How to Inherit and Carry Forward Chinese Traditional Culture and Festivals

The Chinese nation has been up and down for 5,000 years, and no matter whether it is brilliant, or declining, whether it is strong, or weak, it is inseparable from the influence of traditional culture. However, what is culture? Chinese ancient people in the "Zhou Yi" has recorded: "Observe the astronomy, to observe the changes of the times; Observe the humanities, in order to become the world." That is, the meaning of civilization and indoctrination. And Westerners define: "Culture is a complex whole that includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, customs, and the abilities and habits acquired by any person as a member of society." It is the meaning of culture today.

Traditional Chinese culture has a long and profound history and has a deep-rooted influence on us. Regardless of how we are now and how the international integration, no matter how many foreign cultures in our lives, but as long as the Chinese people, can not be separated from the influence of the subtle influence of traditional Chinese culture. However, how should traditional culture be promoted? What aspects should be promoted? Just as only a correct understanding of ourselves, in order to build on our strengths and avoid shortcomings, only to recognize the analysis of traditional culture, in order to carry forward the traditional culture.

The traditional Chinese culture has a long history and originality. Chinese traditional culture has not been interrupted in the development of history, is a ring of continuous development of the only independent civilization. Egyptian culture was once Hellenized due to the change of invaders, then Romanized and then Islamized; Greek and Roman culture was interrupted due to the invasion of the Germans; Indian culture was Aryanized due to the invasion of the Aryans; Babylonian culture was even exterminated by the Hittites and completely disappeared in the long river of history. Traditional Chinese culture, on the other hand, has never had any breaks or gaps in its development. As far as literature is concerned, there is an unbroken lineage from the Classic of Poetry, Chu Rhetoric, pre-Qin prose, Han and Wei poems and fugues to Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuan operas, and Ming and Qing novels. Du Weiming, a professor at Harvard University in the United States, has highly praised traditional Chinese culture, saying, "There are many cultures in the world that are ancient and not modern, and many that are modern and not ancient, while there are very few that are ancient and not modern, and such a magnificent cultural tradition as China's is simply a unique historical phenomenon."

The traditional Chinese culture has stability and unity. In the course of its historical development, traditional Chinese culture has gradually formed a unity centered on the Huaxia culture, while bringing together the cultures of various ethnic groups in the country. This unity has played a powerful role in assimilation, and has never been divided or disintegrated at any time in Chinese history. Even at the critical juncture of internal and external troubles, in the midst of political turmoil and national disintegration, it still managed to remain intact and unified, and continues to this day to remain basically intact.

Traditional Chinese culture has compatibility and regeneration. Chinese traditional culture is capable of accepting and embracing all cultures, which is reflected in the fact that the various schools of thought are able to take advantage of each other's strengths and complement each other's weaknesses in the course of competition; the Han Chinese culture has been able to absorb the cultures of neighboring ethnic minorities over a long period of time; and it is also able to open up its broad mind to foreign cultures, absorbing and integrating them with both promotion and abandonment.

The traditional Chinese culture has diversity. Although Chinese traditional culture is a complete unity, because of China's vast area, many ethnic groups, so the internal regional and ethnic cultures show colorful differences.

The stability and unity of traditional Chinese culture has created its long and original, and its compatibility and regeneration has created its diversity. For a long time in history, China has been the pioneer of world civilization, leading the trend of world civilization development and making significant contributions to world civilization and progress. Today, although traditional Chinese culture has declined, it still has an extremely vigorous vitality. How to promote traditional culture and make it shine again? It is necessary to start from certain ways of thinking and values of traditional Chinese culture to explore its new significance to the human world.

Today's world is characterized by constant strife and war. In particular, the confrontation between the Islamic world and Christendom has brought endless disasters to all parts of the world. The traditional Chinese culture focuses on harmony and mediocrity, it is not like the Western culture as separate and confrontation, but advocates "the world's hundred considerations and the same, different paths and the same return", and advocates the dominant ideology under the norms of the different schools of thought, different types of thought and culture between different nationalities of the cross-penetration, eclecticism and unity of diversity.

Jun see, today's world, "democracy" and "freedom" fly in the air, political unrest one after another. The people of the same country are divided against each other, beating each other up, resulting in national unrest and economic deterioration. This is all due to the so-called "universal values" of the West. However, the fact that traditional Chinese culture has never been interrupted, and even maintained its original form during foreign invasions, and has had a profound influence on neighboring communities, is not only due to its own unique charm and special political and social views, but also due to the existence of a universal value that transcends national boundaries, races, and ideologies, and embodies mankind's pursuit of abundance and humanitarianism. "benevolence". It includes internal self-restraint and external love of people, reflecting the human spirit of benevolence, mutual understanding, mutual forbearance, mutual respect and mutual expectation, and the expectation of "universal love for all", peaceful coexistence and compassion, which is the spirit of universalism that human beings should pursue for happiness, tranquility and harmony.

Jun see, today's world, environmental degradation, natural disasters, the near exhaustion of resources, the global crisis has appeared. The rapid development of science and technology has caused the alienation of mankind and nature, and the struggle between mankind and nature has finally been retaliated by nature. Some scientists in the West have turned their attention to China, and Chinese classics, including Laozi and the Analects of Confucius, have been emphasized. This happened solely due to the efforts of scientists in the predicament of scientific development to find inspiration for their worldviews, not due to any momentary emotional impulse. in January 1988, the world's Nobel Prize winners gathered in Paris, and they made a declaration that "if mankind wants to live in the 21st century, it must look back to 2,500 years and absorb the wisdom of Confucius ."

However, as we are in a period of social transformation, how to promote traditional culture is how to apply the excellent achievements of traditional Chinese culture to the construction of today's society, and to find a truly suitable path of development between advanced science and technology and traditional culture. If China wants to make a greater contribution to mankind, it must not follow the Western countries and follow the rules for a long time, but should create a unique model. Only by drawing new nutrients from traditional culture and creating a development path that is different from that of the West and truly suitable for itself, can China be truly strong and traditional culture be truly promoted.