A Brief Introduction to the Development of China Traditional Culture

Starting from the earliest primitive culture, China culture has a history of 2 million years.

About 7000 years ago, mankind entered the Neolithic Age. Grinding and drilling of agriculture, pottery and stone tools are the three major achievements of Neolithic civilization.

1954 painted pottery basin with fish pattern on human face unearthed from Banpo, Xi, Shaanxi, dating back about 6000 years. The fish pattern on the inner wall of the pottery basin is vivid, vivid and vivid, and the beauty lies in similarity and dissimilarity, which creates an exaggerated and deformed style in China traditional art, seeking similarity but not similarity.

The achievements of primitive culture (referring to spiritual culture) are mainly embodied in primitive art and primitive religion.

2. Primitive art and religion

Primitive arts mainly include: dancing imitating the labor movement, as well as pottery sculpture, pottery painting, wood carving and bone carving.

Primitive religions mainly include nature worship, ancestor worship and totem worship.

Nature worship: the worship of nature (such as the sun, the moon, the earth, etc.). This is one of the most primitive forms of worship.

Ancestor worship: the worship of ancestors to create life. In matriarchal clan society, female ancestors are mainly worshipped, while in paternal society, male ancestors become the object of worship.