Confucius' Contribution to China Culture

As a great educator, thinker and founder of Confucianism, Confucius has long been closely related to China culture. It can be said that in the 5,000-year history of China, Confucius had the greatest influence on the character and temperament of the Chinese nation. He is upright, optimistic and enterprising, pursuing truth, goodness and beauty all his life and pursuing an ideal society all his life. His success and failure are related to his personality. His character has influenced China people for thousands of years, especially the intellectuals in China. In our cultural blood and spiritual heritage, it seems that the image of Confucius has been everywhere, but it seems that Confucius has never been a tangible image, and we just live under the influence of Confucius' thought. In the past hundred years, China people's understanding of Confucius' thought has generally shown a thread from "respect" to "criticism" and then to "objective examination and reasonable sublation". During the May 4th Movement, Confucius thought was severely criticized and attacked by the leaders of the "new culture". During the Cultural Revolution, Confucius' position in the hearts of Chinese people fell to the lowest point in history because of the noisy "criticizing Confucius" movement. After the Cultural Revolution, the movement to criticize Confucius was denied, and the attitude of China people towards Confucius gradually became positive. Some people think that the phenomenon of "parent-child reading" in folk education, from Confucianism's obvious learning in 1980s and 1990s to the resumption of the ceremony of offering sacrifices to Confucius, shows that contemporary China people have a good understanding of Confucius' thoughts. Confucius is a symbol of China's traditional culture. In the history of China for thousands of years, Confucian culture initiated by Confucius has been the foundation and mainstream of traditional culture in China, which has had a far-reaching impact on the development of the Chinese nation. In today's era of globalization, many people in China have realized that it is necessary to inherit the wisdom refined by Confucius 2,500 years ago. In fact, China is actively and seriously treating and utilizing the ideological legacy left by Confucius. Jia Qinglin pointed out that the China * * * Production Party and the China government attach great importance to the protection, promotion, inheritance and development of excellent traditional culture, including Confucianism. People can see that China's leaders emphasize justice in the concept of governing the country, which is in line with Confucius' thought that "politicians are justice"; China's leaders also put forward that while ruling the country according to law, we should also "rule the country by virtue".