Introduction to Chinese culture

An Introduction to China Culture is the basic theory of China's culturology. It is a compulsory course for Chinese language and literature majors. Its purpose is to make students understand the basic knowledge of China culture and the basic spirit of China culture, and lay a good cultural foundation for specific professional courses.

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1, China's traditional production economy and culture China's production economy and culture: it refers to a social and cultural form that has emerged, developed and passed down on the basis of China's traditional farming natural economy, also known as agricultural civilization.

2. The multicultural factor of China's agricultural economy is the basis of China's production economy and culture, and it is a natural agricultural economy. In addition, there are animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. In the history of our country, agricultural culture is closely related to nomadic culture.

3. Country: "She" is the land god, "Ji" is the god of food, and later "She" was used to represent the country.

4. Agricultural natural economy: an economy that is self-sufficient by planting crops.

5. The characteristics of China's production economy and culture are: attaching importance to the agricultural experience of favorable weather, favorable geographical position and harmonious people; Farmers' psychology of supplementing agriculture with industry and getting rich by doing business; A cautious and contented agricultural tradition.

6. Agricultural irrigation culture: Agricultural irrigation is the main content of national production culture in China.

7. The main part of farming irrigation culture: South China's agriculture is a rice culture, and its main signs are planting rice, building ridges and canals, and using waterwheels. Northern agriculture is a kind of wheat and millet farming culture, which is mainly marked by planting wheat, millet, sorghum, corn, millet and beans, and is mainly used for farming and irrigation of wells and canals. There are many similarities between the farming cultures of the north and the south, the most important of which is the twenty-four solar terms culture.

8. Cultural value of the lunar calendar: in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, the calendar was finalized, and at the same time, the 24 solar terms were determined, which became a unified calendar customization. 24 solar terms is a method of timing according to the movements of the sun, the earth and the moon. When the important solar terms come, the emperor will personally hold the consciousness of agricultural demonstration and start the national agricultural production. For more than two thousand years, farmers in China arranged their agricultural production and life according to the 24 solar terms, which promoted the development of agricultural society.

9. Twenty-four solar terms: early spring, rain, insect awakening, vernal equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Lixia, Xiaoman, Miscanthus, summer solstice, slight summer heat, great summer heat, beginning of autumn, early autumn, white dew, autumn equinox, cold dew, early frost, beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice and slight cold.