What are township sages, township sages culture and traditional township sages culture?

On the afternoon of April 20th, the 18th activity of "Hundred Lectures on Core Values" co-sponsored by Guangming Daily, China Renmin University and Chinese Ethics Society was held in Central South University. Hu Binbin, a professor at Central South University and director of China Village Culture Research Center, gave a wonderful lecture to more than 300 teachers and students on the topic of "hometown Xi 'an culture and core values". What is a national hero? How should the rural sage culture serve the present? What are the problems of rural sage culture in today's social practice? Michael Chen, a senior netizen of Guangming.com, said. Com and a professor from the Institute of Applied Systems Analysis of Central South University expressed their views on these issues after listening to this lecture carefully.

When making the past serve the present, we should pay attention to distinguish the essence from the dross.

The word "rural sage" uses a word "xian", which is probably a praise of rural sage figures, rural sage phenomenon and rural sage culture. Existence determines consciousness. The word "national sage" appeared in feudal society. Here, the word "xian" must be measured and discriminated by feudal ethics and core values of feudalism.

Modern Chinese Dictionary does not include the word "Guo Xian". Only the word sage-talented, virtuous and prestigious people, such as "social sage", replaces "society" with "village" to form "village sage". Therefore, the word "village sage" refers to talented, virtuous and prestigious people in the village.

There are two kinds of rural sages. One is the rural sage, and the neighborhood is praised by the people. Professor Hu Binbin showed a general list in the lecture on "Xi 'an Rural Culture and Core Values", which was spontaneously praised by "relatives and friends of the rural party". Of the more than 20 people who signed/kloc-0, none is Liang's family. It can be seen how much Mr. Liang is admired and loved by his neighbors! Using the analogy of today's events, it is equivalent to the representatives directly elected by grassroots people's congresses in the form of no canvassing and no bribery, which has a very deep mass base. Therefore, I think that although it was born in feudal society, it is very important to learn from, inherit and develop the essence of this "rural sage" and the corresponding rural sage culture, which can be used to enrich and enrich contemporary core values. Of course, it will inevitably be polluted by feudal core values to varying degrees.

There is also a class of rural sages, who were ordered by the emperor to set up memorial archways. According to the online literature, during the construction of Shangba Village Primary School in Guanzhong Town, Deqing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province 1993, a tablet named "Fu Gong Jia Temple of Doctor Rong Lu in Deqing Township, En 'an County" was excavated from the ground, and the tablet was originally located in Xiangxian Temple in Shangba Village. This is a monument to commemorate the achievements of Fu Gengmei, the father of Fu Yunlong. Fu was once the magistrate of En 'an County, Yunnan Province, and "Xiangxian" was a title granted by the emperor after his death. The monument was erected in the winter of Guangxu Gengzi Year (1900). The inscription was written by Li Hongzhang, Minister of Beiyang, scholar of the Museum of Literature and Governor of Zhili, while Fu Yunlong wrote it in official script. Inscription 15 column, 26 words in each column. Now it stands beside the statue of Fu Yunlong in Paradise Tour. I think the main purpose of this kind of rural sage awarded and commended by the emperor should be to serve the core values of feudal society, "home is in the world." It should carry forward the highest standard pursued by feudal emperors, that is, "the world is not a king's land, and the coast of the land is not a king's minister." Of course, it will also come with some essence.

Xiangxian culture belongs to traditional culture. There are essence and dross in traditional culture. Then, the culture of rural sages must coexist with essence and dross.

The chaotic situation of Xi 'an rural culture in today's social practice is worrying.

In today's society, some activities, although not clearly disguised as "rural sages", are all related to rural sages, rural sages phenomenon and rural sages culture. And its starting point and destination run counter to the correct proposition and pursuit advocated by Professor Hu in his lecture. These phenomena are worrying.

Behind the phenomenon of "robbing ancestors"

Nowadays, "grabbing ancestors" is popular everywhere, including grabbing the naming rights of scenic spots and historical sites, and even going to the extreme of monopoly and exclusion-only this one, no branch. A municipality directly under the central government declared with ambiguous but clear advertising words: "There are two peach blossoms in the world, one in your heart and the other in XXX (the name of the municipality directly under the central government)." You see, there are only two in the world, and the other one is in your heart. Isn't this the only one? A "Fuxi Cave" was also developed here to show that the local people are descendants of China's ancestor Fu, which is much older and more orthodox than the descendants of China people.

Get the false name of "sage of hometown" by corruption

There is an intriguing phenomenon in the real society: the ill-gotten wealth obtained through corruption or other improper means is donated to the title of "a certain member" and becomes the "rural sage" in the village. According to the feudal nepotism logic of "one person gets the word, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven", the family has become a "big family of rural sages" with five people and six people in the village. This has established an organizational basis for family corruption with blood ties. This kind of family-style rural corruption case is endless.

Alienation of religious culture

The "jungle" of religion, temples and monks are originally solemn places and great virtues for practicing Buddhism, promoting universal life, persuading people to be kind and being kind to others. However, nowadays, looking at some host figures and their temples who are not as good as rural sages, they are as crazy as the most smelly shopping malls. The essence of religious culture, which can be used for reference and incorporated into socialist core values after transformation, is almost completely alienated into the curse of Machamp's chaotic gods.

Family culture is a double-edged sword for modern democratic construction.

Xiangxian, Xiangxian and Xiangxian culture are mostly related to clan. The structure of modern socialist political system should be "all corners of the country", and the 24 words of socialist core values include "democracy, equality and friendliness".

Clan culture may be a double-edged sword for the construction of modern rural grass-roots political system, which can "carry a boat or overturn it" At present, some township grass-roots political institutions have been controlled by the most popular families. There is no need to canvass for bribes, and there is no need to resist voters from voting according to their own wishes. In full accordance with legal procedures, only the "hometown sages" of the extended family, or even the ties of family blood, can be a shoo-in. How to protect the legitimate democratic rights and interests of citizens with a small surname is worrying.

Advantages and disadvantages of continuing to write genealogy

Nowadays, it is common to continue to write genealogy. This is very beneficial to the normal pursuit of the future, the establishment of a good family style, and the cultivation of new rural sages, rural sages and rural sage culture. But ... once it turns into a struggle for orthodox inheritance and legitimacy, it may cause endless harm. This is true for a family, for a place or enterprise, and for a country.

It must be emphasized once again that when we draw nutrients from the traditional culture of rural sages, we should first carefully identify the essence and dross in the traditional culture of rural sages, so as to provide better value orientation for cultivating and practicing socialist core values in the new period. We should carefully select its essence and discard its dross, and we must never inherit it completely.

Inheritance is not a total affirmation, but a sublation; Flotation is not a total negation, but screening-mineral processing is called jigging, cleaning, enrichment and improving grade; As the saying goes, "Blow the chaff to see the rice": Just like farmers in the north raise their fields after harvesting, farmers in the south use windmills to drive millet, blow the dust and shriveled shells of straw away from the tuyere and collect full grains from the chute. We should also look at the "rural xian culture" formed in history in this way. (Guangming interview. Com reporter Tian)