Characteristics of Chinese Culture 1500-2500 Words

Culture is a historical concept. The historical transmission of culture, the upper culture is media by written canon, while the lower culture mainly relies on oral transmission. With the premise of changes in the qualities of culture, and using the major events and typical events about culture as the boundaries, the division of the historical stages of cultural flux is operable. When we say that culture is a historical concept, we should recognize it from two aspects: first, all cultural events exist, mutate and develop in a certain historical context, thus taking on the characteristics of a certain era; second, culture accumulates and establishes its own traditions in the process of transmission through time.

Traditional Chinese culture refers to the Chinese culture as the source, the various ethnic groups in China **** with the creation of the long-term historical development of the accumulation of culture. Traditional Chinese culture and ancient Chinese culture are referred to from different perspectives. Ancient Chinese culture is for the modern culture, it is the era of culture; traditional culture is for the inheritance of culture, it emphasizes the origin of culture and all the cultural heritage inherited along the origin, it is not limited to the ancient times, but is the sum of the humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation that has been filtered and eliminated, and is constantly enriched and growing. Some people equate traditional culture with ancient culture, and thus believe that to speak of tradition is retro, and even believe that tradition and modernization can not coexist, or that to

realize modernization must be anti-traditional. This understanding precisely ignores the modernization process is still a part of the development of traditional culture, once the negation of tradition, modernization and the national characteristics of the Chinese characteristics will be out of touch with our pursuit of the goal is inconsistent. There are also people who think that the promotion of tradition requires the rejection of introduction and borrowing, or that Chinese tradition and Western culture are diametrically opposed to each other. This kind of understanding is also one-sided, any kind of national tradition, in various historical periods, are subject to the influence of other national cultures, the introduction and absorption of other cultures has become a reality, that is to say, once these foreign cultures are absorbed and integrated with their own cultures, it will also become a part of the traditional culture. No culture is pure and unadulterated, and the absorption of foreign cultures is one of the normal ways of enriching and developing one's own culture.

The historical lineage of Chinese cultural development and the factors determining it. Cultural development should have its own phases, but because of the basic consistency of cultural development with the general history of China, it is possible to follow the historical development in order to study the lineage of cultural development.

The characteristics of Chinese culture can be generally categorized into three: first, the unity of heaven and man, and obedience to heaven; second, the family ethics; and third, the value of the monk and the middle. In the West, they are: first, the separation of heaven and man and the conquest of nature; second, the individual; and third, the spirit of reason.