1. China’s traditional culture specifically includes:
1. Chinese calligraphy, seal cutting, the four treasures of the study (brush, ink, inkstone, rice paper), woodblock watermarks, oracle bone inscriptions, bells and tripods, Han Dynasty Bamboo slips, vertical wire-bound books;
2. Traditional Chinese paintings, landscape paintings, freehand paintings; Dunhuang murals;
3. Eight Horses, Tai Chi (Tai Chi).
4. Traditional literature: mainly refers to poems, lyrics, and poems, such as "The Book of Songs", "Han Yuefu", "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Thirty-Six Strategies", "Pre-Qin Poems", and "Han Fu" , "Tang Poems", "Song Ci", "Yuan Opera", "Ming Novels", the four famous works ("Journey to the West", "A Dream of Red Mansions", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin"), "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", etc.
5. Traditional festivals: Spring Festival, Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival), Huachao Festival (Flower God Festival), Shangsi Festival (Daughter's Day), Cold Food Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Hungry Ghost Festival (Ghost Festival), Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Laba Festival, Kitchen Sacrifice Day (Little New Year), and New Year’s Eve.
6. Chinese poetry: ancient poetry, rhymed poetry, quatrains, modern poetry, untitled poetry, self-written music (ci), traditional poetry, etc.
7. Chinese drama: Kun Opera, Hunan Opera, Peking Opera, Shadow Puppetry, Sichuan Opera, Huangmei Opera, Cantonese Opera, Flower Drum Opera, Baling Opera, Puppetry Peking Opera Mask | Kun Opera of Chinese Traditional Culture
8 , the Great Wall of Chinese architecture, archways, gardens, temples, bells, towers, temples, pavilions, wells, stone lions, houses, Qin bricks and Han tiles, terracotta warriors and horses, the Forbidden City.
9. Chinese characters: Chinese characters, Chinese language, couplets, riddles (lantern riddles), idioms, idioms, idioms, shots, drinking orders, etc.
10. Folk crafts: paper-cutting, kites, Chinese weaving (embroidery, etc.), Chinese knots, clay figurines, dragon and phoenix patterns (taotie pattern, wishful thinking pattern, thunder pattern, back pattern, Ba pattern), auspicious cloud patterns , Phoenix eye, Melaleuca bottom, eaves, vulture.
11. Folk customs: etiquette, wedding (matchmaker, Yue Lao), funeral (filial piety, paper money), sacrifice (ancestor); door gods, New Year pictures, firecrackers, dumplings.
12. The four major arts: flowers, birds, insects, fish, peonies, plum blossoms, sweet-scented osmanthus, lotus, birdcage, bonsai, and carp.
13. Traditional music: refers to the music created by the Chinese people using their own nation’s inherent methods, adopting their own nation’s inherent forms, and having their own nation’s inherent morphological characteristics. works, including contemporary works. It can be seen that traditional music includes "Chinese music" but not "new music", but they are all "Chinese music".
2. These concepts of "culture" in ancient China basically belong to the category of spiritual civilization and often correspond to "force", "martial arts" and "barbarism". They themselves contain a positive ideal. The color of doctrine embodies the "yin" and "soft" aspects of state governance, and has both political content and ethical significance.
Extended information:
1. Chinese traditional culture is a culture that has been inherited and developed by the Chinese nation from generation to generation and has distinctive national characteristics, a long history, broad and profound connotations, and excellent traditions. Simply put, it is a general term for various national civilizations, customs, and spirits expressed through different cultural forms.
2. Chinese traditional culture should include: ancient prose, poetry, lyrics, music, fu, national music, national drama, folk art, traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, couplets, lantern riddles, Shefu, drinking orders, idioms, and Taoist culture , Zen culture, food culture, filial piety culture, charity culture, traditional Chinese medicine culture, etc.; ancient Chinese natural sciences, including the traditional calendar, and the traditional culture of various regions and ethnic minorities living in the Chinese nation family are also traditional Chinese culture components.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Traditional Culture