Top Ten National Essence of Chinese Traditional Culture

Embroidery is a general term for all kinds of decorative patterns embroidered on fabric. Embroidery is a traditional Chinese folk handicraft art with a history of at least 2,000 to 3,000 years in China. Embroidery fabrics are mainly silk and silk thread.

The four famous embroideries in China are: Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Guangdong embroidery and Shu embroidery. Among the traditional embroidery crafts in China, "Suzhou embroidery" produced in Jiangsu Province, "Hunan embroidery" in Hunan Province, "Guangdong embroidery" in Guangdong Province, and "Shu embroidery" in Sichuan Province are often referred to as the "Four Famous Embroideries". "Shu embroidery", collectively known as "China's four famous embroidery".

Chinese embroidery has reached a high level in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and was one of the most important commodities transported along the Silk Road in history. The most prominent embroideries in China are Suzhou embroidery from Jiangsu, Hunan Hunan embroidery, Guangdong Guangdong embroidery and Sichuan Shu embroidery. Besides, there are also Bian embroidery from Kaifeng in Henan Province and Hangzhou embroidery from Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, Sichuan embroidery, Bianbian embroidery, Hangzhou embroidery, can be collectively referred to as "China's six famous embroidery".

09. Paper-cutting

Paper-cutting is a traditional Chinese folk art, which has been passed down in China for more than 1,500 years.

Paper cutting is a very popular folk art, which has been loved by people for thousands of years, and paper cutting is an artistic treasure of China. The art of paper-cutting, a treasure of Chinese folk art, is still blooming with splendor.

China in the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty on the invention of papermaking, and later there will be paper cutting. Paper-cutting is the most popular and mass-based folk art in China, with strong national folk art characteristics.

08. Go

Go is an ancient intellectual game that originated in China.

Go is a great invention of the Chinese nation. It was invented by Emperor Yao, one of the "Five Emperors" of China, and has a history of more than 4,000 years. Go was first called "game" or "chess". Later, some people called "playing chess" "Weiqi" based on the fact that black and white players always attack each other and surround each other when playing chess. In this way, "Weiqi" was fixed as a special term.

Go is one of the "Four Arts" of the "Four Great Arts of Ancient China" (qin, qi, shu, yu). The "chess" of "qin, qi, shu and painting" refers to the game of Go. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the board was standardized into the current 19-channel board, and the nine-point system for evaluating the level of players appeared. The game of Go gradually became an essential part of the cultivation of the intellectual class in ancient China, and was one of the four arts of "qin, qi, shu and painting".

The Tang Dynasty saw the emergence of the official position of Go Waiting for the Imperial Decree. The Chinese game of Go was introduced to Japan in the seventh century A.D. (during the Tang Dynasty in China) and soon became popular in Japan. Go combines science, art and competition, and is characterized by the development of intellect, willpower, and strategic and tactical ideology. As a result, the game has flourished for thousands of years and has gradually developed into an international cultural and athletic activity.

07. Porcelain

China is the hometown of porcelain, the world-famous Chinese porcelain is a great creation and invention of the Chinese nation, porcelain is a symbol of ancient Chinese civilization, and a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation.

Chinese invention of porcelain, is the great contribution of the Chinese nation to world civilization. China is known as the "country of porcelain", China's fine porcelain made by people around the world. China is the birthplace of porcelain, China is known as the "country of porcelain".

China's porcelain manufacturing technology to countries around the world, Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges have made an important contribution to China has won the "World Porcelain" honorable title.

06. Tea Ceremony

China is the world's earliest discovery of the tea tree and the use of the tea tree countries, China is the hometown of tea, China is the motherland of the world's tea, which is recognized by the world.

Tea, is the national drink of the Chinese nation. Tea drinking, tea planting, tea production originated in China. China's first pharmacological monograph "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" recorded: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, the day met seventy-two poisons, and get the tea to solve it".

This shows that, 7,000 years ago in the age of Shennong, China discovered tea, and know that tea has a magical medicinal effect. Therefore, Shennong, the great founder of our Chinese nation, is the originator of tea in China. Shennong is not only the originator of tea in China, but also the originator of tea in the whole world.

Tea is the most natural and healthy beverage, as well as the beverage with the most cultural connotation. Tea has the extraordinary charm of health, nature, culture, civilization as well as fashion, and is loved by people all over the world.

05. Hanbok

Hanbok, the traditional national costume of the Han Chinese people, is also known as hanfu (Chinese dress) and huaqi (Chinese dress). Hanfu is the traditional national costume of the Han Chinese people, whose origin can be traced back to the period of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors until the Ming Dynasty, which stretched over thousands of years, and the people of Huaxia (Han Chinese people) have never changed the basic features of their costumes, and the costumes worn by the Han Chinese people during this period are called Hanfu.

Since the Yan Huang era, the Yellow Emperor hanging clothes and the rule of the world, the Chinese dress has a basic form, through the Zhou Dynasty standardized system, to the Han Dynasty has been fully perfected and popularized, Han Han Chinese dress thus named. Subsequently, although there are local changes in the Hanfu of each dynasty, its main features remain unchanged, and they are all based on the basic features of the Han Dynasty. Hanfu (Chinese dress) is a very beautiful costume, Hanfu (Chinese dress) can best reflect the Han people Confucian elegance, handsome, graceful, beautiful and dignified temperament.

China is the world's first invention of silk (sericulture, reeling and silk weaving) countries. And to make the invention of silk (silk reeling and weaving) this great contribution to the inventor, is the great ancestor of our Chinese nation Xuanyuan Huangdi's wife Rayon.

04. Peking Opera

Peking Opera, the first of the five major Chinese dramas, is characterized by the use of xi pi and er huang, accompanied by huqin and gongs and drums, and is regarded as one of the national treasures of China.

Since the 55th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1790), the four Huiban, namely Sanqing, Sisi, Chuntai, and Hechun, who had been performing in the south of the country, entered Beijing one after another, and cooperated with the Han tune artists from Hubei, while at the same time accepting part of the repertoire, tunes, and performance methods of Kunqu and Qinqiang, as well as absorbing some local folk tunes, and finally forming Peking Opera through continuous exchanges and fusion.

After the formation of Peking Opera, it began to develop rapidly in the court of the Qing Dynasty until it gained unprecedented prosperity in the Republic of China. Peking Opera is an important means of interpretation and dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. It is distributed throughout China, with Beijing as the center.

03. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

The Chinese medicine is the traditional medicine of China. TCM generally refers to China's medicine based on the traditional medicine created by the Han Chinese working people, so TCM is also known as Han medicine.

"Chinese medicine" includes "traditional Chinese medicine", China since ancient times, there is "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, the first medicine" legend, therefore, Chinese medicine originated from 7,000 years ago. Therefore, Chinese medicine originated in the Shennong era 7,000 years ago, and the originator of Chinese medicine is Shennong, the great ancestor of the Chinese nation. The theoretical basis and source of Chinese medicine is the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is China's earliest surviving theoretical monograph on Chinese medicine. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine established the unique theoretical system of Chinese medicine, and became the theoretical foundation and source of the development of Chinese medicine in China, and is the cornerstone of the theoretical foundation of Chinese medicine. The Huangdi Neijing, a great classic of Chinese medicine, was completed 5000 years ago in the era of Emperor Xuan Yuan.

02. Martial Arts

Chinese martial arts both Kung Fu, English name: Kungfu, that is, the traditional Chinese martial arts, has a long history, the earliest can be traced back to the period of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Kung Fu has an extremely broad mass base, is the Chinese working people in the long term social practice of continuous accumulation and enrichment of a valuable cultural heritage. It is one of the outstanding cultural heritages of the Chinese people.

Wushu routines in the technical requirements of the inner spirit and external physical action closely together, complete a gas, so that "the heart moves with the shape", "form breaks the intention of even", the potential to break the gas even". The changes in the eight methods of "hand, eye, body, law and step, spirit, energy and power" are used to exercise the mind and body.

This feature reflects that Chinese martial arts as a cultural form in the long history of evolution by the ancient Chinese philosophy, medicine, aesthetics and other aspects of the penetration and influence, the formation of a unique national style of practicing methods and forms of exercise.

01. Calligraphy

The only place where ancient writing is practiced as an art is in China, and this art is called Calligraphy.

Writing began to appear about 5,000 years ago, during the time of Emperor Regulus. Legend has it that Emperor Regulus ordered his minister Cang Jie to create characters, and Cang Jie invented and created writing. Cangjie, the historian of the Yellow Emperor and the creator of Chinese characters, is honored as the originator of writing. Chinese characters have made immortal achievements for the reproduction and development of the Chinese nation and the preservation and transmission of Chinese civilization and culture. Calligraphy is a traditional art unique to China.

Chinese characters, which began as drawings and pictures, evolved into today's script after thousands of years of development, and calligraphy, which is the art of writing Chinese characters, came into being when our ancestors invented writing with brushes. Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters. From the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, to the gold inscriptions and stone inscriptions of the Zhou Dynasty, to the seal scripts of the Qin Dynasty, to the clerical scripts of the Han Dynasty, to the regular scripts, running scripts, and cursive scripts of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the art of Chinese calligraphy reached its maturity and flourished during the Tang Dynasty. There are five basic styles of Chinese calligraphy: Seal Script, Official Script, Regular Script, Running Script and Cursive Script.