What are our unchanging values?

From pre-Qin to now, prosperity is the eternal pursuit of the Chinese nation. On May 16, Professor Wu from School of Economics and Management of Wuhan University made a simple interpretation of "affluence", one of the core values of socialism, in the 73rd lecture hall for citizens of Wuhan University. This is one of the series of publicity activities of Chinese excellent traditional culture and socialist core values carried out by the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee.

In order to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, consolidate and develop the achievements of Wuhan in building a civilized city, the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, in conjunction with the Provincial Sinology Research Association, Wuhan University, Huazhong Normal University, Hubei University and other units, launched a series of publicity activities on Chinese excellent traditional culture and socialist core values throughout the city, and combined with excellent traditional cultural resources and Wuhan regional cultural resources, made a simple interpretation of socialist core values, further promoting the cultivation and practice of socialist core values.

The publicity campaign for the public will last for more than two months. The activity took Chinese excellent traditional culture as the breakthrough point, and three lectures on the theme of "Twelve Characters of Socialist Core Values" and 12 were held in the evening school for propaganda cadres, the public lecture hall and the famous forum in Wuhan.

When consulting the full-text database of Twenty-five History, the word "Fu Qiang" appeared 103 times.

Consult the full-text electronic database of twenty-five histories.

The word "rich and powerful" appeared 103 times.

"Historical Records" Volume 87 "Biography of Lisi" mentioned that "filial piety is the method of serving Shang Yang, changing customs and customs, making the people flourish, rejuvenating the country and using folk music"

Richness is one of the basic contents of socialist core values. Being rich and strong, as a pursuit of value, is not only universally recognized by contemporary China society, but also deeply accumulated in the traditional culture of China, which lasts for a long time.

Wu consulted the full-text electronic database of Twenty-five History and found that the word "rich and powerful" appeared 103 times and "enriching the people" appeared 242 times.

There are abundant expositions about prosperity in ancient books of Wu Shuo and China, including the explanation of the connotation of prosperity, the views on how to achieve prosperity and how to deal with the relationship between people and countries after prosperity. Confucius and Mencius regarded "enriching the people" as the basis of "enriching the country", emphasizing "enriching the people first" and "enriching the people first". Shang Yang believes that "richness" is the material basis of "strength", and "strength" is the external expression and further pursuit goal of "richness".

For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has been determined to pursue prosperity. Historically, China's economic strength and comprehensive national strength have been in the forefront of the world. Wu Shuo, after modern times, due to the invasion and plunder of western powers and the incompetence of feudal rulers, China gradually fell behind, fell into the abyss of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and its national strength declined, making people miserable. It is precisely because of this that the Chinese nation's pursuit of prosperity is even stronger.

After the Opium War, the people of China began to explore the road to prosperity.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China faced a "once-in-a-thousand-year enemy".

Under the threat and humiliation of the West, advanced China intellectuals began to "look around the world".

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China began a "change that has never happened in a thousand years". In the face of "a thousand-year-old enemy", "400 million people were in tears".

"At this time, the word" rich and powerful "has different meanings." Wu said:

Under the threat and humiliation of the West, China's advanced intellectuals began to "look around the world" and explore ways to realize the country's prosperity. Wei Yuan first put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners" and advocated learning from western technology to resist the West. In the Qing government represented by a number of important officials such as Zhang Zhidong and Li Hongzhang, on the premise of "taking middle school as the body and western learning as the application", the Westernization Movement was launched, military and civilian enterprises were established, the navy was established, new schools were established, and international students were sent to study abroad.

Wu Shuo, these measures have promoted the development of national industry in China and accelerated the modernization process in China to a certain extent, but they have not touched the foundation of feudal rule and cannot make China prosperous.