Chinese Traditional Culture

1056 Words3 Pages

Sarah Smith

Civilizations of Asia

Dr. Kruse

2/22/14

Chinese Traditional Culture

What is Chinese traditional culture like today from what it used to be? Where the Chinese we know today is very different from what they used to be. In today’s time, Chinese culture has changed over the years quite a bit from “Spring Moon” to now. A lot of their beliefs and morals come from Confucianism as it does in “Spring Moon”. The main points of this paper are Confucianism, characteristics, tradition, culture and modern life of the Chinese.

Confucianism

Confucianism can be summarized as “virtue as the foundation, group as the importance and harmony as the quintessence (TANG).”This is a way of life for most Chinese people. In the book “Spring Moon” Bette Bao Lord starts the novel off in the prologue a story of creation that had been in the Chang family for years. The Chinese culture is influenced by Confucianism in today culture.

Confucianism is divided into many sections since it was created two thousand years ago. This means the connotation to Confucianism cultural is very rich. The main content of virtue contains benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, faithfulness, respectful, tolerance and kindness. Many of them involve interpersonal communication and reflect the value of “group as the importance”. The “group as the importance” is filial piety, fraternal love, loyalty, forgiveness, and honor (TANG). All of those are apparent in the book “Spring Moon” an example of this in Spring Moon interrupted her mother and didn’t say a greeting before doing so. So Spring Moon’s mother says “Everyone will think that I have neglected my duties. You will heap shame upon our ancestors!”(Lord).

Characteristics

The combination of Confucia...

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...tions, develop some new ones and take some from other countries that work well with what you have.

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Lord, Bette B. "Prologue." Preface. Spring Moon: A Novel of China. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. 1-24. Print.

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