Does the enlightenment tradition of "teaching by literature" have positive significance today?

The educational tradition of "teaching by writing" has been passed down from generation to generation through literary forms, which has injected people with political enthusiasm, enterprising spirit and sense of social mission, making the Chinese nation a civilized and polite country with reasonable knowledge and creativity.

The educational tradition of "writing carries the Tao" keeps China ancient literature from being divorced from reality in general, and makes the works have substance in words, express the true feelings and spread the true meaning, especially inheriting the people-oriented thought in Confucianism, which has played an educational role.

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The enlightenment tradition of "writing carries Tao" has become the basic spirit and cultural feature of the whole ancient literature in China.

Confucianism, as the mainstream of traditional culture in China, takes ethics center and political supremacy as its core, which has exerted great influence on ancient China literature. Literature has become a tool of political education, which has become the most prominent feature of China's ancient literature. Han Yu, a great writer in the middle Tang Dynasty, summed up the experience of China's literary creation and put forward the idea of "the integration of literature and Taoism".

"Literature" is the form, "Tao" is the content, and "the unity of literature and Taoism" is to advocate the unity of form and content. In other words, all literary forms exist by preaching some truth. "Literature" is the carrier of "Tao", and Tao educates people.

Throughout China's ancient literature, "Tao" is mainly Confucianism. The writers in ancient China basically grew up under the influence of Confucianism. The idea of "self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world" is the life goal and value orientation of most intellectuals.