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The formation of a regional culture is always conditioned to its geographical environment, and its prosperity may well add cultural coloring to the environment: as the old saying goes, “the area is known for its celebrities.” As far as Hunan is concerned, this interrelation is touched on in Qian Jibo’s geographical determinism of humanities: “Hunan is obturated on all four sides…and Hunanese people are mostly obstinate, thus the ethos there tends not to be influenced by the culture of Central China. …Hunanese people tend to be independent, stanch and high-hearted, and this fact probably results from its natural environment.” Concisely summing up the features of Hunan’s geographical environment, folkways and the environment’s one-way action on the folkways, this materialist assumption fails to probe into the interrelation between geographical environment and other categories of a regional culture, leaving much room for interpretation to later cultural experts. Actually, in different historical periods or the different phases of a regional culture, the influence of natural environment upon a regional culture and the later’s independence are reflected variously, and have to be studied macroscopically and diachronically in historical materialist and dialectic terms.
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