The importance and significance of traditional culture

The importance and significance of traditional culture

Traditional Chinese culture is the general term for the spiritual phenomena created by the Chinese nation over thousands of years, and it contains an extremely rich content, which, in terms of its most important content, can be summarized as three characteristics:

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Throughout traditional Chinese culture, the idea of ethics runs through. Praising the good and depreciating the bad, pursuing lofty ideological virtues, aspiring to an ideal moral character, and cultivating beautiful spiritual sentiments is a dominant idea in traditional Chinese culture, which is consistently pursued by most thinkers. In the relationship between people, a person should not only have the creative spirit of self-improvement and enterprising, but also have the broad-mindedness of putting oneself in others' shoes and loving others as oneself. Only when one is "in harmony with heaven and earth" can one be considered a person of high moral character.

The so-called self-improvement is a kind of perseverance in traditional Chinese culture, which is hardworking, tireless, persevering and indomitable. The ancient Chinese revered the story of Jingwei filling the sea, Yugong Yishan and Kuafu chasing the sun is a vivid embodiment of this spirit. The spirit of self-improvement can be said to be the backbone of the Chinese nation, and it is an important spiritual pillar that has enabled the Chinese nation to continue to develop and grow for thousands of years. Countless people of benevolence and heroes and heroes who have gone to the front and back, heroic and unyielding, to the point of sacrificing their own lives to defend the territory of the country, to safeguard the dignity of the country, is inseparable from this kind of spirit of self-improvement.

2. Emphasizing the importance of reason and wisdom, the pursuit of truth and discursive thinking, there is a strong tradition of contemplation and debate.

Chinese pre-Qin Confucianism, Mozi, Taoism, and Law, several of the most famous schools of thought, all attach great importance to reason and wisdom, emphasizing the importance of people's understanding of the truth, and Taoism, led by Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi, attaches particular importance to discursive thinking. In Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi's view, all things have their opposites, all things are interconnected, all things are developing and changing, all things are capable of transforming into each other, all things are both absolute and relative, there is a relative in the absolute, and there is an absolute in the relative, and the natural world and the human society are regarded as a unified whole, and they seek to observe and analyze these phenomena from the relative independence and interconnectedness of the whole. analyze these phenomena from the relative independence and interconnectedness of the whole. The University said: "In ancient times, those who wanted to pacify the world first ruled their country; those who wanted to rule their country first aligned their families; those who wanted to align their families first cultivated their bodies; those who wanted to cultivate their bodies first corrected their hearts; those who wanted to rectify their hearts first honored their minds; those who wanted to honor their minds first attained their knowledge. Knowledge and then sincere intention, sincere intention and then the heart is correct, the heart is correct and then body repair, body repair and then Qi family, family and then the country rule, the country rule and then the world." This passage is a more comprehensive, complete and systematic expression of Confucianism's view of the fundamental meaning and purpose of life, that people should perfect society on the basis of perfecting themselves, while at the same time perfecting themselves in the process of perfecting society, which is never-ending.

3. Unique aesthetic sense and humanistic spirit

Traditional Chinese culture has made brilliant achievements in all aspects of literature and art, and is one of the most important and valuable treasures in the culture of all mankind. Chinese people have always liked to express their thoughts and feelings in the form of poetry, the origin of which can be traced back to the era of Emperor Shun before the "Book of Songs", a tradition that has endured throughout the thousands of years of China's history: the "Book of Songs", with its unique wisdom to scourge the ugliness of the society and aspire to a better life, examines the thoughts and feelings of people in different situations; the "Chushu", especially the "Li Sao" and other famous pieces, is the patriotic spirit of the Chinese nation, which is the most important and valuable treasure in the whole human culture. Chusi, especially its "Li Sao" and other famous pieces, is the ancient song of Chinese patriotism, which expresses the spirit of caring for the people, loving the motherland, pursuing ideals, and transforming the reality of the tenacious struggle. Since then, there have been several high points in the development of literature and art, such as Han Fu, Tang Poetry, Song Lyrics, Yuan Opera and Ming Novels, which have created colorful, brilliant, and permanently fascinating literature and art and, in their own unique way, cultivated and nurtured the unique humanistic qualities and national spirit of the Chinese nation.