My Understanding of Confucian Culture

My Understanding of Confucian Culture

Confucianism has been processed and transformed by scholars of all generations, and has constantly enriched itself by fighting with other doctrines or learning from each other, and has gone through the wind and rain of more than two centuries and finally coalesced to become the main content of the spirit of national advancement. It has become the backbone of traditional Chinese culture, and has had a profound impact on our nation's ideal personality, way of thinking, value orientation, and social psychology.

The founder of Confucian culture is Confucius, who was a great thinker and statesman in ancient China. His disciples were three thousand, and seventy-two of them became famous. His educational thought is the best response of Confucian culture. Confucius' education includes moral education and intellectual education. Among them, moral education is the core of education. His moral education is based on the principle of "propriety" and centered on the principle of "benevolence", which contains the two elements of "cultivating oneself" and "loving others". Ren" has the meanings of "cultivating oneself" and "loving others". He put forward the principles that should be observed in moral cultivation, namely, to set one's mind on something and to do it, to be self-reflective and self-restrained, to change one's faults and to move one's good deeds, to be happy with the way of the world and to be at peace with one's benevolence, and to encourage people to improve their moral standards.

I think it is very important and necessary for Confucius to focus on the cultivation of moral cultivation. At present, education in China focuses more on the knowledge aspect. As a result, a lot of high-tech criminals, such as online hackers, have appeared in the society. Modern people pay too much attention to personal interests, and therefore lack of "benevolence" and "love" for others, the unlimited pursuit of material life, leading to the corruption of some people.

Ancient Confucian culture emphasized the importance of respecting teachers and the principle of 'once a teacher, always a father'. In retrospect, the attitude of students towards their teachers is far different from that of the ancients. Especially in real college students are particularly prominent. For example, often late for class, missing class, do not pay attention to the classroom, do other things, the road to see the teacher does not take the initiative to greet. This series of behaviors are contrary to Confucian culture and should be corrected.

I like the learning methods taught by Confucius, such as 'If three people walk together, then there must be a teacher for me'; 'Learn from the past and know the new'; 'Combine learning with thinking, and learning with doing' and so on. I have benefited greatly from Confucius' teachings.

Confucianism aims at "seeking the good" and emphasizes "benevolent government", which means that "whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world, and whoever loses the hearts of the people loses the world." The rise and fall of various dynasties in ancient China have well proved this point of view. The ancients advocated "peace is precious", and the world today is a trend of peaceful development, if every country promotes the Confucian culture of love, generosity and tolerance, then our society will develop more beautiful and harmonious.

Confucian culture integrates the world view of the correspondence between heaven and man, the political view of the ruler and the people, and the ethical view of the dependence of the upper and lower levels. Ethics as the core is the characteristic of the whole Chinese traditional culture. Confucian culture takes human relationships as its starting point and emphasizes the "Three Principles and Five Constants", which provided a strong ideological guarantee for the consolidation and centralization of imperial power. Today, these theories are extremely absurd and should be abandoned. On the other hand, the virtue of respecting the elderly and loving the young has been handed down to the present day. Confucianism emphasizes the importance of unifying the family, ruling the country and pacifying the world. Everyone should have such lofty ambitions, instead of presuming to live a life without doing anything. Confucianism stands for; it represents many of China's outstanding traditional cultures, such as taking responsibility for history, focusing on the good of the whole, being ethical, caring for others, valuing peace, being tolerant and peaceful, being open-minded and optimistic, and controlling desires and desires with the Way.

Confucian culture also has a strong philosophy. Confucianism's ideal personality is sage, the ruler's requirements are extremely strict, and its representative characters are, Duke of Zhou, Confucius and Mencius, Xiao He, Zhuge Liang, they all have noble character. Confucian "eight eyes" from far and near, from small to large, from individual to group cultivation methods, constituting a complete set of ancient philosophical system. It advocates "warmth, goodness, respect, thrift, and generosity", and the way to cultivate one's life is: if one is poor, then one's life is good, and if one's life is great, then one's life is helpful to the whole world.

Confucianism is a valuable spiritual wealth in the history of Chinese civilization, and has a far-reaching influence on the Chinese nation. Confucianism, with ethics and morality at its core, replaced religious beliefs in feudal moral education, thus preventing society from falling into religious fanaticism. Confucianism advocates the use of the world to forge ahead and help the world, and seeks to cultivate and rule the world; Confucianism has a tradition of emphasizing moral integrity, integrity, and under certain historical conditions, it has become a spiritual force for people to consciously uphold justice and be loyal to the country and the nation.

Conflict between Confucian culture and modern culture has its own side, but also has its own side. China's spiritual civilization construction is precisely to absorb the essence of traditional culture, remove the dross, and constantly transform and update it to build a new culture suitable for the needs of socialism.

Confucian culture, founded by Confucius, is not just a moral metaphysics, as Western philosophers say, but a systematic thought system integrating philosophy, religion, morality, politics, economy, education and law, and it is the most developed doctrinal system of mankind formed during the period of agricultural civilization. Confucianism is the mainstream of traditional Chinese culture, which once played an important role in promoting the progress of society.?

Entering the modern era, Confucian culture has been subjected to the impact of Western liberal capitalist culture, and its advancement and development in human culture has increasingly weakened and lost its influence. However, it does not disappear, but survives in the form of bureaucratic capitalism after colliding with foreign cultures, becoming a roadblock to China's social change and advancement. In the New Culture Movement marked by the May Fourth Movement, Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao started a movement to criticize Confucianism, but unfortunately, due to historical reasons, they just started and then stopped. After the founding of New China, it was not possible to carry out an in-depth critique of the essence of Confucian culture. After the reform and opening up, the culture of bureaucratic capital (a new form of Confucian culture) still has a strong influence. A small number of corrupt public officials and their children, using their power for private gain, selling state power, embezzling state assets, embezzling and accepting bribes, and forming their private capital, constituted the social conditions under which bureaucratic capitalism survived and exerted its social influence. Similarly, bureaucratic capitalism has become a spiritual hotbed and cultural support for corrupt groups.

Confucianism, which has dominated Chinese history for more than 2,000 years, cannot disappear all at once; it can only be creatively transformed under new historical conditions. Criticism of Confucian culture, on the other hand, is the beginning of creative transformation, and the journey ahead is still long and arduous.

Yu Dan's afterword to this book is "The Temperature of the Analects of Confucius," which she describes as a "simple truth" and "a strange spring of 'illness'. Her body and mind felt the warmth of the spring water "slightly above body temperature" and bore "the bounty of the hot springs", and she hoped that her popular readers would also "warmly immerse themselves in it", and that she would also "so that future generations will be able to uphold the roots of the nation in the midst of a material civilization that is becoming more and more prosperous and confusing, and will not be in a state of panic because of the plethora of opportunities available to them." ?

It's not unique that Professor Yi Zhongtian, who once shared the stage with Yu Dan on CCTV's Hundred Lectures, wrote a preface to Yu Dan titled "The Gray Confucius and the Colorful World," echoing the "color" of the "little ninny" in "temperature," but he also said that the "colorful world" of the "little ninny" is "colorful.

Dan wrote a preface titled: "Gray Confucius and the Colorful World", using "color" to echo "Niki's" "temperature", which can be described as "colorful and gentle", and some warm and harmonious aesthetic taste, and the world is really as "colorful" as Prof. Yi said.

Professor Yi said he "needs a most universal Confucius." Prof. Yu then summoned a Confucius who could tell us how to live a "happy life". Professor Yi hoped that the "gray Confucius" would be "simple, so simple that there is no color, no gender, no time or space, only warmth." Prof. Yu then evokes for the popular readers a Confucius with a "slightly higher body temperature, constant throughout the ages". For the professor called Confucius, of course, Professor Yi is welcome, that order is his welcome speech, said: "I don't know if this is the Confucius of scholars, I don't know if this is the Confucius of history, and I don't know if this is the real Confucius. But I do know that this is our Confucius, the popular Confucius, the people's Confucius, and the eternal Confucius." He also went on to emphasize, in the usual tone of welcome speeches, that we need such a Confucius. We welcome such a Confucius.

Professor Yi's tone is too big. Confucius is not only "ours" (Prof. Yi and Prof. Yu), but also "the masses" and "the people's", and "forever". "

Somewhat more.

Celebrities with a little bit of fame can speak for the "public" and the "people". How many people are selling their own money under the guise of "the public" and "the people"? This is the tyrannical behavior of those celebrities who have "repaired themselves with half of the Analects" (Yu Dan).

What's even sadder is that those readers who lined up at "5 o'clock in the morning" for Yu Dan's book signing have been arbitrarily represented by Prof. Yi as "the masses". These popular readers are of different professions, ranging in age from 3 to 83 years old; 3-year-olds are fine, they have no citizenship rights, and Prof. Yi can't deprive them of what they don't have; 3-year-olds must have parents to lead them, right? Otherwise, I'm afraid I can't even find a bookstore, and what "color" and "temperature" of Confucius does a 3-year-old need? The Beijing Evening News didn't mention it, the media only mentioned their age, and both the young and the old have become "hype" nowadays. Is it an honor or a shame to sign a book for a 3 year old? This is really something like the humidifier will be sold to the melon farmers in the melon shed, the latter words I do not have to say, out of fear of affecting the Confucius "color" and "temperature". Readers of different ages, different professions, and different cultures lined up to buy the same book by Yu Dan. In addition to the above differences, they also have a **** the same point, that is, they like Yu Dan's book, that Yu Dan wrote a good book. Most of them had heard Yu Dan speak about this book on "The Hundred Schools of Lecture Theater", and some of them had never heard of it, but had heard others say that it was a good book, and therefore had strong expectations for it, expecting to benefit from reading it. After reading it, they readily accepted Yu Dan's toxic ideas, and very few of them were capable of criticizing Yu Dan's mistakes. I heard that Yu Dan will continue to talk about "Zhuangzi" on the "Hundred Schools of Lecture Theater", and of course, it is also going to come out with "Yu Dan's "Zhuangzi" Insights", but I hope that she won't make too many serious mistakes again. Otherwise a "little girl" how many people's hearts ah! Queuing up to buy her book marks the general decline in the cultural literacy of the masses, the continued deterioration of the spiritual quality of generations of different age groups, and the overall slippage of social culture.

Stop the rambling and get back to the book. I meant to say that both the preface and the afterword and the whole book hold Confucius' Confucianism in high esteem. In the 21st century, the hometown of Confucius, if we still can't rationally criticize Confucianism, and still can't spare no effort to expose the shortcomings of its real-life performance, we can't be for the tradition of the transformation of the creation, and also can't build a new full of Although I haven't done a very in-depth study of Confucianism, as a Chinese, I know that I am y influenced by Confucianism, why is that so because Confucianism is no longer a simple cultural idea, it has been passed down in our blood as a spirit, so there is no excuse for us to be influenced by Confucianism.

In fact, our influence by Confucianism is subtle, there are many things, we do not have to deliberately accept it, it will quietly be accommodated by you. This is the reason why Confucianism has been passed down within the minds of Chinese people.

Based on my personal reality, I feel that I am still greatly influenced by Confucianism, which does not mean that I am a very traditional person, I can only say that Confucianism as our national thought, I have been y assimilated by it, and I have accepted this kind of thought.

In modern times, people were y persecuted by the feudal society, and because of the repression of human nature, people tried to break through this repression, and so the idea of breaking with tradition emerged. They thought that Confucianism was the root of evil, and that we must break through this kind of thinking in order to release the personality, and so there was the "May Fourth" period. Hence, there was the "Down with Confucianism" during the May Fourth Movement and the "Criticize Forests and Confucius" Movement during the Cultural Revolution. Although the May Fourth Movement was a result of the progressive development of society, the slogans it put forward were also unjustifiable because they were sacrifices that had to be made for a breakthrough in thinking, and Confucianism was used as a shield for this breakthrough in thinking.

Taking an overview of the long history, the development of Confucianism has been developed differently in various times. Because Confucianism has always been the orthodox thought of the Chinese people, especially in the feudal period, Confucianism has been used as a tool of domination, due to the long-term oppression by this tool, people's spirit has been imprisoned by this kind of thought, so people want to break out of this kind of prison, and therefore, at every opportunity, they will shout out "Down with Confucianism" and similar slogans. Therefore, whenever they had the chance, they shouted slogans like "Down with Confucius". Here, Confucianism is no longer just an idea, it has become a kind of domination, a kind of oppression, and people want to break it.

Why did people oppose Confucianism so strongly during the May Fourth period and the Cultural Revolution? Even Lu Xun, who advocated "nativism", was also disgusted with the idea of feudalism, so it was inevitable that people would think of breaking Confucianism.

In fact, in my opinion, Confucianism, as a kind of thinking, should not have any evils, but a kind of thinking, it must serve the society, precisely because it has to serve the society, it is bound to be utilized by the ruling class, and this is the case of the feudal society, on the one hand, they inherited this kind of thinking while on the other hand, they are tampering with it, and they are going to use this kind of thinking to anesthetize the people, to dominate the people, and to oppress the people. So the Confucianism that we criticize is criticizing the whole society.

In today's modernized society, we still emphasize the Confucian principles of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, and we still revere the Confucian classics of Poetry, the Book, the I Ching, the Rites, the Music and the Spring and Autumn Annals, which shows that Confucianism is still y influencing our society and affecting each and every one of us. Traditional things are not necessarily bad. The fact that Confucian traditions have been passed down in China for thousands of years and we are still learning them today in the highly developed modernization shows that Confucian thinking is still worth learning. We shouldn't discard this kind of thinking, but should learn it selectively.