Since 2008 when the Wenchuan earthquake occurred, media from different countries and regions across the world reported the earthquake so that a less well-known ethnic group of China, the Qiang ethnic minority, has att...Since 2008 when the Wenchuan earthquake occurred, media from different countries and regions across the world reported the earthquake so that a less well-known ethnic group of China, the Qiang ethnic minority, has attracted attention around the world. The Qiang ethnic minority could be dated back to the Shang Dynasty （ca. 1600-1046BC）. The long-standing Qiang culture is an important part of those brilliant Chinese cultures. The Qiang’s traditional dress and adornment is an integral part of the Qiang culture, appreciating unique ethnic characteristics and cultural meanings. Being against the backdrop of promoting cultural diversity nowadays, this paper makes a brief introduction to the Qiang’s traditional dress and adornment and gives an explanation of their rich unique cultural meanings so as to present the Qiang’s traditional dress and adornment to the world, facilitate their going out to the world and communication with other cultures in the world, and enrich the world’s ethnic cultures.展开更多
The confidence of a nation and its people in their culture represents their awareness of their culture. There are three elements underpinning China's confidence in its culture. First, China boasts a solid foundati...The confidence of a nation and its people in their culture represents their awareness of their culture. There are three elements underpinning China's confidence in its culture. First, China boasts a solid foundation for its fine traditional culture. This is an advanced culture with a long history and is profound, far-reaching, full of vitality and highly influential. It is an integration of diversities sharing the same root, which gives the culture its energy. On the one hand, it is continuingly absorbing other cultures; on the other hand, it always binds the nation together with the same spirit. In addition, traditional Chinese culture passionately puts people first, reflects the common grounds of human cultures, represents the common aspirations of human cultures, and as a result, its advanced nature and social values are recognized worldwide. Second, adherence to Marxism is a source of effective guidance for China's cultural development. Marxism is a crystallization of advanced human culture. It reveals culture's nature, characteristics, structure, functions and development patterns and provides the well-conceived methodology guiding cultural development. In terms of worldviews, methodologies and values, it offers a reasonable premise upon which people can understand, handle and carry out cultural development. In addition, it keeps examining and criticizing these premises and restructuring them. This makes cultural development, continuous, standard, pioneering and creative. Third, people's creativity is a source of strength for their confidence in their culture. The people are creators of culture and their practice, and creation boost cultural development. The Chinese nation is creative and is highly capable of cultural creation. The great practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics is an inexhaustible source of the people's cultural creation. To maintain their confidence in Chinese culture, the Chinese people must emancipate their minds, develop new concepts, analyze new developments, review their fresh experiences, and keep creating and developing socialist new culture.展开更多
文摘Since 2008 when the Wenchuan earthquake occurred, media from different countries and regions across the world reported the earthquake so that a less well-known ethnic group of China, the Qiang ethnic minority, has attracted attention around the world. The Qiang ethnic minority could be dated back to the Shang Dynasty （ca. 1600-1046BC）. The long-standing Qiang culture is an important part of those brilliant Chinese cultures. The Qiang’s traditional dress and adornment is an integral part of the Qiang culture, appreciating unique ethnic characteristics and cultural meanings. Being against the backdrop of promoting cultural diversity nowadays, this paper makes a brief introduction to the Qiang’s traditional dress and adornment and gives an explanation of their rich unique cultural meanings so as to present the Qiang’s traditional dress and adornment to the world, facilitate their going out to the world and communication with other cultures in the world, and enrich the world’s ethnic cultures.
文摘The confidence of a nation and its people in their culture represents their awareness of their culture. There are three elements underpinning China's confidence in its culture. First, China boasts a solid foundation for its fine traditional culture. This is an advanced culture with a long history and is profound, far-reaching, full of vitality and highly influential. It is an integration of diversities sharing the same root, which gives the culture its energy. On the one hand, it is continuingly absorbing other cultures; on the other hand, it always binds the nation together with the same spirit. In addition, traditional Chinese culture passionately puts people first, reflects the common grounds of human cultures, represents the common aspirations of human cultures, and as a result, its advanced nature and social values are recognized worldwide. Second, adherence to Marxism is a source of effective guidance for China's cultural development. Marxism is a crystallization of advanced human culture. It reveals culture's nature, characteristics, structure, functions and development patterns and provides the well-conceived methodology guiding cultural development. In terms of worldviews, methodologies and values, it offers a reasonable premise upon which people can understand, handle and carry out cultural development. In addition, it keeps examining and criticizing these premises and restructuring them. This makes cultural development, continuous, standard, pioneering and creative. Third, people's creativity is a source of strength for their confidence in their culture. The people are creators of culture and their practice, and creation boost cultural development. The Chinese nation is creative and is highly capable of cultural creation. The great practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics is an inexhaustible source of the people's cultural creation. To maintain their confidence in Chinese culture, the Chinese people must emancipate their minds, develop new concepts, analyze new developments, review their fresh experiences, and keep creating and developing socialist new culture.
