The origin of human civilization includes two kinds: taking materialized formal elements as the standard and taking social formal elements as the standard. Materialized morphological elements, such as figures, cities, bronzes, complex etiquette centers, etc. Some of them also imply social form factors, especially cities. Private ownership, class, state organization and other social form elements basically belong to the category of superstructure. But it is often manifested as a certain degree of materialization. The status and role of these two elements in the study are different: materialization is the first level of the study of the origin of civilization, and it is also the lowest and most basic research process. The elements of social form, including private ownership, class and state, are the second level of the study on the origin of civilization and belong to a higher level of research content. Therefore, when discussing the origin of civilization, it is necessary to organically combine the elements of materialized form with those of social form. Materialized form is a low-level element in the study of the origin of civilization. It seems that it is not suitable as the standard of the origin and formation of civilization, but only an important symbol or indicator of the origin and formation of civilization. As an advanced research element of the origin of civilization, social form mainly refers to the origin and formation process of private ownership, class and country. Therefore, it seems more reasonable to take the birth of private ownership, class and country as the criteria for the formation of civilization. The development of human culture is not sudden, but human beings have learned a lot of experience in the competition for survival and gradually accumulated and passed down. In other words, many cultures in the historical era originated from human activities in prehistoric times. For example, China has a history of 5,000 years. But we know that in prehistoric times in China, there were many different nationalities, such as Beijingers and Lantian people, who lived about 400,000 to 500,000 years ago. China's history and culture are closely related to prehistoric human activities. Various cultures of human beings advance and retreat in different ways because of the changes of environment and times.