The Value of China's Excellent Traditional Culture in the New Era

Traditional culture is the truth discovered by the ancients after thousands of years of life practice, and it still has great enlightenment to our thoughts today. We should inherit the excellent content that conforms to the trend of the times, eliminate the pedantic and rigid parts, absorb them reasonably and treat them dialectically.

The core value of modern society is to experience the powerful trend of science and technology, the social competition is becoming more and more fierce, and the spiritual world fails to develop simultaneously, which leads to the common phenomenon of mental depression. However, the traditional culture's understanding of the nature of heaven and earth, the pursuit and elaboration of the spiritual field have reached a high level, which is of directional help to our return to the spiritual home. Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in traditional culture, the interpretation of heaven, earth and people, is indeed something that people should learn from today. Confucianism is to be a man, interpretation is to cultivate the mind, and Tao is to know and do. In fact, these things have no religious color. Due to historical reasons, they may be alienated or even superstitious. But the system is very complicated to learn, and it needs to be understood slowly and learned in life. It can really provide endless nourishment for our spirit.

The trend of the times is the trend of human survival and development, and it is not wrong for modern material society to emphasize material strength. But the corresponding spiritual world is needed to balance people's ideology. As a comprehensive and systematic cognition, traditional culture is very close to our thinking habits, which was instilled by our ancestors repeatedly. We have the responsibility to inherit the traditional culture, carry forward the past and create a social civilization that belongs to today.

China traditional culture is a very grand topic. Before discussing this issue, it is necessary to clarify what is China's traditional culture, especially to condense its uniqueness from western culture, so as to play its value in the new era. Limited by space, this paper only expounds the uniqueness of China traditional culture from the aspect of children's education.

China people's family view is different from that of westerners. If western families are open, China families are relatively closed. As the saying goes, "Wash your dirty linen in public". In the west, once a child becomes an adult, he leaves his parents, forms a family independently, and has a relationship with his parents in relatively equal. Moreover, children in China cannot live completely independently of their parents all their lives.

A simple metaphor can explain the different understanding of family between China and the West. Western parents are a bit like coaches. They teach their children how to live independently through their own abilities and life experiences. Once their children are adults, they will be pushed to the stage of life. Parents only guide, cheer and cheer, but the competition will be finished by themselves in the end, and parents cannot replace it.