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The Contemporary Value of Chinese Traditional Culture

Abstract: Chinese culture has a long history and has been passed down from generation to generation. "The idea of "harmony" is one of the most vital and important parts of it, which has been the driving force for the development of Chinese society for thousands of years, and is also the source of the idea of building a "harmonious world" put forward by China today. It is also the source of the idea of building a "harmonious world" proposed by China today. The idea of "benevolence" is an important contemporary value. It is an important moral standard. In recent years, the study and dissemination of traditional Chinese culture at home and abroad has shifted from the initial popularization of learning to the contemplation of "China's road". We need to explore the root causes behind this phenomenon and the relationship between traditional Chinese culture and the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, so that the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics can be connected with the basic spirit of traditional Chinese culture, and our excellent traditional culture can be more vibrant and dynamic.　　 Keywords: Chinese traditional culture, contemporary value, harmony, benevolence

Culture is the sum of human spiritual and practical activities and their material and spiritual achievements. Due to the complexity and diversity of people's living practices, culture has different contents, forms and levels accordingly. As one of the world's four major ancient civilizations, as early as thousands of years ago, China was famous for its unique Yellow River culture. Since then, through the long-term creation and accumulation of the descendants of the Yellow River, Chinese culture has become more and more colorful and profound, and its achievements and influence are rare in the world. China is a vast country with a vast territory, and since the Zhou and Qin Dynasties, with the exception of a few periods of division, it has maintained the political organization of a unified multi-ethnic state for most of the time. As a result, traditional Chinese culture is a system in which the Chinese civilization originating in the Yellow River basin serves as the mainstay and is complemented by a diversity of ethnic minority cultures, which complement each other. In many ways, the ancestors of the Chinese nation had courageously and unhesitatingly absorbed foreign cultural factors and transformed them to continuously enrich the content of Chinese culture. The unique geography has created a unique Chinese culture, which has had a different impact on China's development and human history.

One side of the water and soil nurtures one side of the people, not only nourishing the human body, but also nourishing the human spirit and soul. Chinese traditional culture is the result of a combination of geographical and human factors. Traditional Chinese culture emphasizes the cultivation of the body, the family, the state, and the world, and pays special attention to moral cultivation. Its centerpiece is the cultivation of one's own body, and the cultivation of one's own body is the inevitable result of the cultivation of one's own family, the governance of the country, and the pacification of the world. Cultivation of the body is the way to establish oneself and the country, advocating that through one's own cultivation and learning, one becomes a noble person with ideals, and that its highest goal and ultimate value is to realize the unity and coordinated development of the person and the group, the individual and the society. The Confucian doctrine of Confucius defines "benevolence" as the core, "righteousness" as the value criterion, and "propriety" as the behavioral norms of the moral model, and positions the individual's moral cultivation and value realization as follows The moral pattern of "righteousness" as the core and "rites" as the behavioral norms, positioned the individual's moral cultivation and value realization on caring and dedication to others, groups and society. The positive significance of this tradition lies in the fact that it has created countless people like Fan Zhongyan who "worry about the whole world before all else, and rejoice after all else", and has had an extremely far-reaching influence on the history of the Chinese nation. These excellent moral norms are still of great significance in the process of building a harmonious culture. The traditional Chinese culture includes many aspects, a few of which are described below.

The first is the idea of benevolence, which was put forward by Confucius, a great educator and thinker in ancient times. The core of his thought, although his thought did not receive much attention at that time, but in today's point of view, on our social life and all aspects of the growth of an immeasurable impact. "He who is kind, loves others", Confucianism first emphasizes the harmony and order within the family, emphasizing the orderly relationship between fathers, sons and brothers within the family, which has its feudal hierarchical thinking, but also has the meaning of respect for the elderly and love for the young, which is conducive to the maintenance of the stability of the family, and the family is the basic cell of the society, the stability of the family is conducive to the stability of the society. Confucianism also extends emotional exchanges within the family to interpersonal interactions in society as a whole, emphasizing mutual respect and love among people. "In social interactions, Confucianism emphasizes the importance of thinking differently and considering each other from the standpoint of others, which is the ideal state of interpersonal interactions and a requirement for us to form a good social and ethical culture. "To return to one's self is to be benevolent," Confucius' The concepts of "benevolence" and "propriety" are closely related. "Rites" refers to the ruling system, including various social systems and social norms. To "restrain oneself and return to propriety" is to ask people to restrain their selfish desires and to abide by the order of the social system, and to ask people "not to look at propriety, not to listen to propriety, and not to speak or move without propriety". With the development of history and the progress of society, some characteristics have changed drastically, and some characteristics that were not present in the previous society have also appeared. However, no matter how the society develops, there are some things that are eternal in people's heart. Historical ideas can be re-interpreted according to the background of today's time, and it can also play the light of the times. In contemporary China Confucius's Renxue thought from the conscious realization of personal value system and mainstream social consciousness, has been transformed into a form of only is and cultural psychological habits. The idea of renxue can play an irreplaceable role in solving the imbalance of modern people's beliefs and establishing the world of ideal personality, and has become an important part of the world's diverse cultures and civilizations. In an objective way, it promotes the development of humanistic management in the direction of humanization in modern enterprise management. It can be said that the political ideal of the cosmopolitan society conceived by Confucius has become a reality to a certain extent in today's democratic and constitutional society. Taking the essence and removing the dregs of Confucius' idea of benevolence in the current stage of China's socio-political development can accelerate the process of China's modernization and promote the development of the humanistic spirit.

Next, we will introduce the idea of "harmony" in traditional Chinese culture. Ancient Chinese thought advocates the "unity of heaven and mankind", that is, people should live in harmony with the natural world, and seek survival and development in the respect and protection of nature. The idea of "harmony" is a generalization of the ancient Chinese philosophers on the nature of nature and the nature of various phenomena in human society. It recognizes the differences of things, such as yin and yang, heaven and man, but at the same time the differences of things organically combined into one, such as yin and yang and harmony, the unity of man and heaven, etc.; it does not deny the existence of contradictions and conflicts, but advocates the prevention of excessive contradictions and conflicts to prevent the destruction of interdependence between different things, *** with the existence of the environmental basis. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the idea of "harmony" has been universally applied and has permeated the thoughts of various schools of thought in different eras, gradually becoming a universally accepted and recognized humanistic spirit in Chinese thought and culture. The idea of "harmony" has also had an important impact on the diplomatic philosophy and foreign relations of successive Chinese feudal dynasties. In modern times, the idea of "Harmony" still has an important influence. The idea of "Harmony" emphasizes the mutual interaction, absorption and integration of different cultures, and has played a crucial role in advancing the development of human civilization. At a time when globalization is accelerating, and when the cultural characteristics and differences of different ethnic groups and regions still exist, it is all the more important to reduce friction, increase *** knowledge, and promote the ideas of "harmony is precious" and "harmony and difference". To this end, it is fundamental to the development of traditional Chinese culture to inherit and carry forward the "peace and harmony" ideology of ***survival, ***survival and ***winning, and to adhere to the path of peaceful development. In the process of integrating into the world, China has realized the revelation of traditional culture that "harmony is precious" and "peace is different", and the concept of a "harmonious world" advocated by China will surely promote the development of global multiculturalism. The concept of "Harmonious World" advocated by China will certainly promote the development of global multiculturalism and become a new trend in the development of international relations.　　Since its birth in ancient times, Chinese civilization has been flowing like an endless river to the present day. The psychological characteristics and cultural traits of ****similarity have been formed on the vast and long historical stage, and have taken deep root in the Chinese nation, irreplaceable and unchangeable. Any foreign culture is only an enrichment and supplement to our national spirit. By digging up and organizing traditional culture and inheriting valuable things, we should fully understand and comprehensively examine traditional culture, that is, we should attach great importance to the irreplaceable role of traditional culture, and fully understand the historical foundational role of traditional culture in the creation of socialist culture, which is of great practical significance for us to find historical coordinates and orientations. Effectively play the important role of excellent traditional culture in improving moral cultivation and cultivating moral norms.

Promote the spirit of the Chinese nation contained in the excellent traditional culture, and form a national spirit centered on patriotism. The national spirit is a nation in the long-term *** with the production life and *** with the social practice based on the formation and development of the majority of the members of the nation to identify and accept the ideological character, values and moral norms, is the pillar and soul of a nation, which is shaping the character and appearance of the nation, for the national cohesion, centripetal force of the enhancement of the role of the great immeasurable. And traditional culture is the important carrier of national spirit, so we can't do without traditional culture education when we carry out national spirit education. The first step in building a socialist spiritual civilization is to promote patriotism, which is the soul of the nation. This is the spirit of the nation, such as the ideal spirit of "the world is public" and "the world is common", the tolerant spirit of "all races are one" and "all nations are in harmony", and the patriotic spirit of "worrying about the country and the people" and "dedicating oneself to the motherland", etc. The negative effects of the market economy are affecting the spirit of the nation. At a time when the negative effects of the market economy are impacting the construction of spiritual civilization, the essence of these national spirits must be carefully sorted out and excavated to form a socialist core value system, to inspire people's national pride, self-confidence and enthusiasm for building a modern socialist country, to "make the whole society's vitality of cultural creativity fully unleashed, and the fruits of cultural innovations continue to emerge, so that the contemporary Chinese culture will be more colorful and diverse, and the Chinese culture will become more and more attractive. make contemporary Chinese culture more colorful, attractive and infectious.