What are the canal cultures?

Grand Canal Culture is also called "Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Culture", but it is different from "Canal Culture". Because canal culture can generally refer to artificial canal culture in the world. The Grand Canal culture is a social phenomenon, which is the product of long-term creation since the Grand Canal was dug. It is also a historical phenomenon, and it is the precipitation of the social history of the canal basin. It covers the political, economic, military and cultural countries of several dynasties in China, and also creates non-state factors such as history, geography, customs, traditional customs, lifestyle, literature and art, code of conduct, way of thinking and values of many ethnic groups in the Grand Canal Valley. In short, the Grand Canal culture is a unique river culture with the Yellow River basin culture as the core, integrating Haihe River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River and Qiantang River, and closely inheriting the Central Plains culture.