Three important cultural fusions between China and foreign countries in Chinese history

The first was the introduction of Indian Buddhist thought beginning in the first century AD.

From Yongming's quest for the Dharma until Xuanzang's journey to the West, which lasted eight hundred years, Buddhism was finally transplanted to the Chinese land as an exotic culture, creating Chinese Buddhist sects and forming the Chineseized Zen culture, which talks about loyalty and filial piety and easy cultivation.

Chinese Buddhism, with its new ideology, spread from Jianzhen to Japan, then to Southeast Asian countries, and then to the wider world, making Buddhism one of the three major religions of the world, which is China's contribution to the world's culture.

The second was the gradual spread of Western learning after the Renaissance, when Western missionaries came to China to set up Taoist missions.

Matteo Ricci came to China in 1582 as a missionary, bringing with him Western knowledge of natural sciences and ways of thinking about nature, which coincided with China's brewing enlightenment and dramatic changes in learning styles, and which caused a strong reaction in the Chinese academic community.

The third was the May Fourth New Culture Movement.

The New Culture Movement, represented by Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, and Lu Xun, held high the banners of democracy and science, and thoroughly criticized the feudal traditional culture as never before. The leaders of the New Culture Movement paved the way for the Chinese people to accept and absorb the progressive culture of mankind with their fiery enthusiasm, profound ideas and courageous spirit.

Marxism and various other waves of Western thought flooded into China, so that after May Fourth there was a hundred schools of thought for the second time in Chinese history. In the end, the advanced Chinese, after thinking, arguing and comparing, finally chose Marxism as the ideological weapon to transform China.

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