The Historical Role of Chinese Traditional Excellent Culture

Traditional Chinese culture has played a positive role in regulating the political order of traditional society, maintaining the concept of filial piety in the family, and cultivating the values of individuals.

Firstly, traditional culture contributes to the consolidation of social stability. Traditional culture is an agricultural civilization formed on the basis of agricultural production, which constructs an ethical framework based on filial piety, a political structure in which the family and the state are coexisting, and a cognitive approach that does not differentiate between the material and the self. In the long feudal society, although there were changes of power in different dynasties, the economic base of agricultural production and traditional culture always remained consistent, so that the cultural tradition and political structure dominated by Confucianism did not change fundamentally. As a result, the traditional cultural genes and feudal political system demonstrated historical continuity and stability, which in turn maintained the ruling order of feudal society. Of course, the natural economic basis of traditional culture and the political conservatism of culture itself would, to some extent, suppress the vitality of economic development and slow down the pace of social progress.

Secondly, traditional culture contributes to the formation of family-centered ethics. Traditional society is built on the basis of blood-relative relations, and in contrast to the public **** society, it is a collection of fixed blood and kinship relations centered on productive labor, and it is a society of acquaintances. Therefore, traditional society emphasizes interpersonal ties and family affiliation, and constructs a family relationship model based on filial piety. In the practice of life, individuals rely on their families, and the behavioral consciousness of "not traveling far from parents" and "being cautious of the end of life and pursuing the distant future, benevolence and virtue" has been solidified into the ideological concept of "settling down and moving in" from ancient times to the present. Ideology. The relationship between "country" and "family" in the traditional social structure is one of "one and two" and "two and one".

Thirdly, traditional culture helps to cultivate individual values centered on "virtue". In the family-based social cognition, traditional culture emphasizes the formation and cultivation of human virtues. In the opening lines of the Analects of Confucius, "Learning and practicing is not a pleasure", in which "learning" and "practicing" refer to the cultivation and practice of virtues.