The history of a nation's civilization is the history of its cultural development, and the complete destruction of national culture means the demise of a nation. The ancient people who created brilliant civilization in human history may still be alive, but their nation has disappeared with the disappearance of their traditional culture. As the only ancient civilization in the world that has been passed down for 5,000 years, China's destruction of its culture is a great crime.
"Pangu created heaven and earth", "Nu Wa created man", "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs" and "Cangjie created characters", which laid the foundation of myth and culture. "Man governs the earth, the earth governs the sky, the heaven pipeline and the Tao governs the nature", and the Taoist thought of harmony between man and nature is integrated into the blood of culture. "The way of university lies in Mingde." More than 2000 years ago, Confucius established a library to teach students and spread Confucianism represented by "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith" to the society. In the first century A.D., Buddhism and Buddhism spread to the east, and Chinese culture became more profound. Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism reflected each other, which made the prosperous Tang Dynasty achieve brilliant achievements that attracted worldwide attention.
Although the Chinese nation has been invaded and attacked many times in history, its traditional culture has always shown great integration and vitality, and its essence has been passed down from generation to generation. "the unity of heaven and man" represents the world view of our ancestors; "Good and evil are rewarded" is social common sense; "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you" is the minimum virtue of being a man; "Loyalty, filial piety and righteousness" are the principles of life in the world; "Benevolence, courtesy, wisdom and faith" have become the moral basis for regulating people and society. On this premise, China culture embodies the advantages of honesty (reality), kindness (kindness), harmony (emphasis) and tolerance. The tablet "Heaven and Earth Master" reflects the deep-rooted cultural connotation of people's respect for God (heaven and earth), loyalty to the country (monarch), family (relatives) and teachers' morality. China traditional culture pursues the harmony between man and nature, attaches importance to personal cultivation, and is based on the cultivation belief of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which can tolerate, develop and safeguard human morality and make people have positive beliefs.
Different from the rigid constraints of law, cultural constraints are flexible. The law emphasizes the punishment after committing a crime, while culture plays a role in preventing crime for the cultivation of morality. The ethical values of a society are often reflected through culture.
In the history of China, the Tang Dynasty, when traditional culture reached its peak, was precisely the period when China's national strength reached its peak, so science dominated the whole country. At that time, Europe, the Middle East, Japan and other places sent people to study in Chang 'an, neighboring countries took China as the suzerain country, and all countries came to North Korea to retranslate money. After the Qin Dynasty, China was often occupied by ethnic minorities, including the independent dynasties of Sui, Tang, Yuan and Qing, but almost all of them were sinicized, which was due to the Datong of traditional culture. As Confucius said, "If you stay away from the crowd, you must cultivate your self-cultivation."
Since China usurped power *** 1949, the destruction of our national culture began with the help of the state. This is by no means because it has done anything stupid out of its enthusiasm for industrialization or its desire to get close to western civilization, but because it is ideologically incompatible with its traditional culture. Therefore, its cultural destruction is organized, planned and systematic, backed by state violence. From the founding of the Party to the present, China * * * has never stopped "revolutionizing" China culture, and indeed attempted to "revolutionize" China culture completely.
To make matters worse, China-* * * has always taken the method of stealing the column from traditional culture, "carrying forward" the court struggles, intrigues, dictatorships and so on caused by people's departure from traditional culture from ancient times to the present, and created a set of their standards of good and evil, ways of thinking and discourse system, which made people think that this "party culture" was the inheritance of traditional culture, and even used people's "-party-literature".
This had disastrous consequences for China. People not only lost their moral constraints, but were also forced to instill their evil theories by China.
The real culture of China people was created by the Yellow Emperor five thousand years ago, so the Yellow Emperor is called "the ancestor of mankind". In fact, the Yellow Emperor was also the founder of China's Taoist thought ("the study of Huang Lao"). Confucianism is deeply influenced by Taoism. Confucius said, "The ambition is in the Tao, the virtue is in the virtue, the benevolence is in the benevolence, and you are wandering in the art", "If you hear the Tao, you will die in the evening". The Book of Changes, which describes the laws of heaven and earth, yin and yang, the universe, society and life, is regarded by Confucianism as the "head of the group classics", and its predictions are not as good as modern science. Buddhism, especially Zen Buddhism, has exerted a subtle influence on intellectuals.
Confucianism is a part of the traditional culture after China's entry into WTO, and attaches importance to family ethics, among which "filial piety" occupies a heavy weight, and "filial piety of all virtues comes first". Confucius advocated "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith", but he also said: "Who is filial, is the foundation of benevolence?"
Family ethics can naturally extend to social ethics, and "filial piety" extends upward to the minister's "loyalty" to the monarch. The so-called "he is also filial, but easy to offend." "Xun" is the relationship between brothers, which can be horizontally extended to "righteousness" between friends. Confucianism advocates father's kindness, son's filial piety, brother's affection and respect in the family, in which "kindness" can be extended downward to "benevolence" of the monarch to the minister. As long as the tradition in the family can be maintained, social ethics will naturally be maintained, "cultivate one's morality, keep the family in order, run the country and level the world."
Buddhism and Taoism are "born" parts of traditional culture. The influence of Buddhism and Taoism on the lives of ordinary people can be said to be everywhere. Traditional Chinese medicine, qigong, geomantic omen, divination, Buddhism, heaven and earth, retribution of good and evil, etc. are deeply rooted in Taoist thought and together with Confucian ethics form the core of China traditional culture.
Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have established a very stable moral system for China people. As the saying goes, "the sky remains unchanged and the Tao remains unchanged." This moral system is the foundation of social existence, stability and harmony.
Morality belonging to the spiritual level is often abstract, and an important role of culture is to popularize the moral system.
Taking the four classic novels as examples, The Journey to the West is a myth in itself; A Dream of Red Mansions begins with a dialogue between an empty scholar, an ethereal real person and a psychic Baoyu crossing a barren hill and a barren cliff. This myth is the clue that runs through A Dream of Red Mansions. "Water Margin" begins with the myth that "Hong Taiwei went astray by evil spirits", which is the origin of one hundred single and eight generals in Liangshan, Shui Bo; Romance of the Three Kingdoms begins with the warning of natural disasters, and ends with the concept of destiny that "everything is endless and the number of days is inevitable". Others, such as Biography of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty or Yue Biography, all start with similar stories.
This is by no means a coincidence when novelists create, but the basic view of China intellectuals on nature and life. Their cultural works have a far-reaching impact on later generations. As a result, when people in China talk about loyalty, they often think of Guan Yu, a "former American" figure, as well as stories such as "Three Things in Tuntu Mountain", "The Surrounding of White Horses", "Going through Five Customs to Cut Six Generals" and "Huarong Road", and finally lose Maicheng, and "Loyalty is unyielding, and father and son return to God". When it comes to loyalty, you will naturally think of Yue Wumu's loyalty to the country, Zhuge Liang's dedication and so on.
In this way, the praise of "loyalty" in traditional values is vividly presented to readers through wonderful stories created by intellectuals. Abstraction-moralizing, concretizing and visualizing through cultural means.
Taoism talks about truth, Buddhism talks about goodness, and Confucianism talks about loyalty, forgiveness, benevolence and righteousness. "There are differences outside, and there are similarities inside ... nothing more than hoping that people will return to goodness." This is the most valuable place of traditional culture rooted in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
Traditional culture is permeated with "heaven, Tao, God, Buddha, destiny, predestination, benevolence, righteousness, ceremony, wisdom, faith, honesty, shame, loyalty, filial piety and chastity". Many people may be illiterate all their lives, but they are familiar with traditional drama and storytelling. These cultural forms are an important way for people to acquire traditional values. Therefore, China destroyed tradition and culture, and directly destroyed the moral and social stability and peace foundation of China. Many people have the illusion that as long as China is still here, China people are still there, Mandarin is still there, the knowledge and cultural background of the wolf totem in China are still there, and the traditional culture of the wolf totem in China is still stable and even developing, whether it is gratifying or annoying. So at the same time, we hear the voices of "2 1 century will be the century of China culture" and "China, which is opening to the outside world, still faces the heavy responsibility of eliminating feudalism". But the problem now is that these two seemingly opposing views have a common premise, that is, the living existence of China traditional culture is almost disappearing, and the mainstream of China traditional culture is facing a major crisis of childless and unsustainable development.
Culture, especially tangible culture or "elegant culture" that has had a significant impact on a nation's characteristics and historical trend, is an organic life with her or their historical life and soul. Whether the culture in this sense still exists mainly depends on whether she still lives in the real life of a certain nation or community. The specific sign is to see: (1) whether there are any strict descendants of this culture, that is, people who consciously inherit her "orthodoxy" in a group way and in their own life practice; (2) Whether the most basic social structure on which she lives still exists; (3) Whether her basic value orientation can still affect people's major choices in life; (4) Whether her unique language still lives in the writing and art forms where people express their key thoughts and deep feelings. In short, whether a culture has vitality depends on whether its basic spirit can still impress the real people and whether it can echo the real life and historical process. According to this view, we can't say that the ancient Egyptian culture still lives in Egypt, or that the two rivers culture still lives in Iraq. Of course, any living culture will develop and change, but this is a natural evolutionary process, and there are blood relations and "genes" between the old and new forms. If there is a cultural break, that is, people's way of life, way of thinking and spiritual orientation are forcibly changed, China's traditional culture has a profound impact on the cultural structure, psychological characteristics, ethics and morality of the Chinese nation. Its positive aspects have been inherited and developed by people with lofty ideals in past dynasties, and it has become a great force for the long-term development of the Chinese nation. Today, under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, China is striving to build a harmonious society. Social harmony is a concentrated expression of the degree of social civilization and is closely related to the development of social civilization. The development of social civilization, whether it is material civilization, political civilization or spiritual civilization, is based on the development of ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality of all social members, and is aimed at improving people's quality and promoting their all-round development. To strengthen Chinese traditional virtue education, we must first optimize the content of Chinese traditional virtue education. The Chinese nation has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and it still shows strong vitality and positive practical role. Its essence can last for thousands of years and become the cohesion of the Chinese nation. The fine traditional virtues such as patriotism, love for hometown, thrift, respect for teachers, unity and friendship, respect for the old and love for the young, courtesy, honesty and trustworthiness, courage to take responsibility, self-discipline and diligence in learning, and the socialist concept of honor and disgrace with "eight honors and eight disgraces" as the core can be found in China's vast ideological treasure house. However, the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation are constantly developing with the changes of the times. The new era endows the era with new contents and forms values, ethics and codes of conduct with the characteristics of the new era. It is necessary to organically combine knowledge imparting, sentiment cultivation and good virtue behavior habits in traditional virtue education, improve the educational effect, constantly optimize the ways of traditional Chinese virtue education, educate and edify the younger generation, and make them form the moral personality of the Chinese nation and shoulder the historical responsibility. Educators should first be "teachers" when educating teenagers about traditional virtues. Traditional virtue education is a systematic project. The cultivation of personality and the cultivation of sentiment require the full participation of every educator. Together, we will create a strong humanistic atmosphere and let the educated feel cordial and eternal humanistic care. The main position of traditional virtue education is the school. Traditional virtue education is an important content of quality education, the core content of minors' ideology and morality, and an important guarantee for students' growth, school spirit construction and study style construction. We can make use of the constantly developing forms of moral education and combine the characteristics of the times to carry out various educational activities that keep pace with the times, consolidate the achievements of moral education and carry forward and inherit the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. We should combine traditional virtue education with family education and community education, extend part of traditional virtue education from schools to families and communities, and mobilize parents to improve the effectiveness of education through their cooperation and support. The purpose of traditional virtue education for students is to inherit the splendid culture of the nation, carry forward the ethical and moral norms of the nation, cultivate high-quality cross-century talents, fully tap traditional virtue as a moral education resource, create a novel way with the flavor of the times that students are willing to accept, and make traditional virtue serve contemporary education. Therefore, in the process of building a harmonious socialist society, we must vigorously carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. The Chinese nation has always advocated that "poverty should not be moved, wealth should not be obscene, and power should not be compromised", pursued "harmony is precious" and "everything goes well at home", advocated charity, helped people in need, put human life and dignity first, and regarded the interests of the state and the collective as the basic criteria for dealing with people. The more dangerous it is, the more these traditions must be carried forward. For example, 1998 when fighting floods and SARS; At the beginning of this year, in the face of the snowstorm in the south and the 5. 12 earthquake in Sichuan, the whole country extended a selfless helping hand in time. These traditional virtues have become an important aspect of strengthening national cohesion and building a harmonious society. China's traditional culture and traditional virtues have a great influence on the personality cultivation of young students. Tradition is the foundation of modernity. Teenagers, especially contemporary college students, are masters of advanced knowledge and culture. They should strengthen the study of traditional culture and traditional virtues, strive to improve their personality and become useful people to society. .