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Rituals and ceremonies can be carried out in different levels: group level and society level, correspondingly with the group level and society level of culture. In the following discussion, we will primarily focus on the ceremonies and culture both at society level. As part of culture, rituals and ceremonies can infuse fresh air to the busy and aimless lives of people, it can help define culture, at the same time, help people make sense of who they are.

Rituals and ceremonies are distillation of culture that can distinguish culture from each other and some of ceremonies and rituals gradually become symbol of culture. In the history of a nation, countless traditions have been formed, whereas many of them haven been lost in the long river of history because of lacking of ceremonies. The retained traditions with ceremonies become distillation of current culture and even symbols of culture. The competition of dragon boat in the Dragon Boat day of China is one of the symbolic ceremonies. Globalization has made the boundary between nations vague, cultures can spread to anywhere of the world, the clear definition of culture is required to confirm the stability of itself and avoid assimilation by others cultures. In this circumstance, the unique ceremonies and rituals, which can symbolize a certain culture, will play significant role in defining culture.

Rituals and ceremonies can help us to promote culture and make our culture easier to be comprehended by other nations. Culture is so abstract and synthetical a concept including many factors that it's not easy to be comprehended, especially by foreigners. However the interesting ceremonies of culture will help people to appreciate our culture in an intuitive way, which will be helpful to accelerate the promotion of our cultural to the whole world.

Culture reflects the relationship between ourselves, environment and other people in groups or societies. People can clearly find their own position by strengthening relations between themselves and other people in group and society. The ceremonies will play such a role in strengthening the relations between members of group or society and help people to find position. A case in point is the reunite of family and eating dumpling together in Spring Festival, the relation between family members will be tightened through the ceremony and the concept of family will be strengthen in everyone's mind.

Admittedly, ceremonies and rituals are not equal to culture, which is a complex syntheses of language, architecture, moral, tradition, religion and so on. Cultures can be distinguished by other means and people can make sense of themselves through other methods besides ceremonies and rituals. For example, people from different cultures can be easily distinguished according to the appearances of them and their language; and soldiers can find their position by the military rank.

In summary, culture is an abstract and complex syntheses of many factors, among which ceremonies and rituals are intuitional and symbolistic to help define culture and accelerate the promotion of culture. Ceremonies and rituals can strengthen the relation between people, which will help them to make sense of who they are.

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