Finding traces of traditional Chinese culture in modern life

Traditional Chinese culture has a long history and traces of it can be seen everywhere in modern life, such as language, writing, poetry and song, architecture, music, dance, costumes, Tai Chi, martial arts, arts and crafts, all of which reflect the wisdom of the ancient sages of the Chinese nation.

The courtyard, a traditional architectural form of civil housing in North China, is a four-square or rectangular courtyard. This type of dwelling better reflects the Chinese filial piety, and the joint is a family that does not separate.

The courtyard building is an ancient, traditional cultural symbol of China. "Four" east and west, south and north, "together" is together, the shape of this is the basic characteristics of the courtyard. The elegance of courtyard architecture, the structure of the clever, the number of numerous, when pushed to Beijing as the most. Beijing's courtyard houses are scattered, or in the busy streets, or in the quiet alleys; large acres of land, small, but only a few zhang; or exclusive single-family, or several households, dozens of households, forming a humane psychological, maintain traditional culture, neighbor-neighbor relationship with the living environment. It forms a social network system centered on family compounds, with neighborhoods as the trunk line and community territory as the plane.