What are the characteristics of Chinese culture and what is its influence on contemporary China and the world?

Characteristics of Chinese culture: it has a long history and is profound.

The influence of Chinese culture: it has a profound influence on the values and lifestyles of Chinese people today and on China's development path. It has played a major role in promoting the development of world culture.

General characteristics: long history of origin and profoundness.

The Chinese culture has a long history dating back to the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, down to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and up to modern times.

Reasons:

1. The existence of writing (Hanzi). Hanzi is the basic carrier of Chinese culture, recording the historical trajectory of cultural development and rich achievements, is the Chinese civilization to be inherited, to write Chinese culture plays a major role, is an important symbol of Chinese civilization.

2. Historical books and canonical records. History is an important witness to the transmission of Chinese culture, China's history of the compilation of the history of the book, the scale of its large, the richness of the survival of the world's only.

3. Inclusiveness. The Chinese culture seeks common ground while reserving differences, accepting and embracing. This cultural inclusiveness is conducive to exchanges among all ethnic groups in a harmonious relationship, enhancing the identification of their own cultures and understanding of the cultures of other ethnic groups.

The profoundness of culture is manifested in:

1. Uniqueness: it includes education, history, philosophy, morality, literature, art, science and technology.

2. Regionality. Regional culture with obvious regional characteristics, different regional cultures have been exchanging, learning from each other, absorbing each other for a long time, not only gradual integration, but also retain their own characteristics.

3. Ethnicity. National cultures with different characteristics have made an important contribution to the formation and development of Chinese culture.

The influence of Chinese culture:

Chinese culture is the world's cultural garden in a bright flower. The Chinese nation has formed excellent historical and cultural traditions in the course of its own development. These traditions, which have gained development with the changing times and social progress, not only have a profound influence on the values and lifestyles of today's Chinese people, especially on China's development path, but also play a significant role in promoting the development of world culture.