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What is the essence of Chinese culture?

The essence of Chinese culture is embodied in the following aspects:

1. Traditional Chinese culture is a perfect fusion of many philosophical ideas, with a high degree of inclusiveness, and inclusiveness means that it is a culture with vitality and creativity. Chinese culture has a strong ability to assimilate and transform foreign cultures, and to absorb the essence of foreign cultures into China's inherent culture. This is the powerful reinventing transforming and absorbing characteristic of Chinese culture.

The naturalness of Taoism, the benevolence of Confucianism, the selflessness and great love of Mohism, the rigor of Legalism, and the loving-kindness and devotion of Buddhism are all excellent factors in traditional Chinese culture.?

2. There is a warm and loving culture of benevolence in Chinese culture. This is a culture of benevolence and love of people centered on Confucianism. Confucian culture pays more attention to the relationship between the collective and the individual, and more attention to the relationship between human relationships, he advocated the do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you, you want to reach and reach the people you want to set up and set up the people of the way of loyalty and forgiveness, is the Chinese people dealing with interpersonal relationships of the Golden Rule.

3, traditional Chinese culture is to focus on reality, emphasizing the down-to-earth culture, traditional Chinese culture is more focused on the enhancement of the spiritual realm of man. Relative to the theologizing of Indian philosophy, relative to the Western philosophy of nature, Chinese culture has the characteristic of emphasizing the spiritual realm in pursuit of the harmony of human body and mind.?

4. Chinese traditional culture has an excellent tradition of being people-oriented. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the germ of people-oriented thinking had already begun to appear, and the idea of people-oriented reached its peak when it came to the number two figure of Confucianism, Mencius. Mencius's ideals of benevolent government and kingship were built on the idea of people-oriented...?

5. Traditional Chinese culture has the merit of honoring honesty. The Chinese esteem honesty. In Confucian texts such as the Analects, the Middle Ages, the University and Mencius, sincerity is a natural law, and the pursuit of sincerity is the law of human conduct. Therefore, honesty is a human law in Chinese culture.