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The reason why China's traditional culture is facing crisis.

1 China's traditional culture has been impacted by western culture and affected to some extent. On the one hand, western culture enriches our lives and makes our lives more colorful; On the other hand, we blindly accept western culture, which makes China's traditional culture fall into the crisis of conflict with western culture, and then leads us to lose some traditional culture.

In the modern Opium War, China culture was threatened by western culture. After the Opium War, China began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, which was impacted by advanced western culture. In history, the self-centered cultural development model of tolerance and absorption has been unable to continue, and China has to learn from western culture. By the 1960s of 19, the invasion of China by western countries was further intensified, and the Westernization School began the cultural and ideological activities of "taking learning as the body and using western learning". It used to think that western learning was a "bad style", but now it is considered as knowledge that can strengthen the country. Because of this influence, China began to realize his own shortcomings and began to criticize and reflect on his own culture. In order to save the nation and survive, advanced intellectuals set off a new culture movement. On the one hand, they inherited the western democratic and scientific spirit. On the other hand, intellectuals, represented by Hu Shi and Chen, who advocate "total westernization", believe that it is the choice of the times to learn from advanced western culture and rebel against traditional China culture, which has caused cultural rupture to some extent. However, in the New Culture Movement, some traditional cultures re-entered the stage, such as advocating vernacular Chinese and new literature.

From the Opium War, when western powers opened the door to China, to our present life, it seems that we are constantly influenced by western culture, so that our way of life is also influenced to a certain extent: watching Hollywood blockbusters, drinking coke, eating hamburgers, celebrating Christmas and other western festivals, advocating western technology and so on. China's Double Ninth Festival and Chinese Valentine's Day have been left out in the cold. At present, more and more western culture has penetrated into our daily life, such as medical equipment in hospitals, machinery and equipment in factories, and foreign clothing styles. While enjoying western culture, don't forget your roots, but be tolerant.

China takes economic construction as the center, and economic construction has become the focus of various national undertakings. This single economic development leads us to relatively ignore the necessity of protecting and continuing China culture.

In the early days of the founding of New China, our Party established the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and believed that the way out for China's future development lies in combining the guiding ideology of Marxism with the reality of China, and formulated the literary and artistic policy of "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend". However, during the "ten years of turmoil" with class struggle as the key link, dogmatism copied Mao Zedong Thought and refused to absorb and learn from the essence of western and China traditional culture. The western advanced culture is defined as bourgeoisie, and the traditional culture of China is defined as feudal superstition. Many cultural relics have been destroyed, and only "red" things such as slogans are left in cultural life, which greatly limits the inheritance of traditional culture in China.

China's calligraphy is a unique traditional art of Chinese characters in China. The aesthetic feeling and techniques presented by calligraphy art reflect the wisdom of the ancients and the essence of Chinese character culture. At the same time, China's calligraphy is loved by Japanese, Korean and other countries. At present, Japanese calligraphy has gradually surpassed China, the originator of calligraphy art, in popularity, achievements and mounting quality. In Japan, one in every five or six Japanese learns calligraphy, and there are about 6,543.8+0,000 people in Japan who can be called calligraphers and hold solo exhibitions and produce collections of works [654.38+0]. Although computers are popular now, Japan has inherited the tradition of calligraphy. Ministers usually use writing brush when signing national documents or formal occasions, because they think that writing with writing brush is an important way to show personal qualities. Moreover, every New Year's Day, Japanese men, women and children go to temples and shrines to write calligraphy. After writing, they cross their hands and recite it. Finally, they are enshrined in temples, so that their wishes at the beginning of the year can be realized. The popularity and importance of calligraphy education is also one of the important reasons why Japan can inherit the art of calligraphy. There are calligraphy classes in primary and secondary schools in Japan. In addition, there are many calligraphy interest classes in Japan, which provide opportunities for calligraphy lovers to learn and cultivate their interests. It can be seen that without the understanding and promotion of traditional culture, the inheritance of traditional culture in China will be water without a source and a tree without a root.

The development of modernization makes people embark on the road of prosperity, but it is followed by the decline of moral values, which conflicts with the values of traditional culture. As early as the pre-Qin period, Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, put forward the concept of "benevolence", which was mainly reflected in his concern and respect for people. The idea of compassion and universal love put forward by Buddhism also embodies the view of human nature, which is consistent with the universal love of benevolence and Mohism in Confucianism. Taoism advocates respecting nature and conforming to the laws of nature, and human activities should be carried out without destroying the natural environment. In fact, these schools are advocating the concept of harmony between man and nature in order to achieve the balance between nature and man. However, in recent years, news has constantly exposed various ugly phenomena, and the bad atmosphere of corrupt officials is also growing and spreading. Secondly, people greedily take from nature, which leads to the pollution and destruction of air, water and other necessities. Illegal traders use chemical additives indiscriminately, which makes food safety a hidden danger and threatens our living environment. We should not take personal interests as the starting point, but should consider the overall situation, so that man and nature can develop harmoniously, and we should bear in mind the wisdom and morality of China culture.