What changes have taken place in China's traditional cultural values and what have not?

First of all, China traditional culture provides a rich cultural foundation for the formation of the socialist core value system. The socialist core value system belongs to the category of social consciousness and is a socialist concept system. This concept system was developed in a specific national cultural environment. According to Marxism, the social consciousness of any era is related to the social consciousness of the previous era, and its emergence and development are based on the ideological materials accumulated by predecessors. The socialist core value system is rooted in the fertile soil of China's traditional culture, and has absorbed the reasonable elements of China's traditional culture before it can be formed and developed.

Second, the traditional culture of China provides the ideological and cultural tradition for the construction of the socialist core value system. Traditional culture and cultural tradition are both closely related and different. Different from foreign culture and contemporary culture, traditional culture refers to all kinds of material, institutional and spiritual cultural entities and cultural consciousness that once existed in the history of a nation, country or region. Cultural tradition is the accumulation of culture handed down from generation to generation in historical development and the "living soul" of culture. In the development of thousands of years, China's traditional culture has gradually formed China's cultural tradition, which runs through China people's values, ways of thinking, customs, moral etiquette and other aspects. The socialist core value system is the theoretical system of socialist dominant values, which runs through all aspects of China's cultural tradition. For example, the spirits in China's cultural tradition, such as vigorous and enterprising, self-improvement, generosity and tolerance, loyalty and honesty, diligence and honesty, loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, filial piety and humility, self-denial and self-discipline, have been transformed into the spirit of the Chinese nation and the spirit of the times.

Second, the socialist core value system is the sublimation and innovation of China traditional culture.

The socialist core value system is not a complete inheritance of China traditional culture, but a sublimation and innovation of China traditional culture, absorbing its essence and discarding its dross.

First of all, in the process of China Marxism, the socialist core value system absorbed, transformed and integrated the traditional culture of China, and formed the theory of Scientific Outlook on Development and building a harmonious socialist society put forward by Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and the new leadership of the CPC Central Committee. In the process of its formation, Mao Zedong Thought fully absorbed and transformed the traditional culture of China. Take the "mass line" as an example. The idea of "respecting morality and protecting people" put forward by Zhou Gong, a politician in the Western Zhou Dynasty, opened the precedent of China's people-oriented thought; Mencius put forward the idea that "the people are more important than the monarch", and on this basis, he summed up the historical law of the rise and fall of "the government gains its people"; Xunzi further put forward the people-oriented thought of "boat is for the people", and water can carry a boat and overturn it, all of which were transformed into Marxist mass view by Mao Zedong Thought. The ideas of "building a harmonious socialist society" and "building a harmonious socialist culture" put forward by the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s new central collective leadership also absorbed and transformed the idea of "valuing monks and benefiting people" in China's traditional culture. Confucius attached great importance to the value and function of "harmony" when he founded Confucianism. He emphasized that "harmony is precious" and regarded "harmony" as the value judgment standard of being a man, doing things and governing the country. He put forward: "a gentleman is harmonious but different, and a villain is not harmonious." Confucius' thought of "harmony but difference" not only recognizes differences, but also demands harmony. Through complementarity and mutual assistance, we can achieve the unity of contradictions and form a harmonious state. Laozi said in the Tao Te Ching: "Everything is negative and holds Yang, while rushing is thought to be harmonious". He believes that everything contains two aspects of the contradiction between Yin and Yang, and the interaction between Yin and Yang constitutes "harmony". "Harmony" is the essence of all things in the universe and the foundation of the existence of all things in heaven and earth. It is a creation to fully understand the modern value of China's traditional culture, extract a "harmonious culture" suitable for the development of contemporary society and upgrade the socialist core value system.

Secondly, in the process of forming the national spirit and the spirit of the times, we absorbed and used for reference the excellent contents of China traditional culture and made a comprehensive innovation on China traditional culture. The national spirit with patriotism as the core is the soul of China traditional culture. It revolves around patriotism, including unity, love of peace, diligence and courage, and constant self-improvement. These aspects of national spirit are condensed in the development of China traditional culture and the crystallization of China excellent traditional culture. For example, patriotism is an eternal theme in China's traditional culture. Patriotism, as a lofty spirit reflecting people's deep feelings for the motherland, is linked with the development history of the nation and embodied as a culture. Countless patriots in the history of China wrote brilliant patriotic poems with their heroic deeds. China's spirit of revolutionary despair, strict discipline and self-sacrifice, selflessness and putting others before oneself, overriding all enemies and difficulties, persisting in revolutionary optimism and overcoming all difficulties in the process of China people's revolution are all extracted from magnificent revolutionary practice on the basis of absorbing nutrients from traditional culture. The spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core has rich connotations. Focusing on the core of reform and innovation, it includes the spirit of emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing despite difficulties, working hard, seeking truth and being pragmatic, indifferent to fame and fortune, selfless dedication and so on. These spirits are also the transformation and innovation of China's traditional culture.

Third, the transformation and innovation of traditional culture in the process of socialist moral construction. Socialist moral construction is an arduous systematic project, and it also needs to inherit the valuable positive factors in predecessors' ideology and morality that adapt to the development of contemporary society. At present, an important content of ideological and moral construction is to vigorously advocate the socialist concept of honor and disgrace. The socialist concept of "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" put forward by Comrade Hu Jintao has absorbed the positive factors in China's traditional culture and combined it with the concrete reality of moral construction in China, which has provided important moral principles and value scales for China's moral construction. The socialist concept of honor and disgrace has inherited the cultural tradition of "knowing shame" in ancient China, and absorbed the ideas put forward by ancient thinkers in China that "doing it with shame will make people everywhere", "being shameless and disgusting will make people inhuman", "courtesy and righteousness are the four dimensions of the country", "being honored before benefits, being ashamed before benefits" and "being ashamed of people". The socialist concept of honor and disgrace puts individuals in the position of others, society and country, which embodies the profound life consciousness and spiritual pursuit in China's cultural wisdom and shows the "self-creative transformation" of personality.

Third, carry forward Chinese excellent cultural traditions and build a socialist core value system.

The splendid China culture of 5,000 years has made great contributions to the progress of human civilization. It is the endless spiritual bond of the Chinese nation and the inheritance of national blood. It is also the source of strength for the Chinese nation to stand firm in various complex environments and persevere in disasters in the face of severe challenges. China's traditional culture provides rich spiritual resources for the construction of the socialist core value system, and is a solid foundation for China's excellent cultural tradition and the spirit of the Chinese nation. In the process of building a socialist core value system, we should learn and study China traditional culture, absorb its essence, eliminate its dross, carry forward China's excellent cultural tradition, cultivate and carry forward the spirit of the Chinese nation, and build a value system that is suitable for China's reality, can form people's understanding, reflect China's development reality and guide the Chinese nation to be positive. To achieve this goal, we should pay attention to solving the following problems:

First, pay full attention to China's traditional cultural resources and handle the relationship between criticism and inheritance. In the history of the development of world civilization, Mayan civilization, ancient Egyptian civilization, ancient Babylonian civilization and ancient Indian civilization were all interrupted and lost, and only Chinese civilization was endless and passed down from generation to generation. The fundamental reason is that Chinese civilization is based on China's rich traditional cultural resources. The socialist core value system is rooted in the fertile soil of China traditional culture. Without the roots of China traditional culture, there would be no source of Chinese national spirit, and it would be impossible to establish a socialist core value system. The relationship between man and man, man and nature, man and society is the core issue of China traditional culture, and it is also a problem to be solved in building a harmonious socialist society. This shows that the construction of our harmonious society has something in common with the traditional culture of China, and the value system we are currently building is closely related to the traditional culture of China. First of all, we should pay full attention to the traditional culture of China. For more than a hundred years since the Opium War, we have basically held a negative attitude towards traditional culture. In the "Cultural Revolution", this tendency was pushed to the extreme and became the "Cultural Revolution" movement. China's traditional culture has been destroyed like never before, leaving a shadow in the hearts of generations or even generations in China. The result of denying China's cultural tradition has finally led to a series of evil consequences, resulting in a "beat generation" and a "westernized generation", and a generation that has no warmth and respect for traditional culture and is lost and confused. After the reform and opening up, the CPC Central Committee gradually realized the seriousness and harmfulness of this problem, vigorously advocated the study and research of China's traditional culture, carried forward and cultivated the Chinese national spirit, and achieved remarkable results. However, it is undeniable that some China people, especially some leading cadres, have not paid enough attention to this issue, let alone put it into action. The new collective leadership of the CPC Central Committee proposed to build a socialist core value system, which provided a very favorable opportunity for us to attach importance to China's traditional culture and carry forward the spirit of the Chinese nation. We should attach importance to the precious wealth left by our ancestors and put the study of China traditional culture at a certain height. The second is to seriously explore. China's traditional culture is the treasure of the Chinese nation and even mankind. It has a long and far-reaching history. There are many valuable ideological resources in China's traditional culture, such as "harmony", "people-oriented", "harmony between man and nature", "using destiny", "harmony between man and things", "unity of knowing and doing" and "unity of knowing and doing", which are of high value and worth exploring. The third is critical inheritance. In the construction of socialist core value system, it is wrong to deny China culture, but it is also wrong to accept China culture uncritically. In the traditional culture of China, there are many dross that must be eliminated. For example, the concepts of feudal ethics, hierarchy, "three cardinal guides and five permanents", "three obedience and four virtues" and "official standard" in Confucianism are all dross that need to be eliminated. Legalists' thought of "respecting the monarch" and political skills are also negative factors in modern social management. Taoism's ideas of "clumsiness", "softness" and "inaction" have certain negative significance in modern society. We can't go from one extreme to the other. When it comes to attaching importance to traditional culture, it regards ancient classics as treasures, and thinks that as long as you are familiar with them, you will find everything, that is, if you master traditional culture, you can accept it without discrimination or criticism. To study traditional culture and carry forward Chinese cultural tradition, we must adopt a dialectical attitude of "sublating", draw positive factors from it and build a scientific core value system that can reflect China people's knowledge.

Second, integrate and innovate China's traditional culture, and handle the relationship between inheritance and development. In modern times, China had several big debates on how to treat China's traditional culture, and there were such viewpoints as "Chinese style and western culture", "western learning and western culture", "applying what you have learned", "total westernization", "revival of Confucianism", "national popular culture", "creative transformation" and "all-round innovation". The author thinks that the theory of "all-round innovation" put forward by Mr. Zhang Dainian is a very valuable theory in the cultural debate in China. This cultural proposition is put forward on the basis of studying and analyzing various theories in China's modern cultural debate. It abandons the rigid thinking mode of the opposition between China and the West and the dualism of body use, and excludes the interference of blind Huaxia centralism and Eurocentrism. In particular, it is proposed that we should take Marxism as the guide, pay attention to absorbing the reasonable factors in the theory of "communication winning" and "national mass culture", and think that only dialectical comprehensive creation can revive Chinese national culture. In order to build a relatively perfect socialist core value system, it is not unprincipled compromise to synthesize beneficial cultures at all times and in all countries, but to carry forward an innovative spirit and make creative synthesis. To this end, we should not only endow the reasonable components in traditional culture that are beneficial to promoting the construction of socialist core value system with new era connotation and cultural features. For example, the traditional values that value righteousness over profit are creatively transformed into new values that give consideration to both righteousness and profit; Transform the spirit of "among monks" advocated by Confucianism into the concept of socialist harmony; At the same time, it is necessary to closely combine the social and cultural conditions of contemporary China, organically combine the leading values of traditional culture with the realistic value orientation and value ideal of contemporary China, and create contemporary values that originate from the traditional culture of China and are higher than the traditional culture of China. For example, the patriotic idea contained in traditional culture will be developed into the contemporary patriotic spirit with internationalism spirit under the background of globalization, so as to enrich and improve the socialist core value system.