The natural scenery, history, culture and costume features in western China.

Due to the unique historical background and social life in the west, its unique western culture has been formed. Geographically and culturally, it can be divided into at least several major cultural circles: the Loess Plateau cultural circle centered on the Yellow River Basin, the Islamic cultural circle in the northwest, the northern grassland cultural circle, the western cultural circle centered on the northern and southern Tianshan Mountains, the Tibetan cultural circle centered on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Bashu cultural circle integrated with the Three Gorges Basin and the Sichuan Basin, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Yunnan-Guizhou cultural circle extending eastward. These cultural circles all have their own obvious personalities or styles. The loess plateau culture is remote and simple, the Islamic culture is full of exotic colors, the northern grassland culture is passionate, the western region culture shows the beauty of the combination of East and West, the Tibetan culture is dignified and mysterious, the Bashu culture is antique, and the Yunnan-Guizhou culture is full of humanistic joy. This diverse cultural form is closely related to the lifestyle, ideas, customs, religion, art, long history and living environment of all ethnic groups, and it is a broad cultural aggregate.

The western national culture has distinct regional, national and pluralistic characteristics.

Regional. The geography in the west is complex and diverse, the northwest is vast and boundless, the mountains and rivers in the southwest are cut, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is extremely cold. Western culture also shows distinctive regional characteristics here. Northwest China has a long history and a vast territory, and its culture is broad and simple. There are many nationalities and beautiful mountains and rivers in the southwest, and the culture here is delicate and lyrical; The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is ups and downs, solemn and solemn, and its culture is full of mystery and temptation.

Nationality. In the long history, the western region has created and formed a national culture including language, religious belief, nature worship, myths and legends, stories, ballads, dances, programs, costumes, architecture, handicrafts, etiquette and customs, as well as survival concepts, life and production methods. Some of these contents are similar or similar in different ethnic groups, while others are far from each other. Even the same nation is different in many ways because of different tribes or different places of residence, which makes the national culture more colorful.

Pluralistic western national culture is not a completely closed and isolated culture, but a synthesis of multiculturalism. On the basis of local culture, it has transformed and absorbed many foreign cultural factors into its own components, thus becoming full of vitality. In history, there are three important passages running through the west, connecting the west with the east and the central plains, and communicating with the wider region of the west. One is the ancient Silk Road that runs through the northwest and extends to the Mediterranean coast of Europe, the other is the Tang-Fan ancient road that runs through the Loess Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the other is the Tea-Horse ancient road that runs through the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest and leads to Nepal, India and even further places via the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. These three roads not only brought trade and non-governmental exchanges, but also spread culture. Chinese culture in the Central Plains has been introduced to the West, and ancient European Mediterranean culture, ancient Arabic culture, ancient Indian culture and Central Asian culture have also gathered here. The development of Buddhism, Islam and Christianity in the west all comes from this, and the most unique cultural phenomenon is the localization of Buddhism in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau-Tibetan Buddhism.

Activities. Western national culture is active in people's spiritual life and material life with its strong local flavor. Old Town of Lijiang, a world cultural heritage, is not an abandoned site, but the home of thousands of people. The heroic epic King Gelsall, which has been circulated for thousands of years, is still sung among Tibetan people. Ancient songs, dances and costumes are still expressing their yearning for life in a simple way; The spread and expansion of modern civilization has not kept this ancient culture away from people's lives, but has been passed down from generation to generation and bloomed brilliantly. The life form or original ecological characteristics of western culture have a strong humanistic and emotional color, which is the most attractive aspect of western national culture.

Fragile. Fragility is another feature of western national culture. The relative closure and division caused by regionalism restricts the overall development of western national culture. The special environment of vast territory, inconvenient transportation and relatively sparse and scattered population has formed a small-scale and small-scale cultural development state. In addition, most ethnic minorities in the west have no written language, and the inheritance of culture mainly depends on generations. The lack of stability of written records is not conducive to external communication and exchange.

Western national culture is a rich and colorful treasure house of cultural resources, which contains extremely rich contents and various forms of expression. It not only provides valuable wealth for the research of cultural anthropology, religious anthropology, ethnology, folklore, ecological culturology and other disciplines, but also provides rich resources for the development of cultural industries, which is also of great significance for our cultural construction today.