The Traditional Chinese Culture and Lifestyle in Modern China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33423/jsis.v19i4.7453Keywords:
strategic innovation, Fu Xi’s culture, temple fair economy, delicious food, traditional courtyard, compulsory narrateAbstract
This paper will probe the traditional Chinese cultural values and their impacts on modern Chinese life by reviewing related literature and the residents’ contemporary living stories. The Chinese developmental inner drive is the great national spirit of unremitting self-improvement. This crucial spiritual fountainhead is Fu Xi, an admired Chinese national immemorial humanistic ancestor. In Chinese Tianshui City, the Fu Xi festival is a state-level affair, opening every year grandly. Chinese and foreign tourists all bent on their backs over those very charming series of cultural tourist scenes. They reveled in the features, including visiting the Fu Xi Temple, enjoying ancient music and dance, shopping at the temple fair, tasting local cuisine, and touring the dwellings and houses of the feudal dynastic style. Local modern service economies, such as the catering industry, also benefited from the fiesta. Ordinary residents Zhou Xiaolan and Zhou Xiaohui sisters were obligated to explain Fu Xi’s story to tourists and children and inherited the excellent traditional national culture. Contemporary Chinese people strive for self-improvement, are inclusive and open, and work together to build a beautiful and harmonious country acceleratingly.
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