If you say, "Where do people come from?" The answer to the question solves the problem of human beings' understanding of their own identity, and improves their curiosity and self-confidence in pursuing life and exploring the unknown. The answer will help human beings establish the purpose and motivation of life, and establish the foundation of life value.

People with a little common sense of life know that the end of life is death, so if people with this common sense of life still ask, "Where are people going?" The real meaning of the question they ask is, "Where do people go when they die?" Or, "Where does the soul go after losing its body?" These questioners must have believed that souls exist.

From ancient times to the present, there have been people who believe in the existence of souls, and these soul-believing ancients first founded the earliest religion of mankind. The research of anthropologists shows that the primitive religion of human beings believes that all things are animist, that the human soul is the most spiritual in all things, that the soul does not depend on matter to exist, that the soul can exist independently of material forms, and that the soul can live forever. The primitive religion of mankind also believed that after death, the soul would be separated from the body and gathered into an invisible whole, the soul body, and that the soul could reach the level of freedom and immortality through offerings and practice.

At the same time, the soul can maintain the memory, thoughts and wisdom of the previous life, the soul still has emotions and emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, grievances and hatred, and the deceased can use their spiritual strength and ability to help their relatives and friends before death, and at the same time can take revenge on the enemy before death.

The primitive religions of human beings all believe that after death, there are three ways for the soul to go: the soul of the person who has done many evils in life goes to hell and suffers; The souls of those who are mediocre in life enter the underworld or the path of reincarnation, become ghosts, or reincarnate as living beings; During their lifetime, the souls of those who are great benevolent and virtuous enter heaven and enjoy the bliss of eternal life. In general, modern people call people who believe in the existence of the soul as idealists.

Of course, there are many people from ancient times to the present day who do not believe in the existence of the soul, they are materialists, and they do not ask the question "Where do people go after death?" They believe that "death is like a lamp going out", and after death, the body and spirit of the person will return to a state of annihilation, and everything in life will be interrupted and died out because of death, and there will be no future in life from then on.

Idealists believe that there is an afterlife in this life, that this life is only temporary and excessive, and that all efforts and actions in this life are for the sake of freedom, happiness, eternal life, and bliss in the next life. Therefore, idealists do not pay attention to the enjoyment of life and are willing to suffer, but they use this life to strive for moral cultivation and behavior, praying for the purity and strength of the soul and for the well-being of the next life. These are the basic outlook on life and values of the idealist.

Materialists only believe that there is no afterlife, so they value life very much, attach great importance to the quality and enjoyment of life, and attach great importance to personal fame, status, and power. They have little expectation for the future, and if they have expectations for the future, it must be because they are grateful, they want to repay their relatives and clan, help their relatives and clans continue their bloodline, and take on the obligation to raise the next generation.

Of course, there are no pure idealists and materialists in the world, and the vast majority of people not only believe in the soul and look forward to the well-being of the next life, but also love life and value enjoyment, and these people are often referred to as "worldly people", that is, worldly people.

In ancient times, under the impetus of early idealists, materialists and secularists, the primitive civilization of mankind gradually came into being and formed.

In modern society, civilization is a high-frequency word, but many people may not know the true meaning of civilization, we believe that the definition of civilization is that civilization is the power of human beings to use resources other than nature and instinct, and is the thought, method and means to solve their own survival, security, development, freedom, happiness and eternal life. Because human nature and instinct are innate, and these instincts and instincts are also possessed by ordinary animals, so living by nature and instinct alone, human beings are still ordinary animals, and such human beings cannot be regarded as civilized people, or even called human beings!

An important sign of the age of civilization is that human beings are able to endure and overcome hunger, disease, harsh environments, difficulties, threats and their own weaknesses in order to achieve their goals and pursuits, such as access to food, food and clothing, security, comfort, joy and happiness. At the same time, human beings began to think about strategies and means to do things, create tools, and transform the environment to obtain better resources and material bases for survival and development.

Because the resources of this world are always in a state of scarcity, the process of the development of human civilization is a process of continuous struggle between human beings and themselves and nature, and every victory of human beings in the struggle marks the leapfrog progress of human civilization.

In the primitive state of life, the biggest problem that threatens the survival of human beings is the shortage of food, so solving the food problem is the beginning of human civilization.

Through long-term unremitting thinking, trial and error, and hard work, human beings have found effective ways to control the population, such as the separation of men and women, the castration of men, the system of female village officials, and the system of relocation and pioneering. At the same time, the development of agriculture and animal husbandry will increase the food supply and improve the quality of food.

After the food problem was basically solved, human society and civilization began to form a pattern and moved towards the track of rapid development.

We believe that the formation of human society must have these conditions, with a certain number of people, there is a serious conflict of interest and ideological confusion in the crowd, and at the same time, legislators and managers are produced in the crowd to coordinate and distribute the interests of the group and maintain the common interests of the group; Thinkers are produced, and thinkers help people understand life and souls, and establish life goals and values. The thinker relieved the confusion and mental anguish of the people.

These legislators, administrators, and thinkers are the creators of human society and civilization.

The origin of humanity and the starting point of human civilization are two completely different concepts. Archaeological evidence suggests that humans may have arisen in the Great Rift Valley region of Africa 250,000 years ago, but for a long time from that time to later, human society and civilization were not formed, and there was no difference between the human way of life and the way of life of apes.

According to the latest research results of human genomics history, as well as the latest archaeological and anthropological research results, we believe that the human civilization that continues to this day was born and formed in the last ice age of the earth from 115,000 to 15,000 years ago, which is the starting point of the development of human civilization.

Scientific research has proven that the humans who survived the last ice age of the earth are the direct ancestors of modern humans, and modern humans are the direct ancestors of modern humans, from whom humans descended from the last ice age.

At the same time, the biological genetic evidence studied by scientists suggests that apes and apes are not related to modern humans by any blood, and neither of them is an ancestor of humans.

According to the results of the earth's ancient climatology and archaeological research, from 115,000 to 15,000 years ago, there was a terminal ice age on the earth with complex and changeable processes that seriously affected the earth's climate and environment.

This stage is the era when the earth's environment is the worst, the resources are the most scarce, and the natural environment changes are the most violent and frequent, and this stage can best reflect the survival ability and growth status of human beings. At the same time, this process contains all the information about the early development of human society and civilization.

Under the conditions of extreme scarcity of resources and extremely harsh environment, human civilization has achieved earth-shaking development and laid a solid ideological and material foundation for the development of human society and civilization today.

In the early stage of the development of this civilization, in terms of ideology and spirit, human beings formed a basic understanding of the natural material world, completed the basic understanding of life and human beings themselves, and on the basis of forming the primitive world view of human beings, human beings completed the thinking of life, life and soul, formed a basic understanding of life, life and soul, and formed the early human ideological system, and the early human belief system was the primitive religion.

In the early stage of the development of civilization, in terms of improving the living base, as well as material production and creation, human beings learned to live in natural caves, building simple houses and other living methods, and planned the construction of urban foundations and environments such as villages and roads in the areas where they could choose to live. Humans learned primitive production methods such as gathering natural food, fishing, and hunting, and began to engage in gathering, fishing, hunting, and food processing, and developed industries such as fishing, agriculture, animal husbandry, handicrafts, and commerce. These capacities and instruments provide comprehensive solutions for population growth and for humanity to move towards a sedentary life.

At this time, human beings had been able to skillfully use fire, learned and mastered the methods of cooking food, firing pottery and smelting metal, and they invented various tools and supplies such as stone, bone, wood, and metal tools for production and life.

Culturally, human beings established the earliest world outlook, outlook on life and values, and formed the earliest human language, writing, thought, religion, behavior and moral norms. These achievements of civilization have laid a solid foundation for the subsequent development of human civilization.

In terms of social management, mankind has developed a matriarchal social management system, as well as population management systems such as the separation of men and women, male castration, the system of female village officials, and the system of relocation and opening up separate doors.

Next, we will discuss the history of human development and the process of civilization from this starting point of civilization.