What is the relationship between traditional civilization and ecological civilization in China?

What is the national condition of China? One is China's hardware such as population, resources and environment, and the other is China's "software" such as cultural traditions and social ethics. Scientific Outlook on Development is the latest achievement of Marxism in China and the inevitable choice of China's national conditions. This inevitability, in addition to the well-known realistic choice of population, resources and environment, also has a profound cultural appeal, that is, the ecological civilization contained in China traditional culture itself.

Choosing the road of western traditional industrial civilization, only from the ecological level, because the cost of resources and environment in China can't be transferred and the national conditions of its own resources, environment and population can't be supported, China has made economic achievements in the past 30 years in the west 100 years, while environmental pollution in the west 100 years has been concentrated in China for 30 years.

This global economic crisis shows that if China continues to follow the old road of western industrial civilization, it will only be a dead end. Because China's population, resources and environment base is much worse than that of the west. So I think this crisis is a good opportunity for us to re-examine western industrial civilization and our own cultural traditions.

Western industrial civilization is a civilization driven by unlimited profits. Cities with modern capitalist system as the system and industry, commerce and finance as the carriers have brought great wealth to human society. There are many reasons for the emergence of industrial civilization, but the fundamental reason is the discovery of the new continent, the opening of colonies, the expansion of markets and raw materials, and the transfer of all class contradictions, economic contradictions and social contradictions in China. After moving for hundreds of years, they finally found that any crisis can be moved, but the environmental crisis can't, and everyone "unfortunately" lives on the same earth. Because of the climate crisis, hurricanes not only hit Southeast Asia, but also hit New Orleans. Rising sea water will not only flood the small islands in the South Pacific, but also flood new york.

The mainstream of China's 5,000-year-old traditional culture is Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, all of which are pursuing the harmonious unity between man and nature. Confucianism emphasizes "caring for people and caring for things", that is, people and things are like brothers and sisters, friends and brothers, and all things are integrated and care for each other. Taoism advocates "nature" and hopes to realize the harmony and unity of human nature through "Tao and nature". Although Buddhism is a foreign culture, it has been well integrated with the local culture of China and has become an important part of China orthodoxy. Buddhism puts forward that "Buddha nature" is the origin of all things, and the differences between all things are only different manifestations of Buddha nature. Its essence is the unity of Buddhism and nature, and all beings are equal. "The mountains and rivers are all buddhas."

These values are embodied as a "degree" in the real system and life. Degree means propriety, moderation, politeness, balance and harmony. Degree is a leisurely space, degree is the art of advancing and retreating, degree is the proper balance of the golden mean, and degree is a kind of wisdom to stand up for people. In a word, "Degree" is not only China's political wisdom, but also China's life wisdom, and it is also a concise expression of China's ecological wisdom.

This wisdom is also firmly rooted in grassroots society through family and etiquette. Like the way you run a family. Zhu Zi's Family Instructions is a textbook for children aged five or six from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. What is taught in it? "A porridge and a meal are hard to come by; Half-silk and half-wisp, always thinking about material difficulties ","the utensils are clean, and the tiles are better than gold; Eat well, garden vegetables are better than delicacies, leave room for everything, be proud not to go again, plan ahead, and dig wells without thirst. Educating people who grow up in this way is conducive to forming a temperate, gentle and calm attitude towards life.

Of course, there are kendo, wine road, game road, medical road, medicine road, Jianghu road and so on. The so-called Tao is spirit, principle and realm. I won't say much.

Heaven is naturally connected, and human relations are daily. We no longer pursue the maximization of material enjoyment, but the beauty of life and the artistic conception of life, which makes the daily life in ecological civilization surpass the realistic utilitarian pursuit. These life practices seem to be a trickle, but they have merged into a healthy and civilized lifestyle required by ecological civilization. This leisurely lifestyle can correct the fog of consumerism and nihilism brought by western industrial civilization by restraining people's infinite desires and pursuing full spiritual pursuits.

I firmly believe that although China's traditional civilization is the product of agricultural civilization, it can be creatively transformed in modern times. Especially in the aspect of ecology, China Taoism not only pursues the unity of heaven and man in value concept, but also has a series of matching system designs, which have penetrated into the life practice of the masses for thousands of years, and have a strong pertinence for solving the current economic crisis and ecological crisis.

It is entirely possible for China to leap from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization in just over a hundred years, and then leap from industrial civilization to ecological civilization ahead of schedule. Because China already has the economic, political and cultural foundation to realize this strategy: China's modernization has greatly liberated and developed the productive forces, the national wealth has increased rapidly, and the comprehensive national strength has been greatly improved, which is the economic foundation for China to build an ecological civilization; China's modernization has completed the historical mission of saving the nation from subjugation and surviving, and a political nation bearing the Millennium orthodoxy finally stands in the east of the world, which is the political basis for China to build an ecological civilization. China Taoism, full of ecological wisdom, has achieved creative transformation in modern society, which is the ideological and cultural basis for China to build ecological civilization. Therefore, China is fully qualified and capable of realizing the leap-forward development of human civilization in three stages.