Chinese culture in the Qin-Han period changed from pluralism to unity.

Chinese culture in the Qin and Han Dynasties moved from pluralism to unification, and the agrarian civilization of the Central Plains gradually won a strong position of control in the conflict and intermingling with the neighboring nomadic civilizations.

The Qin and Han cultures were comparable to the Peacock Dynasty culture in South Asia and the Roman culture in Europe, and became the three major imperial cultures that stood side by side in Asia and Europe. The Qin-Han period can be regarded as both a great completion and integration of China's prehistoric culture and after the Yuan-Dian era, and as an independent stage in which the later imperial culture and even China's local culture laid down their patterns, which formed a cycle of its own for more than 400 years, with a beginning and an end.

The development of traditional Chinese culture

I. Pre-civilization period: Ape Man to Dayu Chuanzi

This is the prehistoric period of Chinese culture, which includes the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age, and is equivalent to the Legendary Age of Chinese ancient history.

Two, the embryonic period: Xia, Shang, Western Zhou to the Spring and Autumn period, the Warring States

Although the grand space of the Huaxia group ("China") in this period is still very limited, and has not yet produced enough force on the four directions of the north and south, but the cornerstone of Chinese civilization has been initially laid, the Chinese characters of the hieroglyphic and ideograms, the Confucianism, Mozambique, Taoism, law and the thinking of all the scholars, The Chinese civilization has already laid the foundation stone.

Third, the period of stereotypes: Qin and Han

If we trace back, the beginning of the unification of the culture of the empire should be traced back to the time of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, because the first social change and cultural transformation that occurred at that time already implied a political unification and a cultural unification.

Fourth, the integration period: Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties to the middle of the Tang Dynasty

This period, with the manor economy and aristocratic politics, theology in the spiritual realm is pervasive, Confucianism, Taoism, Xuanxuan, and Buddhism each excel in their own way, and influence the ideology of the various cultural categories.

Fifth, the period of intensification: the middle of the Tang Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty

The turnaround in the late Tang Dynasty regulated the general framework of the second half of Chinese cultural history. Tang and Song Dynasty, Chinese culture in its own development, on the whole, has shown out of the ancient culture of the old rut of all kinds of movements, rhymes with part of the cultural factors of the modern world, can be called the period of ancient culture.

Sixth, the transition period: the end of the Ming Dynasty to the present

This stage, has completed the modern transformation of the industrial West with gunboats and commodities to open the closed door of China. Chinese culture for the first time encountered a "high-powered" cultural invasion, Chinese culture and Western culture, conflict, adaptation, integration process is extremely difficult and painful, Chinese culture in the institutional, material, behavioral and spiritual levels into the modern transition period.