Please ---- how to understand the "hierarchical" character of Chinese culture.

It's not easy to understand, culture comes from the society, rooted in the society, when China's thousands of years of hierarchical society established, the hierarchical culture began, so to speak, the traditional classic culture can be said to represent the past and even now the highest point, and the secular citizen's culture is at the bottom,, the view of the present, the popular culture to gradually up to the top, leaving behind the classic is less and less,

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