China's traditional worldview is divided into several categories?

Although China's traditional "world outlook" divides the whole world into China (Central Plains) and the four seas (border areas), there is no strict distinction between domestic and foreign countries. But it contains a whole human being known by the ancients, that is, "one family under the world." For example, Li Zhengpian in Shangshu said that "the square is in the world, but as for the sea, we can't be dissatisfied", while Beishan in Xiaoya in the Book of Songs declared that "under the sky" and Murphy's Land were typical examples of China's cultural understanding of the world. It can be seen that the "world" represents all known civilized worlds, and the "land of kings" is the largest territory including the four seas.

"Four Seas" or "Kyushu", "Four Seas" and "Inside the Sea" are all grand and vague world concepts. With the growth of people's understanding of the outside world and the continuous spread of China culture, the traditional world outlook has great flexibility, and its connotation is gradually enriched and expanded. For example, the areas directly ruled by Zhou and Zhou are limited to "a thousand miles away from the country", and there are also governors and "four foreigners" in other countries. "Bunky" plus "princes who came to Korea" and "Siyi" as guests constituted the world at that time, which was obviously relatively narrow. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, with the unprecedented unification of the country and the development of external transportation, the unified Central Plains and the "Four Foreigners" formed a larger world, and the so-called "ships and cars, manpower, heaven and earth, sun and moon and frost and dew" were all included in this "world".