Chinese heritage
Roots from China
Chinese heritage refers to the cultural, historical, and ancestral traditions originating from China—its language, customs, arts, philosophy, and family lineage.
Someone of Chinese heritage has Chinese ancestry or cultural background: She wanted her children to connect with their Chinese heritage.
The phrase often appears in discussions of identity and preservation of traditions across generations.
- dragon danceCeremonial Chinese procession performance
- lion danceCeremonial feline mimicry
- dragon boatCeremonial paddled racing vessel
- ConfuciusAncient Chinese ethical teacher
- Chinese operaTraditional staged musical drama
filial piety · jade carving · Lunar New Year · mooncakes · fortune cookie · Terracotta Army · yin-yang · ancestor worship · family reunion · I Ching · calligraphy · paper cutting · Mandarin Chinese · Silk Road · qipao · tea ceremony · homeland · Mid-Autumn Festival
- California DeltaSacramento River, levees, sloughs, channels, islands
- overseas Chineseoverseas Chinese, ethnic Chinese, Chinese community, Chinatown, Chinatowns
- SingaporeCBD, PAP, National Day, hawker, multiracialism
- Bendigogoldfields, gold mining, mining town, tramways
Chinese heritageWestern heritage
European civilization's cultural legacy
European heritage · African heritage · Native American heritage · Japanese heritage · Indian heritage
Chinese heritagecultural erasure
Destroying group identity markers
deracination · cultural assimilation · rootlessness · cultural amnesia · cosmopolitanism