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The Label of Chinese Culture Is Harmonious Culture ISSN 1712-8358[Print] Cross-Cultural Communication ISSN 1923-6700[Online] Vol. 15, No. 2, 2019, pp. 25-28 www.cscanada.net DOI:10.3968/11032 www.cscanada.org The Label of Chinese Culture Is Harmonious Culture LI Junjie[a],* [a]Associate Professor in Culture & Moral, Teaching and research office has always contained the “harmony” gene, which has of ideological and moral cultivation and legal basis, Zhoukou Normal exerted a profound impact on China’s life and exchanges. University, China. *Corresponding author. China’s diplomacy has always emphasized “seeking common ground while reserving differences” and Received 18 February 2019; accepted 2 May 2019 “peaceful coexistence”. Family management emphasizes Published online 26 June 2019 that” Everything goes well with a harmony family” and “family harmony”. Doing business emphasizes “harmony Abstrast generates wealth”; Neighbors emphasize that “close Through the harmonious culture contained in Chinese neighbors are better than distant relatives” and so on. It genealogy, such as “Tanghao”, “Zihang”, “Couplets”, can be seen that the culture of harmony has a profound “Family rules”, etc., this paper illustrates that Chinese impact on China. culture always contains the gene of harmonious culture. Chinese genealogy (Recorded in the books with At present, Even though the core values pursued by a common ancestry characters lineage and deeds), is China still regard harmony as a kind of value pursuit at an important part of Chinese traditional culture, to the the national level. Even though China will be strong in ordinary production and life in ancient times of China, the future, it still pursues “harmony”, the harmony of the and even a person born, age, illness and death has a world and the building of a community of Shared. deep relationship, Chinese genealogy of “Tanghao”, Key words: Harmonious culture; Family rules; “Zihang”, “Couplets”, “Family rules” contains rich Community of Shared harmonious culture. Below, through the”Tanghao”, “Zihang”, “Couplets”, “Family rules” and other aspects Li, J. J. (2019). The Label of Chinese Culture Is Harmonious of some content to explain the harmonious culture of Culture. Cross-Cultural Communication, 15(2), 25-28. Available China, in order to better understand the impact of China’s from: http//www.cscanada.net/index.php/ccc/article/view/11032 harmonious culture on China. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/11032 1. CHINESE GENEALOGY CONTAINS INTRODUCATION HARMONIOUS CULTURE Dragon totem, is the label of China; The label of Chinese culture is harmony. Chinese harmonious culture has a 1.1”Tanghao” Contains the Harmonious Cultural long history. “HE” （Chinese pronunciation）is very Gene. common in oracle bone inscriptions of Shang dynasty “Tanghao” original meaning is the name of hall. In in China. Later, It was extended to mean “harmony”. ancient China, people with the same surname lived Confucius, the great Chinese educator, once said, together in a certain place or several similar places, so “Gentlemen seek harmony but not uniformity.” Here also the house became the common logo of a certain clan, points out that the premise of “harmony” must admit the and each logo has its specific cultural connotation, with differences between each other, different components the label of “harmony”. “ The origin of “Tanghao” has can live in harmony, is “harmony but different”. Under three kinds .Firstly, Some families take ancestral place the influence of Confucianism thought, Chinese culture names as “Tanghao”: for example, Li surname’s “Longxi 25 Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture The Label of Chinese Culture Is Harmonious Culture Tanghao” (It is surname Li originated in the west of to the combination and arrangement of lines and forms Gansu province,China) ;Surname Wang’s “Taiyuan of poems, some of them have become poems with the Tanghao “ (Taiyuan, provincial capital of Shanxi,China), characteristics of neat format, equal number of words, flat Surname zhang’s “Qinghe Tanghao “( Qinghe county, and oblique rhymes and line arrangement. For example: Hebei province,China); Secondly, emperor to give word Liuyang, Hunan Province,China, “HengXi Surname xiao to the family as “Tanghao”: such as the Qing dynasty third Editing a branch of clan” self-edited poetry: “Guo famous minister Liu Yong “Qing love hall”, etc.; Thirdly, Zheng Tian Tin Shun, Guan Qing Min Zi An.Chuan Jia Some family take the legendary allusion as “Tanghao”: Duan Xiao ou ,ying shang ren kuan ,li zhi cong xian jin for example, Surname Yang’s “four know Tanghao” ,shu xiang qi hou xian ,rong hua guang zu de,xian da zuo (“Four know”tells us a story: In the 108 A.D. Yang Zhen chao duan . “ (This means is a well-governed nation the was appointed as a governor of the province, he visited heart of heaven is conent, Under uncorrupt officials the his student Wang Mi, an officer of the county .At night people remain at peace .) The compilation of “Zihang” , Wang went quietly to give a gift to Yang Zhen, Yang falls into three categories: Firstly, some “Zihang” is Zhen refused to accept. but wang said: “no one knows”, given by the emperor. Among the numerous surnames but Yang Zhen said：”Heaven knows, Earth knows, you in China, only surname Kong, surname Meng, surname know, I know, why do you say no one knows.” This is Yan and surname Zeng use the same “Zihang”, and they the origin of “Four know Tanghao”, These halls contain were given by the emperor, which is very rare in Chinese not only rich regional and consanguinity marks, but also history. Secondly ,Other “Zihang” are taken from the rich harmonious culture. Such as surname Wu’s “San best famous ancient sentences; For example, ManZu Rang Tanghao”. “San Rang Tanghao” comes from a Ethnic Minorities surname lv’s “Zihang” is “benevolence, heartwarming and harmonious story. The king of zhou righteousness, Manner, wisdom, moderation, courtesy, had three sons: Taibo, Zhongyong and Jili. The king of courtesy and frugality”. Benevolence, righteousness, zhou saw the wisdom of Jili, and the son had the sign of a Manner, wisdom and honesty used to be called “Wuchang” holy king. After knowing the meaning of the others sons: in China, which is the minimum moral standard of being Taibo and Zhongyong fled to Wuxi (Wuxi city, Jiangsu a human being. This is the ethical principle, which is used province,China). Confucius praised him, saying, “he is to deal with the relationship between people existing as a man of supreme virtue. Later generations of surname individual harmony and build a society. The important Wu people took Confucius’s “San Rang” as the Tanghao content of the traditional virtues is to be kind to others. He name of the ancestral hall to commemorate. Therefore, who is gentle in appearance, kind in heart, respectful in Taibo and Zhongyong took the kingdom as their family restraint, diligent and thrifty, humble. Thirdly, Some were name, which was the ancestor of surname Wu. King edited by rural intellectuals themselves. That’s a lot. Such wen of zhou took the state as his family name. Their as Yiwu city ,zhejiang province ,China,surname Jiang descendants continue to follow the practice of ancestors, ’s “Zihang” is “Yuan Heng Mao Zhen（This sentence is more commendable. The harmonious cultural gene of comes from the ancient Chinese book of changes, “San Rang Tanghao” has always been passed on among which means benevolence, propriety, righteousness and the surname of surname Wu, which is also a part of the righteousness）、Jing Shun He Heng(This sentence’s Chinese traditional harmonious cultural gene and has means is that he who loves others always loves them; he great influence on later generations. who respects others always respects them.)”,etc. .In short, whether it is the emperor’s gift of words, a quote from 1.2 “Zihang” Contains the Harmonious Cultural the supreme good, or some family editing themselves, it Gene generally implies a desire for the continued development, In ancient China, Chinese ancients named them according prosperity, and harmony of the nation. In other words, to Brotherhood order of Bo（First son）, Zhong（Second “Zihang” is also branded with the label of “harmonious” son）, Shu(Third son) and Ji(Fourth son), there is no culture. evidence to date for the poems of “Zihang”.”Zihang”, also known as “Zhaomu”(Order according to the elders 1.3 The Couplet and youngers in temple), generation order, etc. It is Also known as a couplet, it is a couplet or couplet hung generally selected by the families themselves a number on a column. Couplets on Spring Festival are called spring of elegant, peaceful words, composed of similar verse couplets. Couplet does not stipulate the number of words, couplet sentence pattern, contained in the genealogy, but the requirement of the harmony of horizontal and clansmen named, according to their times, take one of the vertical lines, duality neat, is a form of poetry evolution. characters as the first character of the name, in order to From this definition, we can see that the couplet itself separate the elders and youngers in the clan. Its function is is a form of harmony. In the genealogy compiled by the so. “Zihang” can achieve the purpose of preventing cousin Chinese people, the ancestral hall is an important part marriage and offering sacrifices to the elders and children of the genealogy, and the ancestral hall usually contains in order, which contains harmonious cultural factors. Due couplets. Xueqin Cao (Famous writer of Qing dynasty) Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture 26 LI Junjie (2019). Cross-Cultural Communication, 15(2), 25-28 wrote the universal couplet of cao’s ancestral hall: “A Don’t hide bandits or you’ll get involved. gentleman deals with affairs with tolerance. Confucianist’s Complete the taxes and grain that should be given to words are both peaceful and rightful.
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