How to correctly understand Lu Xun's "takenism" attitude towards traditional culture in modern society?

I think that when Lu Xun wrote "Takeism" on 1934, he had a certain reflection on his past tendency of being excessively biased towards the May 4th new culture and criticizing China's traditional culture, and retreated from the road of denying traditional culture. Therefore, the object of Lu Xun's "takenism" is China traditional culture, and "takenism" is also an attitude towards traditional culture. According to Lu Xun's exposition in the article, traditional culture should be inherited, absorbed, improved and abandoned. In other words, Lu Xun's "takenism" advocates an objective view of traditional culture. The emergence of this attitude, first, because the total westernization is too paranoid, and second, because the "total retro" against the "total westernization" is too stubborn. Therefore, Lu Xun's "takenism" advocates that we should use our brains and have a vision to "take" traditional culture ourselves, which is actually an indirect criticism of "total westernization" and cannot blindly deny traditional culture. In the article "Takeism", Lu Xun specifically mentioned the "terror" caused by western "Takeism" in China, which clearly showed his denial of "total westernization". Lu Xun's position in this period is not exactly the same as his own views in the past.

However, many years after Lu Xun initiated "takenism", some people's understanding of "takenism" was completely different from Lu Xun's original intention at that time. The current "takenism" is more important to "take it" from the west, rather than from the tradition as Lu Xun said. The current "takenism" is sometimes even equivalent to the "takenism" criticized by Lu Xun. At that time, opium, guns, gunpowder and movies were all sent from the west. Now, some continue to send, some are no longer cheeky and forced to send, and some are still "sending" for new things. Nowadays, many people shout "takenism" under the banner of Lu Xun, which is actually the "total westernization" of Lu Xun's criticism. They accept "takenism" in its entirety. At the same time, the present "takenism" almost completely abandons the traditional culture of China and regards it as rubbish. In fact, this is exactly what Lu Xun opposed. If Lu Xun knew about it, he might not agree.

Lu Xun's "takenism" attitude towards China's traditional culture is also applicable to China people's attitude towards western culture. However, under modern conditions, when we adopt a "takenism" attitude towards western culture, we should have a new understanding. Lu Xun said that traditional culture should be inherited, absorbed, improved and abandoned. In fact, these principles are equally effective in treating western culture. The key is to have your own mind and vision in order to judge the essence of western culture and know what is good and need to be "brought". There are still some things that should not be "brought", and there are still some things that need to be improved after "brought". Of course, "takenism" is somewhat naive or inaccurate here, because the "takenism" we hope is not in harmony with the "takenism" that the West hopes. Some things that the west wants to send are free, some are paid, and even forcibly apportioned. However, we often don't know that what the West sends for free is often the bait for fishing, and some of us think this is the proof of the success of "takenism". Most of the things we want to bring are not available, so we need to pay. We are willing to "take them" and are easily prosecuted and punished by the West. Therefore, we happily imagine the western "takenism", which is often regarded as "stealing" by the west. Therefore, we also find that "takenism" is sometimes "comprador", and "takenism" often becomes the cover of internal and external collusion, which may be the motivation for some people to steal Lu Xun's concept of "takenism".

There is a great difference between "takenism" against western culture and "takenism" against traditional culture. For traditional culture, if you want to bring it, there will generally be no obstacles. Let's discuss it at most. How about after you bring it? Modern? Moreover, the traditional "belt" is basically free, and there is no "buy" or "send". However, for western culture, we find that some things we urgently need are really useful and good things. We are very eager to "bring them here" and even willing to spend a lot of money to completely fulfill the "buyism." The west is unwilling, such as high technology, which seems to be called "exclusion." Therefore, for the "takenism" of western culture, we should not be too wishful thinking that as long as we want to "take it", others will be willing to give it, except that we have the brains and vision to choose to "take it"; Think we want to buy, others will sell. Too many facts tell us that there are some things that we are eager to "take" but are rejected, and we can't "take" or "buy" at all; And many things that we don't want and don't need are constantly "sent" by the West.

When we accept the attitude that we also need an objective and calm "takenism" to treat the West, we will encounter another problem. What should I bring? What should I not eat? Why can't I get it When we face these problems, we all say that we should have brains and vision. However, what kind of brain should we have? What kind of vision do you have? When our minds and eyes are indoctrinated and brainwashed by the west, and we all have the same ideas and eyes as the west, isn't our "taking" equal to the "sending" or "buying" that the west hopes? Therefore, if we can use western culture as a reference to judge how to "bring" traditional culture, we also need to use traditional culture as a reference to look at how to "bring" and "buy" western culture, and we also need to use the reality of China as a reference. This should be the attitude of modern China people towards "takenism".