Chinese cultural personality

Author: Qin Yu
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: If history and culture are likened to fish, then human geography is the water; if history and culture are likened to trees, then human geography is the land. To discuss history and culture without the overall background of the natural and social intersection of a certain region is no different from climbing a tree to catch fish. This book selects eleven cultural ecological groups, including Yan-Zhao, San-Qin, San-Jin, Qi-Lu, Wu-Yue, Jing-Chu, Ba-Shu, Dian-Yun, Ling-Nan, Qing-Zang, and Min-Nan, and extracts the historical evolution of folk customs, local attractions, cuisine, architecture, and cultural figures in each place, aiming to construct a clear cultural character thread on regions with typicality and representativeness. Compared to general humanistic culture books, this book covers a wide range of content, not only providing a simple introduction to customs and sentiments but also re-examining Chinese culture from the perspective of "cultural character," offering an in-depth reflection on Chinese civilization. The inscrutable people of the four directions and the untold stories of the south and north. If history and culture are likened to fish, then human geography is the water; if history and culture are likened to trees, then human geography is the land. To discuss history and culture without the overall background of the natural and social intersection of a certain region is no different from climbing a tree to catch fish. This is a book about the character of Chinese culture, a richly illustrated cultural. The vivid cultural figure of China, as ancient and vast as it is, emerges from the pages. If you can hold a copy in your hands and savor the cultural feast we have prepared in silence, you will surely feel the depth and breadth of five thousand years of Chinese civilization.