How is the world cultural system divided?

1986, Ji Xianlin made an introduction to A Brief History of Oriental Literature, entitled The Scope and Characteristics of Oriental Literature. In this article, he wrote: "According to my personal opinion, the cultures in human history can be merged into four major cultural systems. Here, let me talk about what a "cultural system" is. In my opinion, the culture of a nation or several ethnic groups lasts for a long time, without interruption, has great influence, and the foundation is relatively unified and stable, and the colors are relatively bright, which can form an independent system, which is called a "cultural system." By this standard, among the colorful and complicated world cultures, * * * has four major cultural systems: one is China, the other is Indian, the third is Persian and Arab Islamic, and the fourth is European. These four systems are all ancient cultural systems that have had a great influence on the world. From the perspective of the East and the West, the first three belong to the East and the last one belongs to the West. "

Therefore, Ji Xianlin has made two great contributions to the cultural system. First, he defined the cultural system. Secondly, he established four cultural systems. The practice in recent twenty years shows that Ji Xianlin's definition of cultural system and the method of dividing four major cultural systems have been generally recognized by China academic circles. In specific applications, Persian and Arab Islamic cultural systems are referred to as Arab cultural systems for short. As for the European cultural system, it is obviously inappropriate to use the word "European cultural system" because it has covered Oceania, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand geographically. At the same time, as far as its internal elements are concerned, the so-called European cultural system actually contains two cultural matrices, one is Hebrew culture and the other is Greek culture. At present, the academic circles have found a better name to replace it, that is, "Hebrew-Greek cultural system", or "double H cultural system" for short.