文化就是人類為求生存，適應自然環境所發展出來的一套有關資源開發與分配的 維生行為。人的生活離不開水，隨著人類能有效地控制水資源，文化便隨之發展。由採集、 狩獵進化到畜牧、農業，以至於都市化、工業化階段，正代表人類適應環境能力和生產力的 提高。 中華文化就是一個以漢族為中心的農耕文化。中國人的生活和他所賴以維生的土地緊密結合 。因此，文化的發展就反映了農業民族和游牧民族爭奪生存空間的過程。人民求生存的意志 ，在適應外族文化所帶來的環境變遷時，不僅促成了中國南方大地的開發，也成為民族生生 不絕，文化持續發展不衰的主因。

　　　　　Culture is a series of livelihood behaviours concerning resources exploration and distribution, developed from the instinct that human beings are bound to adapt to geographic environment only for survival. Man's life cannot separate from water. When mankind is able to control over water resources, effectively, culture develops accordingly. From food gathering, hunting, herding, agriculture, and down to urbanization, industrialization, these stages represent the promotion of man's adaptation ability to environment and productivity. Chinese culture is a farming culture with Han nationality as the centre. Lives of Chinese people is closely connected with the land which livelihood Velies. Therefore, the cultural development veflects the process of struggles for living space between agricultrual people and nomadic people. In the adaptation to the environmental transitions which are brought in by nomadic people, man's willpower to survive is the main reason that facilitates the exploration of Southern China, but also makes the Chinese nation prosperous, and Chinese culture succeed, develop and never decline.