The characteristic of ancient Greek culture is about 500 words.

The famous scholar Russell once said: Greek culture, Christianity and industrial civilization are the three pillars of western civilization. Indeed, ancient Greek civilization has always been regarded as the cradle of western civilization by the world. Ancient Greek myths and legends, like the Bible, have always been an inexhaustible source of western literary creation. The ancient Greek city-state system, democratic system and other political measures have influenced the western political reform since the Renaissance, and its various arts and artworks left over to this day are one of the most brilliant pearls in human history. Anyone who wants to know about western civilization cannot but know about ancient Greek civilization.

By virtue of its geographical advantages, ancient Greece widely absorbed the essence of the surrounding major civilizations, and at the same time, due to the land geographical factors on the Greek island, it developed into a city-state, where people cultivated and the city-state continued to do business by sea. The island is prosperous, and with the development of economy, it has developed into a unique and rich civilization. What impressed me the most and interested me the most was the cultural life of the Greeks. In addition to many advanced political measures, in fact, the various cultural life of the ancient Greeks came more colorful and attracted my attention. For example, when I talk about Homer, I think of his two outstanding epics. I think Homer wandered the streets of Greek city-states, absorbing stories of other folk artists year after year, and adding his own experience, he could write Heriat and Odyssey, especially Odyssey. In addition, drama, one of the greatest wealth left by Greece to the world, is equally fascinating. From the previous reading, we know that drama originated in ancient Greece. But later I understood it better. The ancient Greeks gave birth to drama in their worship of Dionysus, the God of Dionysus and Abundance in ancient Greek mythology. The worship of Dionysus by the Greeks and all the ceremonial activities are to pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year. Then there are tragic performances, comedies and drama festivals. In the process of listening to lectures and reading materials, my mind kept imagining the scene at that time. In that magnificent theater, there were bonfires everywhere, and the audience watched the performance on the stage with rapt attention. The actors wore masks and performed selflessly on the stage.

Then I remembered that I had the honor to see some traditional folk art performances in China when I was a child. In the past, at some time every year, I have forgotten the specific time. There are some cultural parades similar to western carnival in Guangzhou Cultural Park. There is a joyful atmosphere everywhere, and artists dressed in various national costumes and traditional costumes shuttle through the crowd. What attracts me most is the people who walk on stilts. They walked with their feet on that tall stick, and their upper bodies kept swinging. It looks like they are going to fall to the ground. Even though I am held above my head by my father, I am still much shorter than them. But this kind of parade has disappeared, and Mr. Stilts seems to have never appeared in Guangzhou except occasionally watching foreign tourism festivals. Also, when watching acrobatic performances in the past, there was often a program in which a child curled up in a small wooden bucket or box, but now it is no longer seen in acrobatic performances. Growing up, when eating, the family always listened attentively to the serial novels on the radio while eating. At that time, the radio station was broadcasting various historical novels and martial arts novels from noon 12 to afternoon 1 0, and from 6 pm to 7 pm. Although Mr. Gu Jiang's voice can still be heard in the sound waves in the Pearl River Delta region, the number of radio stations retaining this project is decreasing year by year, and the time has been adjusted to an increasingly unpopular time. I seldom listen to it after high school.

Putting the two together, not only this and that, reminds me of some experiences when I was a child. On the contrary, we should see the popularity and development of ancient Greek epics and dramas in the polis. The cultural communication of human beings has gone through the process from oral to written to modern media, and the overall development process of human civilization is also a process from tribe to village to city. Although the civilizations of that period were generally traditional, oral and popular cultural styles, such as oral epics and sacrificial ceremonies, their vigorous development in ancient Greek city-states showed that these ancient cultural expressions did not have to be well developed in primitive tribes or villages, but could not be developed in cities. Whether these traditional cultures can survive in cities depends on how people in charge of cultural development in cities view them. We should see that ancient Greece, especially democratic Athens, paid special attention to citizens' lives, and the Athenians themselves paid special attention to their civil rights under this policy, so they often gathered in the square to discuss the major events of the city-state. It is precisely because of this democratic atmosphere and system and the chapter of citizens' self-awareness that great philosophers like Socrates will have a large audience and some people will argue with them when they speak in the street, and drama will develop in Athens for a long time. Athens also benefited from the existence of democracy and citizens, and its culture was the best and most widely spread among many ancient Greek city-states. Therefore, it is not that there is no other way to protect our folk culture and traditional culture today except by hard measures and a large amount of capital investment, because these are things that will die with the development of mankind. The cultural development path of the ancient Greek city-state provides us with a good solution. Therefore, the first and most important thing is to cultivate citizens' true civic awareness, which is the premise and foundation. Without a large number of qualified citizens, cultural development is absolutely impossible. Secondly, the government should adopt a more tolerant policy and attitude towards culture, and the concept of society should be more open to all kinds of cultures, which is of great benefit to the survival and development of all kinds of cultures, including traditional culture. Third, encourage people to engage in some large-scale cultural activities, because there are already citizens, they will participate in these activities, and because they engage in activities spontaneously, the content will be more colorful and more conducive to the market competition between traditional culture and other cultures, and they will try their best to change the content and form to conform to the development trend, thus playing a protective role ~