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What is traditional culture?

Traditional culture is the intersection of tradition and culture.

Regarding the concept of traditional culture, I happen to have an introduction to sociology at hand, so I can use it. Tradition is not defined, but it is in Chinese dictionaries. I agree that tradition is a distinctive social factor passed down from generation to generation before the May 4th Movement, such as customs, concepts, styles and systems. However, traditional culture itself has a development process, but it is relatively stable in a certain period of time. How long will it be positioned during this period? It can be defined as at least 100 year.

Culture is defined as the means and ways of life that human beings adapt to society and nature, and the sum total of all material and spiritual products created by human beings.

Traditional culture is the intersection of tradition and culture. In a word, it is a unique means and way of life for human beings to adapt to society and nature, and it spread steadily for 100 years before the May 4th Movement. Ancient porcelain, sculpture, political system, weapons and so on all belong to traditional culture. More importantly, the ideas behind these cultural relics and systems. From the Western Han Dynasty's exclusive respect for Confucianism to the May Fourth Movement, this concept was dominated by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, while others were subordinate or tributaries. Confucianism was revered before the Western Han Dynasty, and a hundred schools of thought contended after the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Before the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was another cultural form. Something like that