What does traditional Chinese culture include?

Traditional Chinese culture includes:

Cultural aspects: Chinese calligraphy, seal carving seals, the four treasures of the literary house (brushes, ink, ink slabs, rice paper), ancient texts, poems, and words.

Art: folk music, folk theater.

1. Chinese traditional culture, the fundamental creativity of the achievements of Chinese civilization, is the totality of moral inheritance, various cultural thoughts and spiritual conceptual forms in the history of the nation. Chinese traditional culture is the Confucian culture represented by Confucius as the main body of China's history of about 5,000 years of continuous political, economic, ideological, artistic and other types of material and non-material culture. Chinese traditional culture, also known as Huaxia culture and Huaxia civilization, is the unifying force of 5,000 years of excellent Chinese culture. And circulated for a long time, the distribution of a wide range of culture is the description of the natural laws of the universe, culture is the extension of morality; culture natural nature, culture is life, life is culture; culture is a soft power, is to determine the internal driving force of everything; culture is also a social ideology, is the spirit of the Chinese people's ideology, is the root of the social, political and economic.

2. Chinese calligraphy is an ancient art of writing Chinese characters, from oracle bone inscriptions, stone drum inscriptions, gold inscriptions (Zhongdingwen) evolved into the big seal script, small seal script and official script, to the cursive script, regular script and running script, etc., which were finalized in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, calligraphy has always been exuding the charm of art. Chinese calligraphy is a very unique visual art, and Chinese characters are an important factor in Chinese calligraphy because Chinese calligraphy was created and developed within Chinese culture, and Chinese characters are one of the basic elements of Chinese culture. The reliance on Chinese characters is the main mark that distinguishes Chinese calligraphy from other kinds of calligraphy.

3. Seal carving is the art of making seals by combining calligraphy (mainly seal script) and engraving (including chiseling and casting), and it is an art form unique to Chinese characters. Seal cutting emerged in the pre-Qin Dynasty, flourished in the Han Dynasty, declined in the Jin Dynasty, lost in the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, revived in the Ming Dynasty, and revitalized in the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 3,700 years.

4, the ancient Chinese traditional culture of paper tools, namely, pen, ink, paper, inkstone. The name of the four treasures, originated in the period of the North and South Dynasties. Historically, the "four treasures of the literary room" refers to things have changed. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, "four treasures of literati" specially refers to Anhui Xuancheng Zhuge pen, Anhui Huizhou Li Tinggui ink, Anhui Huizhou Chengxintang paper, Anhui Huizhou wuyuan dragon's tail inkstone. Since the Song Dynasty, "four treasures" refers to the Xuan pen (Xuancheng, Anhui Province), Anhui ink (Shexian, Anhui Province), Xuan paper (Jingxian, Xuancheng, Anhui Province), She inkstone (Shexian, Anhui Province), Tao inkstone (ZhuoNi County, Gansu Province), Duan inkstone (ZhaoQing, Guangdong Province, known as DuanZhou), after the Yuan Dynasty, the lake pen (HuZhou, Zhejiang Province) gradually rise, Xuan pen gradually decline, after the reform and opening up. Xuancheng gradually regained vitality. Xuancheng, Anhui Province is the most authentic place of origin of the Four Treasures, is the world-renowned "hometown of the Four Treasures", the production of Xuan paper (Jingxian County), Xuan pen (Jingxian County/Jingde), Anhui ink (Jixi/Jingde), Xuan ink stone (Jingde), world-famous, for the scholars and inkwellers of the past generations sought after.

5, folk music is produced in the folk, circulating in the folk, the expression of folk life, production songs or music. Chinese folk music is a very unique art form in the world. In thousands of years of civilization, the Chinese people have created a large number of excellent folk music cultures and formed a folk music system with profound connotation and rich content. This system occupies an important position in world music. If we want to know Chinese music, we can't just sing some Chinese songs and listen to a few traditional music pieces, but we must also examine Chinese music from the perspective of ethnicity, history, and geography, and understand Chinese music, so as to truly comprehend the connotation of Chinese music and understand its status and historical value in the world music system.

6. Chinese folk music is divided into: folk songs, folk song and dance music, folk instrumental music, folk rap music and folk opera music.

7. Chinese minority dramas refer to the dramas unique to the various ethnic minorities in China, mainly Tibetan drama, white drama, Zhuang drama, Dong drama, Dai drama, Miao drama, Yi drama, Buyei drama, Maonan drama and so on.

8. Ancient language refers to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods and their previous ancient books. Xu Shen said in Shuo Wen Jie Zi - Narrative: "Zhou Taishi Prefecture wrote fifteen articles on the Big Seal Script, which may be different from the ancient script." Comparing the ancient script with the Great Seal Script, it is said that the ancient script is the common name for the scripts before Shi Zhou. Since the ancients did not have ink and brush, they used bamboo sticks with lacquer to write on bamboo tubes, which was called Shuqiwen, or Bamboo Simplified Script. Because of the bamboo hard lacquer greasy, writing is not fluent, write the word head thick tail thin, like tadpole shape, so called tadpole book or tadpole text. All the bamboo slips and lacquer books can be called tadpole writing, not necessarily by Cangjie book is not tadpole writing. Ancient text mainly refers to the I Ching, the Analects of Confucius, the Spring and Autumn Annals, the Book of Changes, the Rites of Zhou, the Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi, the Book of Filial Piety, and so on, the text of the ancient books, is a relatively early written text.

9, the poems in the chapter structure in the form of heavy chapters and phrases of its main expressive techniques there are three, usually called: fugue, than, Xing. People call the arrangement of the content and expression of the "Classic of Poetry": wind, elegance and song, about the classification of the "Classic of Poetry" in the poem "four beginnings of the six meanings," said. The "Four Beginnings" refers to the four first poems in the Guofeng, Daya, Xiao Ya, and Ode. The "six meanings" refer to "wind, elegance, ode, fugue, comparison, and rise". Wind, elegance, and ode" is the categorization of "The Book of Songs" according to the different music, and "fugue, comparison, and rise" is the expression of "The Book of Songs". Most of the Poetry Scriptures are mainly in four lines, with some miscellaneous lines.

10, the word is a kind of poem, budding in the southern dynasty, is the Sui and Tang Dynasty, the rise of a new style of literature. In the Song Dynasty, after a long period of continuous development, into the word of the heyday. Words were initially known as "qu yi" or "qu zi yi", alias: near body music, long and short sentence, quzi, qu yi, music chapter, qin fun, poetry, etc., is with the feast music and fill in the song and poem, the word brand is the name of the tune of the word, the different word brand in the number of total sentences, the number of sentences, the number of words per sentence, number of lines, the number of words in each line, and the level and oblique tones are all stipulated.

References

Baidu Encyclopedia-Traditional Culture