On the Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Influence on Chinese Political System

Political system is a tool for class rule by the ruling class, and it is most directly rooted in a certain political movement that overthrows a regime and establishes a new one, which also gives birth to the current ruling class. A new political system always inherits and is rooted in the historical political system.

Political systems are undoubtedly part of cultural traditions. However, the concept of traditional culture is so broad that it is inseparable from the ideology of a nation and a state.

Therefore, it can be said that traditional culture is the soil of the political system, the mother is the egg, and direct revolution is the father is the sperm, so that a fetus like the political system is formed.

So in turn, can the political system influence traditional culture? Yes! Simply put, it has two major effects: to break and to build.

Breaking, destroying, suppressing, and changing;

Leaving, repairing, promoting, and correcting.

Destruction is destruction, such as burning books and burying scholars, direct extermination;

suppression is suppression, such as deposing the hundred schools, relegated to non-mainstream;

change is tampering with, such as changing the history of the previous dynasty, compiling the Sikuquanshu;

repaire is repair, such as the Buddhist temples, built and dismantled, dismantled and repaired, a few times after the fluctuation of the;

Yang is to promote, such as Taoism, martial arts, Chinese medicine and so on, has not endured;

It is to help for orthodoxy, such as the Han Dynasty, since the fall, sole respect for Confucianism as orthodoxy.

Any regime, in order to establish and consolidate its rule, must use the two main weapons: a sword and a gun, and a pen and paper. The purpose of the breakup and suppression of traditional culture is much the same.

To take a recent example:

Yan Chongnian and a group of people using the central media to advocate the Qing dynasty, whether academic freedom or permissive, this is not a product of China's political system? This is only the influence of a small slogan of "national integration" in the political system.

On the other hand, the slapping of Yan's mouth on Oct. 5 also reflects the power of justice and conscience of the people's representatives to respect history and guard traditional culture.

The influence of the regime (or spokesmen or lackeys and penmen) on history and on traditional culture through various means cannot be ignored.

How does the political system influence traditional culture?

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