What are the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture?

Traditional Chinese culture is rich and varied, and at its center is an ethical and political culture centered on Confucian ethics and morality, which promotes goodness and suppresses evil, unifies truth, goodness, and beauty, and aims at cultural indoctrination.

It is a kind of moral and intellectual unity, moral regency culture, with a national, unique, heavy ethical value orientation characteristics. Traditional Chinese ethical and political thought not only determines the cultural personality of ancient Chinese people, but also determines the national characteristics of traditional Chinese culture.

In addition to the general characteristic of ethical-political culture, traditional Chinese culture also has the following characteristics:

1. Resilient vitality and developmental innovativeness

In the world's four major ancient civilizations, the Chinese civilization is the only cultural system that has lasted for the longest period of time without interruption. It is not like the Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian and other cultures that have no successor, not to mention the ancient Greek and Roman cultures that have been ravaged to the point of desolation.

The Chinese nation has entered civilization since the Xia Dynasty, and through various dynasties, traditional culture has been passed on from generation to generation, and has never failed to endure, which shows its tenacity and adaptability, which is precisely an important feature of traditional Chinese culture.

The traditional Chinese culture has not only been inherited tenaciously in a long and tortuous process, but also experienced countless descendants who have inherited and developed their predecessors, learnt from and enriched their predecessors with an open mind, and surpassed their predecessors according to the needs of the times, in such a circumstantial and successive relay movement, which has been enriched, enriched, developed and innovated continuously in the long river of history.

2. Strong integration and cohesion

China's traditional culture is diversified. Traditional Chinese society, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and other schools of thought coexist, which determines the traditional Chinese culture has a collection of advantages, compatible with the wisdom of the eight remarkable features.

China is a vast country with a large number of ethnic groups, and there are great differences in their lifestyles and cultural concepts. In the history of China, there have been several large-scale ethnic integration.

Chinese culture has gone through a long and arduous process of integration and development of multi-ethnic and regional cultures over thousands of years, and traditional Chinese culture, with Han culture as the main body and Central Plains culture as the core, has gradually integrated the cultures of other ethnic minorities and regional cultures around it, and formed the development of a combination of homogeneity and diversity.

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Connotation of Traditional Chinese Culture:

The concept of traditional Chinese culture not only refers to "culture", but also emphasizes the combination of "culture" and "tradition". The concept of traditional Chinese culture not only refers to "culture", but also emphasizes the combination of "culture" and "tradition".

Culture has a broad and a narrow sense. In the broad sense, "culture" refers to the essential features that distinguish human beings from animals and human society from the natural world, and is the sum total of human life, including spiritual life, material life and social life and other extremely wide-ranging aspects.

Culture in the narrower sense excludes the part of the historical life of human society that is concerned with material creative activity and its results, i.e., it includes only spiritual creation and its results, and is the sum of consciousness, concepts, mentality, and customs.

The culture we usually utilize and study mainly refers to culture in the narrow sense. Chinese culture is the culture formed and created by the Chinese people in the course of their birth and reproduction. Therefore, here we want to highlight the traditional nature of Chinese culture.

"Tradition" refers to the social and historical factors that have been passed down from generation to generation and have their own characteristics. It is the sum of ideologies and cultures, systems and norms, customs and habits, religions and arts, and even ways of thinking and behaving, and is characterized by history and continuity in time, as well as spatial expansion and authoritativeness.

The traditional Chinese culture that combines "tradition" and "culture" organically refers to the culture of the traditional society of the country from the vertical analysis to the culture before the late Qing Dynasty.

Horizontally, it mainly refers to the overall way of life and value system of the people in the traditional Chinese society, which, in addition to the doctrines of Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, and Buddhist education, also includes the natural sciences, humanities, such as the arts, law, philosophy, and morality, as well as history, geography, medicine and pharmacy, astronomy, and agronomy, and other ancient texts.

In a word, traditional Chinese culture can be summarized as "a grand classical cultural system with distinctive features and a stable structure that has been passed down from generation to generation and has influenced the history of the whole society with the Chinese nation as the main body of creation before the late Qing Dynasty.