1. Chinese Peking Opera
Peking Opera, once called Ping Opera, is one of the five major types of Chinese opera. Its tunes are mainly Xipi and Erhuang, and it is accompanied by Huqin, gongs and drums. It is regarded as It is the quintessence of China and ranks first among the three Chinese operas. Peking Opera has traveled all over the world and has become an important medium for introducing and spreading Chinese traditional art and culture. The distribution area is centered in Beijing and covers all over China. On November 16, 2010, Peking Opera was included in the "Representative List of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage".
2. Chinese painting
Chinese painting is a traditional Chinese painting with a long history and fine tradition. It embodies the wisdom, character, psychology and temperament of the Chinese nation. With its distinctive characteristics and The style is unique among the world's art galleries. The traditional painting form of the Han nationality is to use a brush dipped in water, ink and color to paint on silk or paper. This type of painting is called "Chinese painting", or "Chinese painting" for short. The tools and materials of traditional Chinese painting (different from "Western painting") include brushes, inks, Chinese paints, rice paper, silk, etc. The themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. The techniques can be divided into brushwork and freehand brushwork. Its spiritual core is "pen and ink".
3. Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine is what we call traditional Chinese medicine every day. It is an important part of the splendid culture of ancient China. It has gradually begun to be accepted by most contemporary Chinese people. At the same time, it has become more and more important internationally and has gradually begun to be deeply loved and welcomed by people around the world. The highest state of traditional Chinese medicine is "neutralization", which is the ideal state for the existence of all things in the world. Achieving this ideal state through various methods is called neutralization. Heaven and earth each have their proper place, and all things grow and develop. It can be said that the physiological mechanisms of "harmony of yin and yang" and "the secret of yin and yang" clarified by traditional Chinese medicine are the best embodiment of the Confucian thought of neutralization. Under this ultimate goal, traditional Chinese medicine uses the theory of essence, yin and yang, and the five elements, which are three major theories from classical Chinese philosophy, to specifically explain the secrets of life.
4. Calligraphy
Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters. 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 of Chinese characters, on the one hand, it plays an important social role in the exchange of ideas and cultural inheritance. On the other hand, it has formed a unique plastic art in itself. Chinese writing originated very early, and it has developed the writing quality of writing to an aesthetic stage - integrating the creator's concepts, thinking, and spirit, and stimulating the aesthetic emotions of aesthetic objects (that is, the formation of a true calligraphy ).
5. Chinese martial arts
Chinese martial arts, also known as kung fu, martial arts, national martial arts or martial arts. It has a long history, which can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and has an extremely broad mass base. It is a precious cultural heritage that has been continuously accumulated and enriched by the Chinese working people in the long-term social practice of China. It is one of the outstanding cultural heritages of the Chinese nation. Chinese martial arts is rich in content. It combines 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. It is a high-level self-protection technique that can be practiced to prevent invasion. On the basis of effectively solving safety problems, it allows our brains to gain adaptability training. It is simple and easy to perform and can easily improve people's mental and physical fitness, defense and fitness. Diligence and excellence, happiness and accommodating.
6. Go, Chinese Chess
Go is a strategic two-person chess game. It was called "Yi" in ancient China and "Go" in the West. Popular in East Asian countries (China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea), it is one of the four arts of chess, calligraphy, and painting. Go originated in China and is said to have been created by Emperor Yao (recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period). It was introduced to Japan during the Sui and Tang Dynasties and spread to European and American countries. Go contains rich connotations of Chinese culture, and it is the embodiment of Chinese culture and civilization. Chinese chess is a chess game that originated in China. It is a two-person confrontation game and has a long history in China. Due to its simple utensils and strong fun, it has become an extremely popular chess activity.
Chess integrates culture, science, art and competition. It can not only develop intelligence, enlighten thinking, exercise dialectical analysis skills and cultivate strong will, but also cultivate the mind, cultivate sentiment and enrich cultural life. It is deeply loved by the masses.
7. Guqin
Guqin, also known as Yuqin, Yaoqin, Silk Tong, and Lyre, is a traditional Chinese musical instrument with a history of at least 3,500 years. Ancient books record that Fu Xi made a qin, and there are also legends about Shennong making a qin, the Yellow Emperor making a qin, and Tang Yao making a qin. Shun decided to make the qin a five-stringed qin, King Wen added one string, and King Wu added another string to make it a seven-stringed qin when he conquered Zhou. It can be seen that the guqin culture has a long history. Broad and profound. 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".
8. Hanfu, silk
Hanfu, the full name is "traditional clothing of the Han nation", also known as Han clothes, Han clothes, and Chinese clothes. It was worn from the accession of the Yellow Emperor to the mid-17th century AD. (Late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty), in the main residential areas of the Han people, with "Chinese-Han" culture as the background and dominant ideology, with Chinese etiquette culture as the center, the unique Han nationality style and character were formed through natural evolution. Silk is a specialty of China. The working people of ancient China invented and mass-produced silk products, and opened the first large-scale commercial exchange between the East and the West in world history, known as the Silk Road in history. Since the Western Han Dynasty, Chinese silk has been shipped abroad in large quantities and has become a world-famous product. At that time, the road from China to the West was called the "Silk Road" by Europeans, and China was also called the "Silk Country."
9. Porcelain
Chinese porcelain refers to porcelain made in China. In English, "china" is the same word as China. China is the hometown of porcelain, and porcelain is an important creation of the ancient working people. The predecessor of porcelain is primitive celadon, which is the product of the transition stage from pottery to porcelain. The earliest primitive celadon in China was found in the Fenglongshan Cultural Site in Dongxia, Xia County, Shanxi Province, dating back about 4,200 years. Utensils include pots and bowls.
10. Brocade and Embroidery
Brocade is silk made of colorful silk threads woven into patterns. It is colorful and has gorgeous patterns. It is a high-grade silk with great aesthetic value. For example, the famous "Hanren Embroidered Brocade on Red Ground" from the Han Dynasty unearthed in Xinjiang has important aesthetic value. It is on a red ground brocade, woven and embroidered with patterns characteristic of the Han Dynasty, that is, a combination of cloud patterns, animal patterns and auspicious words.