changed the writing carrier and the way of inheritance for the development of the world's civilization has made great contributions. Traditional handmade paper is still found throughout China, playing an important role in cultural endeavors and people's daily lives.
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