Six Years of Praise for Chinese Culture Speech for Primary School Students Essay 250 Words

The title of my speech is "In Praise of the Great Wall".

The Great Wall is a carrier of Chinese history and culture, it covers a very wide range of cultural carriers in the rich connotations, through specific activities are shown, which undoubtedly between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits to enhance the understanding of Chinese culture, especially for the young generation of Taiwan to promote Chinese culture and tradition, are very meaningful. At present, the Taiwan independence forces on the island are very arrogant, especially the island to promote "cultural Taiwan independence", "de-Chineseization", through the revision of textbooks, distorting history, cut the cross-strait this is not only blood, especially cultural and spiritual ties.

Some time ago, at a cross-strait academic symposium, an associate professor at Taiwan's Normal University named Zhu Hong provided a paper entitled "Comparison of History Textbooks Across the Taiwan Strait," in which, among the comparisons, there was an introduction to the Great Wall. In the newly revised textbooks in Taiwan, the introduction of the Great Wall has basically minimized the historical information contained in the textbooks, and only talked about the architectural aspects. This in itself reflects that the significance of our activities to promote Chinese culture in Taiwan should be subtle, through very vivid and concrete examples to guide and educate the Taiwanese people, especially the young generation.

Culturally speaking, in terms of traditional Chinese culture, we are the young generation, the later generation.

The Great Wall is also very interesting when viewed from the perspective of traditional Chinese paleography. In fact, the concept of the Great Wall did not appear until after the Qin Dynasty. The defense of the city had existed before, and the prototype of the city existed during the Shang Dynasty, and it was basically a demarcation of boundaries in the earliest days. The first concept of the Great Wall was the word "border". In terms of hieroglyphics, the "field" in the Chinese character "疆" is a compacted piece of earth, and the two horizontal lines in the center are boards, or the kind of reeds or blocks we see on the Great Wall of Han Dynasty, which are padded up layer by layer. Plate building is China's most traditional way of building a city. 70s rural wall, still use this most ancient method, two door plate, layer by layer tamped, put on the reed step section, layer by layer, then the frontier, that is, China's earliest, the most traditional wall. The sound of "border" and "wall" is also a phonetic transcription of the word "wall" in terms of philology. The concepts related to the boundary, including the field of a field and the wall of a city, are all in the form of boards. That's why the name "Ban" came to be known as "Bengtu". Boundary map means the area and territory that you control with a wall as the boundary. It can be said that the cultural meaning of our earliest Great Wall construction can be seen in what our forefathers created in the text. Even the traditional Chinese character for "border" refers to the fact that the enemy towers were very high, with earthworks underneath, and that they could stretch on for a long time. The ancient Great Wall, translated in the West as "GREET WALL", is a very accurate translation. The Great Wall was first a wall, then a boundary, which means a structure of compacted earth on top and wood underneath. So, the boundaries of our borders are now directly related to the rammed earth of the wall.

Many scholars believe that after the Great Wall was built, it was basically a kind of division between nomadic people and agricultural people, or even a kind of lifestyle division. Whether it is a division of production, a division of lifestyles, a division of races, in short, it is a kind of civilized state of existence, which is both a kind of separation and a kind of integration. From the Warring States period, this kind of border is found all over China, including the Warring States in the interior of China, there is also this kind of defensive borders, to the Qin, it has a great political and cultural significance. The Qin, as a kind of unification, "the books were written in the same language, the cars were on the same track", and the Great Wall was built to unite the whole territory. In the Han Dynasty, the Hexi Corridor was basically to maintain the transportation line of the Han Dynasty. The lines of communication were to maintain the enclaves. Which enclaves? It's a sandbar, Dunhuang. Dunhuang was a Han settlement that controlled the entire western region. It's sandwiched between the Xiongnu to the north and the Beidi to the south. The Great Wall in the west of the river was built along the Hexi Corridor, a military transportation route, a supply route, and also a transportation route to Dunhuang, where the Great Wall maintained the Silk Road. This section of the Great Wall, which we feel is very different from the Ming Dynasty Great Wall, actually has one meaning - a wall to stop the horses, because the most powerful thing in the military of the nomadic people is the horse. As we all know, after King Wuling of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the method of vehicle warfare has been abandoned, and the tactics of one man and one horse have been adopted. This tactic is very powerful, and nomads rely on cavalry to conquer farming nations. The Great Wall, no doubt, was built so that you could get people over, but not horses, and if the horses couldn't get over, you had no combat power, and you couldn't beat the Han infantry. The Han Dynasty Great Wall in the Hexi Corridor served as a horse barrier. The Ming Dynasty Great Wall is what we see now, it gives us the deepest impression that it is a cultural carrier, it is surrounded by human facilities, including folklore, religion, all aspects of humanities, many, many.

Another point, the Qing Dynasty's Great Wall policy is actually worth studying. The Qing Dynasty's policy of "building a temple is better than raising 100,000 soldiers". Therefore, Chengde is a concentrated Great Wall of the Qing Dynasty, it is the spiritual Great Wall, is the Chinese people multi-ethnic integration of a Great Wall. I think the Qing Dynasty's ethnic policy was the most successful, and is in line with the idea of the Great Wall, is a positive reflection of the idea of the Great Wall of defense of the Chinese people for a long time - through the integration of ethnic groups.

Today, when we study the Great Wall, we have to utilize this spirit. The Great Wall is a symbol of the continuity of Chinese culture; a symbol of the Chinese nation's resistance to foreign invasion and its unyielding spirit; and a symbol of the unity and integration of the Chinese nation*** with the development of the Chinese nation. It is also a symbol of Chinese people's ability to change the world and create. I think these are the cultural significance of the Great Wall. Of course, it has deeper cultural connotations, from archaeology, from culture, from history, including the difference between farming and nomadic herding, including geography, military, including transportation. There are many things that need to be further developed around the Great Wall, including folklore and houses, barracks culture, local markets, local religious beliefs, and Guan Gong's beliefs (ancient soldiers believed in Guan Gong). In addition, the military defense of the Great Wall had a first line and a second line. In fact, the ancient military thinking is the same as the modern military thinking, although the cold weapons and hot weapons are different. These aspects should be fully explored.

In short, the Great Wall provides us with a multi-directional vehicle, not a single one. Most of the Taiwanese youth generation read about the Great Wall in textbooks. How can we bring Chinese culture and history to life, connect that history to the present, and finally, integrate it into their thinking so that Chinese civilization can be passed on?

Now, China is in a state of development, and at the same time, it is affected by the international environment. Gu Yanwu made three inspiring remarks in his "Treatise on Harnessing the Rong". He said, "The degree of grandeur and justice is to open its heart to transformation." Although you have built the Great Wall, sometimes you have to be open-minded and have a soft policy, including the treatment of the world's civilizations, you have to open the "heart to the transformation", you have to be "grand and public". The second phrase is "to store up the power of unpredictability, in order to eliminate the fraud of prior events." It's active defense. If you don't have a defense, but have the power of unpredictability, you will be bullied, and the Great Wall also serves this purpose. The third sentence: "Strict defense is necessary to appease the scourge of prying eyes." In my personal opinion, our new spirit of the Great Wall is, first of all, the continuous spiritual value of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years; secondly, the new spirit of the Great Wall of our nation should be the strength of our comprehensive national power and comprehensive national defense; thirdly, the new spirit of the Great Wall of our nation should be a kind of openness, inclusiveness, a kind of pluralism, a kind of fusion of the development of the civilization of the modern world. With these, our entire Great Wall culture can be everlasting, can keep up with the development of the times, so that the Chinese civilization in the world to carry forward

Thank you for my speech to the end.