What are tradition and traditional culture? What are the characteristics of China's traditional culture?

Tradition refers to the basic value system handed down from history, which embodies the special essence of human beings and has relative stability.

Traditional culture, relative to all ethnic groups, refers to the national culture handed down from history; Relative to foreign culture, it refers to the mother culture or local culture; Compared with modern culture, it refers to the culture circulating in history.

The characteristics of China's traditional culture are mainly manifested in three aspects: first, China's traditional culture is the only cultural system that continues to this day among the four earliest civilizations in the world; Secondly, the geographical environment formed by China's traditional culture makes China people form the psychological structure and traditional values of introverted culture, which has strong cohesion; Third, China's traditional culture has a long history, but it is still a cultural system with the characteristics of the Chinese nation and the feudal era.