The critical inheritance attitude towards traditional culture is based on the

The critical inheritance of traditional culture is based on the principle of dialectical negation.

What is backward and corrupt in traditional culture that does not meet the requirements of social development must be "changed" and consciously transformed or eliminated. Attitude towards traditional Chinese culture, since modern times there have been two opposing ideological tendencies: First, the nationalists, that all traditional Chinese culture is good, should be affirmed in its entirety, and does not allow people to have any doubt and criticism, otherwise it is to forget their ancestors, foreign pandering;

The second is the westernization of the school, to take a nihilistic or nullification of the attitude of the total rejection of traditional Chinese culture, they are denounced as the "traditional culture", "the", "the" and "the". They are all denounced as "feudal, superstitious, backward" and even "reactionary" things, the poverty and weakness of modern China, backwardness and other problems are attributed to traditional culture, advocating the complete abandonment of traditional Chinese culture and wholesale westernization.

1. In the face of traditional culture, it is necessary to recognize their role in real life dialectically, and distinguish between the essence and dregs. For the traditional culture in line with the requirements of social development, positive content, should continue to maintain and carry forward; for the traditional culture does not meet the requirements of social development, backward, corrupt things, must be transformed and eliminated. Development on the basis of inheritance, inheritance in the process of development, grasp the relationship between cultural inheritance and development, critically inherited traditional culture, and continue to introduce new ideas and innovations.

2. Specifically, those excellent value principles formed in long-term historical practice can be transformed into the spirit of the times for inheritance. For example, the spirit of "the sky is healthy, the gentleman to self-improvement"; "rich and noble can not be obscene, poor and lowly can not be moved, the mighty can not be bent" independent personality; "happy to the world, worry about the world" sense of anxiety. "The sense of anxiety;" "social harmony", "world unity" social ideals; and so on, are easily transformed into a new spirit of the times.

3. Some of the content can be discarded for its feudalistic ideological core, extract its useful spiritual factors, so that it can become a useful element of thought in the construction of today's new culture. For example, it is possible to transform the ancient idea of the people from the point of view of the people as the masters of their own house. Another example is that Confucianism puts forward the ideas of "cultivating oneself and others" and "correcting the mind and cultivating the body", which are still of practical significance today.

4. The dregs of traditional culture must be rejected and discarded. For example, the female view of "three from four virtues", the natural view of "heaven is unchanging, the Tao is also unchanging", the feudal hierarchy of "differentiation of inferiority and superiority, clear noble and lowly", and so on.