Shanghai culture is a unique cultural phenomenon based on the southern Chinese traditional culture (Wu Yue culture), fused modern industrial civilization since Shanghai Opening incoming. Shanghai culture not only has the features of southern culture (Wu Yue culture) of classical and elegant, but also has a feature of modern international metropolis and fashion. It is different from other cultures in China as Shanghai culture has an open and self-contained style.
Shanghai culture, is rooted in traditional Chinese culture, and based on the fusion of the essence of Chinese culture, Wu Yue culture and other regional culture. Shanghai culture also absorb some foreign digestion mainly Western cultural factors, to create a new own unique personality of Shanghai culture, its Features are: to absorb all kinds of culture, discard the dross and select the essential, the pursuit of excellence and innovation. The basic characteristics of Shanghai culture is characterized by openness, creation, sublation and diversity.
Openness: Shanghai Culture is tolerant to diversity performance, cast the culture of our own and the West, and make use of discarded things. Shanghai culture also create the trend in China. Its features also reflected in no seclusion, not complacent, do not refuse advanced, non-exclusive and stylish.
Creativity: absorb other culture is not equal to not copy others, nor is repetition and imitation of others. Shanghai culture is full of innovative spirit, filled with the vitality of creation.
Sublation: situated in a passive opening-up period, a thousand things wait to be done. Shanghai people discard the dross and select the essential, selectively differentiated treatment to avoid blindness and bigotry.
Diversity: Shanghai culture is similar to other things, is a complex community. It should not require the pure again, it is not a single of its Shanghai culture. Elegance and vulgarity, ocean and soil, highbrow and low class people, advanced and backward, and even lower, vulgar and reactionary culture is also possible confounding meantime which needs to be treated differently.

