As ”culture” becomes a popular terminology world-wide, its covers a variety of contexts and diversities. In this paper, the authors are going to define and probe the culture and its essentials from the perspectives of ”definition,” ”essentials,” and ”characteristics.” In the section of Definition of Culture, viewpoints of anthropology, sociology, and artaesthetics will be explored and explained. The areas of the symbol, the language, the norm, and the value, comprising of the cultural fundamental elements, will be further discussed in the second section. In sum, the characteristics of culture are a productive process of creativity, an acquiring learned behavior, a channel of social interaction, and a collective means of communication.