The Emperor Yan Culture and the Chinese National Spirit

The Emperor Yan culture is the source of Chinese civilization. Having been refined and remoulded by many generations in the history of the Chinese nation's development, it has become the origin and foundation of the Chinese national spirit. The Emperor Yan's practice of making farming tools, his indomitable will of overcoming hardships and his thought of serving the people have respectively given birth to the Chinese national spirit of being pioneering and innovative in doing everything, making unremitting efforts to become stronger and devoting oneself for the people. Moreover, regarding themselves as the descendants of the Emperor Yan, the Chinese people were born with a strong spirit of patriotism.