What is the difference between culture and custom? What is the definition of both?

Culture is humanization, i.e., all that human beings cause by thinking. Specifically, culture is the constant action and changes caused by human beings in their survival and development, both in the external material world and in their own spiritual world. Although human beings are also animals, they are the only animals with the ability to think long term. With this thinking ability, human beings can go beyond the physical function of their own organs to transform (and adapt to) nature, adjust (and create) society, the traces of this transformation and adjustment are manifested in the cultural achievements of human beings in the external world; at the same time, human beings have been transformed by their ability to think in the long term, forming the unique spiritual and cultural achievements of human beings.

Culture is the sum of material and spiritual wealth created by human beings in the process of social development, which refers to social ideology. In a class society, culture is both a weapon of class struggle and a reflection of the politics and economy of a particular society, while at the same time influencing and acting on politics and economy. From Hong Xiuquan's Jintian Uprising, Kang Liang's Restoration and Reform, He Ziyuan's educational innovation, to Sun Yat-sen's democratic revolution, all of them are the driving force that pushes society forward.

Customs are patterns or norms of behavior that have been observed by people throughout the ages in a particular social and cultural region. The diversity of customs is customary, people tend to be caused by the natural conditions of the differences in behavioral norms, called "wind"; and by the social and cultural differences caused by the differences in the rules of behavior, called "common".

The so-called "hundreds of miles of different winds, thousands of miles of different customs" is an appropriate reflection of the customs of the different characteristics of the place.

Customs are social traditions, certain popular fashions, customs, changes over time, the original customs in the inappropriate part of the change in historical conditions and change, the so-called "change of winds to change the customs" is precisely this meaning

Detailed explanation

1. The Preface to Poetry: "This is how the first kings taught couples, made filial piety and respect a reality, enhanced human relationships, beautified education, and shifted customs." 宋 司马光 《效赵学士體成口号献開府太师》之四："Luoyang风俗重繁华，荷担樵夫也戴花。". Ba Jin, "Perdition", Chapter 8: "They asked me about the customs of China, and I told them a little bit, which often made them laugh."

2. Folk songs. Historical Records - Book of Music: "I thought the state is different from the country, the mood is different, so I learned a lot of customs, than the rhythm." [

The difference between culture and custom is that culture is the source, and custom is the implementer of culture, the appearance of culture. Customs are covered by culture.