Why does Japan still maintain the integrity of its traditional culture?

First of all, Japanese traditional culture is almost the same as China, South Korea and North Vietnam, and belongs to the East Asian cultural system.

So I'm more used to calling it East Asian culture than Japanese culture.

I think the main reason why Japan retains the most complete East Asian cultural system is that the Japanese deliberately destroy their own society less.

Japan is a country that is good at learning, but their learning is not based on crushing themselves.

Japan's habit is that no matter how you study abroad, you don't intend to abandon your original things when you come back. Although there are contradictions, you will not completely replace the old one with the new one.

As a result, Japan has continuously accumulated social invisible wealth and its society has diversified.

The more you learn, the more fresh you feel.

In contrast, China is actually more interested in foreign things than the Japanese. However, studying abroad in China is often not a simple folk behavior, but an absolute official behavior. This kind of learning is necessarily mechanical. In order to consolidate a learning achievement, we should start from the old, and often abandon the old when the new comes.

The result is like a bear breaking corn.