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The culture of China has been influenced by China's long history and by diverse ethnic groups. Chinese civilization is said to have begun 5000 years ago. Chinese culture, despite all of its regional diversity, was dominated by the Confucian value system. Throughout the history of imperial China, Confucianism was the official philosophy, and mastery of Confucian texts was the primary criteria for entry into the imperial bureaucracy.
With the rise of Western economic and military power at the turn of the last century, however, non-Chinese systems of social and political organization gained adherents in China. Some of these would-be reformers totally rejected China's cultural legacy, while others sought to combine the strengths of Chinese and Western culture. In essence, the history of 20th Century China is one of experimentation to find a new system of social, political, and economic organization that would allow for the reintegration of the nation in the wake of dynastic collapse.
Architecture
I. M. Pei
Arts
Main article: Chinese art
Cinema
Main article: Cinema of China
Martial arts film - Wu Xia film
Dance
dragon dance - lion dance
Literature
Main article: Chinese literature
Chinese classic texts - Chinese poetry - List of Chinese language poets - List of Chinese proverbs
Music
Main article: Music of China
Opera
Chinese opera
Visual arts and design
Calligraphy - Chinese painting
Classics
Chinese astrology - Chinese calendar - Chinese classic texts - Chinese constellation - Chinese dragon - Chinese mythology - Chinese New Year - Chinese philosophy - Confucianism - Confucius - Eastern philosophy - Five Elements - Futs-Lung - I Ching - Qilin - Lao Zi - Listing of noted Confucianists - Listing of noted Taoists - Lung - Lunisolar calendar - Mohism - Qi - Taoism - Yin Yang - Zhang San Feng
Cooking
Main article: Chinese cuisine
American Chinese cuisine - Boba milk tea - Cantonese cuisine - Cardamom - Chinese Buddhist cuisine - Chinese food therapy - Chinese Islamic cuisine - Chiuchow cuisine - Chopsticks - Chop suey - Dim sum - Double steaming - Fingerroot - Five spice powder - Fortune cookie - Ginger root - Hakka cuisine - Hot salt frying - Hot sand frying - Hunan cuisine - Longan - Lychee - Mandarin cuisine - Monosodium glutamate - Shanghai cuisine - Soy sauce - Stir frying - Szechuan cuisine - Szechuan pepper - Taiwanese cuisine - Tofu - Wok
Education
Ethnic groups and regionalisms
Games
Che Deng - Chinese checkers - Chinese dominoes - Go (board game) - Go proverb - Gwat Pai - Kap Tai Shap - Keno - Mah Jong - Pai Gow - Pai gow poker - Shanghai solitaire - Tangram - Tien Gow - Tiu U - Xiangqi
Handicraft
Joinery - Silk - Chinese paper art
History
Main article: History of China
Origins of Chinese Civilization - Chinese prehistory - Dongyi - Hunn-Xianpi - Khitan - Jurchen - Tabgach - proto-Sino-Tibetan - Shang-Chu Kingdom - Yuezhi - Yue Kingdom - Nanyue Kingdom - Wu Kingdom
Hobbies
Chinese tea culture
Language
Main articles: Chinese language, Languages of China
Chinese character - Chinese input methods for computers - Chinese numerals - Chinese written language - Classical Chinese - Pinyin
Martial Arts
Jeet Kune Do - Kung Fu - Leung Sheung - Martial arts - Nei chia - Nunchaku - Pakua Chuan - Qigong - Shaolin - Tai Chi Chuan - Wing Chun - Wing Tsun - Wong Fei Hung - Wushu - Yip Man
Mass media
Main articles: Media in China, Media in Hong Kong
Names
Chinese family name - Chinese name - Liu - Miao Hao - Nian Hao - Posthumous name - Shi Hao - Zi
Religion
Main article Religion in China
Bodhidharma - Buddhism - Dalai Lama - Falun Gong - Gedun Drub - Guanyin - Mahayana Buddhism - Shang Ti - Shaolin - Sonam Gyatso - Tibetan Buddhism - Vajrayana - Yami - Zen
Social relations
Main article: Chinese social relations
Tourism
Forbidden City - Grand Canal of China - Great Wall of China - Marco Polo Bridge - Mount Huangshan - Mount Jiuhuashan - Mount Tianzhu - Terracotta Army - The Temple of Heaven - The Summer Palace
Traditional medicine
Main article: Traditional Chinese medicine
Units
Main aricle: Chinese unit
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Abacus - Celestial globe - Chinese nationalism - Communism - Counting rods - Cultural genocide - Cultural Revolution - Eunuch - Fists of Righteous Harmony - Ganqing - Giulio Alenio - Hopping corpse - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot - Jiang Hu - List of famous Chinese people - Maoism - Mao suit - National Palace Museum - Qi Qiao Jie - Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong - Sima Guang - Sima Qian - Triad - Zhang Heng - Zhu Shijie - Da Shan (Mark Rowswell) - Zun
See also: Culture of Hong Kong
External link
zh:中华文化
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