Our country’s national quintessences include:
1. Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine refers to traditional Chinese medicine, also known as Han medicine and Kampo. The Japanese call it “Kampo” medicine". Traditional Chinese medicine 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 become deeply loved and welcomed by people around the world.
2. 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, 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.
3. Chinese Painting
Chinese painting, referred to as "Chinese painting", is a painting created in China with a long history and distinctive national characteristics. Chinese painting uses lines as the main means of modeling, and pays attention to the use of brushes and ink, so that lines, ink, and colors complement each other to achieve the artistic effect of "vivid charm"; the second characteristic is that "objects represent emotions, and there is poetry in the painting". The third characteristic is poetry, which integrates emotion, painting and printing.
4. Peking Opera
Peking Opera is also called "Pihuang". Its musical material consists of two basic tunes, "Xipi" and "Erhuang", and it also sings some local tunes. (such as Liuzi tune, blowing tune, etc.) and Kunqu Opera are representatives of modern Chinese opera. It was formed in Beijing around 1840, became popular in the 1930s and 1940s, and has a history of 200 years.
5. 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.
Baidu Encyclopedia—Quality of China