Chinese culture is one of the oldest civilization in the world, and the longest civilization continuously in the world too. At present, the history of the historical relic evidence and can be traced back to 7000-10000 years. The era of Yan-Huang more than 4000 years ago is the initial period of China civilization, through development of periods such as Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty,etc. being ripe gradually. there are three direct sources of Chinese civilization, i.e. the Yellow River civilization, civilization of the Changjiang River and northern grassland civilization.This three regional civilization exchange,merge and formed Chinese civilization.
China is vast in territory, regional culture undergoes several thousand years of development, have the characteristic with distinctness local, and have generality of Chinese culture.Except the Han nationality that the main national, minorities ethnic such as Tibetan, Manchu, the Mongols, Qiang,etc. have local culture with one’s own characteristic too.
