Who first proposed "China has 5,000 years of history"?

"Five thousand years" is a popular saying among the people and has become a fixed format.

Just like idioms, people generally do not modify idioms or sayings. This kind of question is just like "time flies like an arrow" before. Why not change it to "time flies like a bullet" now?

It turns out that this proverb originated from the myth of Nuwa, and it was so catchy that it was passed down. In fact, in an era when archeology was underdeveloped, no one could verify the specific year when Nuwa mended the sky. Therefore, there is no starting point, and there is no year proposed by folk sayings, how can we add the extra few hundred years? ~

What you said reminds me of a joke. An administrator of the museum told a visitor: "This clay pot is 15,002 years old." The visitor asked, "How do you know it so accurately?" The administrator proudly said, "Two years ago, an archaeologist said it was 15,000 years old. So now it should be 15,002 years of history~"