Which cities or countries have excellent cultures?

If you ask which countries or cities have desirable cultures, besides China, there are many stories in countries like Japan, ancient Greece, France and ancient Egypt that still fascinate us. Take Greece as an example, it still has a great influence on us in philosophy, poetry, architecture, thought, literature, science, mythology, drama and many other aspects.

Ancient Greece and Rome, which later continued the ancient Greek civilization, became the source of the spiritual world of western civilization. If we only trace back to the philosophical giants of ancient Greece, Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and Cicero are famous figures in the history of philosophy. The philosophy of ancient Greece has a great influence on the philosophy, religion and even science of the whole western world. In addition to philosophy, ancient Greek literature and fairy tales also have a great influence on western civilization.

In the process of ancient Greece's transformation from clan commune system to slavery society, this era created many myths and epics, so it was also called the heroic era by later generations. The most famous story of this era is Homer's epic. There are many differences between Greek mythology and other myths, that is, Greek mythology has obvious family color and the whole god is also a family system. Those heroes are not only gods, but also born of gods and people, and their descendants are incomparable to ordinary people. The source of the whole western literature is also considered to be Greek mythology, and later western writers all got what they needed from this fairy tale.

In architecture, there are also many Greek heritages. One is the image model of Greek architecture. And the Greek view of architecture. They think that architecture needs a certain mathematical proportion, and only in this way can some beautiful buildings be created, which the ancient Greeks have always insisted on.