Attitude towards China's traditional culture

The correct attitude towards traditional culture is to take its essence, discard its dross, make the past serve the present and bring forth the new.

Traditional culture usually refers to the national culture handed down from history, which either refers to the culture handed down from history and has been relatively stable, or refers to the local national culture. Generally speaking, the culture of this nation is rooted in its soil and represents its overall consciousness and value orientation. It is often more consolidated, lasting and relatively stable, and it is easier to inherit from history. Therefore, traditional culture is generally national culture.

In the process of socialist modernization, we should pay special attention to correctly treating the traditional culture of our Chinese nation:

① Culture is inherited, and the birth of any new culture is inseparable from the inheritance of traditional culture. Especially in China, an ancient civilization with a long history, traditional culture is a precious legacy left by the ancestors of the Chinese nation. Without the inheritance of traditional culture, there would be no modernization of China.

② Traditional culture has duality, which must be treated correctly and inherited critically. Any traditional culture can be divided into essence and dross. On the one hand, any culture can be gradually accumulated and preserved in the long-term development of society, which plays an important role in the social development at that time and later, and always has its positive and reasonable side; On the other hand, any culture, because it was born under the historical conditions at that time, will have some backward, negative and conservative factors to some extent today.

Therefore, the correct attitude towards traditional culture is to take its essence, discard its dross, make the past serve the present and bring forth the new. On the contrary, all-round affirmation and all-round negation are wrong. Inheriting and absorbing the outstanding achievements of traditional culture and realizing socialist modernization should be a process of interaction and mutual promotion. Under the guidance of Marxism, we should vigorously carry forward all outstanding achievements in China's traditional culture and make it better serve the cause of socialist modernization.