The sum total of material and spiritual wealth created by man on the basis of productive labor. In the West, the word culture originated from the Latin word cultura, which originally meant farming, cultivating plants, and refers to the reshaping of the natural world by man. Since the Renaissance, the meaning of the word gradually expanded to include both material contents of human activity and non-material factors such as literature, music, painting and art. In China, the word wen has the meanings of writing, literary talent, rules and system, and hua means “transformation through teaching”…
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