What are the characteristics of China folk culture?

1. Characteristics of farming culture: Land concept is the core of farming culture. Therefore, every village in ancient China had a land temple, and they all worshipped the land god. Every year, the emperor went to the Temple of Heaven and the Ditan to worship heaven and earth, symbolically plowing and praying for good weather, peace and prosperity. Small farmers' production pursues the use value to meet their own needs, rather than the exchange value of commercial profits.

2. Ethical characteristics of consanguinity: Primitive people, matriarchal clans and paternal clans were all formed on the basis of consanguinity. The "filial piety" of respecting ancestors and filial piety, inheriting from generation to generation and prolonging life is the core concept of rule by courtesy in China traditional culture. The interpersonal relationship in China feudal society can be summarized as two formulas of "five ethics": heaven, earth, monarch, relatives, teachers, subjects, father and son, husband and wife, brothers and friends.

3. Cultural characteristics of the unity of monarch and teacher: In China feudal society, the highest representative of political power is the king, and the highest representative of ethical authority is the saint. The unity of monarch and teacher is the unity of politics and ethics. The Confucian theory of "inner sage and outer king" is the theoretical system of the unity of monarch and teacher, and it is also the basic framework of the cultural paradigm of "ethics-politics".