What is cultural tradition?

Culture itself is a big concept. Generally speaking, culture is a social phenomenon and the product of people's long-term creation. At the same time, it is a historical phenomenon and the precipitation of social history. Culture in a broad sense is the sum of all material wealth and spiritual wealth created by human beings. It includes not only ideological parts such as world outlook, outlook on life and values, but also non-ideological parts such as natural science and technology, language and writing. To be exact, culture refers to the history, geography, customs, traditional customs, lifestyle, literature and art, code of conduct, way of thinking and values of a country and a nation. According to the definition of British anthropologist edward tylor, culture is "a complex whole including knowledge, belief, art, law, morality, customs, abilities and habits acquired as members of society". Its core is all kinds of knowledge as spiritual products, and its essence is communication. Culture is a unique phenomenon in human society. Culture is created by people and unique to people. Only human society can have culture, and culture is the product of human social practice. In the long-term social practice of our people, China traditional culture with Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism as its pillar has been formed [3].

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Prehistoric period of traditional culture

Main types

China's traditional culture is based on the knowledge of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism [3], including thought, writing and language, followed by six arts, namely, ritual, music, archery, imperial art, calligraphy and mathematics, followed by calligraphy, music, martial arts, quyi, chess, festivals, folk customs and so on. Traditional culture is closely related and integrated with our lives, and we enjoy it unconsciously. [4] such as worry, difference, equality and the world. [5]

The dual nature of China's traditional culture reflects the relationship between traditional cultures (such as Confucianism/Taoism; Confucianism/Legalism and Confucianism/Buddhism are dialectical relations of unity of opposites. They infiltrated each other, forming cultural forms such as ancient prose, ancient poetry, writing, music, fu, national music, national drama, folk art, Chinese painting, calligraphy, couplets, riddles, shots, wine orders and two-part allegorical sayings.

Traditional culture Peking Opera

Folklore is reflected in the form of traditional festivals. These traditional festivals include (all according to the lunar calendar): Spring Festival on the first day of the first month, Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, Cold Food Festival around Tomb-Sweeping Day on April 5th, Dragon Boat Festival on May 5th, Chinese Valentine's Day on July 7th, Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, Laba Festival and New Year's Eve of the twelfth month. China's ancient natural science, including the traditional calendar, is also a part of China's traditional culture.

Up to now, scholars at all times and all over the world can't come to a conclusion, except for the reasons of multi-dimensional vision, there are also objective ambiguities from a linguistic perspective. Broadly speaking, culture is the sum of human spiritual life and material life.

Kunqu Opera in Traditional Culture

First of all, in terms of time, there are primitive culture, ancient culture, modern culture and modern culture.

Secondly, in terms of space, there are oriental culture, western culture, marine culture and mainland culture.

Thirdly, from the social perspective, there are aristocratic culture, civilian culture, official culture, folk culture, mainstream culture and marginal culture (Mr. Jiang Yihua divided them into normative culture, non-normative culture and semi-normative culture. This division is relatively novel, so I will focus on it. The so-called normative culture, according to Mr. Jiang, is the highest authoritative normative culture in China's small-scale peasant society, taking Confucian classics as the classics and the official history of past dynasties as the latitude, and widely absorbing the theories of Taoism, Buddhism, Yin and Yang, metaphysics and foreign cultures in the long-term migration and evolution. Correspondingly, it is the mode of production, lifestyle, various relationships between people, customs, beliefs, pursuits, daily psychology, potential consciousness and non-standard culture in various written or unwritten systems. In addition to these two cultures, there is a semi-standard culture between them, which refers to a large number of literary and artistic works with different elegance and popularity, and various cultural education and religious entertainment activities that are semi-divorced from classics, history and culture, such as Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, The Journey to the West and other popular cultural masterpieces. Of course, I think the division of Teacher Jiang seems to be only effective for the traditional culture of China.

Fourthly, from the social function, it can be divided into name culture, etiquette culture, system culture, clothing culture, campus culture and enterprise culture.

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Fifth, from the internal logic level of culture, it can be divided into four levels: material state culture, mentality culture, behavior culture and system culture.