What are the examples of traditional culture?

The protection and application of traditional culture is not uncommon in our daily life. So what are the examples of traditional culture? Let's get to know each other.

What are the examples of traditional culture?

In the traditional culture of China, the idea of self-improvement, attaching importance to morality, caring for the country and the people, educating people with morality and living in harmony is of great significance to the current quality education. 、

1. Spirit of Self-improvement In order to fight against heaven and earth, the people of China never give up easily, but always fight tirelessly. "Yi Zhuan" is summed up as "Heaven is strong, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement". It is this spirit of self-improvement that supports the development of the Chinese nation and inspires Chinese sons and daughters to rise up in difficulties, forge ahead in adversity and never give in to foreign oppression. Self-improvement is also reflected in the personality characteristics of self-reliance and self-esteem, which forms the national spirit of China people advocating fame and fortune. As Confucius said, "the three armed forces can win the handsome position, but ordinary people can't win the ambition." Mencius said, "Richness and wealth can't be lewd, poverty and lowliness can't be moved, and powerful people can't be bent. These three people are called courageous people. " This makes people pursue independent and perfect personality, and this virtue has been handed down, which has become the spiritual force for people to struggle for the country and the nation and promoted the development of society.

2. Worrying about the country and people is an important part of China traditional culture. From Confucius's "Poetry can be blamed" to Fan Zhongyan's "Worry about the world first, then enjoy the world", and then to Gu's "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world", all of them are branded with this sense of hardship. From Yue Fei's "Laughing and Thirst for Huns' Blood" to Wen Tianxiang's "Keeping the heart of Danes and Showing History". This sense of hardship is a patriotic spirit, which embodies the noble feelings of taking the world as one's responsibility.

3. A characteristic of China's traditional culture is that it is tolerant of everything, that is, taking things with kindness. For example, during the Warring States Period, Qi Huangong founded Jixia Academy, which brought together hundred schools of thought of Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, Legalism, Yin and Yang, fame and so on. At that time, there were Chunyu Kun, Zou Yan, Tian Pian, Mencius, Xunzi, etc., who gave lectures and traveled in Jixia Academy, and they were called a hundred schools. These masters gave lectures in academies and debated freely, which initiated a hundred schools of thought in the cultural history of China and made great contributions to the future of China culture. It is generally believed that since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a cultural situation dominated by Confucian culture has formed in China. But in fact, the history of China's cultural development is mainly based on the complementarity of Confucianism and Taoism, and this clue itself reflects the cultural compatibility.

4. The noble demeanor of virtuous people Guan Zhong, a great politician in the Spring and Autumn Period, once linked morality with the survival of the country, and raised propriety, justice and shame to the height of the rise and fall of the country. Confucius, a great thinker, even explained benevolence by courtesy, thinking that benevolence and propriety are mutually restricted and unified, and the unity of benevolence and propriety is virtue. The "virtue" emphasized by Confucius refers to the virtue of the commander-in-chief of the ruling class, which is required to rule and own the people. Second, it refers to the virtue of influence, that is, the virtue of ethics, in order to influence the people and maintain harmony. This idea of respecting morality is constantly developing and generalizing, which has been fully reflected in family ethics. This makes our country always put morality first in the process of ancient cultural communication and education. For example, the content of Confucius' education is etiquette, music, shooting, martial arts and mathematics. He puts etiquette first, which is a typical embodiment of the idea of respecting morality in educational activities. The purpose of this thought is to advocate educating people with morality, and to seek the harmony of family ethics, the consistency of social and political order and the stability of the whole social order by using the function and strength of morality.

5 Harmonious Ideological Realm The highest realm of China traditional culture is harmony, which means that everything should develop naturally according to its own laws. This includes the harmony between people, the harmony between individual self and body, and the 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 of great significance for us to learn how to correctly handle the relationship between man and nature and protect the environment today. China's traditional culture also believes that to achieve the above three kinds of harmony, we must adhere to the "golden mean", that is, we should do things appropriately and oppose going to extremes.

Historical evolution of traditional culture

The traditional culture of China, represented by pre-Qin Confucianism, talks about the understanding of people and society and the pursuit of social behavior norms, that is, "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith". Confucianism emphasizes "ceremony" and pursues "ceremony", that is, to establish the same values in human society, so as to regulate and restrain people's social behavior. "Wen" refers not only to words, articles and literary talents, but also to the system of rites and music and legal provisions. The ancient word "Wen" refers to the meaning of texture and pattern. Later, it developed into "Wen", including beautiful words, thoughts, behaviors, and treating people with things. The word civilization is a continuation of "Wen". "Culture" means "enlightenment" and "teaching behavior".

After the chaos of the quiet and complete era of the Western Zhou Dynasty, during this period, until the Spring and Autumn Period (around 550 BC) when Laozi and Confucius lived, during this 300-year period, Zhou Guo and the people of various vassal States did not get a good rest, nor did they really live and work in peace and contentment, and they have been living in war. "Zhou Li? Tussah's: "If you want to change it." "Mandarin? Today: "If you win or lose." Book of rites? Music Note: "Harmony but Difference." "Mencius?" "It's ugly in the sun": "Besides, those who compare with others have nothing to do with the soil. "Xunzi? Correcting the name: "the state is not different, and the difference is called transformation." "Is it easy? Cohesion biography: "the way to know change." Shuowen: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can." Xu Hao said that "Bi Hua ancient and modern figures" are used for change, which means change.

The merger war in the Warring States period was more intense, frequent and larger than that in the Spring and Autumn Period. By 222 BC, the Qin Dynasty attacked Liaodong, wiped out Qi and unified China. During this period, it was over 200 years. Although Confucius and Mencius thought did not disappear, it rarely passed down. In particular, Qin Shihuang's "burning books to bury Confucianism" is undoubtedly a great blow to the inheritance of these ideas.

Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty said in Shuo Yuan: "Where martial arts flourish, it means that you don't accept it, and if your culture doesn't change, you will be punished." Here, the word "culture" is opposite to "martial arts" and means education. Wang Rong in Southern Qi Dynasty said in the Preface to Qushui Poetry: "Set the spirit to manage the scenery, and apply the culture to be soft and far-reaching". The word "culture" also means civilized education. The word "culture" comes from the Latin culture in the west, which originally meant farming and plant cultivation. It has been gradually used since15th century, and the cultivation of people's morality and ability is also called culture. The Chinese and western sources of the word "culture" reach the same goal by different routes. Now it is used to refer to the spiritual phenomenon of human society, or to refer to the sum of all material products and intangible products created by human beings. History, anthropology and sociology usually use broad cultural concepts.

In the Song Dynasty around A.D. 1 150, Zhu took Cheng Yi's disciple as his teacher and discovered the flaws in the study of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. So he devoted himself to studying Confucianism, inherited Cheng Zhu's second journey, and developed it independently, forming his own system, which was later called Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism. On the basis of native Confucianism and Dong Zhongshu's theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, he integrated foreign Buddhism and realized the earliest practice of making foreign things serve China. He is a master of "rites" and one of the main representatives of Confucianism in China. His academic thoughts are broad and profound. However, during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in China, the class interests of the ruling class distorted and consolidated Zhu Xue, which became the theoretical basis for the superstructure to implement political and cultural autocracy and a powerful spiritual pillar for consolidating the ruling order of feudal society. It strengthened the "three cardinal guides and five permanents" and hindered the later changes in feudal society.

19 19 The May 4th Movement was a new cultural movement against feudal culture. On the one hand, we expect and demand the realization and development of freedom, rationality, rule of law and democracy, on the other hand, it is the rise and proliferation of all-round anti-tradition. Until the 1970s, the idea of total westernization still existed. Today, many people still denounce Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism as feudal dross, and think that only "science" can strengthen the country and save the country.