Chinese Culture

Mainland China is rooted in more than 4,000 years of rich Chinese cultures and history. It's known for their lives, travel, history, business and food, their people and customs. Traditional Kung Fu is as much of the culture of china according to statistics. The Chinese people have shared a common culture longer than any other groups on earth. China is one of the cradles of the human race. For thousands of years the culture of china has attract and moved many people from all over the world, being so unique and one-of-a-kind as well as elegant and inspiring. The Chinese culture, a culture that has evolved for thousands and thousands of years contains rare beauty and enchanted with history variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia. [pic]

In order to effectively examine China we need to first understand what their culture is about. Culture is defined as “society’s shared and socially transmitted its ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and which generate behavior that is reflected in that behavior”. There are five major characteristics of culture, they are that; Culture is shared, “one shared element found in all cultures is an understanding in regard to gender roles, which are the roles a particular culture assigns to men and women”. The second characteristic is “Culture is learned, not biologically inherited. The process whereby culture is passed from one generation to the next. The third is “symbols. Much of human behavior is mediated by symbols—signs, sounds, emblems, and other things that represent meaningful concepts.” The forth is that “Culture is integrated. The foundation of culture includes three structural elements that work together to keep the culture strong: An infrastructure provides the basic necessities of life, a social structure determines how people interact with one another, and a superstructure, or worldview, provides a belief system that helps