Journal of Asian Restudy 2021 Fall

learnings, however, with no deficiency of the moral preaching, based
on a slavery system of economy in their way of employing general
and farming labors, except that Greek people emphasized on a
democratic political approach and equality of citizenship, while China
valued the propriety and a hierarchical social system, but after China
established its first feudal Empire in Qin dynasty, China began to
march on a more steady journey of building a splendid culture in east
Asia, nonetheless, not without turns and twists, pains and blood.
Ancient Chinese culture had been the central culture of ancient
eastern Asian countries. It is true that it has influence from ancient
India, with the most notable one, the religion Buddhism, and spread it
to Asian other countries. And it had been the subject of ancient
Mongolian people, however, they influenced the latter. That influence
had reached to south eastern Asian countries, besides to the close
neighboring nations. Its role was very much like that of Greek culture
to European countries. Even though, during centuries of territory
expansion and global colonization of western European countries
before the early of last century, some of the Asian countries, or
territories had been colonized by western countries and consequently
their people had been carried away by western cultures, those
countries still kept some legacy of their traditional culture. That had
something to do with their shared ancestry of culture weaved in
languages, customs, religions, etc al. And that legacy is the spirit of
Asian culture. That’s why, the very first ancient Chinese people
started from a much smaller piece of soil by the Yellow River and
slowly expanded to rest of the vast territory, going through numerous
dynasties, with victories of conquer upon the neighboring tribes and
not without defeats by the physically stronger and less civilized tribes
who had more powerful military, however, the culture never died
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