The story of the White Crane Ridge is a great representation
of how tradition can influence and mold culture. Culture is often seen as
always changing and growing, which is absolutely true, but culture, just like
many other things in life, needs a base- a foundation- to keep it growing. This
idea of recording these pictures on the White Crane Ridge is one of the
foundations for Chinese culture. Peter Hessler was explaining how multiple different
Dynasties travelled through China, but still through all that change of new emperors,
new societies and rule, the tradition of recording these carps remained. So, culture
does change, but a bit of it always stays the same.
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