Composition under the bondage of traditional cultural concepts

How to treat traditional culture has long been a problem. However, after entering the modern society, in the great collision between Chinese and western civilizations, we began to reflect on our traditional culture and largely adjusted our previous views on traditional culture. However, this kind of reflection has been moving forward in a very difficult process. There are progress, obstacles and sometimes even retrogression. So it has been 160 years since the end of the Opium War, but there is still no fundamental breakthrough in the reflection on traditional culture. This situation is unique in all countries in the world, and it also puzzles many people.

Because of the bad political environment, it is difficult to reflect on China's traditional culture. Politicians in China, in the process of China's modernization, are relatively conservative in their ideological and cultural concepts, and it is easy for them to have a spiritual * * * sound on autocratic ideology and culture. Once the reflection on China's traditional culture has made some progress and breakthrough, there will always be some politicians who benefit from privileged politics, jumping out from behind the scenes and attacking them with political power. Didn't some warlords in modern times preach respect for Confucius at home? Ignorance of and interference with ideology and culture are the important reasons why China's reflection on traditional culture is difficult to advance.

The complex composition of China's traditional culture is also a reason. The traditional culture of China has a history of thousands of years. It takes a long time, and something has to be added at every stage of its development, so the content is very rich and the composition is extremely complicated. There are many things that are good. A lot of things are dross. Essence and dross are often mixed together. This makes future generations very confused: it is not easy to say I love you. Because there are too many decadent ingredients. I want to hate you, but I can't. Because there are many valuable things in China's traditional culture.

We can't help but say that the complex elements of China's traditional culture make future generations feel embarrassed. It is also a reason why China's traditional culture is difficult to reflect.

The author mainly talks about the characteristics of China traditional culture and its future development direction. In the process of writing, trying to put forward some new ideas may play a role in attracting jade.

(A) to reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of China's traditional culture, we must grasp the direction of human progress.

Human society is always progressing. Politically, this progress is people-oriented until the people decide. Economically, it emphasized agriculture and commerce until the later market economy; In terms of ideology and culture, it shows respect for other people's ideas and opinions until later freedom of thought; In dealing with people and things, I cared about people, cared for them, and respected their value and dignity until later.

People-oriented thought has always existed in ancient China. There is a saying in Shang and Zhou dynasties that "the people only care about the country, and the country is better." Mencius said, "The people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light." Xunzi said, "Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it." These ideas are progressive in themselves. In terms of attitude towards life, Sima Qian's enterprising spirit, Su Dongpo's bold and open-minded mind, Zhang Heng and Xu Xiake's persistent love for truth, Mencius' ambition of "I am good at cultivating noble spirit" and Du Fu's ambition of "climbing to the top of the world and being the leader of other mountains" are all dwarfed. Are all healthy spiritual fields. On the issue of dealing with nature and destiny, Xunzi's "controlling the destiny and using it", Liu Zongyuan's and Liu Yuxi's "Heaven and Man win each other" and Wang Fuzi's "Harmony between Heaven and Man" and "Creating Life" all contain brilliant ideas that man can conquer nature. On the right and freedom of individual life, Nineteen Ancient Poems and Ruan Ji's love poems pay attention to the meaning of life, Shi Shuo Xin Yu affirms personal value, and Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu's passionate pursuit of free love in A Dream of Red Mansions all inject fresh blood into China's traditional ideology and culture. In dealing with the relationship between individuals and society, "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world", "everything in the world is concerned about national affairs and family affairs", "humble people refuse to forget to worry about the country", "worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later" and "no one has died since ancient times, so it is a very noble spiritual realm to keep a pure heart and shine on history". When it comes to man and nature, many literary works, such as prickly river, Yueyang Tower, moonlight night on the riverside, reflect the special feelings between our nation and nature.

Boarding the Yangtze River and reciting "The great river flows day and night" suddenly gives birth to a kind of lofty sentiments. Near the mountain, I read, "All other mountains look short in the sky." Give you a fighting spirit. Reading the preface to Wang Teng-ting, I read that "the sky is vast and the universe is infinite", which gives birth to a kind of generosity. So thick, so unyielding, so strong, only Sri Lanka can have it!

However, like other countries, China's ideology and culture also has its dross. Due to the age, it has not been cleaned up in time for several years, which has caused more and more dross and brought great harm to our nation. Do women have unique life values? Just a vassal of mankind. Every woman in China should be grateful for living in modern times and sad for living in ancient times. Not only women, but also men have no independent life value. Bureaucrats, large and small, and countless ordinary people all went to Portugal under the pressure of imperial power. They may have despaired, doubted and opposed, but later, they never thought of it again, and even took shouting "Long live my emperor" as their lifelong glory. Marx once called this social phenomenon with China characteristics universal slavery contemptuously. It is not lofty innovation, nor advocating that each generation is better than the next, but advocating conservatism. "The sky is changeable, the earth is changeable, and the laws of the ancestors are immutable." For thousands of years, the political system, ideas, science and culture have been difficult to progress, and finally they inevitably lag behind the international community in modern society. On the one hand, the emperor was extravagant, lived in three palaces and seventy-two courtyards, lived a decadent life, and bureaucrats and nobles oppressed and plundered the people. On the other hand, they advocate that "the gentleman is righteous and the villain is profitable" and that "the gentleman cares about Tao but not poverty". They seek more material benefits for ordinary people through business or other means and carry out various repression. Even if it is difficult to further improve people's living standards, social and economic development will lose its internal motivation. Suppress individuality, suppress free thought and suppress the legitimate desire of individual life. Whoever is maverick is "shooting at the head with a gun", which leads to a large number of people, but in fact there are thousands of people, and no one with courage and insight. With a new idea, it is "pass the parcel". If you are arrogant, you will "harm nine families" and "destroy ten families." Listen to parents at home, listen to elders in the countryside, listen to bureaucrats in society, and all bureaucrats listen to the emperor. Personal marriage, listen to your parents. Otherwise, it will be a "great rebellion", and we must rise up and cut it. Closed-door, arrogant and indifferent to the outside world. Although he was defeated in the Opium War, he still refused to admit defeat, pretending to be a country of China, refusing to put down his airs and seriously learning valuable things from other people's cultures. After repeated failures, we still haven't learned from them, and we can't reform our own system to fully stimulate national vitality. Well, scars forget to hurt, and there are countless such situations!

There are so many factors that are ignorant, backward, inhibit human nature and hinder development! If a person does not have enough resistance and lives in such a cultural environment, can his thoughts not degenerate and his personality not be distorted? At the same time, in this social environment, it is inevitable that people who are good at obtaining, cheating and having backgrounds will rise to the top; People who are muddleheaded, mediocre and smooth sailing, mediocre people are safe all their lives; And talented, honest, kind and ambitious people are often difficult for heroes to use, and they are depressed all their lives. Not the survival of the fittest, but the survival of the fittest. The whole society is in a phenomenon of backward elimination-almost every generation has it, with few exceptions, with few exceptions!