【正文】 1. Introduction . The Significance of Realizing the Mutual Cultural Balance between the West and China As we all know, China is an ancient civilization with a timehonored history dating back over 5,000 years. We Chinese people have made a major contribution to human progress by creating the splendid Chinese civilization with hard work and ingenuity. The Culture of China is one of the world39。s oldest and most plex cultures. The area in which the culture is dominant covers a large geographical region in eastern Asia with customs and traditions varying greatly between towns, cities and provinces. Literarily speaking, it began with record keeping and divination on Oracle Bones. The extensive collection of books that have been preserved since the Zhou Dynasty demonstrate just how advanced the intellectuals were at one time. Indeed, the era of the Zhou Dynasty is often looked to as the touchstone of Chinese cultural development. The Five Cardinal Points are the foundation for almost all major studies. Concepts covered within the Chinese classic texts present a wide range of subjects including poetry, astrology, astronomy, calendar, constellations and many others. Some of the most important early texts include I Ching and Shujing within the Four Books and Five Classics. Many Chinese concepts such as Yin and Yang, Qi, and Four Pillars of Destiny in relation to heaven and earth were all theorized in the dynastic periods. Notable, Taoists and scholars of all classes have made significant contributions to and from documenting history to authoring saintly concepts that seem hundred of years ahead of time. Tang dynasty is renowned for poetry, Song for prose, Yuan for song, and Ming for novel, which stands testimony to that effort. Specifically, The Tang Dynasty witnessed a poetic flowering, while The Song Dynasty was also a period of great scientific literature, and saw the 北京理工大學(xué)珠海學(xué)院 20xx 屆本科生畢業(yè)論文 2 creation of works such as Su Song39。s Xin Yixiang Fayao and Shen Kuo39。s Dream Pool Essays. There were also enormous works of historiography and large encyclopedias, such as Sima Guang39。s Zizhi Tongjian of 1084 AD or the Four Great Books of Song fully piled and edited by the 11th century., What is more, The Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature known as Dream of Red Mansions, The Romance of Three Kingdoms, The Tale of The Marshes as well as The Journey to The West were written during the Ming and Qing novels such as those mentioned above spawned countless fictional stories. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese culture would embark on a new era with Vernacular Chinese for the mon citizens. Hu Shih and Lu Xun would be pioneers in modern literature. Therefore, from all of these, it can be learned vividly the originality, greatness, and profound richness of the Chinese civilization in terms of literature. . However, thanks to the means of modern transportation and munication, the world is getting small. The whole world munity appears to be no more than a large globe village where the residents came together with different backgrounds and values. While experiencing the inevitable cultural exchanges and as well as cultural clashes, the villagers seek to live in harmony. As a matter of fact, thanks to China‘s economic development and the improvement of its citizen‘s life, the Westerners‘ vision of Chinese people has broadened. Their taste for art has improved. And they have developed more interests. They are not only concerned about Chinese traditional and modern culture and art but also eager to know about the trends of cultural development across the pla and to learn about different styles and schools of art. It will be impossible for us to scale new heights in art and impossible to present the world excellent works of our own creation with simple imitation which is by no means equivalent to novelty and originality. On the contrary, novelty and originality result from the bination of 北京理工大學(xué)珠海學(xué)院 20xx 屆本科生畢業(yè)論文 3 modern and traditional styles, the bination of these distinctive features of foreign cultures with those of our own nation, and the bination of artistry and education. As is known to all, in this modern world, the advanced culture has never been an isolated phenomenon, but the products of extensive exchanges with other cultures. Of course, the route and main current of any culture must bear its own distinctive national features. Cultural exchanges are by no means a process of losing one39。s own culture to a foreign culture, but one of enriching a nation39。s own culture. Through cultural exchange, different cultures can absorb and influence one another. Mutual influence is a very plicated phenomenon in the field of culture. Therefore, absorbing foreign culture is a process of taking a bite, chewing and digesting. We should adopt the principle of eliminating the false and retaining the true, discarding the draws and selecting the essential, exporting more and importing the bests, and resisting corruptive influences. Such a practice will result in the disappearance of the particular features and styles pertaining to particular cultures. On the contrary, different cultures can learn from each other39。s strengths to offset their weaknesses and plement one another. However, in the present world, cultural exchange, especially the one between Western and China, has experienced an unfavorable balance. An illustration of this point is that the past decades have witnessed continually surging enthusiasm among Chinese, like college students or even some schoolchildren, with the Western masterpieces (Chinese version), ranging from books, to films and TV programs, such as Wuthering Heights, and Pride and Prejudice, to name just a few. Most of these wele a great popularity among readers in China. But, in