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What is the traditional culture of China?

1, porcelain

Porcelain refers to porcelain made in China. In English, China and China are the same word. China is the hometown of porcelain, which is an important creation of ancient working people. In China, the production of pottery technology can be traced back to 4500 BC to 2500 BC. It can be said that an important part of China's development history is the history of ceramics.

2. Spring Festival

Spring Festival, that is, China Lunar New Year, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, and so on. It is also called China's New Year and New Year's Eve Oral. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong regional characteristics. These activities are rich and colorful, which have condensed the essence of China traditional culture, mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and disturb disasters, offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year.

3. The Great Wall

The Great Wall lies in the north of China. It starts from Shanhaiguan in Hebei Province in Bohai Bay in the east and Jiayuguan in Gansu Province in the inland area in the west. It runs through Hebei, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Liaoning and other eight provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, with a total length of about 6,700 kilometers, about13,300 kilometers, and is known as the "Great Wall of Wan Li" in the world.

4. Chinese knot

Chinese knot is a hand-woven handicraft, and its emotion and wisdom are only one aspect of the ancient civilization of the Han nationality. It was first knotted by sewing clothes in the Paleolithic Age, and then extended to the ritual records of the Han Dynasty, and then evolved into today's decorative techniques.

Jade articles worn by Zhou people are often decorated with Chinese knots, and bronzes in the Warring States period also have patterns of Chinese knots. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that Chinese knots really became a popular art among the people.

5. Peking Opera Mask

Peking Opera facial makeup is a special makeup method with China cultural characteristics. Because every historical figure or a certain kind of figure has a common score, just like singing and playing music should be based on the score, it is called "Facebook". The facial makeup art of Peking Opera is considered as one of the symbols of China traditional culture.