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Throughout the ages, China has absorbed foreign cultures. Does China have any culture that has spread abroad?

Since China established diplomatic relations with other countries, China has absorbed many foreign cultures in the past five thousand years. At the same time, many cultures in China have spread abroad, bringing a lot of influence to foreign countries. Take our Tang Dynasty as an example. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was very prosperous, and many neighboring countries came to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty, so many small countries came to the Tang Dynasty with a learning attitude.

At that time, Japan, South Korea and North Korea all came to our country to study and exchange, and we all generously taught them and passed on our culture to them. They are also very studious. They have learned all our traditional things and copied them almost intact. But over time, the culture we spread to them has also been localized by them, but we can still find the shadow of China culture in some of their cultures.

So Japan actually has many cultures similar to ours. For example, the writing of Japanese characters is very similar to our China characters, and some of them are even exactly the same as our China characters, so we in China learn Japanese. It's also very simple. You can see familiar fonts when you walk on the streets of Japan. So this is the culture we spread to Japan. Not only words, but also some manners. Japan also learns from us. Moreover, their kimonos are very similar to our Hanfu, but they have been improved into clothes that are more suitable for them, and they also have their own characteristics inside.

And Japan, South Korea and North Korea all eat with chopsticks. Just like China. Only we in China are the first people in the world to eat with chopsticks. So this is also a kind of culture that our country spread to Japan. And now many Confucius Institutes have been established abroad, so our culture has spread all over the world. Many foreigners learn our Chinese. They find our Chinese characters very attractive and like our traditional China culture very much. Therefore, many cultures in our country are spreading to the outside world.