Where are we going? culture prospers the country and fortune, where do we come from Xi Jinping | General Secretary | Culture
Where did the name "China" come from, spanning five thousand years? Can we find the earliest source of "China" among the vast sea of classics and cultural relics?
On June 1, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the China National version Hall, where a bronze ware of the early Western Zhou Dynasty, "he Zun", was displayed in the exhibition hall, with the inscription "Zhaizi China" engraved on its inner bottom. As early as 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping Zeng Huigu said that the word "China" was first seen in this bronze ware "he Zun" unearthed in Shaanxi.
On June 2, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that archaeology is indispensable to understand the long history of Chinese civilization and perceive the breadth and profoundness of Chinese culture.
Archaeology can connect history, present, and future.
At the forum on cultural inheritance and development, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the outstanding continuity of Chinese civilization fundamentally determines that the Chinese nation is bound to go its own way.
General Secretary Xi Jinping once said: "without five thousand years of civilization, where would there be Chinese characteristics?" If it were not for Chinese characteristics, how could we have such a successful road to socialism with Chinese characteristics? "