How to deal with the relationship between traditional culture and contemporary civilization is an important and very arduous task

Contemporary college students don't read enough traditional classics, and the function of traditional festivals is getting weaker," said Hu Xiaoming, a professor at the Chinese Department of East China Normal University, who deplored the fact that "postmodern cultures, such as video games, online novels and pop culture, deprive students of too much time for reading."　　"From the statistics of the questionnaire, we can see that contemporary youths mostly give a neutral answer to traditional culture, and are also vague about classical Chinese literature, art and customs." Luo Yuming, a professor at the Chinese Department of Fudan University, said, "Have all the traditional cultures that don't need to be dismantled been dismantled? From the standpoint of globalization, has our inheritance of traditional culture been secure? There are still a lot of questions."　　Identity with tradition okay But in terms of identity with tradition, the questionnaire provided reassuring answers.　　Wang Bo, an expert in the history of Chinese philosophy and a professor at Peking University's Department of Philosophy, categorized traditional culture into three core levels: moral values, etiquette and life ideals.　　From the questionnaire, it can be seen that in terms of moral values, none of the core Confucian morals of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, trust and filial piety are considered "outdated", while more than 50% of the people chose the traditional morals of benevolence, loyalty and filial piety as "learnt by ear since childhood". and for traditional morals such as benevolence, loyalty and filial piety, more than 50% chose "learned from childhood".　　As for etiquette, as a special example, more than 50% of the respondents also chose "to visit graves with sincerity" for the traditional festival of Ching Ming Festival.　　In terms of life ideals, 10% of the respondents believed that "to prepare the family, rule the country, and pacify the world" has always been their ideal, 69% chose "I will consider it", and the choices of "other people's business" and "obsolete" were also considered to be "outdated". Those who chose "other people's business" and "outdated" were 14% and 7% respectively.　　According to Hu, "Compared with 85 years ago, young people nowadays show an optimistic attitude towards traditional culture. This attitude of contemporary youth shows that traditional culture still has a strong vitality and a thick foundation."　　The students who answered this questionnaire came from three prestigious universities, Peking University, Tsinghua University and the National People's Congress, and 80 percent were born in cities, "They represent a fairly good group of Chinese youth, who are themselves recipients of traditional culture, and their success proves that traditional culture is useful." Hu said.　　Tradition and globalization go hand in hand On the question of the future of traditional culture, 44 percent of the respondents chose "hard to say", 33 percent "not optimistic" and "very pessimistic". Only 23% chose "very optimistic" and "quite optimistic". However, compared with the generation of May Fourth Youth who once abandoned traditional culture as if it were nothing, and enthusiastically embraced "total westernization", the contemporary youth living in the "post-modern" environment have, after all, a vastly different attitude towards the relationship between Chinese and Western cultures.　　In the questionnaire, 54% think that "traditional culture and globalization go hand in hand", 30% think that "traditional Chinese culture will be reborn under the baptism of globalization", "globalization is Americanization", "globalization is the same as Americanization", "globalization is the same as Americanization" and "globalization is the same as Americanization". Only 10% think that "globalization is Americanization" and "globalization will lead to the decline or even disappearance of traditional culture".　　This shows the openness of contemporary Chinese youth. This openness should come from the confidence in their own country. According to Wang Bo, the stronger the country, the more confident people are in their traditional culture, and at the same time, they will adopt a very open attitude towards foreign cultures. This was the case, for example, during the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties in Chinese history.　　An open mind is what makes a healthy mindset for a great nation on the rise. The following is a survey of undergraduate students at Peking University, Tsinghua University and National People's Congress (NPC). 100 people were surveyed, with arts, sciences and engineering each accounting for about 1/3 of the total. although this is an "incomplete" answer sheet with a relatively small base, it may reveal that tradition has a strong influence in the Chinese society. Although this is an "incomplete" answer sheet with a small base, it may reveal the weight of tradition in contemporary Chinese young students.　　In the questionnaire, there are several sets of questions that examine people's awareness of tradition. When asked about their reading of ancient scriptures, history, and works of literature, 79% of them answered that they read them occasionally, while 13% answered that they "respect them and stay away from them", and that they "abhor them". 2% said they "abhorred it", and only 6% said they "loved it".　　As for the four great masterpieces of literature, 27% answered that they had read them all, 15% said they had read them many times, and 48% said they had only read one or two of them.　　Another two groups of questions examined people's love and understanding of traditional arts. As a result, 42% of the respondents said that they "could go to see" Peking Opera or some other local opera, as many as those who said they were "not interested" (42%), while 4% said they "hated it very much" and only 11% said they had "seen one or two of them". 4% said they "hate it very much" and only 11% "like it very much".　　As for the mastery of calligraphy, Chinese painting, and ethnic musical instruments (erhu, guzheng, etc.), the majority of the respondents said they had "learned a little bit" (48%) and "didn't know anything" (33%), while only 14% "generally mastered some" and "didn't know much". Only 14% of the respondents had "some knowledge" and only 5% were "proficient".　　This is more or less the same as the conclusion reached by several research organizations in Beijing in 1994 on the survey of Beijing youth and traditional culture: the youth do not have a high degree of knowledge and understanding of traditional culture.