Introduction to Chinese Culture Terminology

Introduction to Chinese Culture is the basic theory of Chinese culture. It is a required course for Chinese Language and Literature majors, and its purpose is to enable students to understand the basics of Chinese culture and the basic spirit of Chinese culture, so as to lay a good cultural foundation for the study of specific specialized courses.

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1, China's traditional production and economic culture, China's production and economic culture: refers to a social and cultural form that arises, develops, and continues to be inherited on the basis of China's traditional agrarian natural economy, also known as the agricultural civilization.

2. The multicultural element of China's agricultural economy that is the basis of China's production economy and culture is the natural economy of agriculture. In addition, there are animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Throughout China's history, agricultural and nomadic cultures have been closely linked.

3. State: "She" is the god of the earth, "Jik" is the god of grain, and later "Sheji" was used to represent the state.

4. Agricultural natural economy: an economy that relied on the cultivation of crops for self-sufficiency.

5. China's production economy and culture are characterized by: the experience of valuing agriculture in a favorable time and place and the diligence of the people; the farmers' mentality of supplementing agriculture with work and getting rich by doing business; and the tradition of farming with a careful and contented mind.

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

7, the main part of farming irrigation culture: southern agriculture is a rice culture, the main symbol of which is the cultivation of rice and the repair of ridges and canals and the use of waterwheels. Northern agriculture is a wheat and grain farming culture, the main symbol is the cultivation of wheat, grain, sorghum, corn, grain, cereals, beans, mainly plowing and irrigation wells and canals. North and South farming culture also has many ****similarities, the most important of which is the twenty-four seasons culture.

8. The 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 are a method of timekeeping based on the movements of the sun, the earth and the moon. When the important solar terms came, the emperor himself would hold a farming demonstration of consciousness and begin national agricultural production. For more than 2,000 years, Chinese farmers have organized their agricultural production and life according to the 24 solar terms, promoting the development of an agricultural society.

9, twenty-four solar terms: the beginning of spring, rain, insects wake up, the spring equinox, Qingming, rain, calendar summer, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, the summer solstice, small summer, summer, autumn, Chushu, white dew, the autumn equinox, cold dew, frost, winter, snow, snow, the winter solstice, micro-cold, severe cold.