I have learned a lot of things by watching China X, and that includes things like the origin of writing and the significance of culture heroes. “If we take the early textual record, and look at that in terms of the kinds of ways in which people understood the beginning of civilization, then they typically begin with culture heroes” (2, 3, 00:25). Cultural heroes are human figures and sage leaders who invent things that are beneficial to the people and they promote the development of civilization. Cultural heroes could be real historical figures or mythological figures, and their stories are being passed on usually to serve certain purposes. The stories of these culture heroes were being put together in around 500 BCE during the war years, which
