There are no contemporaneous records of the xia, and they are not mentioned in the oldest chinese texts, the earliest oracle bone inscriptions dating from the late shang period (13th century bc). Look up xia or xia in wiktionary, the free dictionary. Consequently, the xia was the first dynasty of china.
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1600 bce), early chinese dynasty mentioned in legends
According to legend, the founder was yu, who was credited with having engineered the draining of the waters of a great flood (and who was later identified as a deified lord of the harvest).
However, most chinese people would say that their ancestors originated in an area near the east coast of china around beijing and tianjin and the yellow river. The xia dynasty was the earliest dynasty in chinese history Once thought to be mere myth, it lasted approximately from 2100 bc until 1600 bc The erlitou culture and its palace architecture as well as the historical figure of yu the great hold an important place in the history of ancient china.
The xia dynasty, for which there is limited archaeological evidence, may have been the first chinese dynasty Read about this ancient mystery. It is the first dynasty in chinese history, and lasted nearly 500 years including the reigns of 17 emperors It is thought that most of the xia people probably inhabited the western area of henan province and southern shanxi province.
Western xia or xi xia is the state's chinese name
