How to correctly recognize the role of Chinese culture

Traditional Chinese culture is profound and has a long history. As early as more than two thousand years ago, it gave rise to the Confucian school represented by Confucius and Mencius and the Taoist doctrine represented by Laozhuang, as well as many other schools of thought that occupy an important position in the history of Chinese thought. In particular, Confucianism, represented by Confucius, can be said to be one of the sources of human civilization, especially Eastern civilization, which has not only had a great influence in the course of history, but still plays a role even today.

From the point of view of ideological connotation, the basic spirit of traditional culture, which is of decisive significance to the formation and development of the Chinese nation, is broadly manifested in four aspects, namely, the concept of the unity of heaven and mankind, the concept of putting people at the center of the world, the concept of rigorously and vigorously pursuing the right course of action, and the concept of peace as the most precious thing in the world. These traditional cultures, as the source of national wisdom and the carrier of cultural inheritance, are not only the inherent driving force of historical development, but also valuable resources for us to build a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics

Traditional culture, as a system of thought and culture that once played an important role in China's history for a long period of time, has remained a profound influence on people's mindset, no matter in the deeper layers of social life or the people's ideology for more than 2,000 years. It still has a profound influence in both the deeper layers of social life and people's ideology. Therefore, in the process of building a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, we should always emphasize the importance of refining and drawing on all the excellent spiritual wealth created by our people in the past and present, including not only the traditional Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, but also all the excellent cultural achievements imported from abroad, and on the basis of which we should build a socialist ideological and cultural system that not only maintains the excellent traditions of the nation, but also is suitable for the special characteristics of contemporary society.

It is impossible to realize socialist modernization without cultural upliftment and the inheritance and development of the national spirit. And an indispensable lesson in cultural renaissance is the in-depth study of China's outstanding cultural heritage, which needs to be studied in depth not only in terms of promoting and cultivating the national spirit, but also in terms of the inheritance and innovation of history and culture. Whether we can learn and be good at synthesizing the past and present in the inheritance and innovation of history and culture will have a direct bearing on the direction of the development of advanced culture in contemporary China.

In the new situation of reform, opening up and modernization, we need to make a comprehensive and scientific analysis of traditional culture, and we can neither adopt a national nihilistic attitude nor treat the ancient as inferior to the modern. The correct attitude is to inherit critically, to innovate in inheritance, and to emphasize creative transformation. The soil on which traditional culture, with Confucianism as its mainstay, was based was a semi-natural, semi-educational society with the family as its root and agriculture as its foundation, which maintained the characteristics of "cultivation and study for the transmission of the family's name". This socio-economic and cultural structure no longer exists in most parts of China, and people's way of life and cultural practices associated with it have also undergone profound changes. The way of life and cultural practices of the people associated with it have also undergone profound changes. The changes in social structure have brought about progress in ideological concepts and the upgrading of the national spirit, which has developed into the great national spirit of unity and solidarity, love of peace, diligence and courage, and self-improvement, with patriotism at its core, and this is the most solid and reliable guarantee that our country and nation will always stand on their own among the peoples of the world. From the perspective of today's reality in China, it should be fully affirmed that the establishment of the socialist market economic system is a profound change, which not only opens up a broad area for the development of productive forces, but also creates new conditions for economic development and social progress, adds new vitality, and promotes the development of productive forces. And in the field of ideology, giving birth to the formation of new moral concepts, people's sense of competition, the concept of efficiency and enterprising spirit greatly enhanced.

In the face of today's world of various ideological and cultural mutual agitation, we should be justified to promote traditional culture and cultivate the spirit of the nation closely together, as an important task of spiritual civilization construction, into the whole process of national education, so that all the people always maintain a vigorous and upward spiritual state.