A few days ago, in the study, I picked up a book of four books, turned to the first page and read two sentences: "The way of university lies in virtue, in new people and in perfection." I found myself depressed, threw it into the bookcase, picked up a Japanese cartoon and chewed it with relish until the end. I read an article on the Internet today, lamenting that contemporary teenagers in China (mainly in the 1980s and 1990s) know little or nothing about their traditional culture. Looking back on what I did the day before yesterday, I can't help feeling ashamed. I have always boasted that I love traditional culture, but I am slowly letting go of the pride of China people.
On National Day, the unit invited our new clerk to write an article about patriotism. I think, should we pile up an empty article with flowery words to lament how beautiful and magnificent the motherland is, or should we really pay attention to the national pride that we are slowly losing?
Gao Zhendong, dean of Taiwan Province CITIC Business School, said in a speech in mainland China, "What is patriotism? Where is patriotism? Everything is patriotic, and everything is patriotic! " Patriotism is small but concrete. We are in China, but sometimes we don't know what's in our country. Is it because "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but I am in this mountain" or do we care too much about other people's things? Patriotism is actually very simple. The most basic thing is to understand and love our traditional culture.
What is the traditional culture of China? China's traditional culture was gradually created and developed in the long historical process of thousands of years. After several times of construction-deconstruction-reconstruction, she is endless, endless and slowly precipitated. She is China people's hope for culture for thousands of years and China people's reflection on cultural thoughts. How many people can persist in the trickle when we face the proliferation of western culture in the electronic age with advanced information?
What is the traditional culture in our children after 8 1 90? I don't think it's 12 women's group wearing sexy high-fork cheongsam playing so-called traditional folk music noisily on the stage. Or do you think that Kong Yiji, who is full of "what" in Lu Xun's works, is an ancient scholar representing China?
Simply put, the so-called traditional culture in China is "poetry, calligraphy, ceremony, Yi, Spring and Autumn". I use the name Five Classics to summarize the traditional culture of China, because it just sums up five aspects of the traditional culture of China. "Poetry" refers to poems, songs and ancient music from the earliest poem "The Book of Songs" to all previous dynasties. "Book" refers to the monographs written by scholars of past dynasties that reflect their thoughts and viewpoints, including the outlook on life of ancient scholars and the humanistic spirit of ancient people. "Rite" refers to the traditional ethics, etiquette and law system and ideological education system in China. "Yi" not only refers to the Book of Changes, but also includes agriculture, medicine, astronomy, geography and mathematics. Chunqiu refers to a series of historical monographs, Historical Records and Zitongzhi Bamboo Slips from Shangshu to Chunqiu. China's traditional culture covers a wide range and his thoughts are profound. How can it be summarized and expressed by modern pseudo-folklore or a sour Kong Yiji?
Is it too late for children in the 1980s and 1990s to get in touch with the beauty of China's classical poetry from Jay Chou's Direct Answer or her Sauvignon Blanc? From Three Hundred Poems to Han Yuefu to the Complete Works of Tang Poetry and Song Poetry, Qu Yuan and Ban Gu's Songs of Chu and Han Fu were not included, and the bones of great writers are your brushes and Wei Jintian School were not mentioned. How can this vast poetic country be expressed by a direct answer? Now, do we just stay in the stage of "rambling grass across the plain" or "the spring breeze in February is like scissors" taught in primary school textbooks, or do we whisper to our lover that "they have been in love for a long time, sooner or later" in order to make her happy?
Can we still feel the elegance and lofty aspirations of the ancients from those decadent voices? Do you know that the "Ren Xia Qi" in Gu Long Jin Yong's novels refers to "Where is the Tao, although thousands of people have gone; When the righteous act is done, the daughter will not regret it; In the heart of love, secular etiquette is like dirt; Xing, drink 300 cups with you "and" the great man of chivalry "means" kill one person in ten steps, leave a thousand miles behind, and hide your merits and fame "? Probably only indulge in river's lake grievances, fighting and killing.
There is no romantic feeling of "a pot of wine in the flower room" and "cutting candles at the west window", and there is no heroic mind of "swearing to sweep the Huns regardless of their health" and "watching the sword drunk" Without the nourishment of these ancient rhymes, can our post-80s and post-90s only be displayed in multi-bag wide-leg pants with European and American hip-hop, Japanese anime and Korean style? Without Ren Xia's youthful frivolity and tender feelings, would our youth be complete?
How many people still know that "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" comes from Mencius' "taking the rise and fall of the world as his own responsibility"? The rise and fall of the world is not everyone's responsibility, but mine. How many young people will take the rise and fall of the country as their own responsibility, probably just pretending to be cool and saying, "I am me, I like it, I can." They just bury themselves in crayons and robots all day and refuse to grow up.
How many people still know what "benevolence, courtesy, wisdom, faithfulness, loyalty, filial piety and courage" mean? After reading Wu Zongxian's "I guess" and "Eight o'clock on Sunday", I will probably only say in confusion, Oh, the snacks on Zhongxiao Road in Taipei are very famous. How many people will think that "Xiang is nine years old and can warm the mat" is a sign of filial piety, probably thinking that he is so stupid. Why not use your body to warm the mat and buy an air conditioner? Who else would think that "being a pear at the age of seven" is a kind of humility and comity of China people? Children receive Darwinian education of "natural selection, survival of the fittest" since childhood, which is overwhelmed by heavy internal and external lessons. Who will say, I don't want the first place, I'll give it to you! I don't know what it means to be a "modest gentleman, gentle as jade", let alone expect children to be beautiful childe like Cao Zijian and Wang Moshu. Nowadays, the purpose of children learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting is mostly to serve the exam, and there is no feeling of "singing Red Bean for you".
You can't see the flowers in the Lantern Festival, the incense sticks hung on the boats in the Dragon Boat Festival, the pot for exorcising ghosts, and the dogwood planted on the Chongyang Mountain. We began to believe in Christ and Santa Claus. I don't know who Ah Fu is, and I haven't put down Grandpa's paper kite for a long time. In our opinion, traditional festivals are just pale except for watching boring literary evenings and going to a few more days for holidays where everything is crowded. Tradition slips through our fingers and slowly drains away.
1900, Liang Qichao wrote that "the country is strong when young people are strong, and the country is strong when young people are rich". Today, Mr. Liang's youthful temperament of "hope, enterprising, innovation, abnormality, carpe diem, arrogance, and working for the world" is faintly visible in us, but we can't smell the breath of China. Pure hedonism and arrogance are so pale and frivolous without the support of cultural background. Where should we look for the lost traditional culture? Was it discovered in the traditional activities of neighboring Japan: "Hey, this thing was handed down from the Tang Dynasty in China! Cut ~ small Japan ~ "But why don't we reflect and appreciate the essence of the past only in others? Looking back suddenly, the country is no longer a country.
Always think about the future, but never forget the past. Enrich ourselves with thousands of years of cultural accumulation, and let us go further. Won't you be fascinated? References:
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On the Contemporary Value of China Traditional Culture
Abstract: China culture has a long history and has been handed down from generation to generation. The idea that "harmony is precious" is one of the most important components. It is the ideological motive force of China's social development for thousands of years, and also the ideological source of China's idea of building a "harmonious world" today. The idea of "benevolence" has important contemporary value. Is an important moral standard. In recent years, the research and dissemination of China's traditional culture at home and abroad has changed from the initial study and popularization to the reflection on "China Road". We should deeply explore the root behind this phenomenon and the relationship between China traditional culture and Socialism with Chinese characteristics road, so as to connect Socialism with Chinese characteristics road with China traditional culture and make our excellent traditional culture more vital. Keywords: China traditional culture, contemporary value, benevolence
Culture is the way of human spiritual activities and practical activities and the sum of their material and spiritual achievements. Because of the complexity and diversity of people's life practice, culture has different contents, forms and levels accordingly. As one of the four ancient civilizations in the world, China was famous for its unique Yellow River culture as early as thousands of years ago. Since then, through the long-term creation and accumulation of Chinese people, Chinese culture has become richer and more profound, and its achievements and influence are rare in the world. China has a vast territory and abundant resources. Since the Zhou and Qin Dynasties, except for a few separatist periods, a unified multi-ethnic country has been maintained as a political institution for most of the time. Therefore, in the system of China's traditional culture, Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow River valley is the main body, and various minority cultures are the supplements, which bring out the best in each other. In many ways, the ancestors of the Chinese nation bravely and without hesitation absorbed foreign cultural factors and reformed them, constantly enriching the connotation of China culture. Unique geography has created unique China culture, which has had different influences on the development of China and human history.
One side nourishes the other, not only nourishes the human body, but also nourishes the human spirit and soul. China's traditional culture is the comprehensive result of geographical factors and human factors. China's traditional culture emphasizes self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world, and pays special attention to moral cultivation. Its central link is cultivation, and cultivation is the inevitable result of cultivation. Self-cultivation is the way to establish a person and the way to establish a country. It advocates becoming a noble person and an ideal person through self-cultivation and learning, and its highest goal and ultimate value is to realize the unified and coordinated development of people and groups, individuals and society. Confucius' Confucianism defines a moral model with benevolence as the core, righteousness as the value criterion and propriety as the code of conduct, and positions individual moral cultivation and value realization as care and dedication to others, groups and society. The positive significance of this tradition lies in bringing up countless people with lofty ideals like Fan Zhongyan who "worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later", which has had a far-reaching impact on the history of the Chinese nation. These excellent moral norms still have important reference significance in the process of building a harmonious culture. China's traditional practical culture includes many aspects, which are introduced below.
Firstly, it introduces the idea of "benevolence" put forward by Confucius, a great ancient educational thinker. As the core of his thought, although his thought didn't get much attention at that time, it has immeasurable influence on our social life and all aspects today. "Benevolence and love", Confucianism first emphasizes the harmony and order within the family and the orderly relationship between father and son and brothers within the family, which has its feudal hierarchical thought, but also has the meaning of respecting the old and loving the young, which is conducive to maintaining family stability, and family is the basic cell of society, and family stability is conducive to social stability. Confucianism also extends the emotional communication within the family to the interpersonal communication of the whole society, emphasizing mutual respect and care between people. "Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you." In social communication, Confucianism emphasizes empathy and considers others from the standpoint of others. This is the ideal realm of interpersonal communication, and it is also the requirement for us to form good social morality. Confucius' benevolence and propriety are closely related. "Rite" refers to the ruling system, including various social systems and social norms. "Self-denial and devotion to duty" means asking people to restrain their selfish desires, abide by social system and order, and ask people to "see no evil, don't listen if you are indecent, don't say anything if you are indecent, and don't move if you are indecent". With the development of history and the progress of society, some features have changed greatly, and some features that were not available in the previous society will also appear. However, no matter how the society develops, some things are eternal in people's minds. We can reinterpret historical thought according to the background of today's times, and it can also give play to the light of the times. In contemporary China, Confucius' thought of benevolence has changed from consciously realizing personal value system and mainstream social consciousness to the only form that fits with cultural and psychological habits. The idea of benevolence can play an irreplaceable role in solving the imbalance of modern people's beliefs and establishing an ideal personality world, and has become an important part of the world's multi-culture and civilization. Objectively, it promotes the development of modern enterprise management to people-oriented management. It can be said that the political ideal of the great harmony society conceived by Confucius has become a reality to some extent in today's democratic constitutional society. At the present stage of social and political development in China, taking the essence of Confucius' benevolence and discarding its dross can accelerate the modernization process of China and promote the development of humanistic spirit.
Secondly, it introduces the thought of "harmony" in China's traditional culture. China's ancient thought advocated "harmony between man and nature", that is, man should live in harmony with nature and strive for survival and development by respecting and protecting nature. The idea of "harmony" is the summary of various phenomena in nature and human society by ancient Chinese philosophers. It recognizes the differences between things, such as yin and yang, heaven and man. But at the same time, it organically combines things with differences, such as the harmony of yin and yang and the unity of man and nature. It does not deny the existence of contradictions and conflicts, but advocates preventing excessive contradictions and conflicts from destroying the environmental foundation of interdependence and coexistence of different things. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the idea of "harmony" was widely used, infiltrated into the thoughts of various schools in various times, and gradually became the humanistic spirit generally accepted and recognized in China's ideology and culture. The thought of "harmony" also had an important influence on the diplomatic philosophy and the way of foreign communication of China feudal dynasty. In modern times, the idea of "harmony" still has an important influence. The idea of "harmony" emphasizes the interaction, absorption and integration between different cultures, which has played a vital role in promoting the development of human civilization. Today, with the accelerated development of globalization, it is more important to reduce friction, increase knowledge and carry forward the idea of "harmony is precious" and "harmony is different" when cultural characteristics and differences of different nationalities and regions still exist. Therefore, inheriting and carrying forward the "harmony" thought of * * * survival, * * survival and * * win-win in excellent traditional culture, and adhering to the road of peaceful development are fundamental to carrying forward the traditional culture of China. In the process of China's integration into the world, the enlightenment of traditional culture that "harmony is precious" and "harmony is different" has been realized. The concept of "harmonious world" advocated by China will surely promote the development of global multiculturalism and become a new trend leading the development of international relations. Chinese civilization has been like a flowing river since ancient times. * * * The same psychological and cultural characteristics were formed in a vast and long historical stage and have been deeply rooted in the Chinese nation, which is irreplaceable and unchangeable. Any foreign culture only enriches and supplements our national spirit. We excavate, sort out traditional culture and inherit valuable things, that is, we should fully understand and comprehensively inspect traditional culture, that is, we should attach great importance to the irreplaceable role of traditional culture and fully understand the historical basic role of traditional culture in creating socialist culture, which is of great practical significance for us to find out the historical coordinates and historical orientation. Give full play to the important role of excellent traditional culture in improving moral cultivation and cultivating moral norms.
Carry forward the Chinese national spirit contained in excellent traditional culture and form a national spirit with patriotism as the core. The national spirit is formed and developed on the basis of a nation's long-term social practice of sharing production and life, and is recognized and accepted by most members of the nation's ideological character, value orientation and moral norms. It is the pillar and soul of a nation, and plays an inestimable role in shaping national character and style and enhancing national cohesion and centripetal force. Traditional culture is an important carrier of national spirit, and national spirit education cannot be separated from traditional culture education. To build socialist spiritual civilization, we must first carry forward patriotism, which is the soul of the nation. Such as the ideal spirit of "the world is for the public" and "one country under the world", the inclusive spirit of all ethnic groups, and the patriotic spirit of caring for the country and the people and dedicating themselves to the motherland. Today, when the negative effects of market economy impact the construction of spiritual civilization, we must carefully sort out and excavate the essence of these national spirits and form a socialist core value system, so as to stimulate people's national self-esteem, self-confidence and enthusiasm for building a socialist modern country. "The cultural creativity of the whole society will be fully released, and cultural innovations will continue to emerge, making contemporary China culture more colorful, attractive and infectious.