Tradition refers to the characteristic social factors passed down from generation to generation, such as what system and so on.

Tradition refers to social factors such as customs, morals, ideas, styles, arts and systems handed down from generation to generation.

Tradition refers to ideas, cultures, morals, customs, arts, systems and ways of behavior handed down from generation to generation and from history. It has invisible influence and control on people's social behavior. Tradition is a manifestation of historical development and inheritance. In class society, tradition has class nature and nationality. Positive traditions promote social development, while conservative and backward traditions hinder social progress and change.

China's traditional culture takes Confucianism as its core, as well as Taoism, Buddhism and other cultural forms, including: ancient prose, poetry, ci, qu, fu, national music, national drama, quyi, traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, couplets, riddles, shots, wine orders, two-part allegorical sayings and so on.

Culture itself is a rather vague concept. Generally speaking, culture is a social phenomenon and the product of people's long-term creation. At the same time, it is a historical phenomenon and the precipitation of social history. Culture in a broad sense is the sum of all material wealth and spiritual wealth created by human beings.

It includes not only ideological parts such as world outlook, outlook on life and values, but also non-ideological parts such as natural science and technology, language and writing. To be exact, culture refers to the history, geography, customs, traditional customs, lifestyle, literature and art, code of conduct, way of thinking and values of a country or a nation.

According to the definition of British anthropologist edward tylor, culture is "a complex whole including knowledge, belief, art, law, morality, customs, abilities and habits acquired as members of society". Its core is all kinds of knowledge as spiritual products, and its essence is communication. Culture is a unique phenomenon in human society. Culture is created by people and unique to people. Only human society can have culture, and culture is the product of human social practice.

China's traditional culture is a national culture that reflects national characteristics and features, and it is the overall expression of various ideological cultures and ideologies in national history. It refers to the culture with distinctive national characteristics, a long history, profound connotations and excellent traditions created by the Chinese nation and its ancestors living in China.

Traditional narrow interpretation

1. In terms of time, there are primitive culture, ancient culture, modern culture and modern culture.

2. In terms of space, there are oriental culture, western culture, marine culture and mainland culture.

3. From the social perspective, there are aristocratic culture, civilian culture, official culture, folk culture, mainstream culture and marginal culture (Mr. Jiang Yihua divided them into normative culture, non-normative culture and semi-normative culture. This division is relatively novel, so I will focus on it.

The so-called normative culture, according to Mr. Jiang, takes Confucian classics as the classics and the official history of past dynasties as the latitude, and has widely absorbed Confucian classics, Taoism, Buddhism, Yin and Yang, metaphysics and Buddhism in the long-term migration and evolution, which is the highest authoritative normative culture of the small-scale peasant society in China.

4. From the social function, it is divided into etiquette culture, system culture, clothing culture, campus culture and enterprise culture.

5. From the internal logical level of culture, it can be divided into four levels: material state culture, psychological culture, behavioral culture and institutional culture.

6. In terms of economic form, there are different cultures, such as herding and hunting, fishing and salt, agriculture, industry and commerce. Some people engage in coloring, yellow culture, blue culture and so on.