Inheriting Chinese culture (super high marks)

You can say on our recent traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival, and then add a little personal opinion can be, inheriting traditional culture should be rough to extract the essence, remove the false and keep the true. To have Chinese characteristics, but not blindly westernized. Our country has a long history and profound culture, there are many Confucian ideas passed down from generation to generation, and now the reform and opening up, a lot of foreign ideas invasion, but we should also carry forward their own advantages, and then learn from the West to develop their own advanced thinking and productivity.

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, yesterday the reporter visited some of the city's shopping malls and found that gift-packed dumplings unexpectedly became hot commodities, six dumplings priced at 198 yuan. (6-11 "Chongqing Times")

Duanwu Festival how to live? Most people are afraid that only a custom of eating dumplings, some of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival has been far away from us. Not long ago, I saw the news that China will take the Dragon Boat Festival to apply for the world cultural heritage, but I really can't link the eating of dumplings to the cultural heritage

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Five thousand years of history has left us many things, and traditional customs are an important part of it. In addition to being a habit, customs represent cultural civilization and national identity. But unfortunately, the modern Chinese are becoming more familiar with Western festivals, while also forgetting their own history at a more alarming rate.

Nanjing, a middle school teacher Ye Hailu told reporters a true story: last week, the first year of a class of music class, Mr. Ye asked students: know Qu Yuan please raise your hand? The class of 30 students in only three people raised their hands. The first student replied that Qu Yuan is a singer, he sang "Li Sao"; the second student replied that Qu Yuan is a chef, he invented the dumplings; the third student said: Qu Yuan is a doctor, everyone called him a doctor. (Modern Express, June 10)

This kind of answer is regrettable, as Chinese high school students don't know about their own country's traditional festivals, and it can be concluded that this kind of ignorance is not individual, but widespread. This is all the more worrying because, whether this is the result of foreign cultural invasion or the inevitable result of economic globalization, few people have thought about what we, as Chinese people, have done to preserve our traditional cultural practices.

For example, what kind of festival is the real Dragon Boat Festival in the traditional cultural sense?

One says it is in honor of Qu Yuan. This is also the most widely circulated claim about the Dragon Boat Festival, that the Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period. Qu Yuan is the warring states era, Chu state Sanluo doctor, see the country in danger, but can not save, day and night sorrow, and finally cast Miluo River and died. Chu people heard very sad, boat rescue, in order not to let the fish and shrimp in the water to eat Qu Yuan's body, they paddled on the river with a dragon boat, banging gongs and drums, hoping to fish and shrimp to drive away; also used zongzi leaves wrapped in rice made into zongzi, thrown into the river to the fish and shrimp to eat, hoping that Qu Yuan's body will not be harmed. Years and years, this custom has been passed down, this is the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat, the origin of the dumplings.

The second is to "get rid of the plague and disease". Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancients of the "evil day" taboo, which is more ancient than the memorial Qu Yuan said. Because the Dragon Boat Festival in the lunar calendar in May, the weather is getting hot, a variety of mosquitoes began to infestation, easy to cause disease, so May also has a "bad month". So the book of rites. The "Order of the Moon" on the "midsummer, yin and yang fight, death and life points, the gentleman fasting; stop sound and color, lust," the record. Ancient people in May to rest and recuperate as the principle of health. Some places also use "five in the sky" that is, calamus, mugwort, pomegranate flowers, garlic and santan five plants to get rid of poison, which is stored orchid bathing and hanging calamus to avoid the meaning of evil. "Get rid of the plague and disease" is a major theme of the Dragon Boat Festival for ordinary Chinese people.

Thirdly, it is to "pray for rain". The Dragon Boat Festival is the peak season of rice growth, and at this time the rain is often scarce, so people want to take this opportunity to pray for rain. Zongzi leaves, also known as "Mizuko leaves", hold it well after the hollow, and hollow things in China are "Yin" symbol; loaded into the rice pinched up the sharp corners, is the "Yang" symbol. After the dumplings are wrapped, it is natural that yin and yang are intertwined. And ancient Chinese culture, rain is understood as yin and yang in the intersection of air, to put it bluntly is actually cold and warm air encounter, "rain and clouds of love" that is how to come. So, people pack dumplings, is to lure the sky to rain. In addition to the Dragon Boat Race on this day is also to seek rain, people churning the water sky and earth, is to not let the Dragon King hiding underwater, to the "real dragons" to lead out.

Thus, a Dragon Boat Festival contains so much traditional Chinese culture, this culture is not only not out of date, and its scientific wisdom will change with the times and with the times. For example, our ancestors emphasized the "unity of man and nature", according to the changes in nature and the different festivals, to adapt to nature accordingly. This fully reflects the ancient practice of living in harmony with nature, and a variety of folk customs not only enrich people's lives, but also become an important carrier of Chinese culture.

Seeing this, the Dragon Boat Festival, which contains so many traditional cultural contents, has become a festival of dumplings, which is a split of culture. Because traditional culture is the root and source of the Chinese nation, is our development of advanced culture of the spiritual blood and continuation of the gene. With the deepening process of modernization, the traditional culture of the Chinese nation and people's way of life are being violently impacted and strongly challenged by Western culture and way of life. In this cultural encounter and challenge, any blind worship of foreign mentality and split cultural traditions are not desirable.

Faced with the historical and cultural legacy of our ancestors, as descendants we should at least harbor a sense of awe, just as we would not be unaware of the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. If the ignorant children we are still extenuating words, then for those who see the profits of the businessmen who forget the righteousness of us in addition to contempt, but also from the system to be restrained and regulated. Only in this way can we avoid the tragedy of only knowing money and not knowing culture.

Any cultural activity based on tradition, its vitality is tenacious, and its spiritual influence is also huge. Can not inherit traditional culture from the economic point of view alone, or that traditional culture is feudal and backward superstition to simply deny. As the saying goes, "the more national, the more global". National folk culture has great appeal and cohesion, is a symbol and carrier of national identity, and is also the best teaching material for cultivating national consciousness and patriotism. If we can let our children know this on the Dragon Boat Festival, our cultural traditions will be alive and well.

The long river of culture has a long history

The Milky Way of billions of years is an instant in time

Walking through a vast sea of ancient culture

Confucius and Mencius have come generously along the way

How many unprecedented philosophical ideas

How many sub-groups of people have been cut off at the waist

What was originally the treasure has been cut into the miserable grass

The dream of the ravings is misrepresented as a treasure. Misleading ravings as treasure

We should not be obsessed with the traditional culture of ancient times translated into modern languages by others, but should have our own discernment. Especially on the works of Confucius and Mencius and other outstanding ideas, we should find the original, more research, more thinking, not just one or two later translated into what we absorb, so that the purpose of the development of the national essence can not be achieved. If, only want to take a shortcut, we are sometimes bound to go astray, the translator's ideas as a philosopher; this is like a martial arts teacher practicing kung fu, eager to achieve, will be the former's true or internal kung fu through the second, third and so on the misrepresentation of people, no identification of the transmission of the curiosity of the masters as the essence of the practice, will become a demonic trend, which not only harmed the harm to others.

We live in this era, is the seam of the old and the new, all kinds of scientific and cultural knowledge of the rich change is huge, if we do not strengthen the learning, we are bound to become illiterate in the true sense; learning is like a boat against the current, not to advance is to retreat. Of course, some readers of the ancient literature is not good, there is no certain theoretical knowledge, we can only understand from the relevant translator's work, which is not equal to, we have to be like a sponge as completely absorbed. At this time, we have to strengthen this aspect of culture (ancient) learning, in the study, focus on learning while asking questions, more horizontal and vertical comparisons, and will be digested in a timely manner, so that the essence of the acceptance of the dregs removed; if the translator can not be the inheritance of the true gold of the pioneers, we also have to resist these pseudo-thinking, pseudo-culture, so that they do not have a real market.

When it comes to boycott, not boycott the real traditional culture, even the heart and soul of our forefathers also want to be burned, this is certainly not work, the wheel of history, will be backward step, there is no thought of the ideal faith, the people's hearts are unstable, the society will be in turmoil. Our many traditional culture is the soul of our nation, is the backbone of the people, is the country's source of blessing, is the capital of the world stage; a nation, and even a country, if there is no excellent inheritance of their own cultural heritage, can only breed the tyranny of anger, or be annexed by the other slightly ethnic groups or countries, the Qin Shihuang's burning of the books of the brutal government, extinction of how many excellent traditional culture ah! Also hurt the heart of the world's readers, which is the root of the peasant uprising; such an example, Chinese and foreign history is staged too much, here will not be one to read.