What is culture? What is Chinese culture?

The text of culture is the text of explanatory text, the text of oracle bone inscriptions, and the text of the same text. It is a set of symbol systems used for communication between communities. The scale of human groups grows from small to large and continues to develop. What unites these different human individuals is Wen. The earliest Wen is totem, which is the common cognition of group members to the group. A group has a scope, like a virtual circle. Those who are in the circle are their own people, and those who are outside the circle are not their own people.

The text of culture is the gentle text that Confucius said. Confucius said: Quality is better than literature and wild, literature is better than quality, history is better, gentleness is gentle, and then the gentleman. The so-called wild is the uneducated. Horses are called wild horses before they are trained. For people, the so-called wild is the animal primitiveness in human nature. Confucius meant that it is not good if it is too qualitative, and it is not good if it is too prose. For example, in the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the Huns had a custom: when the elder brother died, the younger brother wanted to take the elder brother's wife, and when the father died, the son wanted to marry the father's wife, of course, the biological mother was not counted. The Han Chinese criticized the Huns for being too qualitative, that is, too primitive. The ancestors of the Han people have the custom of being buried. When the company is old, the wife must be buried. When the king dies, the minister is to be buried. This is too literal. Later, it seemed better to be buried with puppets, but Confucius still hated it, so he scolded: The initiator has no successor!

Culture is for people, so the text of culture is humanities. The so-called humanities are those things that make people human. Specifically, they are artificial symbol systems. Simply put, they are the collection of all elements that represent ideal human nature. The benevolence of Confucianism is an important symbol of human nature, so the ancients said: people without benevolence are no different from beasts.

The transformation of culture is like the transformation of simplification, the transformation of modernization, and the transformation of melting. Transformation is transformation, from one state to another through a transformation process. For human beings, the initiation of this transformation process originates from the highest level of society, and the object of transformation is the lowest level of society. The upper level is teaching, and the lower level is learning.

The root of Chinese culture is in the Book of Changes. After the writings and descriptions of the three sages of Confucius, King Wen of Fuxi, it is metaphysics to explain Lao and Zhuang, and the integration of Buddhism and Taoism is Neo-Confucianism. Chinese characters and Chinese medicine are all derived from the Book of Changes. The core of Chinese culture is Han culture, Han culture originates from Zhou culture, and Zhou culture originates from Chinese civilization. The core of Chinese culture lies in Chinese characters, or Chinese characters are the carriers of Chinese culture and even Chinese culture. Chinese civilization has lasted for thousands of years, and Chinese characters have played an indelible role in it. We should give an award to the inventor Cang Jie, the promoter Ying Zheng, and the great party that literate hundreds of millions of people in a short period of time. Infinite merit!