What are the characteristic cultures of China?

First, Peking Opera

Peking Opera, once called Pingju Opera, is one of the five major operas in China. The scene layout pays attention to freehand brushwork, with Xipi and Erhuang as the main accents, accompanied by huqin and gongs and drums, and it is regarded as the quintessence of China, and the "top" of China opera Sandingjia.

Huizhou Opera is the predecessor of Beijing Opera. Since the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (179), the three celebrations, four joys, Chuntai, and Hechun, which were originally performed in the south, The four Huizhou classes entered Beijing one after another, and they cooperated with artists from Hubei.

At the same time, they accepted some plays, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu Opera and Shaanxi Opera, and absorbed some local folk tunes. Through continuous communication and integration, Peking Opera was finally formed. After the formation of Peking Opera, it began to develop rapidly in the court of Qing Dynasty until the Republic of China gained unprecedented prosperity.

Peking Opera has traveled all over the world, centering on Beijing and spreading all over China, and has become an important medium for introducing and spreading China's traditional art and culture. On November 16th, 21, Peking Opera was listed in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".

Second, Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine generally refers to traditional medicine created by working people of Han nationality in China, so it is also called Chinese medicine. It is a subject that studies human physiology, pathology, diagnosis and prevention of diseases.

Chinese medicine was born in primitive society, and the theory of Chinese medicine was basically formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was summarized and developed in all previous dynasties. In addition, it has a far-reaching influence on the countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, such as Japanese Chinese medicine, Korean medicine, Korean medicine and Vietnamese eastern medicine, which are all developed on the basis of Chinese medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) bears the experience and theoretical knowledge of the ancient people in China in fighting diseases. It is a medical theoretical system gradually formed and developed through long-term medical practice under the guidance of ancient simple materialism and spontaneous dialectical thinking.

Third, Chinese Wushu

Chinese Wushu generally refers to the Chinese people's daily life, which combines social philosophy, traditional Chinese medicine, ethics, military science, aesthetics, qigong and other traditional cultural ideas and concepts, and pays attention to both internal and external cultivation, such as the concept of holism, the concept of yin and yang change, the theory of form and spirit, the theory of movement and tranquility, the theory of rigidity and softness, and so on, and gradually forms a unique national martial arts cultural system.

iv. China calligraphy

China calligraphy is an ancient art of writing Chinese characters, which evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Shi Guwen and Jinwen (Zhong Dingwen) to Da Zhuan, Xiao Zhuan and Li Shu, to cursive script, regular script and running script fixed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, and it has always exuded artistic charm.

China's calligraphy is a unique visual art, and Chinese characters are an important factor in China's calligraphy, because China's calligraphy was produced and developed in China culture, and Chinese characters are one of the basic elements of China culture. Relying on Chinese characters is the main symbol that distinguishes China's calligraphy from other kinds of calligraphy.

v. China's Poetry

Poetry refers to the ancient traditional poetry of China, which is represented by ancient poetry, modern poetry and metrical words. It is also one of the characteristics of Chinese character cultural circle. Generally speaking, poetry is more suitable for "expressing ambition", while ci is more suitable for "expressing emotion".

Poetry is a literary art that expounds the soul, while poets and poets need to master mature artistic skills and express social life and human spiritual world with concise language, dense composition, abundant emotions and rich images in a highly concentrated way according to strict rhythm requirements.

China's poems originated in the pre-Qin period and flourished in the Tang dynasty. China's Ci originated in Sui and Tang Dynasties and was popular in Song Dynasty. Chinese poetry originates from the people, but it is actually a kind of grass-roots literature. In China in the 21st century, poetry is still favored by the general public.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Poetry

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Calligraphy

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Wushu

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Medicine

Baidu Encyclopedia-Peking Opera.