China is located in the eastern part of the Eurasian continent, the largest continent in the world, with a land area of about 9.6 million square kilometers, and its territorial maritime frontiers are even more vast, the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea (also known as the South China Sea) have belonged to China since ancient times, and the Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands in the Middle East Sea have also been Chinese territory since ancient times.
As shown in **, China's geographical area is almost as large as the whole of Europe, such a vast area, the climate is also extremely complex, China's climate has three characteristics: 1The monsoon climate is obvious, and the prevailing wind direction in winter and summer changes significantly, and the precipitation has obvious seasonal changes with the advance and retreat of the monsoon. 2.The continental climate is strong, and the average temperature in winter and summer varies greatly from other regions or countries at the same latitude. In winter, it is lower than that of the same latitude, and in summer, it is higher than that of the same latitude, and the annual temperature difference is large. 3.There are many types of climate, most of them belong to the temperate climate, and the vast eastern region is in the monsoon climate, with four distinct seasons, and there are many disastrous climates, especially drought, followed by floods, and Chinese culture is precisely in such an environment!
Several ancient civilizations in the world, ancient Egypt occurred in the Nile, ancient Babylon occurred in the Tigris River and Euphrates River basin, ancient Greek culture was born in the peninsulas and islands of the Mediterranean, and the birthplace of Chinese culture is also the Yellow River Basin, but unlike the West Asian culture, it is not the main stream of the Yellow River itself, but the humid area formed by its many tributary rivers! !
When the Chinese ancestors created its ancient civilization, they were faced with the characteristics of a large number of ethnic groups in the regionIn the ancient kingdom of West Asia, there is no doubt that one race carried out a cruel conquest of another race in order to compete for the survival of the desert world, but in China, there are wars and conquests, but in the end, the success of ancient civilizations depends not on war, but on union and integration!
* and unification is the two major trends of China's historical development, the important role of the concept of "the world" is the pursuit of unification, the oracle bone inscription has a clear record of the "Quartet", to the Western Zhou Dynasty, the concept of "the world" has been very clear, although the first in Chinese history is not a few, the time is not short, but the pursuit of unification has always been the keynote of the political concept, but also the basic tendency of history, the great unification consciousness of the world is a powerful and lasting Chinese concept, and has an important role in the continuous development and growth of the Chinese nation. And the pursuit of unity has always been the dominant tendency.
In the previous article, we also said that our introverted character is given by this land, although we do not have the spirit of adventure and open character like the Western people, but just like this conservative, long-term concept of living in this land, we have always been a unified country, not like the West, ** multiple countries come out.
In the process of reunification, it is certainly not particularly easy, the process is always difficult, the north of our country has lived nomadic people since ancient times, and some important reasons for the development of China's historical destiny can be found there.
When the Central Plains was politically prosperous, they were around it, learning the Central Plains cultural system, and some groups of people were also defeated by the powerful Central Plains Dynasty, migrating far or inward, and when the Central Plains Dynasty was depressed and fell into chaos and decline, they attacked on a large scale, and then entered the Central Plains, causing the inherent inhabitants of the Central Plains to migrate to the south, and they became the recipients and new creators of the Central Plains culture. After a short lag, civilization warmed up and prospered along the cultural direction inherent in the Central Plains.
As mentioned above, the migration of the native people of the Central Plains to the south has caused a confrontation between the north and the south, and the economic upsurge in the south has coincided with the violent ethnic integration in the north. By the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, this north-south confrontation had a new change. In a unified country, the political center is in the north and the economic center is in the south. And this kind of opposition and contradiction has also become the real beginning of the sluggish development of Chinese culture!
In the dynastic political center of the north, the spirit of the founding of the country is outdated and small-scale peasantry, and it has never understood how to protect the development momentum of the southern economy in the national development strategy!
And we now understand that there are several factors that make up a regional culture, and the conditions required: 1Natural Environment 2Special or unique geographical conditions 3People in a specific region have a clear sense of the region, and form a competitive relationship with people in other regions (if there is no open-mindedness, the construction of regional culture will not be too good)4The subtle influence of exemplary characters.
The Central Plains culture was actually just a regional culture at the beginning, and it rose to the orthodox culture after absorption and integration, constantly absorbing, changing, and maintaining its orthodox status, so the regional culture is the resource of the orthodox culture. Qu Yuan's literature, which "writes Chu language and makes Chu sound", is the foundation of the ancient Chinese literary system.
This is what we are talking about today, the influence of regions on Chinese culture, I believe everyone has also understood the conditions for the formation of a regional culture, and the process by which regional culture begins to gradually form an orthodox culture.