Реферат: Chinese Culture Essay Research Paper Throughout China

a feeling of not the individual but the whole as a group.

People grew up knowing their part in the world and strive to

do that well. They learn to acknowledge their emperor as the

"Son of Heaven" (4). Everything someone does, is done for

their county, and their duty in life. Chinese literature shows

that when everything is done for tradition and the individual is

not priority, many people get forced into a hard and unfair

lifestyle. This is shown in the movie "Raise the Red Lantern"

when the tradition made the lives of four wives strict and

dependent on the master and whom he chose each night.

Their lives were so strict on tradition that one of the wives

lost her life because that is what tradition said should happen

if she broke a rule (1). In other cases nothing could be

learned or changed because of the restriction of tradition.

Such was in the movie "The Forbidden City." In this movie it

also showed how the customs of the concubines and unics

were very constricting to their lives (3). In the book "Six

Records of a Floating Life" tradition creates the

impracticality of a test for magistrates that is purely literary

but decides the head of a certain area of land (2). In China

tradition and customs has done a lot but has hindered the life

of many of its people. Finally after thousands of years, the

withdrawn China was being seen by the western world.

Soon after, European explorers slowly started seeping in.

China tried to keep foreigners out finally with force but the

old traditional weapons of the Chinese were no match for

the technologically advanced Europeans. So after Europe

defeated Chinese forces and got their foot in the door to

China they slow started to enter. After the Chinese saw the