The influence of Confucianism on China today

The Influence of Confucianism on China Culture

Confucianism has a profound influence on China culture. Thousands of years of feudal society, except the traditional ideas such as responsibility, temperance, loyalty and filial piety in the Five Classics, are the result of their combination with feudal rule, so Confucianism is the mainstream thought of our time.

Positive aspects: (1) Attach importance to education, create teaching methods such as "teaching students according to their aptitude", pay attention to individual differences in teaching, and be good at inspiring teaching. It can be said that teaching experience is very rich.

(2) Pay attention to morality, ethics, benevolence and righteousness, and consciously follow the truth, goodness and beauty. On the one hand, it is a typical humanism, people-oriented, rather than pursuing illusory idols and gods.

(3) Ideologically, he is good at dialectical thinking, attaches importance to natural agriculture and experience, and thinks that natural order is the root of human rationality, and human rationality is the basis of human natural rights. Advocating "agriculture-oriented" is an idea of attaching importance to agriculture, which accords with the actual resource situation in ancient China.

(4) Advocating the idea of "ruling the country by courtesy" and "ethical politics". If western culture is a "intellectual" culture, then our China culture is a "moral" culture. Politically, it has a positive side: being loyal to the country, resisting foreign aggression, assassinating tyrants and directly admonishing offenders. Great national spirit!

(5) Confucianism is precocious and powerful, which runs through most of the Chinese nation, giving social history a stable, balanced and referential constraint.

The negative side of Confucianism: (! ) Ignoring the teaching of agricultural production knowledge and the study of scientific knowledge, Confucius tended to participate in politics because of his strong political purpose.

(2) Ignoring logic and blindly attaching importance to experience is called "empirical rationality", which makes the theory of logical reasoning and profound explanation of things not sprout, not as thorough as westerners, and even produces theories and doctrines.

(3) Emphasizing the obedience of individuals to groups suppresses people's personality, ignoring personality and unified thinking, leading to people's ignorance of loyalty and filial piety, and the standards of morality and responsibility suppress people's creativity, which is also in tune with the will of emperors in previous dynasties and is used by them as the ideological weapon of the ruling class.

(4) The solidification and absolutization of ethical relations, the three cardinal guides and the five permanent members, and the autocratic parents become personal oppression and spiritual cruelty, which restricts the way of thinking and lifestyle of the whole nation and becomes the resistance to historical progress.

(5) Ethics and hierarchy become exclusive, which limits the development of natural science and technology. Emperors of past dynasties did not attach importance to science and technology, and used "circuitous" to describe some scientific achievements.

In a word, the two parts of Confucianism-the sage's subjective thought and objective political theory, namely "inner sage" and "outer king" (king is governance and rule), have a great influence on our nation's ideology and culture. Even now, we can't get out of its circle. It has both positive and negative aspects. We should face this objectively and truly.

For example, in our modern education, Confucian educational methods are still very useful, such as "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude", "teaching people tirelessly" and "learning new things by reviewing old ones".

On the issue of official corruption, will morality, benevolence and Confucianism be the basis for condemning corrupt officials? Moreover, the sense of responsibility, justice and diligence we are talking about is not our national spirit, nor is it the essence of Confucian cultural tradition.