How to preserve traditional culture in contemporary China?

Culture is the soul of a nation. Cultural construction is the construction of a nation's soul and spiritual world. Confucianism as the core of Chinese culture, a long history, profound and profound, and its promotion of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, propriety, justice, honesty and shame, prudent speech and sensitive behavior, strict self-discipline, and change the past and move the good and other ethical norms, thousands of years on the casting of the spiritual soul of the Chinese people, the formation of the Chinese people's character, and fostered the pursuit of harmony in the whole nation to maintain unity, advocating the appropriate, benevolence, filial piety and fraternal duty, modesty and courtesy, honesty and self-restraint, and goodwill to others, Seeing profit and thinking of justice, diligent, thrifty, honest, hard-working and loyal to the good qualities of patriotism. The formation of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation and the establishment of a noble moral value system are inseparable from the long-term nurturing of Confucian culture. Confucianism is a product of the Chinese nation, but many of its tenets, has a universal significance, some of its quotes and aphorisms, has become the most sensible words, all the crowd society is applicable, never "out of date". Mao Zedong said in the article "China *** Producer's Position in the National War": "To study our historical heritage and to summarize it critically by Marxist methods is another task of our study. We are a people with thousands of years of history, with its characteristics and its many precious goods. For all this, we are still elementary school students. Today's China is a development of the historical China; we are Marxist historians and we should not cut off history. From Confucius to Sun Yat-sen, we should give a summary and inherit this precious heritage. This is an important help in guiding the present great movement." From this we can say that traditional Chinese culture, represented by Confucianism, has had a deep influence on the cultural structure, psychological characteristics, ethics and morals of the Chinese people, and so on. Although these spirits are also invariably marked by the feudal era, their positive dimensions have all been inherited and developed by benevolent men and women of all generations, and have become a great force in the long-term development of the Chinese nation. Therefore, our construction of socialist spiritual civilization with Chinese characteristics today should not leave the excellent cultural heritage of our motherland, and should absorb, learn from and carry forward the reasonable components thereof, and still need to study and research on traditional culture.

Since China's reform and opening up, the rapid economic development, the country a prosperous scene, but on the other hand, the society appeared many shortcomings and crooked, corruption, fraud, counterfeiting and other moral corruption is not uncommon. Once this situation becomes serious, it will threaten the survival of the country, as is the case with the collapse of regimes in many countries. However, it should be noted that our country is a country with an excellent cultural tradition of several thousand years, and fundamentally speaking, the quality of the people is good. Confucianism teaches people to be good, teaches people how to behave and be a person of noble character, and guides us on how to cultivate ourselves, govern the country and pacify the world. People imbued with the Confucian tradition appear to be cultured and gentle; people with the Confucian tradition mostly regard education as an end in itself rather than a means to an end, and so both men and women, old and young, have a high desire to pursue knowledge; people with the Confucian tradition tend to be far-sighted and culturally literate, and they are always motivated by a desire to promote the collective interest. Therefore, as long as the government leads by example, pay close attention to moral education, promote traditional virtues, raise the people's ideological awareness, at the same time, like Singapore, Japan and other countries, on the one hand, on the one hand, to convince people with morality, on the other hand, the strict rule of law, and the law enforcement must be "serious" and "rigorous", then the social atmosphere will certainly be able to support the people. Then the social atmosphere will be able to correct, spiritual civilization construction will see the effect, China will have great hope.

Today China is trying to build a harmonious society. Social harmony is the concentrated manifestation of the degree of social civilization, and the development of social civilization is closely related. The development of social civilization, whether it is material civilization, political civilization or spiritual civilization, is based on the development of the ideological and moral qualities and scientific and cultural qualities of all members of society, and is aimed at comprehensively improving the quality of human beings and promoting their development. Therefore, in the process of building a harmonious socialist society, we must vigorously promote the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. The Chinese nation has always advocated that "poverty cannot be shifted, wealth cannot be obscene, and might cannot be subjugated", emphasizing that "timing is better than geography, and geography is better than harmony", and pursuing "harmony is precious", The pursuit of "harmony is precious" and "all things prosper when the family is in harmony", advocating benevolence, filial piety and fraternal duty, being kind and charitable, helping those in danger and need, and taking "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust" as the basic norms for dealing with people. In times of crisis, these traditions are carried forward. For example, "when one side is in trouble, eight sides support" during the flood fight in 1998; "neighbors help each other, watch out for each other" during the fight against SARS; that is, when the tsunami occurred in the Indian Ocean, the whole country extended a hand of selfless assistance in a timely manner. These traditional virtues have become an important aspect of strengthening national cohesion and building a harmonious society.

China to be rich and strong, the weapons in our own hands, we should cherish their own cultural heritage, use this heritage.