The important points that define Chinese culture are:

The Yian Di and Huang Di, the origin of Chinese people;

The spring and autumn period and the warring states period;

The formation of Confucianism and other Chinese philosophical ideas;

The Qin dinasty, China first became a united country with a united language (chinese characters);

The west Han dinasty, Confucianism became the official educational idea;

The east Han dinasty, buddhism came and spread in China;

The Tang dinasty, chinese culture comes at its prime and China exported its culture overseas;

The Song dinasty-Neo, a new school of Confucian philosophy prevailed;

Qing dinasty, a minor nationality took the reign;

The Republic of China, western ideas, like democracy and science, spread in China;