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Chinese Civilization - On the Sinicization

 

            Chinese civilization has a reputation not only for strengths of economics and military but also for a seductive culture. Historically, Chinese culture has a thousand-year depth of development. Qin Shi Huang conquered all Warring States and united China. Since then, China owned a variety of cultures from those states. Those cultures were integrated into one unique culture after four hundred years under the splendid reign of Han dynasty. Then, these native Chinese people continued to enrich all aspects of their culture from ideology to art in next feudal dynasties. Due to this depth of development, Chinese culture became rich and seductive. The seduction of Chinese culture has an extraordinary strength in spreading to other races beyond China's border. With enough contact, those races would adopt Chinese trappings. Yet, they were always aware of conserving unique points of the heritages and cultures left by their ancestors, and even enrich Chinese culture.
             In the consideration of foreigners conquering China, the seduction of Chinese culture performed itself and conquered its China's conquerors. The Mongols sought to use many achievements of the native Chinese culture to in Yuan dynasty, although they had experienced a long history of governing their country formerly. They reinstalled Confucian governmental practices and examinations with the hope of maintaining order as in the Han society. The Mongols believed values from these Chinese achievements would order their society. Furthermore, the Mongols organized their system of bureaucracy mainly based on the Han model [1]. For instance, they used the Six Ministries, provincial administrative structure, and even royal rituals. Although the Mongols were influenced by Chinese cultures, they still conserved many their cultural characteristics. They still maintained fur clothing, language, hunting sport, ceremony of scattering mare's milk or koumiss, and art.


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