On the Time and Space of Culture

Culture is an extremely complicated definition, as well as a word used most frequently in history and life. Therefore, in contemporary China , it is necessary to further explore culture from new perspectives and depth. Originally, the important factors directly related to culture are respectively human beings, time and sqace. In a word, culture is the various material and spiritual achievement that human beings have created and accumulated in the process of reforming the objective and subjective world. This definition contains the important elements of culture: human beings (cultural subject), time (cultural process) and space (cultural area).