(1) Distinguishing the advantages and disadvantages of China's traditional culture is conducive to the pace of social progress.
Excellence: people-oriented thinking. There is a saying in Shang and Zhou Dynasties that "the people only care about the country, and the country is better". Xunzi said, "Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. In the spiritual realm, Mencius said, "I am good at cultivating my lofty spirit", and Du Fu said, "I will be in the extreme, and all other mountains will look short under the sky. There are also "little people refuse to forget to care about their country", the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and the friendship between little people is as good as ever, "Worry about the world first, and enjoy it later", "Who has never died in life since ancient times, and keeps the heart of Dan as a memory" and so on.
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Inferiority: advocating conservatism, "the sky is changeable, the earth is changeable, and the laws of our ancestors remain unchanged." The pedantry of "turning a deaf ear to the things outside the window and reading only the books of sages", the oppression of the people by bureaucrats and nobles, and the oppression of the people seeking more material benefits through business or other means by "gentlemen care about Tao but not poverty". Suppress individuality, suppress free thought, hinder development, etc.
(2) Look at the problem with the eyes of the times and comparative viewpoints and methods.
"Being in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice every festive season" and "thread in the hands of a loving mother, making clothes for wayward children" are lofty family ties. "Heaven is powerful, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement", and they are indomitable. The noble morality of "the benevolent loves others" Ma Yuan's Ma Ge wrapped his body, Huo Qubing's "Why should the Huns be at home before they are broken", Cao Cao's "Drinking is a song, life is geometric" and Wang Changling's "The bright moon of Qin Dynasty, the custom of Han Dynasty" all have great ambitions. "Where the petals have flowed like tears, the lonely birds sang their sorrows", "When people are idle, sweet-scented osmanthus falls, the moon is quiet and the mountains are empty", and the singing of harmony between man and nature is beyond the reach of western culture. These advantages of China's traditional culture will surely become an extremely valuable part of the world culture.
The traditional culture of China was formed in the long ancient history, and its background was feudal social civilization. Strictly speaking, western culture was gradually formed before the Renaissance, with capitalist civilization as the background. One is a civilization with a strong feudal color, and the other is a civilization with a strong capitalist color, which determines that China's traditional culture is bound to be backward and has weaknesses in many aspects, but it cannot be blindly excluded, depending on whether it can take its essence.
(3) Inheritance, reference and innovation, and active integration into the world culture are the only way for China's future cultural development.
Cultural construction must adhere to inheritance, absorption and innovation.
Mainly valuable things, reflecting the nature and laws of things, some noble qualities. But opposed to unlimited promotion. China's traditional culture was formed in a specific period, which inevitably has its limitations. Any exaggeration is wrong.
Over the years, some people have seen the value of Zhouyi, Analects of Confucius and Zen, which is a good thing. However, blind worship and flattering words have gone astray. Even some people, after seeing some setbacks in western civilization, in turn strongly advocated that western civilization has gone bankrupt and the revival of Confucian civilization is the general trend! Chinese civilization is to be revived, but it is not to revive Confucian culture, but to establish a scientific, democratic and lofty Chinese new culture with human dignity and value.
From the perspective of the whole world culture, the cultures of all nationalities in the world have their own strengths and weaknesses, and they should learn from each other in order to make common progress.
For individuals, we need to do:
First, there is a certain cultural accumulation. Second, clear the direction. That is, it conforms to the social development trend and the people-oriented and people-oriented values. Third, there must be a relaxed environment. To allow the existence and development of friction things, we should not treat new things as a scourge, but encourage different ideas and cultures to confront each other freely. Fourth, courage and will. This requires the courage and will of the whole nation. The old culture is the driving force of social progress in the past, and the new society also needs the unremitting efforts of the new culture, respects the law of development of things, and will eventually win.
The traditional culture of China has a history of more than 360 years. Because we can't understand capitalism with an open mind for a long time, we have always been on the alert of capitalist civilization, and we can't take the initiative to learn those advanced achievements of western culture, thus damaging the modernization process of our national traditional culture. In recent ten years, there has been an upsurge of Chinese studies and some masters of Chinese studies have emerged. But the author found that some people just talk about Chinese studies, and they have gone astray. Today, when we talk about Chinese studies, we should study them from the cultural background of the whole world. To learn Chinese studies, we must understand the development trend of modern society. Only in this way can he really draw a more comprehensive, mature and pertinent conclusion by studying Chinese studies.