Why should we attach importance to the inheritance of traditional culture?

Traditional culture refers to the sum of material and spiritual things accumulated by a nation in its long-term communication with nature. Traditional culture has both essence and dross. Culture, especially traditional culture, cannot be separated from education. In human history, culture and civilization have been continued through education, and changed with the help of people's constant innovation, from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, thus forming a qualitatively different evolution history of culture and civilization.

(1) Excellent traditional culture.

Our ancestors left us countless cultural treasures, and even today's people have never reached such a high ideological level. These are all spiritual wealth that we must pass on. For example, Mencius said that when a country is not benevolent, a just country can hold high the banner of justice to crusade. This argument is similar to the current international view that "human rights are above sovereignty". For another example, the spirit of loyalty and serving the country accumulated by the Chinese nation in resisting foreign invasion is also in the same strain as the concept of honor and disgrace advocated now.

(2) There are also dross in traditional culture.

Due to thousands of years of feudal history in China, especially the farming civilization and bureaucratic culture, attached great importance to agriculture over commerce, relied too much on the official class, failed to establish a business culture to meet the needs of the market economy, and lacked awareness of property rights and integrity. The emperor pays attention to enfeoffment and separation of princes, so it is difficult for Chinese people to have that kind of giant transnational super-large enterprises, and it is even more difficult to unite scattered assets in the form of shares at home, which we need to abandon.

Therefore, when educating young people to inherit and carry forward traditional culture, we should adopt a scientific attitude of "taking its essence and discarding its dross", carry out traditional culture education in schools, create a good atmosphere in the whole society and carry forward our traditional culture.