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China's ten national quintessence, calligraphy ranks first
China is an ancient and magical country, with a long history and brilliant culture, leaving us with a rich cultural heritage, which is the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors. Let us take a look at China's ten national quintessence.
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Tenth: Embroidery

Embroidery is a general term for various decorative patterns embroidered on fabrics.
Embroidery is a traditional Chinese folk art, with a history of at least two to three thousand years in China.
Embroidery fabrics are mainly silk and silk thread.
Four famous embroidery in China: Su embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Yue embroidery, and Shu embroidery.
China's embroidery technology reached a high level during the Qin and Han dynasties, and it was one of the important commodities transported on the "Silk Road" in history.

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Ninth: Paper cutting

Paper-cutting is a traditional Chinese folk art, which has a history of more than 1,500 years in our country.
Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art. It has been loved by people for thousands of years. Paper-cutting is an art treasure of our country.
The art of paper-cutting, a treasure of Chinese folk art, still shines with brilliant light.
China invented papermaking in the Western Han and Eastern Han dynasties, and later paper-cutting.
Paper-cutting is the most popular and mass-based folk art in China, with strong national folk art characteristics.

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Eighth: Go

Go is an ancient intellectual game that originated in China and is a great invention of the Chinese nation.
Go is one of the "Four Arts" of the "Four Great Arts of Ancient China" (Qin, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting).
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the chessboard was finalized as the current 19-game chessboard, and the nine-pin Go system for assessing the player's level appeared.
Go integrates science, art and athletics, and has the developmental intelligence,
As a result, it has been prosperous for thousands of years and has gradually developed into an international cultural competition.

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Seventh: Porcelain

China is the hometown of porcelain. The world-famous Chinese porcelain is a great creation and invention of the Chinese nation.
Porcelain is a symbol of ancient Chinese civilization and a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation.
China is known as "the country of porcelain", and the exquisite porcelain made in China is loved by people all over the world.
China is the birthplace of porcelain, and China is known as the "country of porcelain."
China has also won the glorious title of "Porcelain Country in the World".

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Sixth: Tea Ceremony

Tea is the national drink of the Chinese nation.
Tea drinking, tea planting, and tea making all originated in China.
This shows that in the Shennong era 7000 years ago, China discovered tea and learned that tea has magical medicinal effects.
Therefore, Shennong, the great ancestor of our Chinese nation, is the originator of tea in China.
Tea is the most natural and healthiest beverage, and it is also the beverage with the most cultural connotations.
Tea has the extraordinary charm of health, nature, culture, civilization and fashion, and is loved by people all over the world.

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Fifth: Hanfu

Hanfu is the traditional national costume of the Han people in China, also known as Hanfu and Huafu.
Hanfu is the traditional national costume of the Han people in China. Its origin can be traced back to the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Ming Dynasty, which lasted for thousands of years.
By the Han Dynasty, it had been comprehensively perfected and popularized, and the Han Chinese clothing was named after it.
Hanfu (Huafu) is a very beautiful costume, and Hanfu (Huafu) best reflects the Han people
China is the first country in the world to invent silk (sericulture, reeling and weaving silk).

 

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Fourth: Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine is traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine generally refers to traditional medicine created by the working people of the Han nationality in China.
Therefore, Chinese medicine is also called Han medicine.
"Traditional Chinese Medicine" contains "Chinese Materia Medica". Since ancient times, our country has had a legend that "Shen Nong tasted herbs, and then there was medicine".
The theoretical basis and source of Chinese medicine is the "Huangdi Neijing".

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Third: Peking Opera


Peking opera, the top of China's five major dramas.
Since the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1790),
The four major Hui classes that originally performed in the south of Sanqing, Sixi, Chuntai, and Hechun have entered Beijing one after another.
They cooperated with Han tune artists from Hubei, and also accepted some repertoires, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu Opera and Qin Opera.
Peking opera is an important means to interpret and spread Chinese traditional culture.
The distribution area is centered on Beijing, all over China.

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Second: Martial Arts (Kung Fu)


Chinese martial arts is Kung Fu, and its English name is Kungfu, which is traditional Chinese martial arts.
It has a long history, dating back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Kungfu has an extremely broad mass base.
Martial arts routines often require that the inner spirit and the outer body movements are closely integrated in technology, and they are complete.
This characteristic reflects the long-term historical evolution of Chinese martial arts as a cultural form.
Being heavily infiltrated and influenced by ancient Chinese philosophy, medicine, aesthetics, etc.,
Formed a unique national style exercise method and exercise form.

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First: calligraphy


Chinese The only art that uses ancient writing as an art is China. This art is called calligraphy.
Chinese characters began to use pictures to record things. After thousands of years of development, they evolved into today’s characters.
Calligraphy came into being because the ancestors invented writing with a brush. Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters.
From the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the regular script, running script, and cursive script of the Tang Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, the art of Chinese calligraphy reached maturity and prospered.

【​以上内容摘自《中国书法网》】
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