Differences and relations between cultural tradition and traditional culture

The different emphases of cultural tradition and traditional culture determine their different meanings.

First of all, we can find that this is an adjective+phrase with the word' de' omitted. After completing it, we can get' cultural tradition' and' traditional culture'. Obviously, it can be seen that' cultural tradition' focuses on' tradition', while' traditional culture' focuses on' culture'.

Culture can be regarded as an entity, and it can be all kinds of material, institutional and spiritual cultural entities and cultural consciousness that have existed throughout the dynasties, such as national costumes, living customs, classical poems, and the concept of loyalty and filial piety. The so-called cultural heritage. Traditional culture originated from the past and bears the brand of the past era; Traditional culture originated from our ancestors and has our own national color. The times and nationality of culture are most obvious in traditional culture.

Compared with culture,' tradition' has no tangible entity and cannot be touched, as if it were everywhere; But it is everywhere, not only in all traditional cultures, in all real cultures, but also in your soul and mine. To paraphrase an old saying, it can be said that cultural tradition is a metaphysical Tao, and traditional culture is a metaphysical device; The Tao is in the device, and the device cannot be separated from the Tao. Cultural tradition is the immortal national soul. It originated from the life of the nation in past dynasties, grew up in the repeated practice of the nation and formed into the collective consciousness and collective unconsciousness of the nation. Simply put, cultural tradition is the national spirit.

Although "tradition" and "culture" have different emphases, they are interdependent. They are incomplete without any history, so we often use' culture' and' tradition' together, such as' cultural tradition' or' traditional culture'.

Tradition and culture are indispensable contents of a country, just like China. Without 5,000 years of "culture" and "tradition", how could there be a big country today?