The Significance of China Traditional Culture

The Chinese nation has a long history. The profoundness of traditional culture is not only an important cohesive force of the Chinese nation, but also a characteristic handed down from generation to generation, with national characteristics, a long history, profoundness and so on! Under the influence of traditional culture, China people's ideas, thinking, behaviors and lifestyles are undergoing tremendous changes, and China culture is also undergoing all-round changes and development, but this change and development itself started from tradition.

Keywords: traditional cultural characteristics and habits

Culture itself is a rather vague concept. Generally speaking, culture is a social phenomenon and the product of people's long-term creation. At the same time, it is a historical phenomenon and the precipitation of social history. Culture in a broad sense is the sum of all material wealth and spiritual wealth created by human beings. It includes not only ideological parts such as world outlook, outlook on life and values, but also some traditional cultures such as natural science and technology, language and writing. To be exact, culture refers to the history, geography, customs, traditional customs, lifestyle, literature and art, code of conduct, way of thinking and values of a country or a nation. [1] China's traditional culture was formed, accumulated and handed down under the influence of specific natural environment, economic form, political structure and ideology in the history of China's civilization development for thousands of years, and it is still influencing contemporary culture ... China ancient culture. [2] Its connotation exists and continues in materialized form, such as documents, cultural relics, or in materialized form, such as ideas, which are gradually internalized into people in the continuous development of society, forming a relatively stable cultural psychology and personality of the whole nation and integrating into all fields of social life, and sublimated into national cultural genes. China's traditional culture is a national culture that reflects national characteristics and features, and it is the overall expression of various ideological cultures and ideologies in national history. It refers to the culture with distinctive national characteristics, a long history, profound connotations and excellent traditions created by the Chinese nation and its ancestors living in China. It is the crystallization of thousands of years of civilization in China. In addition to the core content of Confucian culture, it also contains other cultural forms, such as Taoist culture and Buddhist culture. Culture itself is a dynamic concept and a historical development process. Therefore, culture is regional, national and epochal. Historically speaking, China culture includes not only traditional culture with a long history, but also modern culture with great changes in China cultural tradition.

China traditional culture has the following four characteristics: 1, which has been passed down from generation to generation. China's traditional culture has been interrupted in some short historical periods and changed more or less in different historical periods, but it has not been interrupted on the whole and has not changed much on the whole. 2, national characteristics, China traditional culture is unique to China, different from other national cultures in the world. It has a long history of five thousand years. 4. Broad and profound, "broad" refers to the broadness of China's traditional culture-rich and colorful, and "broad" refers to the profundity of China's traditional culture-unfathomable. The manifestations of traditional culture are also varied, including schools of thought contend, art, traditional festivals, folk crafts and other forms! Today, we can still feel the existence of traditional culture all the time!

Under the background of globalization, facing the strong invasion of western culture, how to correctly treat traditional culture and its influence on contemporary China society is particularly important. Some people say that traditional culture is a double-edged sword, which is both a stepping stone and a stumbling block to modern culture! I quite agree with this. I would like to express my humble opinion on the practical significance of traditional culture.

First, the positive influence of China's traditional culture on the real society.

The ideological system of China's traditional culture contains rich cultural and scientific spirit. In today's international market economy, building a harmonious country, realizing national rejuvenation and even achieving world harmony has a very important positive impact, mainly in the following aspects:

(A) traditional culture is the cornerstone of enhancing national self-confidence.

China's excellent traditional culture is profound and has a long history. It is not only the tradition of Chinese nation, but also the dignity of Chinese nation. It is a concrete symbol of the Chinese nation at the spiritual level and an "image" that stands tall in the world. Especially in the history of China, some truly immortal works have been handed down from generation to generation, and they are never tired of reading them. The fire of their wisdom never goes out and shines on people.

The past, present and future of the class. Therefore, cherish the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, safeguard its cultural dignity and save it.

It is the unshirkable responsibility and obligation of contemporary people to protect national culture and inherit and develop the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. The younger generation, in particular, should first establish the concept of respecting traditional culture, not only consciously learn traditional cultural knowledge from books, but also learn about China's traditional folk customs, not only the national reality, but also learn more about national history, spiritual essence and national interests. In the final analysis, only by inheriting and carrying forward excellent traditional culture can we fundamentally promote the development of the Chinese nation. Only by constantly strengthening the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation and making full and effective use of its resources can the Chinese nation make a greater voice in the global village and stand forever among the nations of the world.

(2) Traditional culture is the basis for building a good national psychology.

China's excellent traditional culture is mostly related to dynasty politics or social ideals. An old book, an ancient literary classic, is littered with historical dust and falls off in modern society. In particular, Yi Zhongtian, Yu Dan and other contemporary people, taking ancient sages as materials, closely combined China's history and culture with the real society and its life in a simple way, let the people enter their hearts and stomachs, inspired the vivid practical problems they encountered in public life, and verified them with the experience summary of dealing with people in real life. It can also soothe the hearts of the wounded, improve people's ideological and moral taste, broaden people's horizons and minds, and play a role in constructing national psychology in the diagnosis, translation and dissemination of China's traditional culture.

(3) Traditional culture is the spiritual resource to enhance the comprehensive strength of the country.

According to joseph nye, a professor at Harvard University in the United States, a country's comprehensive national strength includes not only "hard power" in economy, science and technology, military affairs, but also "soft power" in culture and ideological attraction. Cultural soft power is the core element of national soft power. As the spiritual motive force, intellectual support and ideological guarantee for the development of modern society, it has increasingly become an important source of national cohesion and creativity and an important factor in the competition of comprehensive national strength. The revival of a nation must be supported by the revival of culture. Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is bound to be accompanied by the prosperity of Chinese culture. The fundamental way to prosper China culture is to enhance China's soft power. China traditional culture is the foundation and "blood" of China culture. On the basis of carrying forward the excellent national culture and absorbing and digesting the outstanding cultural achievements of the world, it has been passed down from generation to generation to form Chinese culture that conforms to the characteristics of the times and has become the primary resource and important foundation of China's cultural soft power. It has become an indispensable spiritual resource to fully explore the advantages of China's traditional culture, fully understand the traditional culture of the motherland, take its essence and discard its dross, make it adapt to the characteristics of the times, adapt to modern civilization, connect with people's life and national behavior, and realize the modernization and transformation of traditional culture.

(D) Traditional culture is the basic condition for building a modern civilized society.

Throughout the Confucian culture represented by Confucius and Mencius in ancient China, it was formed from political thought to ethical thought and even philosophy of life.

A set of norms that people must abide by in all fields of social life has influenced the world [turn]

The lifestyle and behavior of several generations of China people have had a great influence on the personality pursuit of China people. In particular, the Confucian theory of self-cultivation has a very prominent position in the history of thought, culture and education in China, which is an important condition for creating the reputation of China as a country of etiquette and an ancient civilization. A series of ideas and spiritual propositions in Confucian culture, such as "learning to be an excellent official", "constantly striving for self-improvement", "self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world", have had a far-reaching impact in the history of China, inspiring progressive politicians, thinkers and scientists in past dynasties to forge ahead courageously. It is this spirit of self-improvement that has created the enterprising and high-spirited spirit of China people and promoted the continuous development of society. Moreover, under the condition of developing the socialist market economy, the practical significance of building a modern social civilization today cannot be ignored, and it is even more necessary to absorb outstanding talents from all over the world.

On the basis of cultural achievements, we should fully explore the treasures of China's traditional culture, enrich modern moral education theory, carry forward excellent traditions, and constantly bring forth the old and bring forth the new, so as to realize the sustainable prosperity of the Chinese nation. In the increasingly prosperous contemporary China, traditional culture is undoubtedly the basic condition for supporting peaceful development and civilized development.

(5) Traditional culture is an important ideological source to promote the world towards great integration.

Historically, China was an important force in the great integration of the world. The "Renaissance" in Europe, including the restoration of the ancient Olympic Games, was completed on the basis of absorbing a lot of traditional China culture. At the same time, the openness and compatibility of China's traditional culture has a good ability to digest and absorb foreign cultures, and it is a "booster" to promote the integration of Chinese and Western cultures and the peaceful development of the world under the background of globalization. In particular, China's people-oriented thoughts and peace thoughts such as "emphasizing harmony" and "worshipping the middle way" in traditional culture are in the same strain as the world harmony thought represented by the Olympic spirit. China cultural spirit summarized by Zhang Zai, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, is the ideological source of building a harmonious country and a harmonious world. Nowadays, the rise of the Confucius Institute in China, which is characterized by spreading China's traditional culture, will certainly enhance and expand the influence and appeal of China's traditional culture to the world, and have an important and far-reaching impact on the realization of world integration and the promotion of friendly exchanges and peaceful development of all countries in the world.

Second, the negative impact of China's traditional culture on the real society.

In the difficult process of China's transformation from traditional culture to modern culture, especially in the exchange and collision between Chinese and western cultures, China culture not only shows its excellent quality and rich connotation, but also exposes its various defects and drawbacks. Although China's traditional cultural system has disintegrated and a new cultural system has begun to take shape after a series of major historical changes in the process of modernization, the conflict between China's cultural modernization and traditional values has not been completely resolved due to various historical reasons. On the one hand, it is not enough to inherit and carry forward the positive, healthy and energetic factors in traditional culture, on the other hand, it is not enough to criticize the negative and stale things that are not conducive to modernization, which has a negative impact on socialist modernization.

(A) the tradition of "respecting officials and valuing the elderly" has a negative impact on the modern democratic spirit.

China has been in a feudal society for a long time. The feudal consciousness has a deep influence on people, and the feudal autocratic thought has severely suppressed and bound the development of personality. The concept of respecting officials and respecting the elderly brought by paternalism hinders the formation of democratic consciousness and atmosphere, which is a huge obstacle to modern people's democratic lifestyle and one of the manifestations of feudal autocratic authority tradition. For example, Shang 'an's "respecting officials" and Han Fei's "taking officials as teachers" are all manifestations of this authority, which is accumulated in traditional values and is the universal "respecting officials and respecting their elders" or "the will of officials". Once he becomes an official or a long-term employee, he is respected in society, regardless of his achievements. Bound by this concept, "democracy" is often regarded as a gift from the "Chief Executive", and I dare not fight for it. This concept is contrary to the spirit of socialist democracy. Today, in some places and units, the will and overbearing style of individual rural cadres have seriously affected the relationship between cadres and the masses, and even the image of the party and the government. Therefore, it is necessary to transform traditional culture into democracy and the rule of law.

(B) the traditional rule of man on the negative impact of modern legal spirit

China has a profound tradition of ruling by men since ancient times, and the concept of "people should keep political affairs and people should perish" in The Doctrine of the Mean is a typical concept of ruling by men. This concept holds that the quality of politics depends entirely on the character and morality of politicians themselves. Therefore, no matter politicians or ordinary people, they place their hopes on sages, honest officials and honest officials, and rarely consider the political basis and methods from the system and legal system. This tradition of attaching importance to the rule of man but not to the rule of law continued until modern times, forming a firm value concept. The common phenomena in real life, such as non-compliance with laws, repeated prohibitions, lax enforcement, and even replacing laws with feelings, are all reflections of the traditional concept of rule by man. Obviously, if we don't change this traditional value concept, even if there are various legislations and legal systems, it will be difficult to really implement them.

(C) the negative impact of emphasizing agriculture and restraining business on modern commodity economy

As an economic thought and policy, attaching importance to agriculture and restraining business, combined with the Confucian thought of "emphasizing righteousness over profit", has universal moral significance, and "benevolent people have different opinions" and "many businesses are poor" have far-reaching influence. Modern society is a commodity economy characterized by industrial civilization, which makes the traditional thought of emphasizing agriculture and restraining commerce have a certain negative impact on modern industrial civilization!

China traditional culture is not only the source of the historical development of the Chinese nation, but also has an important influence on the development of modern China society and even the world. This paper studies the positive influence of traditional culture on the real society from five aspects: traditional culture is the cornerstone of strengthening national self-confidence, the foundation of building a good national psychology, the spiritual resources of enhancing China's comprehensive strength, the basic conditions of building modern civilization and the ideological source of promoting world integration. This paper discusses the negative influence of authoritarianism in traditional culture on modern social democracy, the negative influence of the tradition of ruling by man on modern rule of law, the negative influence of modern commodity economy on agriculture and commerce, and the negative influence of modern innovation spirit. China traditional culture is an important part of China culture, and it is also a rich historical heritage left by ancestors. It not only records the history of the occurrence and evolution of the Chinese nation and China culture, but also, as a way of thinking, moral sentiments, values, codes of conduct and customs handed down from generation to generation, it has a strong heritability, permeates the blood of everyone in China, restricts the behavior and way of thinking of people in China today, and provides historical and objective basis for the construction of new culture in China today, and has a far-reaching impact on the real society.