What is the quintessence of China? Do you think Hanfu is the quintessence of China culture?

China has a history of 5,000 years of civilization development, and China has four national quintessences: China Wushu, Chinese Peking Opera, China Calligraphy and China Medicine.

Someone will definitely ask, why can these four be called the four quintessence of China? Why not Hanfu? Let's explain them one by one.

First of all, national quintessence refers to the essence of a country's unique culture and has a long history of development.

Let's talk about Peking Opera, also called Pihuang, which is composed of various musical materials with different tones. A story is interpreted through singing, martial arts, fighting and dressing up.

Beijing opera has a history of more than 200 years, from the initial small-scale folk troupe to the gradual pursuit of entertainment, and finally became a forgotten intangible cultural heritage. Beijing opera has various styles, rich contents, diverse styles and colorful costumes.

Although people simply dress up to interpret other stories, it is a performance on a stage where life is short, changeable, windy, rainy and snowy.

China Wushu is also the unique essence of China. From ancient Jianghu legends to Shaolin Temple being known and fascinated by foreigners, our martial arts are also divided into many schools, such as Wudang Taiji, Emei Jianfa, Tangmen hidden weapons and so on.

Martial arts are praised magically, and many legends have not been verified by history, but it cannot be said that they do not exist. Maybe people who know this martial art have been lost.

China's calligraphy is divided into two parts: writing calligraphy and painting essence. Calligraphy has been highly valued since ancient times. The ancients began to cultivate writing at an early age. Calligraphy plays an important role in whether a person has knowledge and whether his family has culture.

The ancient landscape painting techniques in China are even more fascinating to foreigners, and they even have to pay high prices.

China medicine refers to the precious traditional medicine of China that we inherited. Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of development. After tasting a hundred herbs from Shennong, Li Shizhen wrote Compendium of Materia Medica. In history, Chinese medicine is very extensive and profound, and it takes more than ten years to study.

In ancient times, there were other fields that could also be called national quintessence, such as Sichuan face-changing technique, magical production of ancient umbrellas, and ancient bridge-building methods.

However, Hanfu can't be regarded as a national quintessence, it can only be a representative object in our cultural field, and each dynasty will have its own costume culture.

Therefore, Hanfu can't be regarded as the quintessence of costume culture in past dynasties, but only as a part of our precious costume culture.