Briefly describe the influence of ancient social and political environment on China traditional culture?

As an indispensable part of society, social political environment and culture are inseparable and influence each other. The political system pursued by ancient China society was centralized monarchy. I mainly discuss the influence of this system on China traditional culture from the following two aspects.

First of all, in order to serve the absolute monarchy in ancient China, the patriarchal clan system was implemented accordingly. The patriarchal clan system is politically characterized by a strict hierarchy, in which the rank of monarch and minister, the way of travel of officials at all levels, the number of followers, the number of steps and types are strictly restricted. In addition, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, the concept of hierarchy was particularly obvious in the early days of patriarchal clan system. Officials at all levels have strict requirements on the number of dishes and what to eat. This is the embodiment of politics. Culturally, the patriarchal clan system has an important influence on the cultural traditions formed in ancient China, that is, men are superior to women, husbands sing with women, husbands are wives, and women's status is low. In addition, the patriarchal clan system also had an important influence on the formation of ancient etiquette culture in China. As a state of etiquette, China has a rich tradition of etiquette culture. Regardless of whether these cultures are useful in modern times, they are indeed a beautiful scenery in the long river of history.

On the other hand, China's feudal system brought internal cultural exchanges and served the ruling class. In this way, the good side is that it has brought splendid poetry culture and colorful traditional classics, and the creativity of China people has also created China's colorful and unique traditional excellent culture. However, the communication with foreign cultures is very lacking, especially the closed door, which leads to the closure of culture and is also an important reason for the lack of cultural innovation in the late feudal society. When the Renaissance and the scientific and technological revolution began in the West, China was still studying classical poetry, explaining classics, popularizing eight-part essay and other cultural activities, which naturally led to the backwardness of modern China culture.

The autocratic monarchy and centralized social and political system in ancient China had advantages and disadvantages for the development of traditional culture in China, but it was inevitable at that time. In any case, this is a beautiful scenery in the long history.