What are the specialties of Chinese culture?

One, Beijing Opera

Beijing Opera, once known as Ping Opera, one of China's five major operatic genres[1], the scene layout focus on writing, the cadence to the Xipi, Erhuang-based, accompanied by huqin and gongs and drums and so on, is regarded as China's national treasure, the Chinese opera, the three Tripods of A "first" list.

Hui Opera is the predecessor of Beijing Opera. Since the 55th year of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing Dynasty (1790), the original performance in the south of the three celebrations, four happy, Chuntai, and spring, the four Huizhou Opera classes entered Beijing one after another. The four Anhui classes entered Beijing one after another, and they cooperated with the Han tune artists from Hubei,

At the same time, they accepted part of the repertoire, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu and Qinqiang, absorbed some local folk tunes, and finally formed 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 the Republic of China gained unprecedented prosperity.

Peking Opera has traveled all over the world, with its distribution centered in Beijing and spreading throughout China, becoming an important medium for introducing and spreading traditional Chinese art and culture. On November 16, 2010, Peking Opera was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) generally refers to the traditional medicine created by the Han Chinese working people, and is also known as Chinese medicine. It is a discipline that studies the physiology and pathology of the human body, as well as the diagnosis and prevention of diseases.

The Chinese medicine was born in the primitive society, the theory of Chinese medicine has been basically formed in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, and after that there have been summarized and developed in all generations. In addition, it has had a profound influence on the countries in the Chinese character culture circle, such as Japan's Han Fang Medicine, Korea's Korean Medicine, Korea's Goryeo Medicine, Vietnam's Eastern Medicine and so on, all of which are based on the development of Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine carries the experience and theoretical knowledge of the ancient Chinese people in fighting against diseases, and it is a medical theory system that has been gradually formed and developed through long-term medical practice under the guidance of ancient simple materialism and spontaneous dialectical thinking.

Three, Chinese martial arts

Chinese martial arts, refers to the Chinese people in their daily lives, combined with social philosophy, Chinese medicine, ethics, military science, aesthetics, qigong, and other traditional cultural ideas and cultural concepts, focusing on both internal and external cultivation, such as the holistic view, the concept of yin and yang changes, the theory of the form of God, the theory of qi, the theory of static and rigid and flexible, etc., and gradually formed a unique national style. Gradually formed a unique national style of martial arts culture system.

Fourth, Chinese Calligraphy

Chinese Calligraphy is an ancient art of writing Chinese characters, which has evolved from the oracle bone inscriptions, stone drum inscriptions, gold inscriptions (Zhongding inscriptions) into the Big Seal Script, the Small Seal Script, and the Clerical Script, and then to the Cursive, Regular, and Running Scripts that were finalized in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wei Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty, and has been exuding the charisma of art.

Chinese calligraphy is a very unique visual art, and Chinese characters are an important factor in Chinese calligraphy, because Chinese calligraphy arose and developed within Chinese culture, and Chinese characters are one of the basic elements of Chinese culture. The reliance on Chinese characters is the main mark that distinguishes Chinese calligraphy from other kinds of calligraphy.

V. Chinese Poetry

Poetry refers to the traditional poetry of ancient China represented by ancient style poems, proximate style poems and metrical words. It is also one of the characteristics of the Chinese cultural circle. It is generally believed that poems are more suitable for "speech", while words are more suitable for "lyricism".

Poetry is a literary art that expounds the mind, while poets and lyricists need to master mature artistic skills and follow strict rhythmic requirements, using condensed language, dense chapter and verse, full of emotion and rich imagery to highly concentrated expression of social life and the world of human spirit.

Chinese poetry originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. Chinese words originated in the Sui and Tang dynasties and became popular in the Song dynasty. Chinese poetry originated from the folk, in fact, it is a kind of grassroots literature. In the 21st century China, poetry is still favored by the general public.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Poetry

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese Calligraphy

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese Martial Arts

Baidu Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Medicine

Baidu Encyclopedia - Peking Opera