How should we treat the traditional Chinese culture in the midst of the fusion and collision of Chinese and Western cultures?

Traditional culture is a part or all of the factors inherited and preserved from the previous era, which exists in the relations of production and deep construction. China's traditional culture has a long history, profound and far-reaching influence, and is very rich in content. It has left us a rich heritage in terms of theories and thoughts on politics, economy, culture, military, education, history, philosophy, morality and religion, as well as in terms of the practices of settling the state and ruling the country, cultivating moral character and accomplishing business. Our attitude toward traditional culture is: first, to analyze and evaluate; second, to critically inherit; and third, to modernize.

Adhere to the methods of dialectical materialism and historical materialism to analyze and evaluate traditional culture. First, we should see that traditional Chinese culture is based on the feudal mode of production and political system, and is a reflection and expression of them. Secondly, we should see that many of the basic concepts and ideas of traditional culture are themselves twofold. It is necessary to look at traditional Chinese culture historically and dialectically. Chinese traditional culture is constantly developing and changing, and has different natures, characteristics and roles in different historical periods. Finally, the evaluation of traditional culture, from the needs of China's socialist modernization, to determine what is the essence of traditional culture, what is the dregs of traditional culture, really discover the treasures of traditional culture, remove the garbage.

The critical inheritance of culture is a routine in cultural development. Without critical inheritance, we can't talk about the development of culture. Especially at the transformational juncture of social development, in the era of change, this issue is of particular interest.

National culture is the root of the national spirit, and scientific inheritance of the national cultural heritage is the prerequisite and foundation for fostering national self-esteem, pride and self-improvement, as well as the source and fertile ground for building a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. National culture must be innovated on the basis of critical inheritance, and our national spiritual and ethnic traditions must be established and developed in the process of innovation. As a whole, the critical inheritance of traditional Chinese culture cannot be cut off, nor can cultural history. On the question of whether or not to critically inherit Chinese traditional culture, some people advocate adopting a historical nihilist attitude, using a fire to spare the light, saying that "Chinese traditional culture should have no successor"; some people advocate national nihilism, completely rejecting the traditional culture; there are also people who take the attitude of not playing with the traditional culture to critically accept the eclecticism, and eat the past without being transformed, and advocate the so-called "traditional culture". Some people advocate national nihilism, completely rejecting traditional culture; others take a critical approach to traditional culture, and advocate the so-called "nationalism". Historical nihilism, national nihilism and "national populism" form the left and right extremes of denying or affirming everything. As a matter of fact, neither historical nihilism, national nihilism, nor "national populism" is the proper attitude towards traditional culture. The fundamental reason why traditional culture can be critically inherited is that it is a social consciousness with relative independence. Not all cultures in societies ruled by the exploiting classes are exploiting class cultures, and traditional culture includes exploiting class cultures, but it is not the same as stripping off exploiting class cultures. As a matter of fact, in addition to the culture of the exploiting classes, there is also the culture of the working masses, the popular culture of the people, which has a long history, is rich in content, and is full of the spirit of revolution, science, and democracy. In a class society, there are also cultures that reflect the interests of the ****s together, created and circulated by the ****s of each class as members of society, such as environmental awareness, public **** traffic and order, and so on. Socialism is the cause of the people, and the cultural traditions of the people are certainly an important element of socialist culture. Even the culture of the exploiting class differs from period to period. When this class appeared on the stage of history as an emerging revolutionary class, its culture also had a number of elements embodying the people's nature that could take hold and be critically inherited. The complexity of the class struggle led to the division of the exploiting camp into enlightened sectarians who consciously and unconsciously took the side of the people in summarizing and reflecting the culture of the people's aspirations. Confucianism, as the backbone of exploiting class culture, also has orthodox contradictory struggles and plays different roles at different times. As long as it is well critiqued and inherited, it can serve the social turism.

The problem of modernization of traditional culture is a further deepening of the problem of critical inheritance of traditional culture. That is, to further solve the problem of how to go from the universal to the particular. This question has its special significance. The modernization of traditional culture does not mean the modernization of the whole traditional culture, but how to transform those things in the traditional culture with universal significance into things with modern content. First of all, it is necessary to understand accurately the essence of the relationship between traditional culture and modernization. Explore the excellent heritage of traditional culture. It is necessary to have a broad and long-term vision. Efforts should be made to discover the heritage of traditional culture with democratic and scientific elements. Standing at the height of modernization, we must process, transform, smelt, recast and innovate the reasonable elements of tradition with Marxist standpoints and methods, so as to make them an important part of socialist culture. At the same time, we must also pay attention to the extensive absorption of advanced foreign cultures, such as advanced science and technology and management experience, so as to utilize the past for the present. Only in this way can we create and develop a new culture adapted to the requirements of the social market economy and the times, so that the modernization of the Chinese nation can be rooted in the fertile soil of the excellent traditional culture, deep-rooted and flourishing.