First, the common historical origin.
Mainly refers to the geographical origin (geography) and ethnic origin (ethnic origin) of ethnic origin. If a nation has no national origin, it will become a rootless tree, and if it has no regional origin, it will become a castle in the air. Nation is an objective entity, and ethnic origin and geography are indispensable premises and foundations.
Regional origin can also be called common area, which refers to the area where people who make up a nation live together. It is a space for national production, life and reproduction. The common region is more prominent at the beginning or after the formation of the nation. After the formation of ethnic groups, they do not always live in fixed areas, but also migrate to other ethnic areas to live.
Common region is one of the material conditions for the formation of a nation, which restricts and influences other characteristics of the nation, such as mode of production, language and culture. Ethnic origin, that is, common ethnic origin, refers to the ethnic community in which people who make up a nation share clan and tribal origin. Common ethnic origin or ethnic origin is the link of national spirit and one of the key factors of national cohesion and centripetal force.
2. Ordinary mode of production.
It mainly refers to the sum of social contact, organizational form, communication form and behavior mode of people who make up a nation in economic activities, production, exchange and consumption of material materials. Co-production mode is a unique way formed by people who make up a nation in the field of economic activities under the influence of natural environment, climatic conditions and their own historical development process in a certain area.
Economic life and economic ties are the ties that link people together, and they are also the basis and material conditions for the formation of common language, common culture and common psychology. Material strength and economic ties can unite all the parts that make up a nation into a whole, and consolidate it under the simultaneous action of other factors.
Nationalities are formed by many different tribes due to material relations and interests. The co-production mode is also developing and changing.
Third, a common language.
It refers to the language used by people who make up a nation to exchange ideas, feelings and contacts with each other in production and life. It is the most obvious feature of stability and exposure, and it is one of the most important manifestations of national unity and inheritance. It plays an important role in the formation, existence and development of ethnic groups and has a very strong resistance to the forced assimilation of ethnic groups.
In the use and development of national common language, with the improvement of ethnic relations and the strengthening of ethnic exchanges, the phenomenon of mutual absorption and borrowing of words is gradually increasing. This is an inevitable trend of historical development.
Fourth, common culture.
It mainly refers to the culture with its own form and characteristics created and developed by people who make up a nation in long-term social practice, that is, the sum of material wealth and spiritual wealth. The culture mentioned here refers to literature, art, education, building technology and so on. National culture is the ideological reflection of the natural environment, social politics and economy of national existence.
National culture is the spiritual bond connecting people who make up a nation, the most obvious symbol of national unity and inheritance, and the internal driving force of a nation's development and progress. National culture is constantly developing and changing in inheritance and variation.
Fifth, customs and habits.
It mainly refers to the fashion, customs and habits that people who make up a nation are popular in material and spiritual life. It is a behavioral psychology and behavior mode that has been passed down for a long time in practical activities in the field of production and life under the control of popular values, and it is embodied in material and cultural life such as food, clothing, housing, marriage and funeral, holiday entertainment and etiquette.
National customs and habits are formed in the long-term historical development, which are reflected in the natural geographical and climatic conditions, production forms, economic and living conditions, social and political conditions, cultural and living conditions and historical development conditions in all aspects of the national survival process. National customs and habits have the characteristics of mass, which is one of the national characteristics exposed to the outside world and an obvious symbol to distinguish nationalities.
With the development of the times and economy and society, national customs and habits are also developing and changing.
Sixth, common psychological identity.
It mainly refers to the same psychological characteristics of people who make up a nation, which is mainly manifested in their sense of belonging to the same nation, including the identity psychology of ethnic members to the whole nation and among ethnic members. National psychological identity is a part of national psychology.
National psychology refers to the psychological things that are manifested in the common national cultural characteristics. It is a reflection of a nation's social economy, lifestyle, historical development and geographical environment characteristics in its mental outlook. It forms and changes with other national characteristics, and reflects these characteristics comprehensively on this basis, which is closely related to other national characteristics.
Therefore, national psychological identity plays an important role in the formation of the nation. In national psychology, the inheritance and accumulation of national culture and the inheritance and variation of national biological genes are all worthy of attention, and the former plays a decisive role. The common national psychology has considerable stability, historical continuity and durability, and plays an important role in the existence and development of the nation.
Common national psychology (including national identity psychology) is an important spiritual and psychological bond to unite members of this nation; For the relationship between a nation and its members, it has the characteristics of cohesion, centripetal force and insight. It is very resistant to national assimilation and plays a certain role in protecting the survival and development of the nation.
In the era of highly developed economy, frequent population mobility and rapid cultural development, common psychological identity plays an increasingly important role in national characteristics and national identity. The common national psychology is also developing and changing. But its change is gradual and slow, and it is a gradual historical variation process.
The above-mentioned six elements or characteristics of a nation have specific contents, and each characteristic plays a certain role in the overall characteristics of a nation, which is interrelated, interdependent and mutually restrictive. Common region, historical origin, common mode of production and economic life are mutually conditional on the whole, which is the material condition and foundation for the formation, existence and development of a nation.
Region is a space place, and economy is a link. The common national origin is closely related to the common language, culture, customs and habits, and psychological identity. Language is a tool for communication, and culture is the spiritual bond that maintains a nation. Psychological identity is the inevitable result of these characteristics, but it is not only a negative result, but also plays an important role and is an important condition for national stability.
The six common elements or common characteristics of a nation are the key and basic conditions for the formation of a nation.