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The Influence and Significance of China Traditional Culture on Modern Society;

First, the internal relationship between modern life and traditional culture

Regarding the internal relationship between modern life and traditional culture, borrowing a sentence from American cultural sociologist E Hills can explain the problem very well. He said: "Even if we admit that every generation has to modify the beliefs and behavior patterns handed down by their predecessors, we will inevitably find that a large number of beliefs have been supported in the past and are still supported now, and many behavior patterns have been pursued in the past and are still being pursued now. Moreover, these beliefs and patterns coexist with the recent paradigm. "

(A) the dislocation between traditional culture and modern life

Modern life is a way of life different from traditional life. As a complete cultural system, traditional culture cannot fully meet the needs of modern life. This is because the traditional culture itself and the times are constantly developing.

(B) the inheritance of traditional culture in modern life

Although China's traditional culture experienced setbacks, even the May 4th New Culture Movement and the "Cultural Revolution", it survived. There are profound reasons for this. Judging from the essential attributes of traditional culture, traditional culture has its times and depends on certain historical conditions, but besides the factors of the times, it also contains contents of universal significance. This part of the content can be inherited by modern society.

(C) the development of modern life to traditional culture

The inheritance of traditional culture in modern life is not passed on to the next generation intact, but a selective, creative and conscious cultural development process. Choice means that modern people choose the essence of modern value to inherit and discard the dross that is not suitable for modern life after scientific and meticulous analysis of traditional culture. Creativity means reinterpreting the essence of traditional culture, endowing it with new connotations and forms, and making it more suitable for modern life.

(D) the enrichment of modern life to traditional culture

Modern life is also creating new traditional culture. Modern people's life is by no means a simple copy of the existing tradition, on the contrary, it is a creation pointing to the future. In modern life, we create new things that are not in our tradition according to the changed situation, and those things with genetic activity will be handed down and become new traditions, thus enriching the traditional content.

It can be seen that traditional culture and modern life are different concepts after all, so there is a historical contrast. Modern life is a continuation of traditional life, which contains some traditional cultural factors. These factors have been transformed into the traditional culture displayed by the modern lifestyle and become a part of modern people, and their connotations have been continuously enriched through the life practice of modern people. In a word, modern life is the presentation, historical inheritance, realistic creation and rich development of traditional culture, which is the historical condition, cultural foundation and realistic influencing factor of modern life.

Second, the significance of China traditional culture in modern life

In the process of modernization in China, traditional culture plays an important role in all aspects of people's social life. In a word, as the spiritual heritage of social integration, the potential driving force of economic growth, the regenerative resource of moral construction and the guiding factor of life concept, it has important value to modern social and political life, economic life, moral and cultural life and the life concept running through it.

(A) the integration value of China's traditional culture to China's social ideology and culture

For a country or a nation, the combination and cohesion of social members is the premise of its social stability and development. The strength of cohesion is not only the cohesion of economic interests, but also the affinity of ethnic blood and the control of political power, but the most fundamental thing is the cultural integration produced by traditional culture. The cultural integration of China's traditional culture is of great significance to modern life.

China's traditional culture has great ideological dominance, which can transcend the boundaries of region, class, party, race and time, take culture as a link and thought as a bridge, and produce great and intangible cultural integration. The concepts of "cultural China", "great unification", "all-embracing" and "patriotism" contained in China's traditional culture constitute the main contents of the cohesion and centripetal force of the Chinese nation.

(B) Traditional culture is the potential driving force for China's economic growth.

As the soil for the growth of modern economic tree, China traditional culture with Confucian culture as the core contains the potential factors and motivation to promote the economic growth of China. In ancient times, there was a saying that "Hong Fan and Five Blessingg made money first, and the university managed money for ten and a half chapters", and some even regarded tradition as the third means to regulate social resources. To sum up, these potential drivers include:

1, derived from the patriotic spirit of "loyalty", members of society are willing to sacrifice their personal interests for the country, which is conducive to the government to play a leading role and implement macroeconomic policies; It helps to straighten out the relationship between the central and local governments, embodies the unity of the overall situation and interests, reduces external economic phenomena and promotes the overall development of the national economy.

2. Family relationship is centered on filial piety, which plays a role in cohesion and inheritance in social, political, economic and cultural activities. Families attach importance to children's education, maintain a high savings rate, and family members are hardworking, friendly and cooperative. These factors have prepared the necessary funds, talents and labor for economic growth.

3. On the basis of loyalty and filial piety, collectivism becomes the basic principle of ethics, which is conducive to the formation of team consciousness and enterprise spirit with goal identification.

4. Emphasize vigorous and resolute, and constantly strive for self-improvement. The Legend of the Elephant says, "Heaven is strong, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement." This spirit of self-reliance and self-improvement is conducive to encouraging and motivating members of society to develop their economy, get rid of poverty and become rich, strive for self-improvement and make positive progress, and constantly create a new situation of reform and opening up.

5. Emphasize "carrying morality". The Book of Changes said: "The terrain is vast, and a gentleman carries things with virtue." Today's generous, open-minded and tolerant attitude is that he is good at competition, on the other hand, he is good at combining, absorbing and learning, looking at the world, caring and focusing on the overall situation.

China's traditional culture not only provides spiritual impetus for China's economic development, but also provides a kind of "braking force", so that China's economy will not deviate from the normal track and ensure the coordinated operation of all aspects of society.

(3) China's traditional culture is the spiritual resource for shaping citizens' modern personality.

As a typical "virtue culture", traditional morality is the most valuable part of China's traditional culture. The essence of traditional morality provides resources for the construction of a new socialist moral system and important raw materials and nutrition for the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

China's traditional moral culture is worth learning from. Relying on yourself and others is easy to cause people's singing failure; From small to large, from home to the world, one step at a time. The ancients said: Zhu Dexiao comes first. Since ancient times, filial piety has always been the most important ethical norm in China society, and it is the starting point and core of all ethical principles.

China's traditional moral culture is a great ethical concept, and his thought of "harmony between man and nature" provides rich ideological materials for establishing modern ecological ethics and coordinating the relationship between man and nature. The idea of "harmony between man and nature" has a profound ethical foundation. Its contents include: expanding the heart of "benevolence" to all things in nature, being friendly to nature, respecting nature and loving all beings; People believe that people are the same as everything in nature.

In short, in order to build a socialist moral system that is compatible with the socialist market economy and a modern spiritual life that is compatible with modern economic life and material life, we must draw on the resources of unified moral culture and supplement the spiritual nourishment of modern people.

(D) the guiding value of traditional culture to modern life concept

After more than two thousand years' test, China's traditional culture has been deeply integrated into the lives of China people. If modern China people want to live a modern life, they must have a modern healthy and civilized concept of life. China's traditional culture has at least three reference values for establishing a healthy and civilized modern life concept: first, the spirit of actively entering the WTO; Second, pragmatic and practical rational spirit; The third is the cultural spirit of musical sense.

The so-called "spirit of joining WTO" is an attitude towards life that cares about social reality. The spirit of active entry into WTO is a common feature of China's traditional culture with Confucianism, Taoism and law as the main body, which is conducive to establishing a positive outlook on life.

The so-called practical rational spirit is a universal and realistic concept of life. China traditional culture is a practical rational culture with ethics as its core from the beginning. Confucianism, the backbone of traditional culture, is a "practical learning" that meets the needs of China's social reality. It is useful and consistent from beginning to end.

In the complicated and contradictory modern life, we should maintain a healthy and good mentality at the intersection of time, space and mentality, stress the doctrine of the mean in everything, and strive for rational consciousness and subjective consciousness to alleviate people's discomfort and anxiety caused by the drastic change of values; Solve people's sense of loss, fatigue and dissatisfaction with contentment and tranquility; Smoothing people's rebellious psychology and nostalgia with traditional affection. Musical sense culture is the "check and balance" and pressure relief valve of people's spirit, which gives some enlightenment to modern life.

In addition, China's profound traditional culture also contains other factors that can draw lessons from modern life concepts: traditional concepts such as frugality, preparing for a rainy day, being prepared for danger in times of peace, living within our means, etc. have certain reference significance for modern consumption concepts, while traditional concepts such as China people's unique artistic aesthetics, attaching importance to artistic conception and natural beauty, and attaching importance to spiritual enjoyment also have certain reference value for the establishment of modern leisure concepts.

Extended data:

The definition of "culture" is often "different people have different opinions". According to the statistics in "Culture: A Critical Survey of Concepts and Definitions" published by American culturists kroeber and Kluckhohn in 1952, scholars all over the world have defined culture more than 170. Etymologically speaking, in the west, the word "culture" originated from Latin culture, which originally meant farming, cultivation, education, development and respect. 187 1 year, edward tylor, a British anthropologist, described culture in his book Primitive Culture: "Knowledge, belief, art, morality, law, habits, etc. are all abilities and habits acquired as members of society and are collectively called culture.

References:

Baidu China Encyclopedia of Traditional Culture