Traditional culture has been subverted, high school essay

How to treat traditional culture used to be no problem for a long time. But after embarking on the modern society, in the great collision of Chinese and Western civilizations, we began to reflect on the traditional culture of our own people, and to a large extent, adjusted the previous view of traditional culture. This reflection, however, has been moving forward in a very difficult process. There have been advances, obstacles, and sometimes even regressions. Thus it has been one hundred and sixty years since the end of the Opium War, but there is still no fundamental breakthrough in the reflection on traditional culture. This situation, which is unique in the world, is also a source of great wonder to many people.

There is a reason why it is so difficult to reflect on China's traditional culture, and there is a reason why the political environment is bad. Chinese politicians, whose ideological and cultural views are relatively conservative in the process of China's modernization, are prone to spiritual ****ing about authoritarian ideology and culture. Once there is some advancement and breakthrough in the reflection on traditional Chinese culture, there will always be some politicians who get the sweet spot from the politics of privilege, jumping out from behind the curtain and striking with political power. In recent times, were there not some warlords who advocated respect for Confucius in the country? Ignorance of thought and culture, and the need to intervene in thought and culture, is a major reason why it is difficult to move forward in the reflection of traditional Chinese culture.

The complex composition of traditional Chinese culture is also a reason. Chinese traditional culture has a history of thousands of years. It is long, and at every stage of its development, something has to be added, so it is very rich in content and extremely complex in composition. There are many things that are good. There are many things that are dross. And the essence and the dross are often mixed together. This makes future generations feel confused: want to say love you, but not easy. Because there are clearly too many rotten ingredients. Want to hate you, and can not hate. Because the traditional Chinese culture and there are many valuable things.

It can not be said that the composition of traditional Chinese culture is complex this feature, so that future generations feel very embarrassed. It is also a reason why it is difficult to move forward in the reflection on traditional Chinese culture.

This article of the author mainly talks about some of his views on the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture and the direction of future development. In the process of writing, I try to put forward some new ideas of my own, so that perhaps it will play the role of throwing bricks to attract jade.

(1) Reflecting on the merits and demerits of traditional Chinese culture, we must grasp the direction of human progress.

Human society is always advancing, this advancement, in politics, manifested in the people-oriented, until later by the people as the master; in the economy, manifested in the agriculture and commerce, until later market economy; in thought and culture, manifested in respect for the views of others, until later freedom of thought; in the treatment of people, caring for people, love and care for people, until later respect for the value of human and dignity.

The Chinese have always had a people-oriented mindset in ancient times. In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there was the saying that "the people are the foundation of the state, and the state is peaceful". Mencius said, "The people are the most important thing, the gods of earth and grain come second, and the ruler is the least important thing." Xunzi said, "Water carries the boat, but water overturns the boat." These thoughts are, in themselves, progressive. In terms of human attitudes, Sima Qian's kind of adversity, but the vigorous and enterprising, Su Dongpo's bold and optimistic mind, Zhang Heng, Xu Xiake's kind of obsessive love of the truth, Mencius, "I'm good at cultivating the spirit of the vastness of nature", the great poet Du Fu, "when the top of the summit, the view of all the mountains, small" aspirations, are a healthy. The great poet Du Fu's ambition to "see the top of the world and the smallest of the mountains" is a healthy state of mind. In dealing with nature and destiny, Xunzi's "making use of heavenly destiny", Liu Zongyuan's and Liu Yuxi's "the interplay between heaven and man", and Wang Fuzi's "phase of heaven" and "creation of destiny" are all examples of a healthy spirituality. Wang Fu Zi's "Xiangtian" and "Mianmian", all contain the brilliance of the idea that human beings are determined to win over heaven. In the treatment of the rights and freedom of individual life, the attention paid to the meaning of life in the Nineteen Ancient Poems and Ruan Ji's Poem on Wistfulness, the affirmation of personal values in the New Sayings, and the passionate pursuit of free love by Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu in the Dream of Red Mansions have injected fresh blood into traditional Chinese thought and culture in general. In dealing with the individual and the society, "The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of all men," "The affairs of the country, the affairs of the family, and the affairs of the world are all matters of concern," and "A man in a low position refuses to forget to worry about his country." "The world's worries first, after the world's happiness and joy", "life from ancient times who do not die, leaving the heart of the Dan Zhihanqing", are all very noble spiritual realm. And the treatment of man and nature, "Spurgeon River", "Yueyang Tower", "Spring River and Moonlit Night" and a large number of other literary works, but also reflects the special feelings that exist between our nation and the natural world.

Climbing up the Yangtze River and reciting the phrase "the great river flows day and night" gives rise to a feeling of grandeur. When you are facing a high mountain, you can read "A Glance at the Smallest Mountain", which gives you a fighting spirit. Read "Tengwangge Preface", chanting "the sky and the earth, feel the universe of the infinite", and give birth to a kind of generosity. This is so heavy, so indomitable, so strong, only the country has also!

But, like any other country, Chinese thought and culture have their dregs. Because of the long time, and in a number of years time and not timely cleaning, so that the dregs more and more accumulation, to our nation to bring great damage. Do women have a unique value of life? They are nothing but men's appendages. Every Chinese woman should be living in modern times as a blessing, and living in ancient times as a sorrow. Not only women, but also men have no independent value of life. A large and small bureaucrats, as well as countless people, are under the pressure of imperial power in Portugal. They may have been small, doubtful, opposed, but later, they never had the thought, and even shouted "long live the emperor" as a lifelong honor. Marx once scornfully called this social phenomenon of Chinese character universal slavery. Instead of exalting innovation, instead of advocating that one generation is better than the other, it promotes the old-fashioned, "the sky can change, the earth can change, the law of the ancestors can not be changed". So that during the thousands of years, the political system, ideology, science and culture, has been difficult to progress, and finally in modern society inevitably lagged behind the international community. On the one hand, the emperor is poor and extravagant, three palaces and seventy-two courtyards, life is corrupt and rotten, the bureaucrats and aristocrats oppress the people and plunder the people, but on the other hand, they advocate that "a gentleman is a metaphor for righteousness, a villain is a metaphor for profit" and "a gentleman is worried about the road and not about the poor", and they are not worried about the common people through business or other ways to seek more material benefits. The people were discouraged from seeking more material benefits through business or other means. This makes it difficult to further improve the living standard of the people and deprives the social and economic development of its intrinsic impetus. The suppression of individuality, the suppression of free thought, and the suppression of the legitimate desires of individual life. Which person is unique, i.e., "the gun strikes the head," resulting in a large number of nationals, but in fact, a thousand people are the same, and there is no one in a hundred who has the courage and knowledge. If there is a new idea, "sound the drum and attack it". If there is an unfavorable word, then "the nine clans will be affected" and "the ten clans will be executed". At home, they listened to their parents; in the countryside, they listened to their elders; in society, they listened to the bureaucrats; and all the bureaucrats listened to the emperor. In the case of marriage, one listens to one's parents. Otherwise, it is "treason", and the group rises up to fight against it. Closed-mindedness and arrogance. There was a lack of concern for the outside world. Although they were defeated in the Opium War, they still refused to admit defeat and regarded themselves as a country of heaven, refusing to put down their stance and seriously learn the valuable things of other cultures. Failure time and again, but still did not learn a lesson from it, unable to reform their own system shortcomings, to fully stimulate the vitality of their own national vitality. The situation is too many to count!

Ignorance, backwardness, inhibition of human nature, hindering the development of the factors, how many! If a person does not have enough resistance to live in such a cultural environment, how can his thinking not be degraded, how can his personality not be distorted? At the same time, in this social environment, there will inevitably be such a situation: good at drilling, cheating, and have the background of the people, the green clouds; muddled, mediocre, smooth people, smooth sailing, mediocre life peace; and talented, upright and kind, ambitious, but often heroes are difficult to use, depressing life. Not superiority, but inferiority, the whole society is in a reverse elimination phenomenon - almost any dynasty or generation, are so, with few exceptions, few exceptions!