Editing Chinese culture (section)

== Major subcultures ==
Chinese culture consists of many subcultures. In China, the cultural difference between adjacent provinces (and, in some cases, adjacent counties within the same province) can often be as big as than that between adjacent European nations.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.livescience.com/28823-chinese-culture.html |title=Chinese Culture: Customs & Traditions of China |website=[[Live Science]] |access-date=9 September 2017 |archive-date=9 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909053045/https://www.livescience.com/28823-chinese-culture.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Thus, the concept of ''[[Han Chinese subgroups]]'' (漢族民系/汉族民系, literally "Han ethnic lineage") was born, used for classifying these subgroups within the greater Han ethnicity. These subgroups are, as a general rule, classified based on linguistic differences.

Using this linguistic classification, some of the well-known subcultures within China include:

=== North ===
* [[Hui people#Culture|Hui culture]]
* [[Beijing#Culture|Culture of Beijing]] (京)
* [[Shandong dialect|Culture of Shandong]] (魯/鲁)
* [[Gansu#Culture|Culture of Gansu]]
* [[Northeast China#Culture|Dongbei culture]] (東北/东北)
* [[Shaanxi]] culture 
* [[Music of Shanxi|Jin culture]] (晉/晋)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20241127041121/https://kknews.cc/history/9zvzpq.html 晉語的使用範圍與歷史起源]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://kknews.cc/culture/qyozppo.html |title=晉語是中國北方的唯一一個非官話方言，但是否歸屬官話 |access-date=7 September 2017 |archive-date=22 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322075215/https://kknews.cc/culture/qyozppo.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://kknews.cc/culture/aenxvv.html 山西方言與山西文化]{{Dead link|date=July 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Zhongyuan culture]] (豫)

=== South ===
* [[Haipai culture]] (海)
* [[Hakka culture]] (客)
* [[Hokkien culture]] (閩)
* [[Culture of Hong Kong|Hong Kong culture]] (港)
* [[Hubei#Culture|Hubei culture]] (楚)
* [[Huizhou, Anhui#culture|Huizhou culture]] (徽)
* [[Culture of Hunan|Hunanese culture]] (湘)
* [[Culture of Jiangxi|Jiangxi culture]] (贛)
* [[Jiangnan]] culture 
* [[Lingnan culture]] (粵/粤)
* [[Culture of Macau|Macanese culture]]
* [[Sichuanese culture]] (蜀)
* [[Culture of Taiwan|Taiwanese culture]] (台)
* [[Teochew culture]] (潮)
* [[Wenzhou#Culture and demographics|Wenzhou culture]] (欧)
* [[Wuyue culture]] (吳/吴)