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What is the traditional Chinese culture?

and various folklore; ancient Chinese natural sciences, including the traditional calendar, as well as the traditional cultures of various regions and ethnic minorities living in the Chinese national family are also part of traditional Chinese culture.

Chinese culture

Also known as Huaxia civilization. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations and the longest lasting civilization in the world. It is generally believed that there are three direct sources of Chinese civilization, namely, the Yellow River civilization, the Yangtze River civilization, and the Northern Grassland civilization, and that Chinese civilization is the fruit of the exchanges, fusion, and sublimation of the three regional civilizations. The agricultural civilization that arose in the Yellow River Basin was influenced by the natural geographical factors in the historical period, and it constantly transitioned and developed to the agricultural civilization in the Yangtze River Basin. The agricultural civilization of the Yangtze River Basin is the inheritance and development of the agricultural civilization of the Yellow River Basin. Early agriculture in the Yellow River Basin was mainly planting corn, while agriculture in the Yangtze River Basin was mainly planting rice. The northern grassland nomadic civilization is an important part of the Chinese civilization, the Yellow River basin agricultural civilization area and the northern grassland nomadic civilization area has a transition zone, this zone is also a historical period of nomadic people and agricultural people (mainly Han) compete with each other in the main area, in the region of the agricultural civilization and the nomadic civilization also continue to get direct exchanges, integration.