. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the reasons for the prosperity of traditional culture, carry forward traditional culture and enhance the soft power of the country for building a modern country in Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
First, the connotation of China traditional culture
What exactly is traditional culture? Mr. Gu once pointed out that "China's traditional culture mainly refers to the vital ancient China culture which was formed and passed down under the influence of a certain natural environment, economic form, political structure and ideology during the development of China's civilization for thousands of years, and is still affecting contemporary culture"; Some scholars believe that China traditional culture is a stable culture with a long history, which is rooted in the soil of the Chinese nation and has accumulated the cultural essence of different historical periods. Some scholars believe: "Traditional culture is an ideological thing, which is accumulated, preserved and continued through the process of continuous production and elimination, and has important value and vitality."
In my opinion, traditional culture mainly refers to ideas, morals, customs, habits, classics, religion, art, science and technology, systems and ways of thinking with national characteristics passed down from generation to generation. It is a very broad concept, including material culture, spiritual culture, behavioral culture and institutional culture, and its core and soul is spiritual culture. The traditional culture we are talking about here mainly refers to the culture with national spirit inherited from the history of the Chinese nation. For everyone in China, "China traditional culture is the stream of time and life that connects the ancient, present and future China people, and it is the spiritual life of China people".
It is also the eternal vitality of the Chinese nation.
Second, the essence of China traditional culture
China's traditional culture has a long history and is profound, so people often have different views on its characteristics. But to sum up, it mainly includes: attaching importance to the humanistic tradition of life's entry into WTO, attaching importance to ethical principles and moral education, attaching importance to the philosophy of moderation and harmony, and attaching importance to perseverance and cultural character. The Book of Changes expounds dialectical thought and clarifies that "change" is the fundamental law of all things; A Tao Te Ching explains the evolution of everything in the universe with the metaphysical concept "Tao"; The Analects of Confucius describes the Confucian ideological system with benevolence as the core. It is these three classic theories that make the basic framework of China traditional culture be constructed. With the passage of time, thinkers of past dynasties have constantly developed various creative ideas, which have gradually formed the essence of China traditional culture through precipitation and development. The essence of China traditional culture is not only embodied in material civilization, but also in ideological spirit. Specifically, the ideological essence of China's traditional culture can be roughly summarized as the following five aspects: First, the spirit of patriotism passed down from generation to generation, worrying about the country and the people. From ancient times to the present, the great patriotic spirit focusing on national interests and national interests has always been regarded as an extremely important theme in China's traditional culture, such as Yue Fei's "serving the country faithfully", Fan Zhongyan's "worrying about the world first, enjoying the world later" and Gu's "every man has the responsibility to rise and fall" and so on. Second, the spirit of self-improvement and continuous progress. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has developed an enterprising attitude towards life and formed a spirit of self-improvement that dares to surpass itself and struggles tenaciously. Such as "Kuafu pursues the sun", "Yu Gong moves mountains", "Dayu controls water" and "Jing Wei fills the sea", all of which embody the national spirit of the Chinese nation to strive for self-improvement and forge ahead. The third is the honest character of seeking truth and being pragmatic. On the one hand, this honest character is embodied in the spirit of seeking truth from facts that Confucius said "knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing" and the self-knowledge quality that Laozi said "knowing people is wise, knowing oneself is clear". On the other hand, it is manifested in the honesty and trustworthiness of commodity trading, such as "no deceit", "genuine goods" and "no price in the city" Fourthly, the harmonious thought of He Jiong Music Group. On the one hand, the harmonious thought in China's traditional culture refers to Dong Zhongshu's philosophy of "harmony between man and nature", that is, man and nature live in harmony, reaching the realm of "heaven and earth coexist with me, and everything is one with me". On the other hand, it refers to the "golden mean" thought, which puts forward the harmony between people and between people and society. The fifth is to pursue noble moral cultivation. China's traditional culture contains many thoughts of pursuing noble moral sentiments. Among them, Confucianism advocates improving self-cultivation, attaching importance to the influence of moral power, and advocating serving people with virtue. See Si Qi. It is precisely because of this idea of "self-cultivation and self-cultivation, governing the country by the whole family and leveling the world" that countless people have been influenced, lofty aspirations have been established and noble moral sentiments have been cultivated.
Third, the contemporary value of China traditional culture.
Cultural inheritance has both objective inevitability and subjective initiative, just like "genes" and the power of positive choice. Traditional culture is the "source" and modern culture is the "flow". Source is the starting point of flow, and flow is the development of source. Therefore, in the new era, we should adhere to the principles of "making the past serve the present, making foreign things serve China" and "taking its essence and discarding its dross", study and carry forward traditional culture with new ideas, horizons, methods and logic, and constantly enrich modern culture. With the rapid development of China's economy and the rapid promotion of its international status, it is of great significance to tap the essence of traditional culture, promote China's traditional culture and enhance the country's soft power for building Socialism with Chinese characteristics and realizing the "Chinese dream" of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(A) China's traditional culture has laid a cultural foundation for Marxism in China.
One of the important reasons why Marxism can spread, take root and blossom rapidly in China is that China's traditional culture, such as great harmony, humanism, courage to struggle, being good at struggle, materialistic practice and Marxist ideological system, has provided an excellent cultural soil for Marxism to take root and sprout in China.
First of all, China's thought of great harmony in traditional culture is combined with Marxist capitalist society. The capitalist society envisaged by Marxism is actually an ideal world of justice and equality, which is similar to China's thought of "the world is public". As one of the few socialist countries in the world where capitalism is flourishing, China is closely related to the ideological foundation laid by China's traditional culture.
Secondly, the people-oriented thought of China's traditional culture is combined with Marxist human studies. The core content of Marxist humanistic theory is the liberation and all-round development of human beings, which is actually a scientific and revolutionary theory that loves and values people based on historical materialism. Because China's traditional culture has always advocated
The thought of "people are the foundation of the country" makes the historical materialism of "people are the creators of history" in Marxist philosophy easier to be understood and applied by China producers. Practice has proved that in the process of Marxism in China, it is precisely because of the popularization of the Chinese production party that great achievements have been made in various socialist construction undertakings, which is closely related to the people-oriented ideological foundation laid by traditional culture.
Third, the tradition of daring to struggle and being good at it conforms to the Marxist view of practice and the thought of class struggle. The well-known spirit of defending the country and defending the country to the death and the indomitable spirit of national struggle in China's traditional culture have enabled the people of China to win great victories in previous revolutions. Marxism has always stood on the side of the people, trying to strive for and safeguard the rights and interests of the broad masses of the people to the maximum extent through class struggle, which coincides with the idea of being good at struggle advocated by traditional culture. Therefore, in the process of Marxism in China, Marx's theory of class struggle and violent revolution is also easily recognized by the people of China.
(B) China traditional culture provides cultural resources for cultivating socialist core values.
"The socialist core value system belongs to the category of social consciousness, is the essential embodiment of socialist ideology, and is the socialist concept system." The development of this concept system benefits from the excellent national cultural environment. From the perspective of Marxism, the generation and development of social consciousness in any era can not be separated from the ideological materials accumulated by predecessors. As far as China's traditional culture is concerned, it has formed its own unique cultural temperament and spiritual connotation in the development process of thousands of years, which runs through the thoughts, behaviors and values of China people. The formation and development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's core value system are deeply influenced by these excellent traditional cultural thoughts. Since ancient times, China has said, "Learn from the times, take honesty as the right thing, cultivate one's morality, put the family in order, and rule the country and level the world". From a certain point of view, it is the demand of individuals, society and the country. In order to meet the requirements of internalizing socialist core values into people's values and consciously practicing them in the new era, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China further refined and popularized its contents. From the national level, it is rich, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious; From the social level, it is freedom, equality, justice and the rule of law; From the personal level of citizens, it is patriotism, dedication, honesty and friendliness. After careful study, it is not difficult to find that these refinements and generalizations of socialist core values are still based on the essence of China traditional culture and combined with China's national conditions. From this perspective, China traditional culture provides rich spiritual and cultural resources for the construction of the socialist core value system.
(C) China traditional culture provides cultural support for the construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
First of all, traditional culture plays a guiding role in the theory of socialist market economy. The theory of socialist market economy emphasizes that the market plays a decisive role in resource allocation, which not only adapts to the law of socialist economic development, but also embodies the concept of "governing by doing nothing" advocated by Taoism in China traditional culture, that is, the concept of "reducing government intervention", which is more conducive to the liberation and development of social productive forces.
Secondly, traditional culture has a great influence on the concept of building a harmonious socialist society. The idea of building a harmonious socialist society is formed on the basis of absorbing the essence of China's Confucian culture, such as Great Harmony and Fiona Fang's Law, and according to the order spirit of scientific socialism advocated by Marx-man is the simple basic rule of all human life ... and has never had to abide by it. ”。
Third, China's traditional culture has greatly promoted the idea of building a well-off socialist society. The thought of building a well-off socialist society was formed by the CPC Central Committee according to the guiding ideology of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's "Three Benefits", on the basis of fully absorbing the essence and formulation of China's traditional Confucian "well-off" thought and combining with China's national conditions.
Finally, China's traditional culture had a far-reaching influence on the socialist thought of "ruling the country by virtue". The socialist thought of "ruling the country by virtue" is the further development of Comrade Liu Shaoqi's thought of "establishing a new socialist economic system, new culture and new morality", and it is also the sublimation of China's Confucian thought of "ruling the country by virtue".
(D) China's traditional culture provides cultural guidance for realizing the "Chinese Dream".
Mr. Gao Zhanxiang once said: "The leading force of culture is the power of exploration, the power of development and, in a word, the vanguard force of culture". From the perspective of developed countries, they attach great importance to using cultural pioneers to promote social development. The "Chinese Dream" is a national dream, a national dream and a personal dream. Its essential connotation is to realize national prosperity, national rejuvenation and people's happiness. To achieve this grand goal, we must adhere to the road of China, carry forward the spirit of China and unite China's strength. China's traditional culture contains the value orientation of "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world", the spiritual characteristics of "vigorous and enterprising, constantly striving for self-improvement", the ecological ethics of "fishing without inexhaustible rivers, hunting without burning forests" and the moral cultivation of "cultivating lofty spirit", which shows us the excellent Chinese cultural traditions, namely, dedication, patriotism, hard struggle, indomitable spirit, environmental awareness and harmonious concept, and noble morality. As the saying goes, "there is no precedent for the strong, and the true meaning of the strong is the vitality of cultural leadership and the science of creating the future."
. From a cultural point of view, China's excellent traditional culture contains rich resources to realize the Chinese dream, and the Chinese dream also contains the cultural power of the Chinese nation towards great rejuvenation. To realize the Chinese dream, we need the banner of cultural spirit, the self-confidence of cultural spirit and the encouragement of cultural spirit. Therefore, under the new historical conditions, vigorously promoting China's excellent traditional culture will help realize the great Chinese dream.