What is the development prospect of traditional culture?

Nowadays, the wave of economic globalization is in the ascendant, which has caused people to think about issues other than economy, such as politics and culture. Some people think that economic globalization will lead to cultural globalization. It is true that economic globalization will strengthen the cultural ties between different regions and have a certain impact on cultural exchanges, but it is impossible to eliminate the national characteristics of regional cultures and will not lead to cultural globalization. Every country and nation is politically and culturally independent, and all ethnic groups should maintain their own national cultural characteristics. Only with different styles can culture be richer. Colorful and a hundred schools of thought contend are the prospects for the development of world culture and the inevitable trend of the development of traditional culture in China.

China traditional culture refers to the culture created by the Chinese nation and its ancestors living in China, which has been passed down and developed from generation to generation, and has distinctive national characteristics, a long history, profound connotations and excellent traditions. It is a culture of Confucianism, Taoism, Yin and Yang, dharma, name, ink, vertical and horizontal, miscellaneous and agriculture developed around the culture of Zhouyi. More practically, China's traditional culture should be said to be "more than ten kinds of cultures centered on Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism".

In the traditional culture of China, some contents are very valuable and can be passed down and carried forward from generation to generation. Excellent cultural traditions include two aspects: First, self-improvement. "Self-improvement" is put forward in Yi Zhuan, which is also called "vigorous". China has been invaded by foreign countries since19th century. In the struggle against imperialist aggression, the people of China showed their indomitable spirit of struggle and self-improvement. Today, in the process of socialist modernization, the people of China also show a spirit of self-improvement and eternal progress; The second is "harmony". In the early years of the Spring and Autumn Period, Shi Bo advocated "harmony but difference" and "harmony is the most important thing", which meant to affirm the different characteristics of different things and keep things in balance. And "harmony" means "harmony".

Economic globalization will inevitably lead to the collision between different cultures. Facing the collision between Chinese and western cultures, comprehensive cultural innovation is to combine the advantages of China traditional culture and western culture, and strive to create on the basis of China traditional culture. Today, our task is to create a new socialist culture with China characteristics, which includes advanced natural sciences and advanced humanities and social sciences.

With the rapid development of science, technology, economy and culture, there are more and more opportunities for exchanges and learning between countries and nations. While accommodating other national cultures, we should also adopt proactive coping strategies to show our excellent culture to the people of the world, and at the same time convey the message that socialist countries are thriving because of our reform and opening up. Only by accelerating the pace of cultural exchange and development can we adapt to the development of economic globalization.

What China's traditional culture can learn from the West is the democratic system. Democratic culture is a part of China's traditional culture. Confucianism pursues "the world is public", and Taoism's "inaction" is the ideological content of democracy. However, democracy in China's traditional culture is not democracy in the modern sense. Under this condition, it is necessary to learn from western democratic culture, and then gradually develop the democratic culture of the Chinese nation.

Economic globalization has strengthened the cultural ties between countries and nations, but it will never eliminate the cultural characteristics of all ethnic groups. To build a new socialist culture with China characteristics, we must absorb the achievements of western culture while maintaining the national cultural characteristics of China. The road of cultural development in China is comprehensive innovation. We must persist in using materialist dialectics to guide cultural research, and oppose both total westernization and conservatism. Therefore, we should integrate the advantages of Chinese and Western cultures and create a new type of China culture. Its premise is to correctly understand the excellent tradition of China culture, so as to have national self-esteem and self-confidence and the foundation of cultural progress. At the same time, we should also see that China culture has fallen behind in modern times, and we must absorb the advanced achievements of western culture, especially democracy and science. To build a new culture, we must adhere to the socialist direction. Without it, it is not a socialist culture with China characteristics. Some scholars have summarized the spirit of the Chinese nation as "self-improvement" and "morality-oriented", that is, to carry forward the spirit of self-consciousness, persistence in progress, emphasis on harmony and tolerance. This is the core of the excellent tradition of Chinese culture.

The new era calls for a new culture. In the new era, we must build a new culture. The new culture has its own characteristics: first, it will have a deeper understanding of nature and society; Second, the new culture must take promoting economic and social development as an important mission; Third, the new culture must vigorously promote people's value and dignity and respect people's reasonable needs; Fourthly, inheriting, learning from and innovating, and actively integrating into the world culture are the only way for China's future cultural development.