Peking Opera, once known as Pingju, is one of the five major dramas in China, with Xipi and Huanger as the main accents, accompanied by huqin and gongs and drums. It is regarded as the quintessence of China and the "top spot" of China's opera Sandingjia.
Peking Opera has spread all over the world and become an important medium to introduce and spread China's traditional art and culture. It is distributed all over China with Beijing as the center. 20 10,10, 16, Peking Opera was listed in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".
2. Chinese painting
Chinese painting is a traditional painting of the Chinese nation. It has a long history and fine traditions, embodies the wisdom, personality, psychology and temperament of the Chinese nation, and is unique in the world of painting with its distinctive characteristics and styles.
The traditional painting form of Han nationality is to paint on silk or paper with a brush dipped in water, ink and color. This kind of painting is called "Chinese painting" or "Chinese painting" for short. Chinese painting (different from "western painting") has tools and materials such as brush, ink, Chinese painting pigment, rice paper and silk. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. Techniques are divided into brushwork and freehand brushwork, and its spiritual core is "pen and ink".
3. China Medicine
Traditional medicine in China is what we call Chinese medicine every day. It is an important part of China's splendid ancient culture. In contemporary China, it is gradually accepted by most people. At the same time, its influence in the world is growing, and it is gradually loved and welcomed by people all over the world.
The highest state of traditional Chinese medicine is "neutralization", which is the ideal state of everything in the world. To achieve this ideal state through various methods is neutralization. Heaven and earth have their place, and everything grows and develops. It can be said that the physiological mechanism of "Yin-Yang Harmony" and "Yin-Yang Secret Recipe" elaborated by TCM is the best embodiment of Confucian thought of neutralization. Under this ultimate goal, TCM uses the essence theory, yin-yang theory and five elements theory in China's classical philosophy to explain the secret of life.
4. Calligraphy
Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters. China's calligraphy is China's original performance art, which is known as: poetry without words, dancing without words; Painless paintings, silent music. In the long historical evolution and development, on the one hand, Chinese characters play an important social role in the exchange of ideas and cultural heritage, on the other hand, they also form a unique plastic arts.
China's writing originated very early, and it developed the writing of writing into an aesthetic stage-it integrated the creator's ideas, thinking and spirit, and it can stimulate the aesthetic feeling of the aesthetic object (that is, the formation of a real sense of calligraphy).
5. China Wushu
China Wushu, also known as Kung Fu, Wushu, Wushu or Wushu. It has a long history, dating back to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It has an extremely broad mass base and is a valuable cultural heritage accumulated and enriched by the working people in China in the long-term social practice. It is one of the outstanding cultural heritages of the Chinese nation.
China Wushu is rich in content. It combines kicking, hitting, throwing, taking, falling, hitting, chopping and stabbing into various unarmed and instrumental fighting techniques, routines and single-potential exercises according to certain rules. Preventing intrusion is a highly self-protective technology. On the basis of solving safety problems, training our minds to adapt to changes is simple and easy, which can easily improve people's psychological quality and physical quality, self-defense, Excellence, happiness and accommodation.
6. Go and China chess.
Weiqi is a strategic two-player chess game, which was called "Yi" in ancient China and "Weiqi" in the west. Popular in East Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea and North Korea), it belongs to one of the four major arts of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Weiqi originated in China and spread to Emperor Yao (recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period). It was introduced to Japan in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and then spread to European and American countries. Weiqi contains rich cultural connotations in China, which is the embodiment of China culture and civilization.
China Chess is a kind of chess game originated in China, which belongs to an antagonistic game between two people. It has a long history in China. Because of its simple tools and strong interest, it has become a very popular chess activity.
Chess combines culture, science, art and competition. It can not only develop intelligence, enlighten thinking, exercise dialectical analysis ability and cultivate tenacious will, but also cultivate the mind, cultivate sentiment and enrich cultural life, which is deeply loved by the masses.
7.guqin
Guqin, also known as Qin Yu, lyre, Stone and lyre, is a traditional musical instrument in China with a history of at least 3,500 years. Ancient books recorded Fuxi's piano-making, as well as legends about Shennong's piano-making, Huangdi's piano-making and Tang Yao's piano-making. Shun set the piano as five strings, adding one string and reducing one string to seven strings; It can be seen that Guqin culture has a long history and is profound.
Guqin is the first of China's "Chyi Chin Painting and Calligraphy" and an important part of China's traditional culture. Its cultural origin runs through "Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism" and is known as "philosophical art".
8. Hanfu and Silk
Hanfu, the full name of which is "the traditional costume of the Han nationality", is also called Hanfu official, Hanzhuang and Huafu. From the accession of the Yellow Emperor to the mid-Kloc-0/7th century (late Ming and early Qing), in the main residential areas of the Han nationality, with the "Huaxia-Han" culture as the background and the leading ideology, and the Chinese etiquette culture as the core, through natural evolution, a unique Han personality was formed.
Silk is a specialty of China. The ancient working people in China invented and mass-produced silk products, which opened the first large-scale trade exchange between East and West in the history of the world, and was called the Silk Road. Since the Western Han Dynasty, China's silk has been shipped abroad in large quantities and has become a world-famous product. At that time, China's road to the west was called "Silk Road" by Europeans, and China was also called "Silk Country".
9, porcelain
Porcelain refers to porcelain made in China. In English, China and China are the same word. China is the hometown of porcelain, which is an important creation of ancient working people.
The predecessor of porcelain is primitive celadon, which is the product of the transition from pottery to porcelain. The earliest primitive celadon in China was found at the Fenglongshan Cultural Site in Xixia County, about 4200 years ago. There are pots and bowls.
10, brocade and embroidery
Brocade is silk with colorful silk threads woven into patterns. Because of its colorful patterns, it is a kind of high-grade silk with great aesthetic value. For example, the famous red land embroidery brocade unearthed in Xinjiang in the Han Dynasty has important aesthetic value. It is embroidered with patterns with the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, that is, the combination of moire, animal patterns and auspicious characters.