Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - Interpretation of Subject Nouns in China's Literature

Interpretation of Subject Nouns in China's Literature

Theme and thought are two inseparable aspects of China's literature. Theme refers to the theme, central idea and emotional expression of literary works, expressing the basic meaning and content of works.

Culture in a broad sense: refers to the sum of material and spiritual existence created by human beings in the long-term historical development and relied on for survival.

The traditional culture of China specifically includes the following contents:

1, China calligraphy, seal cutting, Four Treasures of the Study (pen, ink, inkstone, rice paper), woodcut watermark, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Zhong Dingwen, Han bamboo slips, vertical thread-bound book.

2. Chinese painting, landscape painting and freehand brushwork; Dunhuang murals.

3. Eight-horse diagram and Taiji diagram (Taiji).

4. Traditional literature: mainly refers to poetry and music, such as The Book of Songs, Han Yuefu, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Thirty-six Strategies, Poems of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, Han Fu, Tang Poetry, Song Poetry, Yuan Qu, Ming Novel and Four Great Classical Novels (Journey to the West, Dream of Red Mansions,

5. Traditional festivals: Spring Festival, Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival), Flower Festival (Flower God Festival), Shangsi Festival (Daughter's Day), Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Zhongyuan Festival (Ghost Festival), Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Laba Festival, Kitchen Festival (off-year) and New Year's Eve.

6. Chinese poetry: ancient poems, regular poems, quatrains, modern poems, untitled poems, self-directed songs (words), traditional poems, etc.

7. China Drama: Kunqu Opera, xiang opera Opera, Peking Opera, Shadow Play, Sichuan Opera, Huangmei Opera, Cantonese Opera, Ancient Painting Opera, Baling Opera, Puppet Opera | China Traditional Culture Kunqu Opera.

8. The Great Wall, archways, gardens, temples, clocks, towers, temples, pavilions, wells, stone lions, folk houses, Qin bricks, Han tiles, Terracotta Warriors and Horses and the Forbidden City were all built in China.

9. Chinese characters: Chinese characters, Chinese characters, couplets, riddles (riddles), two-part allegorical sayings, idioms, shots, wine orders, etc.

10, folk crafts: paper-cutting, kite, Chinese embroidery (embroidery, etc. ), Chinese knots, clay figurines, dragon and phoenix patterns (gluttonous patterns, wishful patterns, thunder patterns, palindromes, and ba patterns), auspicious clouds, phoenix, thousand layers, eaves, and vultures.

1 1, folk customs: etiquette, marriage (matchmaker, elder), funeral (mourning, paper money), sacrifice (ancestor); Door gods, New Year pictures, firecrackers, jiaozi.

12. Four major Asian operas: flowers, birds, insects, fish, peony, plum blossom, osmanthus and lotus birdcage, bonsai carp.

13. Traditional music: refers to the music created by the people of China by their own inherent methods and forms, including both ancient works produced in history and contemporary works. It can be seen that traditional music includes "national music" but not "new music", but they are all "China music".