What is the difference between the three national quintessences and the four national quintessences of China?

The difference is that the four national quintessences are: martial arts.

The three quintessences of Chinese culture are Peking Opera, Chinese medicine, and calligraphy.

China has many national quintessences, among which Chinese Peking Opera, Chinese martial arts, Chinese calligraphy, and Chinese medicine, which are well-known both at home and abroad, are called the "four quintessences of China" by the world.

1. Peking Opera is also called "Pihuang". Its musical material consists of two basic tunes, "Xipi" and "Erhuang". It also sings some local tunes (such as Liuzi tune, blowing tune, etc.) and Kunqu opera. It is a modern opera

Representative of Chinese opera.

2. Wushu also has other names: kung fu, martial arts and national martial arts or martial arts, traditional Chinese sports.

Its content is to combine kicking, hitting, throwing, grabbing, falling, hitting, splitting, stabbing and other movements according to certain rules to form various offensive and defensive fighting skills, routines and single-position exercises with bare hands and equipment.

3. Chinese calligraphy is an original expressive art in China and is known as: wordless poetry, lineless dance, pictureless painting, and silent music.

In the long history of evolution and development, Chinese characters have played an important social role in ideological exchange and cultural inheritance. On the other hand, they have formed a unique plastic art in themselves.

4. Traditional Chinese medicine is an important part of the splendid culture of ancient China. It is slowly beginning to be accepted by most contemporary Chinese people. At the same time, it is also having an increasingly important impact internationally and is gradually becoming deeply loved and welcomed by people around the world.

Other national quintessences: Go Go is a treasure in traditional Chinese culture. It embodies the Chinese nation's pursuit of wisdom.

The rules of Go are very simple, but it has a very broad space for moves, making Go more varied and more complex and profound than other chess games.

Guqin, also known as Guqin, Yuqin, Yaoqin, Lyre, etc., is one of the oldest plucked instruments in China.

It has a history of more than three thousand years.

Guqin is the first of the four Chinese arts of "Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting" and an important part of traditional Chinese culture. Its cultural origins run through "Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism" and is known as a "philosophical art".