culture of china the culture of china is home to one of the world'soldest and most complex civilizations. china boasts a history rich in over5,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and scientific advancement.though regional differences provide a sense of diversity, commonalities inlanguage and religion connect a culture distinguished by such significantcontributions such as confucianism and taoism. confucianism was the officialphilosophy throughout most of imperial china'shistory and strongly influenced other countries in east asia. mastery of confucian texts provided the primary criterionfor entry into the imperial bureaucracy. with the rise of western economic and militarypower beginning in the mid-19th century, western systems of social andpolitical organization gained adherents in china. some of these would-bereformers rejected china'scultural legacy, while others sought to combine the strengths of chinese andwestern cultures. china is a unified nation consisting of many differentethnic groups. fifty-six different ethnic groups make up the great chinesenational family. because the han people accounts for more than ninety percentof china'spopulation, the remaining fifty-five groups are generally referred to as"ethnic minorities." next to the majority han, the mongolian, hui,tibetan, and uygur peoples comprise the largest ethnic groups. although china's ethnic minorities do not account for alarge portion of the population, they are distributed over a vast area,residing in every corner of china. particularly since the implementation of china's openingand reform policy, the central government has increased investment in minorityareas and accelerated their opening to the outside world. this has resulted inan upsurge of economic development in these areas. each of china's ethnicminority groups possesses a distinctive culture. the chinese governmentrespects minority customs, and works to preserve, study, and collate thecultural artifacts of china'sethnic minority groups. the government vigorously supports the development ofminority culture and the training of minority cultural workers, and fosters thedevelopment of traditional minority medicine. the relation among china's ethnic groups can bedescribed as "overall integration, local concentration, mutualinteraction." concentrations of ethnic minorities reside withinpredominantly han areas, and the han people also reside in minority areas,indicating that there has been extensive exchanges among china's ethnicgroups since ancient times. with the development of the market economy,interaction among ethnic groups has become even more active in the areas ofgovernment, economics, culture, daily life, and marriage. linked byinterdependence, mutual assistance, and joint development, their common goalsand interests creating a deep sense of solidarity, china's ethnic groups resemble agreat national family, together building chinese civilization. 文本文來自"英語匯作文網" 歡迎分享本文,轉載請保留出處!

中國是個古老的國家，傳統文化更是源遠流長，豐富多彩。有民間工藝陶瓷，民族藝術戲劇，國畫，風俗習慣端午節(jié)賽龍舟，元宵節(jié)鬧花燈等等，不過最值得一提的就是民間藝術剪紙了。 　　剪紙是中國的民間藝術瑰寶，是民間藝術的一朵奇葩，看了讓人羨慕不已，嘖嘖稱贊。剪紙的內容包含著濃濃的生活氣息。鳥，蟲，魚，獸，花草樹木亭橋風景。這些人們熟悉而又熱愛的自然景觀成了人們剪紙的花樣。每逢過年過節(jié)或喜事臨門，人們都要剪一些“福”、“喜”、“壽”等貼在窗戶上，門上來表示慶賀。 　　瞧，這幅剪紙作品多有趣呀。一只穿著彩衣的小老鼠拖著一條長長的尾巴，他的眼睛滴溜溜地搜索著四面八方，生怕被人發(fā)現它在偷燈油。可是老天像和他作對似的，葫蘆里的燈油全流到地上了，小老鼠以最快的速度，從燈臺上跳下來趴在地上，伸出那利劍似的舌頭貪婪的舔著地上的燈油，那滑稽的樣子真是逗人喜愛! 　　剪紙藝人剪得十二生肖也是栩栩如生，惟妙惟肖。就連外國人也嘖嘖稱奇，豎起大拇指一個勁的來夸贊。十二生肖被印成郵票飛到世界各地，讓全世界的人都來認識中國博大精深的剪紙文化。 　　太精美了!它體現了民間藝人的心靈手巧，他是勞動人民聰明才智的展示，是民間傳統文化的結晶。我也想像民間藝人一樣剪出一副精美絕倫的剪紙作品，送給外國的小朋友，讓他們了解中國的剪紙藝術，讓剪紙成為中外文化交流的橋梁