Remember that there are only four that can be called the essence of the nation:
Beijing opera
calligraphy
martial
Chinese medicine
Peking Opera was formed in the Qing Dynasty, the four major emblem classes in the Qianlong period entered Beijing, and a new type of drama was slowly formed on the basis of Hui opera - Pi Huang, and Peking Opera was officially established during the Daoguang years;
Calligraphy is a unique art in China, calligraphy began to become an art at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the earliest Zhong Xuan, the calligraphy of everyone, his son Zhong Hui destroyed the Shu kingdom in 263 AD;
Although martial arts are not unique to China, they are all within the Chinese cultural circle and are part of the Chinese cultural circle;
Chinese medicine is unique to China, remember four books:
The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, written during the Warring States period, laid the theoretical foundation for Chinese medicine.
Written in the Eastern Han Dynasty Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases, it laid the foundation for the therapeutics of Traditional Chinese medicine.
Written in the Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao's "Qianjin Fang", it laid the pharmacological foundation of Chinese medicine.
Written in the Ming Dynasty by Li Shizhen, the Compendium of Materia Medica is a collection of traditional Chinese medicine.
Except for these four, none of them are considered national essences.
