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What is the beginning of inheriting traditional culture?

The beginning of inheriting traditional culture is the "ritual and music culture" of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The traditional people-oriented culture emphasizes the concept of respecting people, attaching importance to people and taking benevolence as the foundation. After experiencing witchcraft culture and sacrifice culture, a warm and humanistic "ritual and music culture" began to take shape in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, resulting in the theory of "respecting morality and protecting the people" and establishing the humanistic spirit of "being far away from God and being close to the people" in China culture.

Confucius culture:

Confucius inherited the culture of rites and music in the Zhou Dynasty, and put forward the basic ideas of people-oriented culture such as "the world is public" and "the people are the foundation of the country". Mencius and Xunzi further systematically discussed and explained it, laying the foundation of traditional people-oriented culture.

Generally speaking, different schools of thought such as Confucianism, Taoism and Mohism have made important contributions to the formation and development of traditional people-oriented culture, among which Confucianism has made the most significant contribution. From Qin and Han Dynasties to the end of Qing Dynasty, people-oriented culture has been the mainstream political culture in feudal society, which played an important role in establishing and perfecting the ancient political system in China and maintaining a stable and orderly social order.