Understanding of Public Opinion in China Traditional Culture

1. Public opinion is the authoritative opinion of most people, which shows the overall perception and collective consciousness of society. ①

2. Public opinion is the * * * unanimous opinion of society or social groups on controversial social issues that have recently occurred and people are generally concerned about. ②

3. Public opinion is the sum of the public's beliefs, attitudes and views on people, events, phenomena, problems and concepts that they care about, which has certain consistency, intensity and persistence and has an impact on the development of related events. ③

Prosperous advanced culture. A certain culture is an ideological reflection of a certain economic base. As an ideology, culture plays a vital role in the formation of public opinion. Engels commented on the French public opinion in the Middle Ages: "As a national representative, kingship is so respected. Only the alliances and military aid treaties concluded by the king with foreign countries are considered legal and recognized by public opinion. Others will always be traitors and traitors in the eyes of public opinion. " Attending this kind of social public opinion that destroys human nature and tramples on human rights is the product of feudal culture of "kingship first". It may be absolute to say that what kind of culture has what kind of public opinion, but the influence of culture on public opinion is really deep-rooted.

Culture is a historical category, a reflection of the economic base, and it should also be adapted to the economic base. At present, we are establishing and perfecting the socialist market economic system, which requires the prosperity of advanced culture adapted to the socialist market economic system. Market economy emphasizes the rule of law, rules, fairness and justice, so we critically inherit and absorb the essence and beneficial parts of traditional culture and foreign culture, scientifically eliminate its dross and harmful parts, and prosper into a people's, socialist, national, scientific and popular socialist culture. Only such a culture can help to form a progressive, rational and scientific public opinion that is suitable for the market economy system under the new situation and give full play to its social early warning function. Therefore, a prosperous advanced culture is an important spiritual force for the sound operation of the early warning mechanism of public opinion society.