What is culture? How do you understand culture?

Culture in a broad sense refers to the sum of all material products and spiritual products created by human beings. Culture in a narrow sense belongs to the category of spiritual culture, which is a spiritual phenomenon and life beyond material life, mainly including social morality, science and technology, education, art, literature, religion, traditional customs and so on.

Culture is a tradition, a habit, not a temporary practice. Culture is formed, accumulated and passed down for a long time. There are differences between cultures, and the essence of cultural differences is differences in habits and practices. Culture is a guide to people's actions and has a strong driving force.

Culture and civilization

1. From the content point of view, culture is the sum of human activities, processes and achievements in conquering nature, society and human beings themselves, while civilization mainly refers to the essence of cultural achievements.

2. In terms of time, culture has always existed in human existence, and human beings produced primitive culture before civilized society, and civilization is a certain stage of human cultural development.

3. From the form of expression, culture is a dynamic, gradual and uninterrupted development process, while civilization is a relatively stable and static leap-forward development process.