We have a long coastline

Geographical environment decision Chinese culture is a kind of farming culture. We have a long coastline, but we lack like Mediterranean, Persian gulf such inland sea, we face are the Pacific, this to he is not going to be using the ancients speaking, we only have one inland sea - bohai bay, they are too small.

Ocean for the Chinese nation speaking, although very near, actual is unknown, mainly is the fish, ShaiYan, is wide, and difficult to understand the place, is difficult to transport, navigation, the ocean is no sufficient play up. Zhongyuan parts of the Yangtze river and Yellow River basin is agricultural civilization. Another is a nomadic civilization, nomadic civilization is grassland civilization. Grassland farming civilization civilization and the difference lies in the prairie is difficult to kind of rice, kind of rice and does not grow rice limit is 400 mm rainfall, higher than 400 mm rainfall can kind of rice, that's agricultural civilization. Less than 400 mm rainfall only meat. The Great Wall is very strange, we just and 400 mm rainfall line overlap, visible our Great Wall is farming civilization prevent nomadic culture infringe boundaries. Although the nomadic civilization later became our own culture part, but the main body or agricultural civilization.

Farming civilization determines our two basic idea, the first thought don't want to ShouTu at the foot of the expedition to crush, distant generates go to look, I can play in the home is impossible, this thinking, as a kind of cultural root, even if not farmers, scholar of strongly influenced by this culture.