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> Isn't it interesting, how most of the history of East Asia just has label "ancient" slapped onto it in pop-culture?
At least in China, they freely refer to that time period as being "ancient" (古). "Ancient" is probably any time up to the early 20th century.[1]
If you want to emphasize that something is really ancient, you can use 上古.
[1] I asked Baidu 什么时候算古代 ("what time counts as 'ancient'?"), and it turns out I was wrong. The answer is "before 1840".
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> Isn't it interesting, how most of the history of East Asia just has label "ancient" slapped onto it in pop-culture?
At least in China, they freely refer to that time period as being "ancient" (古). "Ancient" is probably any time up to the early 20th century.[1]
If you want to emphasize that something is really ancient, you can use 上古.
[1] I asked Baidu 什么时候算古代 ("what time counts as 'ancient'?"), and it turns out I was wrong. The answer is "before 1840".