While “hua” is characterized as variation, formation, and creation, the original meaning of “wen” pertained to the weaving of colors, adornment, and objects.
There are more than 160 academic definitions of culture used throughout the world, according to Kroeber and Kluckhohn, two American cultural anthropologists who wrote “the critical research about the conception and definition of culture.” The Latin term that gave rise to the English word “culture” originally meant “the cultivation, fostering, education, development, and esteem in western society.” Edward Taylor, a British anthropologist, defined culture as a collection of skills and behaviors that people possess, including knowledge, belief, art, morality, and law, among others, in his 1871 book “Primitive Culture.” The term “culture,” or “wehua” in Chinese, has been used in China for a very long period. There are many diverse opinions when it comes to defining culture.
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