Eastern civilization are always fundamentally different from the West.Today, many eastern countries is considered to be lagging behind, despite the fact that it laid the foundation for the development of the East follow many people.What today we understand by the term "Ancient East"?
Ancient East is a distinct group of civilizations occupying the territory east of the Mediterranean, from the banks of the Nile River to the open spaces of the western and south-western Asia (China, Egypt, India).The history and culture of the ancient East begins in ancient times, between the third and fourth millennia BCThat's when the last of the Persian empire collapsed, leaving the way younger, began to develop civilizations.
Modern society accustomed to the so-called second fiddle eastern countries in the world, few people know that up until the 15th century in terms of its organization and cultural development they are far ahead of the West.All great at that time, discoveries were made in the East: the invention of the mechanical clock, gunpowder, paper, not to mention the Chinese people's inventions as the compass and the seismograph.
The concept of culture in the countries of the East and the West differed significantly.In Europe, the term "culture" means "the cultivation, transformation."The Chinese equivalent character "wen" is translated as "decoration."That it is the sense of the eastern concept of "culture" - the grace, beauty and decoration.The traditional culture of the Ancient East has the greatest continuity of generations.Many traditions of modern Oriental countries are rooted in the distant past, during the absence of writing, when they were transferred to new generations orally.
Art of the Ancient East were closely associated with many parties taking place in the society of general cultural processes.The very role of activist art in the East has always been honorable.For example, at the dawn of Egyptian civilization artist profession largely equated with the activities of the priest, however, it is still not considered to be self-sufficient.Art culture of the Ancient East for thousands of years to absorb the traits of religious and philosophical ideas, social norms and national traditions of everyday life.Creative individuals (artists, sculptors and writers paintings) were called upon to implement in their creative activity traditional attitudes of society.Experimental attempts to express in his works something new, yet unknown to the public, carefully suppressed.This was due primarily to the traditionalism ancient eastern civilizations lifestyle.In ancient Egypt, there was a whole system of canons for artists, containing the rules describing what, what color should be used and what proportion of observed when writing portraits of people, the image of animals.Artists of Ancient Egypt acted as custodians of the traditions and sacred laws.They were entrusted to represent not only the earthly existence of man, but his stay in the other worlds, in which, it was thought he was leaving after the completion of his career.
Traditional culture of the Ancient East was transmitted mostly through myths, first orally, and with the advent of writing in the form of short texts, bred on clay tablets.Mythological heroes can be found not only in the subjects of literary works, but also in sculpture, architecture and painting.Art culture of the Ancient East for centuries maintained its magical destination.Ancient people, for example, believed that the reproduced copy of God just as he has a powerful force, and therefore it should be read not less than it.
Modern Eastern countries differ from their predecessors religious and cultural traditions, unchanged for thousands of years, one thing remains: the commitment to the traditional way of life, the transfer of experience from one generation to another.
