How to treat traditional culture?

The Chinese nation has a long history and profound traditional culture, which makes China people proud and is an important cohesive force of the Chinese nation. On the other hand, China, which has fallen behind in modern times, is moving towards modernization. Although China people's ideas, thinking, behaviors and lifestyles are undergoing great changes, and China culture is also undergoing all-round transformation and development, this transformation and development itself started from tradition. As a cultural form, China traditional culture itself has cultural and scientific value.

National culture is not static, it is constantly updated and developed in the unity of opposites with the development of the times, and it is also constantly updated and developed in its own unity of opposites. The Chinese nation is an ancient country with a civilization of 5,000 years, and it is also a country that advocates decoration. In each historical period, China's ancestors left different styles of decorative heritage. For example, the original painted pottery pattern is simple and simple, and the frog pattern, fish pattern and vortex pattern summarized after a long period of refining are full of vitality. Calligraphy art, tile pattern and portrait brick pattern in Qin and Han dynasties; Lacquerware decoration in the Western Han Dynasty takes black, red and gold as the contrast, and the overall shape is elegant and noble. The Tang Dynasty pioneered the pattern of grass-rolling plants in China, and the rich pattern of Tang grass changed subtly and harmoniously. The characteristics of ceramics in Song Dynasty are beautiful and elegant. Folk blue-and-white porcelain, with its impromptu ink and wash style, folk embroidery, paper-cut lace, auspicious patterns and other artistic forms, is simple in shape and bright in color. It is the crystallization of the rich imagination and artistic creation of working people in past dynasties in China and has high application value.

Culture, in a broad sense, refers to the sum of material and spiritual productivity and wealth created by human beings in the social practice of transforming the world, including material civilization, spiritual civilization and institutional civilization. Culture in a narrow sense mainly refers to spiritual production capacity and spiritual products. Traditional culture is the cultural heritage of material civilization and spiritual civilization accumulated by a nation in long-term social practice. It is also the spiritual embodiment of the nation's unique way of thinking. Traditional culture has both essence and dross, which can neither be completely denied nor absorbed. Only by standing at the height of the times, through practical tests, absorbing the essence and eliminating the dross can we play its role correctly.

The main body of China's traditional culture is Confucian culture, and its modern value is first manifested in its openness to other cultures. This is a basic prerequisite for the development of China traditional culture and its role in modern society. However, the openness of traditional culture or Confucianism also has its specific significance, that is, it advocates the openness of each individual to the social country in which he lives. Emphasize that individuals have a sense of participation in social countries. This sense of participation is characterized by paying attention to the practical process of participation itself, rather than overemphasizing the results of current utilitarianism. Under the influence of this cultural model, people can endure suffering temporarily and work tirelessly, which can be said to be an important cultural driving force for China's modernization.

China traditional culture is a relatively stable cultural form formed and developed by the Chinese nation in the ancient society of China, the crystallization of Chinese wisdom and the display of Chinese historical heritage in real life. This ideological system contains rich cultural and scientific spirit, which is mainly reflected in three aspects: First, cohesion theory. China traditional culture is a culture with internal cohesion. The basic spirit of this culture is to pay attention to harmony and organically link individuals with others, individuals with groups, and people with nature to form a culture. Second, the study of compatibility. China's traditional culture is not a closed system. Although China's foreign exchange in ancient times was restricted, it achieved the compatibility of foreign Buddhism with an open attitude. Third, the study of practical application. The essential feature of culture is to promote the humanization of nature and society. China's traditional culture highlights the Confucian style of study. It takes the learning of heaven and man as the starting point, self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world as the foothold, and strives to realize its value in the real society. Practicality is the basic spirit of cultural science.

Traditional culture is relative to modernization, but it is not a stagnant pool, but a dynamic inheritance. Human beings create traditional culture in their own social practice and innovate and enrich traditions in practice. Otherwise, it will not become a realistic cultural tradition. Therefore, we should not simply attribute traditional culture to "past history", but should realize that it is related to the present and the future at the same time. We regard development as "anti-tradition". Its way of thinking is to oppose traditional culture and modern culture. In fact, any modernization can only proceed from the realistic traditional culture, otherwise it will become passive water and a tree without roots. Therefore, we must never take a totally negative attitude towards traditional culture. We must seek truth from facts, analyze specific problems, test them in practice, and eliminate those outdated things. We should inherit the significance of China's traditional culture. I think it is mainly reflected in: it is conducive to the improvement of social atmosphere. Since the reform and opening up, due to the impact of various foreign thoughts, many people's thoughts in China have undergone great changes. It has always been a fine tradition of our Chinese nation to respect the old and love the young and honor our parents.

Under the atmosphere that science has become the guidance of the group and society, accepting and pursuing science at the request of the group has become the real content of moral self-discipline that restricts one's behavior. Self-cultivation and self-cultivation can be transformed into establishing, cultivating and adhering to the yearning and belief in scientific civilization. In a sense, contemporary China's enthusiasm for science is unprecedented, which to some extent reflects the positive role of ethics in promoting and encouraging this trend.

As far as life value is concerned, traditional culture highlights the importance of people's spiritual needs. When fish (life) and bear's paw (morality) can't have both, it becomes people's conscious choice to sacrifice life for righteousness. Such "righteousness" has shaped the indomitable national spirit and maintained the endless cultural tradition. However, traditional culture has not neglected the value of material life. The filial piety thought based on the inheritance of material life makes it bear a heavy burden.

As far as the popular views of Chinese and Western cultures and their values are concerned, China culture is neither a typical dichotomy between man and nature nor a simple integration, but a combination of points and points, which complement each other. The harmony between man and nature originates from the original affinity between man and nature, while the harmony between man and nature in Taoism is based on natural inaction, while the harmony between man and nature in Confucianism mainly plays a role as a moral ideal and spiritual realm. It is the product of Confucian scholars constructing their own world picture based on ethics. Understanding the difference between man and nature, making reasonable adjustments, considering and respecting man's value, and giving full play to man's role are the most important characteristics of the thought of separating man from nature. Because China's philosophy is the unity of unity and division, there is no shortage of the concept of subjectivity as the basis of philosophy. Speculation between man and nature is not only the most reasonable content, but also today.

The traditional culture of China is the crystallization of thousands of years of civilization in China. In addition to the core content of Confucian culture, it also includes other cultural forms, such as Taoist culture and Buddhist culture. Traditional culture is the mainstream concept and value orientation that originates from the past and integrates the present and the future. As an ideology, it widely affects people's thoughts and behaviors.

A major feature of China's traditional culture is that it is all-inclusive, that is, it is good to carry things. For example, during the Warring States Period, Qi Huangong founded the Gong Xue in Xia Ji, which brought together hundred schools of thought of Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, Legalism, Yin and Yang, and Famous Classics at that time. At that time, there were Chunyu Kun, Zou Yan, Tian Pian, Mencius and Xunzi who gave lectures in Gong Xue, Xia Ji, and they were called a hundred schools. These masters speak freely in Gong Xue. It has made great contributions to the future of China culture. It is generally believed that since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, China has formed a cultural situation dominated by Confucianism, but in fact, the history of China's cultural development is mainly based on the complementarity of Confucianism and Taoism, which itself reflects the cultural compatibility.

Harmonious ideological realm, the highest realm of China traditional culture is harmony, that is, everything should develop naturally according to its own laws, including harmony between people, personal self-harmony, and harmony between man and nature. Harmony between people will promote social stability and family harmony; The harmony of individual's body and mind can make people calm and well-founded; The harmony between man and nature can be mutually beneficial and develop continuously. The ultimate goal of Confucianism is to achieve the first harmony, while Buddhism and Taoism focus on the latter two. Taoism's thought of "Taoism is natural" is particularly useful for us to learn how to correctly handle the relationship between man and nature and protect the environment today.

It is not only traditional culture that pursues harmony. In today's 2 1 century, we are still pursuing harmony. "Harmonious society" has become the theme of today's society and will be a long-term topic and goal. This is the embodiment of China's traditional culture and the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture.