Reason: It is primarily incities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated.
The statement limitedly links nationalcultural traditions to cities. Surely, cities plays significant role ingenerating and persevering cultural tradition, considering Renaissance in Italyand those masterpiece traditional architecture in those modern cities. However,I think that countryside and rural cities has unique soil and to cultivate andmaintain cultural traditions.
Glancing around the world, at Louvre inParis, at the Forbidden city in Beijing, at Taj Mahal in India, it is easy tosee that cities have numerous of material, population and finance to generateand maintain the cultural tradition. Those famous traditional architectures aremore than built in one day, but a great labor for tens of year. In thisprogress, only cities and those in powers can provide tremendous supplies to it.
Beside those in power, city business is acrucial catalyst for cultural tradition generation and preservation. Citiesbusiness boom provides a genial environment for cultural generation,considering the Renaissance. With the prosperity in Italy and thousand ofdonation to development of art, those artists in Italy, devote them totraditional culture of Greece and create new masterpiece to the world. Businesssolves those setbacks of artists and indirectly flourishes cultural traditions.On the other hand, in modern society, cultural traditions, such as traditionalfestivals and traditional manual works, have become important commercialopportunities for cities businessman. We can observe those Christmas businessweeks with Father Christmas toys and Christ trees sold all around the streets,we can also glimpse it at the New Year Festival in China with firework, muralpainting printed and sold heatedly. Cities business profits motivationcoincides with cultural traditions and maintains them.
However, cultural traditions arenevertheless a special heritage of cities. In fact, generation of culture,relates with specific process when people working, playing and communicating. Italso originates from religions, such as pray for the blessing of the god. Throughthis, we can observe that cultural traditions can both originate and preservein cities and countryside, after all, countryside has their own condition to nurturetradition. One of the most compelling examples is the cowboy tradition stemfrom the working condition of those western cowboys. In the remote grassland withsparse persons, cowboys, sole in mind and free in body, they are not restrictedby those conventions and social cast, people in different stages, young andold, man and woman, they work together, talking and playing, gradually become adistinctive culture in America with free, dependence and just. Cultural traditionscome from a social practice not only in the cities but also in those ruralplaces.
Moreover, the chance is that cities aremore likely to be impacted by the outside culture and lose its traditions. Citiespeople, are much like to contact the outer world, and chase those fashions of developedcountries. Taking the metropolitan Beijing as an example, Qixi, a festivalresembling to western Valentine ’s Day, was the most important days for womanand for couple in the ancient time to put lanterns in hope for a meticulousmarriage and watch the sky waiting to see the Niulang and Zhiniu, charactersfrom the myth, reunioning and pouring out this miss for each other. However, inmodern Beijing, Qixi has be suppliant by the Valentine’s Day because influencedby the western, the youngsters in cities believe that chocolates, flowers,presents and money are more fashionable to show love than those traditions lanterns.And as a result, our traditional love day is replaced by the west. Cities aremore likely to be influenced by the power of outer world as people are morelikely to mimic those fashions.
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