How to understand the modern significance of the humanistic spirit of Chinese culture

"Humanism" refers to the moral, value, and spiritual civilization of human beings, as opposed to the primitive violence of "might".

Why is "nationalism" so popular today? Is it because people are interested in literalism, koan, version of knowledge, academic things? Obviously not. People so keen on the national science, is hoping to learn from the humanistic spirit in which the reason to be human.

"Humanities" is a word often said today. What is "humanism"? "Wen" is the pictogram of interlocking strokes in oracle bone, gold and seal scripts, which is why the Book of Changes says, "Things are intermingled, so it is called 'Wen'." The Guoyu said, "Things are one without 'wen'." Shuo Wen Jie Zi" explained as "wrong painting", "cross text", that is, the meaning of the pattern, that is, "grain". From the original meaning of "图纹", the meaning of "文饰" and "修饰" is derived. "Humanities" is the decoration of human beings - moral civilization, spiritual civilization. The Chinese character "人文" is derived from the Tuan of the I Ching - Ben: "Civilization stops at civilization, and so does humanism." Ben is one of the 64 hexagrams and belongs to the 別卦. Bei Gua consists of two meridian trigrams. The ones that make up Ben Gua are Li Gua and Burgundy Gua. "Civilization to stop" refers to the meaning of the trigrams Li Gua and Burgundy Gua, which make up the Ben Gua. The original meaning of the hexagram is the sun or the sun and the moon are attached to the sky, and "civilization", "Ming" meaning. Burgundy hexagrams of the meaning of the hexagram for the stillness. Ben Gua down for the upper for the Burgundy, the metaphor of both internal "civilization" and external can keep "stop". The word "stop" is also used as "rule". The phrase "civilization to stop" also has the meaning of ruling things with civilization. Wang Bi's note: "Stopping things is not by might and power, but by civilization, and people's culture is also civilized." Kong Yingda further explains, "'Civilization': Li also; 'to stop': Burgundy also. To cut and stop people with this civilized way is the teaching of humanities and virtues." "Humanism" refers to the moral, value, and spiritual civilization of human beings as opposed to the primitive violence, "might and might".

What is the significance of humanism in Chinese culture today? I think it can be viewed from three aspects.

1. There is a saying that "we are all the same, we are all the same". People's physiological structure is largely the same, facing the same survival problems, so the value of dealing with the relationship between man and nature, man and human norms also present the same cross-section of humanistic spirit, moral civilization has a trans-historical inheritance and transcends the universality of the country and the nation.

2. The humanistic spirit of Chinese culture was once an advanced and progressive culture in history. The spiritual civilization of Huaxia, which originated in the Middle Plains of the Yellow River Basin and was carried by the Chinese written texts, is a wealth of ideas accumulated by the Chinese nation, mainly Han people, in their long-term life and social practices. Because of its universality and advancement at that time, the Northern Wei under the rule of Xianbei, Liao under the rule of Khitan, Jin under the rule of Jurchen, Yuan under the rule of Mongol and Qing under the rule of Manchu all coincidentally chose to inherit and expand on it, and thus staged a historical drama in which the political conqueror was conquered culturally. Take two examples. One is the Northern Wei Dynasty. When Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty was 28 years old, that is, in 494, he moved the capital city from Pingcheng, which is adjacent to Inner Mongolia and is today's Datong, to Luoyang, which is today's south-central Henan Province, and implemented a series of cultural reforms: replacing the Xianbei dress with Han dress, using Chinese language at the court and banning the Xianbei language, replacing the old Xianbei family name with a Han family name that has a similar sound or meaning, bridging the marital relationship between the Xianbei aristocracy and the Han scholarly family, opening schools, reviving the Han school, and greatly promoting the development of the Han culture. revival of Chinese studies, which greatly facilitated the integration of the Xianbei and Han Chinese. Secondly, the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty did two great things in preserving the culture of the Han people. One was the compilation of 10,000 volumes of Ancient and Modern Books; the other was the compilation of more than 79,000 volumes of the Siku Quanshu (四库全书), which consisted of more than 36,000 volumes. Because of the previous large class of books "Yongle Dictionary" in the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the fire most of the burned, so the "Ancient and Modern Book Integration" and especially the "Siku Quanshu" in the preservation of the national canon of merit is particularly great.

3, the current reconstruction of the social value system, on the one hand, we must use the Marxist methodology of seeking truth from facts, closely linked to the current social reality in China to make scientific explanations, but at the same time, we must be good at drawing on the existing ideological value resources. These resources mainly come from two aspects. One is the universal value norms that prevail in the world, which are the 22 world conventions that China has signed and joined; the other resource is the humanistic spirit of nationalism that is full of modern vitality, which is the source of thought for the Chinese people to live in peace.