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Title:: On National Cultural Territory: Its Consolidation and Approach Expansion

Abstract:: Cultural territory is the regional scope in which people identify themselves with a certain culture and the spiritual world embodied in this culture. The symbols of cultural identity can bring different groups of people together in a certain region for a long time, producing a cultural territory with obvious boundaries. Geographical territory is processed and sublimated by those people and reflected in their ideal life world, which is integrated into cultural forms such as literature and art, poetry, language, classics, and becomes an imaginary territory. People’s weak awareness of cultural territory, wrong view of language, and the rise of cultural separatism in some places may provide chances for the imperialist cultural invasion, and bring many hidden dangers to the national cultural territory. The main ways of consolidating and exploring the national cultural territory are: strengthening the subjects’ cultural self-confidence and firmly establishing the consciousness of cultural territory; loving the mother tongue, establishing the “earthbound” language view, and preventing the linguistic imperialism; strengthening the influence of the mainstream culture and constructing the identity with culture as the link. Cultural identity is far more powerful than economic and military forces in promoting the complete reunification of the motherland.