How is the culture of the Chinese people documented and passed on?

To understand this question, we must first figure out what the strengths of our traditional Chinese culture are. Only by fully recognizing and understanding our traditional culture can we figure out how he was passed down from generation to generation.

One, the form of organization. In our Chinese culture, we believe not in God, not in the Lord, but in people or things that are kind to us. Therefore, we emphasize the family, emphasize respect for teachers, so the ancient Chinese society is centered on the family, the family or the family maintains a family culture, passed down from generation to generation. At the same time, private or public educational institutions, such as the ancient private schools and the Imperial College, played a role in educating the social elite, who were usually the pioneers in promoting traditional Chinese culture.

Two, focusing on historical records, we have a tradition of historical records from the Spring and Autumn Period and even earlier. Including the Western Han Dynasty's "Records of the Grand Historian", which was an epoch-making inception, and all subsequent dynasties had the habit of revising their histories, so that's how the 24 histories came to be. Meanwhile, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of local histories and county records were recorded, and these detailed historical documents are valuable materials for the study of our Chinese culture. At the same time, from the beginning of the tortoise shell, bamboo slips. To the later paper, the emergence of the printing press, have provided a material basis for our historical records. It can be said that it is our cultural characteristics of focusing on history and tradition that have promoted the development of these technologies. The two are mutually reinforcing.

Three, Chinese culture is a lineage that has never been interrupted. It is because of the great unified state and the idea of grand unification pioneered by Qin Huang and Han Wu that we have not had a long period of division in China, and even the divided regimes have sought to unify. And in a broader sense, all of our activities are cultural inheritance, speaking Chinese and writing Chinese characters and reading ancient texts are simple ways of doing so, while some social morals also play a role in passing on values. It is because civilization has never been interrupted that our culture has been able to continue to be passed on, and that present-day people have been able to understand the words, ideas and so on of the ancients without their lives being interrupted, as in the case of other ancient civilizations.

Fourth, ancient skills, such as handicrafts, represented by the proud silk and porcelain and so on. There are also Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese martial arts, paper-cutting, tea ceremony and Peking Opera, etc. These ancient skills have been preserved and serve as symbols of the Chinese culture, which contains deep connotations of Chinese culture.

Inheriting Chinese culture, we should not only talk about the ancient inheritance, but also the modern inheritance. In order to inherit Chinese culture, we must first establish a sense of identity with Chinese culture, and at the same time, constantly appreciate the beauty of Chinese culture, and innovate it with the times, so that we can constantly give it a new life and vitality, and let Chinese culture walk in the forefront of the world.