Chinese history has a long history, what are the characteristics of Chinese history and culture?

Chinese history and culture include many things, such as marriage, family, state power to trade, food and clothing, writing, literature, scripture, religion, morality, folklore, festivals and so on, which constitute a clear and concise microcosm of the social life of ancient China.

Chinese culture has a long history. As far as the carrier of culture is concerned, it is difficult to prove the birth time of Chinese characters, which are said to have been created by Fuxi and Cangjie, and the oracle bone inscriptions, which were discovered at the end of the 19th century more than 3,000 years ago, and the discovery of even earlier inscriptions, such as the Gaoyou pottery inscriptions, which were written more than 5,000 years ago, have been reported in recent years.

Early in China, there was a tradition of honoring heaven and sacrificing to ancestors, focusing on human morality. From the Tang and Yu dynasties to the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties were feudal times, with emperors and vassals ruling separately. At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period produced the Hundred Schools of Thought, and after the Han Dynasty, it became a Confucian society. The rise of Taoism and the introduction of Buddhism around the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty have all become important elements of Chinese culture.

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Ancient China's culture was glorious Our Chinese culture The culture of our Chinese nation has a long history. As early as four or five thousand years ago, the ancestors of various ethnic groups have created the Neolithic culture represented by colorful pottery. Thereafter, the Huaxia people of the Central Plains (which later evolved into the Han people) created a brilliant bronze culture and oracle-bone and gold inscriptions during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The compass, papermaking, printing and gunpowder were invented later. Around the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties, the Ba and Shu people of April}, the Chu people of Hubei, Hunan and Anhui, the Wu people of Jiangsu, the Yue people of Zhejiang, the Luo and Yue people of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Dian people of Yunnan, the Xiongnu people of the Mongolian Plateau, and the Donghu people of the Liaohe River Basin, etc., created their own bronze cultures one after another.

Most of the ethnic groups have their own languages, and some have created their own scripts. The main ones are Tibetan, Turkic, Hui Magpie, Khitan, Xixia, Jurchen, Mongolian, Yi, Dai and Manchu. In history, Han culture has been in a dominant position, Han culture and the culture of various ethnic groups influence each other, mutual exchanges, the formation of the world's most advanced culture in the East, that is, the Chinese national culture.

The culture of the Chinese people has nurtured the cultures of Asian peoples and regions, and made great contributions to the development of the cultures of the ancient world.

The Chinese nation is a peace-loving and revolutionary nation. Since the end of the primitive society, our ancient history has been characterized by the emergence of a class society. Since then, all the peoples of China have been fighting against class and national oppression for a long time along with the struggle for production, and many of them are famous peasant wars and national wars.

In modern history, our country has been gradually reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society due to repeated and frantic invasions by the world's capitalist imperialist powers. The Chinese people of all ethnic groups, in order to save their disastrous motherland and defend its sacred territory and sovereignty, were closely united and supported each other in the arduous anti-imperialist and anti-feudalist struggle.

This struggle, which lasted for a century, finally overthrew the three great mountains weighing on the Chinese people - imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism - and led to the victory of the national democratic revolution and the establishment on October 1, 1949, of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-China's Cultural History