What does China's traditional culture inspire our life?

One should have the realm of Taoism, the mind of Buddhism and the spirit of Confucian practice.

One day when I was here, Teacher Fu went to see him. He wore a Taoist crown, flail sand and Confucian shoes. Liang Wudi asked him, "What are you doing dressed like this?" ? Are you a Taoist, a monk or a Confucian? He replied that one should have the realm of Taoism, the mind of Buddhism and the spirit of Confucian practice.

This is a very important connotation of China culture. Yuan Zhe

The connotation of China culture has two levels, one is the official thief, and the other is the cultural spirit of China, which is mainly reflected in the intellectual class in China (Hu Shi, Lu Xun, Russell, Hegel and others have already analyzed that China culture has many bad roots).

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I once divided culture into two categories: narrow culture and broad culture. In a narrow sense, it refers to philosophy, religion, literature, art, politics, economy, ethics, morality and so on. Broadly speaking, it refers to everything created by spiritual civilization and material civilization, including cars, planes and so on.

Zhou Yiliang once divided culture into three levels: narrow sense, broad sense and deep sense. Mr. Zhou has his own views on profound culture. He said: "In some different fields of narrow culture, or in some unrelated fields of narrow culture and broad culture, we should further synthesize, generalize, condense, refine, abstract and sublimate, and get a similarity that exists in many fields." This kind of thing can be called profound culture, that is, the most essential or distinctive thing in a national culture. " He took Japanese culture as an example. He believes that the deep culture of Japan is characterized by "bitterness" and "laziness". Specific performance is simple, simple, slender, subtle, quaint, cited but not made, not carved and so on.

I don't want to explore from the national mentality. I think from another angle, we can also show the deep structure or connotation of China culture.

There are many differences between China's philosophy and foreign philosophy. One of the most important differences is that China's philosophy likes to talk about knowing and doing. I want to divide China culture into two parts according to two categories: knowledge, understanding, appreciation and so on, which belong to the category of knowledge; Part of it is discipline, ethics, social morality, etc., which belongs to the category of behavior. Behind these two parts is the profound China culture, which has the most essence and characteristics.

On the history of China's thoughts, Mr. Yin Ke pointed out: "During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were three religions: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Therefore, from the Jin Dynasty, China's thoughts can be represented by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Although this is a popular saying, the facts of the old history, based on the human feelings of this world, the theory of the three religions should be irreversible. Therefore, for two thousand years, the Chinese nation has been deeply influenced by Confucianism, which is really not as good as Buddhism and Taoism in terms of public and private life of system and law. "

A careful analysis of China's ideological history reveals that Confucianism is the main influencing factor in practice, while Buddhism and Taoism are the decisive factor in knowledge. The most profound culture with China characteristics lurking behind them is the ethical things such as the Three Cardinals and Six Disciplines.

As far as Buddhism is concerned, its theory and practice also have two aspects: knowing and doing. The most fundamental teachings of primitive Buddhism, such as impermanence, selflessness, suffering and twelve causes, all belong to knowledge. Between knowing and doing, the eight meanings and four noble truths include both knowing and doing. Activities closely related to knowledge, such as practicing, worshiping Buddha, nirvana and jumping out of samsara, have no ethical color at all. After it was spread to China, its thought of "no father, no gentleman" was completely opposed to China's Three Cardinals and Six Disciplines. In the fierce impact on China culture, if Buddhism can't adapt to the reality, it can't stand in China, so Buddhism can only make some disguises to survive. In some places in the early Buddhist scriptures, the word "filial piety" was particularly emphasized, that is, the original intention was distorted to meet the requirements of China's strong discipline culture. It can also be seen that China's profound cultural strength is great and irresistible.

This point has been felt by domestic scholars. Mr. Feng Youlan said: "Christian culture attaches great importance to heaven and stresses' heaven learning';" Most of what Buddhism says is after death. Such as hell, reincarnation, etc. This is' ghost learning', which is about ghosts; China's culture pays attention to' human studies' and people. " In fact, Confucius is the representative of this opinion. "Children don't say anything strange, but their strength confuses their minds" is proof. He himself said, "If you don't know life, you won't know death." In my opinion, the characteristics of China culture are most obviously reflected in the culture with profound meaning, which is its ethical color, its three cardinal principles and six disciplines and the spirit of solving the relationship between people.

(Excerpted from Ji Xianlin's "Mr. Chen Yinque's Moral Articles")