It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are generated and preserved
Somebody may disagree with this idea by asking that whether all the cultural traditions are very old and have long histories and whether villages are mostly older than cities？Thus, traditions must primarily be generated in old villages where has ancient wooden houses rather than in modern cities where has large commercial business district and tall concrete towers. Admittedly, the history of cities is shorter than that of villages, but it is already long enough for cities to produce long history and ancient civilizations, for example the ancient city of Maya. Furthermore, the cities' more energetic growth compared with the villages' depression contributes to its future cultural prosperity.
There is no denying that some cultural traditions are generated and preserved better in non-urban areas than in cities. First example is the rural gastronomy. Many citizens complain that the traditional handmade mooncakes brought by grandmother from countryside is better than any cake could be found in urban bakeries. Another example is that during the Water-splashing Festival, many white collars fly hundreds of miles from Beijing to a small village Dai to experience the Water Carnival in there, as this activity is generated and well preserved in Dai. Apart from the rural gastronomy and Water-splashing festival, the traditional farming technologies are generated and developed most in rural areas. Everyday peasants practice farming activities inherited from ancestors. In contrast, IT workers who working on the Artificial Intelligence seem like have nothing to do with the traditional culture. All these examples provide evidences that some cultural traditions are preserved better in rural areas than in urban areas.
However, the discoveries listed above do not weaken this argument. Admittedly rural areas have some traditional activities, but in fact, cities have generated much more cultural traditions than rural areas. This is because that most activities in villages relate only to agriculture, thus the cultural traditions in there connect closely to eating and drinking. However, in cities people practice a various range of nonagricultural activities, such as singing, dancing, acting, drawing and etc. As a result, these non-agriculture activities produce many extraordinary results which made China one of the four ancient civilizations.
Chinese traditional arts consist of four important parts: music, chess, poem and painting. Beijing opera, the symbol of Chinese music, was born as an entertainment activity for royal families. Playing chess, considered as an intellectual training for nobles and aristocrats in ancient time. Poems of dynasty Tang, essays of dynasty Song were written mostly by the powerful political figures. In history, painting was used as a tool to help emperor to select wives. These four forms of traditional art were practiced mostly by the upper class in their times, and upper classes, who do not practice the agricultural activities, live in cities. Thus, these four representative activities of Chinese art are generated and developed in cities, rather than in villages, where the food demands came at first than the esthetic needs.
Through analyzing the evidences presented above, it seems like that villages and cities both play an important role in cultural tradition's creation and preservation, as one is responsible to the agricultural tradition and another is about the non-agricultural tradition. However, cities have an overwhelming advantage than rural areas in nowadays. China's urbanization process has already achieved 60 percent. This means that most Chinese people are living in cities. More than 700 million people are creating new culture, forming new social consensus and defining new festival costumes. For example, the square dancing invented by Chinese Auntie (a group of urban retired housewives) has set off a new mode of entertainment. With the increasement of numbers of single people in megacities, the day of 11.11 has become the Single’s day. Citizens in nowadays are creating new cultural symbols, which would be considered as the cultural traditions in future people's eye. All in all, cities have more potentiality than villages in creation of new cultures.
According to Maslow's human need theory, the physical need, for food and for water, is people’s basic need. Rural cultural tradition relates most to this part. Except this part, the other four needs are mostly practiced in cities. In cities, ancient people practice non-agriculture activities, and contemporary people are creating new ones.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, thus, well, apart from, for example, in contrast, in fact, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3909.0 2235.4752809 175% => OK
No of words: 699.0 442.535393258 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.59227467811 5.05705443957 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.14184870769 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97586042699 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 338.0 215.323595506 157% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483547925608 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 1238.4 704.065955056 176% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 36.0 20.2370786517 178% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 64.4003441061 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.583333333 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4166666667 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.21951772744 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 15.0 4.83258426966 310% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252639340685 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0599939792833 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0719040145286 0.0758088955206 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135239000812 0.150359130593 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0692838052908 0.0667264976115 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 48.8420337079 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.14 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 185.0 100.480337079 184% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.8971910112 160% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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