汉语“文明”一词,最早出自《易经》,曰’见龙在田、天下文明。’(《易·干·文言》)。在现代汉语中,文明指一种社会进步状态,与“野蛮”一词相对立。文明与文化这两个词汇有含义相近的地方,也有不同。文化指一种存在方式,有文化意味着某种文明,但是没有文化并不意味“野蛮”。 Chinese “civilization”, the earliest from the “Book of Changes”, saying ’see the dragon in the field, the world civilization. ’(“Easy dry classical”). In modern Chinese, civilization refers to a state of social progress opposed to the word “barbarism.” Civilization and culture these two terms have similar meaning, there are differences. Culture refers to a way of being. Culture means some kind of civilization, but not culture does not mean “barbarism.”