The relationship between conservatism and openness in traditional Chinese culture

Chinese traditional culture is so deep that when many civilizations that endangered her (whether barbaric or exceeding the height of her civilization) invaded, she still showed strong resistance, and this sturdiness has always protected Chinese civilization to continue, which is of course a good aspect. However, the present Chinese civilization as we see it is mysterious, incomprehensible, and gradually arouses our curiosity, and it is extremely sad that this extremely closed conservatism has compelled her to absorb very little foreign civilization, and to develop with an extremely closed self-contained character. Therefore, it is necessary for us to pursue her closedness, forcing her to establish a wide range of contacts with the world, which is precisely the biggest problem we encounter today in deepening reform and opening up.

When we compare China's civilization with other civilizations in the world, we will find that all other civilizations have more or less collision and conflict, and ultimately merge into a pluralistic unity, such as the ancient Egyptian civilization and the ancient Arabian civilization, the ancient Roman civilization and the Germanic civilization, while China is almost none. With China's civilization characteristics are similar to the American Indian civilization and the Mayan civilization or Inca civilization, these civilizations in general compared with China has a great backwardness, but they have *** with the closure and self-absorption, these backward civilizations without a list of all extinct, only China still retains the ancient and primitive things, in the end, what is the reason for this? We can find through the world map, her west of the tall Pamir Plateau, which is enough to block the invasion from the barbaric peoples, her east is the endless Pacific Ocean, the sea is almost no land across the sea, the south and north are almost all uncivilized land, can not blame her, this natural unique geography has caused her isolation, and in West Asia, Asia, Europe and Africa, the three civilizations meet here, of course, different from the China. Another important reason is that Confucianism, the religion of Confucius, has ruled China for more than 2,000 years, which is rarely seen in other civilizations. Despite the impact of Buddhism, Taoism and other religions, Confucianism has always been the dominant religion, and it has always cooperated with and been used by the official authorities. Although there have been movements of intellectual enlightenment in China, their scale and influence have been very small, and they have not really played a role in enlightenment. Another reason is that China's long feudal landlord system has created the most powerful centralized power in the East, which is not only reflected in the central government, but also at the local level. Therefore, the Chinese people were used to obedience. This kind of centralized power, unique to China, is rarely found in the West. Chinese leaders from the center to the local level have almost no enemies, and there are very few rebels. The many peasant revolts in history were forced to take place only when the people's existence was in danger of being destroyed, and yet the sad fact is that what was established by the victorious rebels was still the same as the old system of the previous generation, without the slightest innovation. So it can be said that while China was gloating over the fact that their country was the first in the world to enter into feudalism and continue it for the longest period of time, the society of China for more than 2,000 years could be said to be spinning in the same place without any great changes, and it is extremely sad that they did not realize this. Therefore, we can think that the feudal agricultural economy, which has always existed in the form of small peasant ownership, derived from the strong centralized power of the monarchs, has become prevalent in China, while the industrial and commercial economies of the new era have been stifled again and again in their germination, which directly led to the fact that China's economic bulwarks were so strong that they could only be destroyed by external forces, however, this kind of invasion through the outside has brought about the destruction of old economic methods, besides impacting the old economic methods from the outside. economic ways, it additionally brought about a great deal of resource plunder and national disaster, for which they had to pay a price in blood.

We discuss the conservatism of traditional Chinese culture on the basis of the distinction between the post-reform and open-door culture and the traditional culture of the past. Although the shell of our new culture is still hard, we are glad to see that it is slowly disintegrating under the impact of the global culture and economy, which is of course due to the increasing openness and inclusiveness of the Chinese society today. Therefore, in this new situation, we should explore the historical origins and profound causes of conservatism, in order to completely remove the obstacles of traditional culture from the path of reform and opening up, so as to force the ideological and cultural reforms and political reforms to be carried out.

In my opinion, China needs a profound ideological enlightenment movement to make freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law

progressive ideas penetrate y into people's hearts and minds, and it is only after the ideological baptism that China will be able to practise true freedom and democracy. We are extremely opposed to those who demand that our party now decentralization, the implementation of the separation of powers and a series of democratization movement, which is extremely dangerous, because today's Chinese society does not have the conditions for the implementation of democracy, we do not have a real democratic foundation and ideological weapons, the time is not ripe can only make China fall into the military in charge of the power or personal dictatorship of the endless turmoil, resulting in a democratic regression, which we must be y sober to realize. This is something we must be y and soberly aware of. All our current centralization is necessary, and the great achievements of China's reform and opening-up have been carried out in the context of this centralization, so we should support our government to continue to deepen the reform. Ideological change is necessary, first of all, the political atmosphere should be relaxed, the initial establishment of a civil rights protection system, the government should be decentralized step by step, so that the economy can move forward under the umbrella of politics, economic development is the key to the entire ideological enlightenment movement, the ideological enlightenment movement is in turn the root of China's liberal democratization movement, and the political reforms are the main pushers of the liberal democratization, so that only the development of the economy can force the political reforms to move forward, and the political Only after the political reform can there be a thorough emancipation of thought and culture, and only after the baptism of thought can the foundation of China's liberal democracy be considered solid and the democratic movement be feasible.