What are the top ten quintessences of China, and what are their characteristics?

1. Chinese Peking Opera

Peking Opera, once called Pingju, is one of the five major operas in China. Its accent is mainly Xipi and Erhuang, accompanied by huqin and gongs and drums. It is regarded as the quintessence of China and the "top spot" of China opera Sandingjia.

Peking Opera has traveled 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. On November 16th, 21, Peking Opera was listed in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".

2. Chinese painting

Chinese painting is a traditional painting of China nationality with a long history and fine tradition, which embodies the wisdom, personality, psychology and temperament of the Chinese nation and has a unique system in the world painting garden with its distinctive features and styles.

The traditional painting form of the Han nationality is to dip the brush into water, ink and color to draw on silk or paper. This kind of painting is called "Chinese painting" or "Chinese painting" for short. Traditional Chinese painting (different from "western painting") has tools and materials such as brush, ink, pigments of traditional Chinese painting, Xuan paper, silk, etc. The theme can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. The techniques can be 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 culture in ancient times. It is gradually accepted by most people in contemporary China. At the same time, it has more and more important influence in the world, and it is gradually loved and welcomed by people all over the world.

the highest state of TCM is "neutralization", which is the ideal state of all things in the world. Achieving this ideal state through various methods is neutralization. Heaven and earth will have their place, and everything will grow and develop. It can be said that the physiological mechanism of "harmony of yin and yang" and "secret of yin and yang" expounded by traditional Chinese medicine is the best embodiment of Confucian thought of neutralization. Under this ultimate goal, Chinese medicine uses the theory of essence, the theory of yin and yang and the theory of five elements, which come from China's classical philosophy, to explain the secret of life concretely.

4. Calligraphy

Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters. Chinese calligraphy is China's original performance art, which is known as: wordless poetry, dancing without lines; Paintings without pictures, silent music. In the long history of evolution and development, Chinese characters, on the one hand, play an important social role in the exchange of ideas and cultural inheritance, on the other hand, they have formed a unique plastic arts.

China's writing originated very early, which developed the writing of the writing into an aesthetic stage-it integrated the creator's ideas, thinking and spirit, and stimulated the aesthetic emotion of the aesthetic object (that is, the formation of a real sense of calligraphy).

5. China Wushu

China Wushu, also known as Kung Fu, Martial Arts, Martial Arts or Martial Arts. It has a long history, which can be traced 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, falling, taking, falling, hitting, chopping and stabbing into various unarmed and instrumental offensive and defensive fighting skills, routines and single-potential exercises according to certain rules. It is a highly self-protection technology to stop invasion. On the basis of solving security problems, it can train our minds to adapt to changes, which is simple and easy, and can easily improve people's mental and physical qualities, defend themselves and keep fit, strive for Excellence, and be happy and accommodating.

6. Go and China Chess

Go is a strategic two-player chess game, which was called "Yi" in ancient China and "Go" in the west. Popular in East Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea and North Korea), it belongs to one of the four arts of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Weiqi originated in China and was handed down to Emperor Yao (recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period). During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was introduced to Japan through Korea and spread to European and American countries. Weiqi contains rich connotations of Chinese culture, which is the embodiment of China culture and civilization.

China chess is a kind of chess game originated in China, which belongs to a kind of two-person antagonistic game and 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, and is deeply loved by the masses.

7. Guqin

Guqin, also known as Yuqin, heptachord, Sitong and lyre, is a traditional musical instrument in China with a history of at least 3,5 years. Ancient books recorded that Fuxi made a piano, and there were legends such as Shennong made a piano, Huangdi made a piano and Tang Yao made a piano. Shun set the piano as five strings, Wen Wang added one string, and Wu Wang cut another string for seven strings; It can be seen that Guqin culture has a long history and is profound.

Guqin is the first of China's "Qinqi Calligraphy and Painting" and an important part of China's traditional culture. Its cultural origin runs through "Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism" and it 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 Han Yi Guan, Han Zhuang and Hua Fu. It was formed by natural evolution from the accession of the Yellow Emperor to the mid-17th century (late Ming and early Qing Dynasty) in the main residential areas of the Han nationality, with the "Huaxia-Han" culture as the background and the leading ideology, centering on the Chinese etiquette culture.

Silk is a specialty of China. China's ancient working people invented and mass-produced silk products, which opened the first large-scale trade exchange between East and West in the history of the world, known as the Silk Road. Since the Western Han Dynasty, China's silk has been shipped abroad in large quantities, becoming a world-famous product. At that time, the road from China to the west was called "Silk Road" by Europeans, and China was also called "Silk Country".

9. Porcelain

china porcelain refers to porcelain made in China. In English, "China" is the same word as China. 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 in the Fenglongshan cultural site in Dongxia, Xixia County, about 4,2 years ago. There are pots and bowls.

1. Brocade and Embroidery

Brocade is silk with colorful silk threads woven into patterns. It is a kind of high-grade silk with great aesthetic value because of its colorful and gorgeous patterns. For example, the famous Hanren Embroidery Brocade in Red Land unearthed in Xinjiang has important aesthetic value. It is embroidered with patterns with the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, that is, the combination of cloud patterns, animal patterns and auspicious words.

Extended information:

The long-lasting development of China civilization is inseparable from its inheritance. The inheritance of China culture is mainly passed down from father to son and from family to family. Among the numerous traditional cultures, some have blossomed everywhere in China, while others have formed unique regional customs.

after the reform and opening-up, China's economy has further developed, people's living standards have improved, and the requirements for the spiritual field have become higher and higher. The prevalence of pop music and European and American cultures, the accelerated pace of life and cultural diversity have obviously collided with traditional culture.

To advocate the proper position of traditional culture, it is necessary to guide the young generation's ideas and strengthen their moral standards. Therefore, from this aspect, it is beneficial to the country and the people to carry forward, revitalize and inherit the "national quintessence" art, which has outstanding practical significance for people to establish a correct outlook on life and strengthen humanistic education.