How to learn advanced western civilization and retain excellent traditional culture?

What are loyalty, filial piety and benevolence? What are faith, courtesy, wisdom and courage? Now you can only see them by looking at the street signs in Taipei. The anecdote sequence maintained by the way of "monarch, minister, father, son and son" will not come back, and it will also cut off our connection with "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness" "Faith, courtesy, wisdom and courage" is still a universal philosophy of existence and the basic requirement of all societies, but we have grafted the western values, and under the shell of Confucian discourse, the connotation is no longer.

The ancients once regarded moral cultivation as the ultimate pursuit of life. However, in today's globalization, personal struggle, happiness and freedom are more important than morality. Children nowadays have many other things to do.

The Four Books and the Five Classics

Once upon a time, as a scholar before the age of 15, he had to learn the four books and five classics by heart, almost all of them were "worshipping classics". Their understanding of classics is enough to make today's doctoral students in ancient literature desperate. 191265438+1October19 when the first minister of education of the national government ordered that "reading classics should be abolished in primary schools", it was a feat of emancipating the mind; As a result, nearly a century has passed, and not many people can answer what the Four Books and Five Classics are. Children are interested in the Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. China's ancient pillar ideological system, represented by The Book of Changes, Shangshu, The Book of Songs, The Book of Rites and Zuo Zhuan, is in confusion. Now, Yi Shu has established a modern private school in Beijing, which specializes in teaching the Four Books and Five Classics.

On the Absence of Traditional Culture

I think the main reasons for the low quality of China people or the lack of traditional culture today can be summarized into at least three aspects.

First, perhaps most people will mention that China's economic conditions are backward and its investment in national education is obviously far from enough, which greatly widens the gap between citizens of China and those of other civilized countries. This gap is not determined by nature, but we follow western civilization. We catch up with them in many aspects and adapt to their civilized rules, which naturally shows the gap.

Second, traditional culture has not been well inherited and carried forward. Undoubtedly, China's 5,000-year-old civilization has left us endless wealth, including the essence of traditional culture and spiritual civilization. But why does the shadow of this traditional spirit become more and more blurred with the generations of modern China people? In fact, China has been an open and civilized country since ancient times, especially before the Tang and Song Dynasties. The real complacency began only after Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism was wildly popularized and domesticated by the rulers. The whole country's ignorance of the world naturally cannot keep up with the pace of civilization. Since then, in the vigorous New Culture Movement at the beginning of last century, it was correct to criticize feudal ignorant Neo-Confucianism and backward ethics, but it was unwise to completely deny and abandon Confucianism and traditional culture in this process. From then on, until now, nearly a hundred years have passed, and people living in modern times have discovered that Confucianism and traditional culture, the precious wealth handed down from generation to generation by the Chinese nation, are the blood and backbone of our nation. Without profound traditional culture, we will become barbaric and ignorant, without understanding and understanding of tradition, we will become shallow and ignorant. At this time, we have indeed lost all the good things of our ancestors very quickly, which is dangerous!

Third, the nation lacks faith. In fact, this problem is caused by the second point. Before the Tang and Song Dynasties, China was an eclectic country with various religious beliefs. The development and evolution of Buddhism and Islam in the history of China is a good example, including China's own religion: Taoism. No matter what kind of religion, in fact, it will inevitably be used by the regime. In addition, all these religions require goodness in the teaching of believers without exception. However, with the turbulent changes of the times since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the role of religion in China's political power center has not been well played. For hundreds of years, the rulers and leaders of China did not emphasize the role of religion too much. It should be said that they have always been cautious about religion. Today, the Chinese nation lacks a national belief similar to that of Western Christianity, and the important task of cultivating people's ideological and moral and spiritual civilization falls on the already overwhelmed government, which has invisibly caused great pressure on the regime. Religion is the baptism of human spirit and soul. Religion is always combined with or used by political power, or it is itself a part of political power. In fact, it is understandable that there is no religion to educate people. State power can only improve society and advocate new fashions by other means, but this task is very arduous.