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Is traditional Chinese culture part of religion?

Traditional Chinese culture, as a big concept, is a combination of three smaller concepts: China, tradition and culture. Chinese traditional culture is a kind of national culture reflecting the national characteristics and styles gathered by the evolution of Chinese civilization, and it is the general characterization of various ideologies, cultures and concepts in the history of the nation. It refers to the culture with distinctive national characteristics, long history, profound connotation and excellent tradition created by the Chinese nation and its ancestors living in China and inherited and developed by the Chinese nation from generation to generation. It is the crystallization of thousands of years of civilization of the Chinese nation, and in addition to the core content of Confucian culture, it also contains other cultural forms, such as Taoist culture, Buddhist culture and so on. The Buddhist culture imported from India has been gradually integrated into the traditional Chinese culture, and the canonical books and the unification of Buddhism have thus become an integral part of the traditional Chinese culture. Therefore, traditional Chinese culture contains a part of religion.