What are some examples of taking the essence and discarding the dross?

For example, filial piety in Confucian culture means filial piety, love and obedience to parents, but nothing is absolutely obedient to parents, which is not desirable. It is necessary to distinguish things clearly and not be ignorant. Take its essence, discard its dross, criticize and inherit, and make the past serve the present. In the face of traditional culture, we should dialectically understand their functions in real life and distinguish the essence from the dross.

Now there are Confucius Institutes all over the world, and this is the essence. Now foot binding no longer exists, and this is the dross. We should abandon the bad feudal traditional culture and absorb and learn from the excellent foreign traditional culture. Become the most brilliant flower on the world stage.

In the face of traditional culture, we should dialectically understand their functions in real life and distinguish the essence from the dross. We should continue to maintain and carry forward the positive contents of traditional culture that meet the requirements of social development.

Things that are backward, decadent and unsuitable for social development in traditional culture must be reformed and eliminated. Develop on the basis of inheritance, inherit in the process of development, grasp the relationship between cultural inheritance and development, criticize and inherit traditional culture, and constantly innovate.

On the one hand, we can't talk about cultural innovation without tradition. The culture of any era is inseparable from the inheritance of traditional culture. For a nation and a country, if we ignore the critical inheritance of traditional culture, the innovation of its national culture will lose its foundation. On the other hand, embodying the spirit of the times is an important pursuit of cultural innovation.

The development of social practice has brought about changes in economic, political and cultural life, which requires culture to reflect the new spirit of the times. Cultural innovation is manifested in efforts to inject the spirit of the times into traditional culture.