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What is culture?
Culture, wén huà, English is culture, and culture is all the spiritual activities related to economy and politics and their products. This is a very broad and most humanized concept. Simply put, culture is the general name of the forms of human life elements in this area: clothing, crown, culture, things, food, housing, transportation and so on. It is indeed very difficult to give an accurate or precise definition of culture. The interpretation of the concept of culture has always been controversial. However, there is a similar explanation and understanding in dictionaries or encyclopedias in the East and the West: culture is all human spiritual activities and their products related to politics and economy.

Definition of culture: Culture is all human spiritual activities and their products related to economy and politics. ?

Culture is the sum of all social phenomena and the inner spirit of the intelligent group.

It covers the history of intelligent groups from the past to the future and is the content of all activities of groups based on nature. It is the whole of all material appearances and spiritual immanence of the group. ?

The specific content of human culture refers to history, geography, customs, traditional customs, tools, appendages, lifestyles, religious beliefs, literature and art, norms, laws, systems, ways of thinking, values, aesthetic tastes, spiritual totems and so on.

Specific human culture can be divided into material culture and philosophical thought (institutional culture and psychological culture). It is more appropriate to call the culture of non-human intelligent groups subculture here.

Although they have similarities in human culture, one essential difference is that the independent value and will of human beings are completely different from those of other intelligent groups.

Culture includes not only ideological parts such as world outlook, outlook on life and values, but also non-ideological parts such as natural science and technology, language and writing.

Culture is a unique phenomenon in human society. Culture is created by people and unique to people.

Culture is the sum of all social phenomena and the inner spirit of the intelligent group.

Culture includes eight major arts and the ninth major art.

Among them, China culture is branded with the characteristics of the nation and the times, which has both inheritance and development. The main content of China culture is Confucianism in the new era.

? Culture, in terms of meaning, literature is "recording, expressing and commenting" and culture is "analyzing, understanding and containing". The characteristics of culture are: history, content and story. Many philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, historians and linguists have been trying to define the concept of culture from the perspective of their respective disciplines.

Culture can be roughly expressed as: 1. Extensive knowledge and the ability to use knowledge flexibly; 2. Inner spirit and cultivation.

① From the content, culture is the sum of human activities, processes and achievements in conquering nature, society and human beings themselves, while civilization mainly refers to the essence of cultural achievements.

② From the time point of view, culture exists in the whole life of human beings, and human beings have produced primitive culture before civilized society, and civilization is a certain stage of human cultural development.

From the form of expression, culture is a dynamic, gradual and uninterrupted development process, while civilization is a relatively stable and static leap-forward development process.

④ Culture is a neutral concept, and civilization is a commendatory concept. Materializing human activities, processes and results in the process of human conquest of nature and society is an objective existence, which has both excellent achievements and dross, both favorable and unfavorable factors for human beings. It's all culture. Civilization is related to certain values, which refers to the positive achievements and progress of culture. As a value judgment, it is a concept of praise.

1. Culture opens the perception of beauty. Emerson

2. A certain culture (as an ideological culture) is a reflection of the politics and economy of a certain society, and it also has a great influence and function on the politics and economy of a certain society. Mao Zedong

3. Language is the carrier and an important part of human culture; Every language can express the world outlook, mode of thinking, social characteristics, culture and history of the people who use it, and it is a valuable intangible heritage of mankind. Zhou Haizhong

4. Culture comes from and serves the people. -Wenwei District