What is the root of China culture?

Sinology has a natural blood relationship with China culture, and it is the soul of China culture. China culture has a profound foundation in human geography and cultural anthropology. This cultural tradition of the Chinese nation was born in the difficult living environment in the flood years. Its profound connotation and enduring blood are rooted in this land of farming civilization where the Yellow River and the Yangtze River flow and moisten. Because of its rich humanistic connotation, China cultural tradition permeates the spirit of the Chinese nation and has a national character that transcends the times. Undoubtedly, the temporality and nationality of China's culture are the important reasons why it has been consistent and enduring for five thousand years. The so-called Chinese nation refers to the Han nationality and other ethnic minorities evolved from the Huaxia nationality today. However, in ancient times, the word "China" meant "taking oneself as the center", which corresponded to the meaning of "taking others as the outside", while "China" meant that the culture was developed and radiant, which showed the self-glory mentality of China people. Interpretation of Tang Ming Fa says: "China people, China also. I was taught by the king, and I belong to China. I am dignified, conscientious and polite, so I call it China. " This statement can be said to represent the self-identity mentality of ancient China people. During the bourgeois-democratic revolution in modern China, the national consciousness in traditional culture was consciously reflected in the academic thoughts represented by Zhang Taiyan and others because it was ruled by the Manchu government. Zhang Taiyan, a master of modern Chinese studies, consciously used the quintessence of Chinese culture to inspire people's patriotism and overthrow the foreign rule of the Qing Dynasty. Zhang Taiyan published an article "Explanation of the Republic of China" in the People's Daily, the organ newspaper of the League. In the article, he proposed that the word "China" is not only the name of a region, but also the name of a clan, but also the name of a culture. Therefore, the meaning of Chunqiu, whether Lu Wei's surname is the same or Song Qi's half-surname, is not the kind of Chu Yue. China can retreat to another place, and another place can be promoted to China. There is no difference between intimacy and intimacy based on ethics. Thousands of years later, thousands of people are mixed, and the name "China" remains the same. With this statement, the reason why China is China is determined by culture. This passage by Zhang Taiyan deserves our attention. He paid attention to the definition of the word "China" from the perspective of culture, and defined the internal blood of the Chinese nation as cultural tradition, while the external races were changeable and could be integrated with each other. The Chinese nation survived through hardships and benefited from the transmission of cultural traditions from generation to generation. Because of this, he strongly advocated Chinese studies, and the trend of modern Chinese studies was revived. Now it seems that Mr. Taiyan's statement still has some truth. Chinese national culture has become a highly mature and relatively independent fusion of spiritual values and material forms, with strong cohesion beyond the times and regions. So far, Chinese culture has become a spiritual bond at home and abroad, which shows that the accumulation of Chinese culture for thousands of years has great energy and profound potential in the same national psychology, which is incomparable to any national culture. It is also the fundamental reason why the Chinese nation is constantly striving for self-improvement and optimism in the face of natural and man-made disasters. China's traditional culture, once tested and washed by time and history, is recognized and familiar by the nation and becomes a Yuan Dian, it will last forever. Hegel pointed out in Aesthetics that the ideal realm embodied in the beauty of classical tradition is the unity of temporality and eternity, and the unity of immortality and history. Classic things occur, develop and disintegrate in this dialectical unity, and show their destiny in this unity. In its deepest sense, China traditional culture is the embodiment of Chinese national spirit. Therefore, as long as the Chinese nation still exists, this tradition is reborn in disintegration and developed in sublation, because it has inherent eternity and transcendence. China's traditional culture has a long history and is endless, which determines that it can be passed down and will not decline despite the impact of foreign cultures. As a whole cultural concept, traditional culture certainly has many factors to maintain the feudal patriarchal clan system. In this respect, it conflicts with modernity and the Western Enlightenment. However, the concern for the fate of the nation and mankind and the unremitting pursuit of the value of truth, goodness and beauty in traditional culture have something in common with the modern enlightenment spirit, which is the essence of human civilization and can be invented by transformation and modernity. Since the Opium War in China 1840, many people with lofty ideals have felt the weakness of national strength and the ignorance of the people, and have spoken out loudly and advocated debate, clearly combining Chinese studies with promoting national morality. This was the case when Zhang Taiyan founded the Sinology Promotion Agency in Tokyo, Japan in 1905. Know a little about the historical stage of Chinese studies, and you will know. It is under the absorption of enlightenment thoughts in modern western countries that traditional knowledge has been cleaned up and studied. Chinese scholars have always been critical of feudal dross. Famous scholars of Chinese studies are very conscious of using modern western academic ideas and methods to engage in research and teaching. For example, Liang Qichao used the European enlightenment trend of thought to analyze China's traditional novels; Wang Guowei used German aesthetics and philosophy to explain China's classical literature. Chen Yinke's absorption of western historiography theory. In particular, some people who study China traditional culture with Marxism, such as Hou Wailu, Guo Moruo, Fan Wenlan and others, do so. It is also a combination of Chinese and western cultures to advocate Chinese studies and offer Chinese studies education. What is certain is that we will never return to the situation before the May 4th Movement. The European Renaissance found the ancestor of humanism from ancient Greek culture, and all civilizations in modern developed countries are proud of tradition. China's ancient Book of Changes said: "As soon as it is opened, it will melt, and infinity will pass." The development and evolution of civilization has both changeable side and common side. One-sided emphasis on one side is contrary to the spirit of harmonious coexistence. The development of contemporary China can neither be retro nor divorced from tradition. The cultivation of national spirit can not be separated from the nourishment of the essence of traditional culture, and modernization can never be built on a castle in the air that is completely westernized. On the other hand, Chinese studies can shoulder this sacred responsibility from the academic level and the dimension of spiritual civilization construction. In this regard, the study of Sinology is to recast the soul of China culture. /kloc-in the summer of 0/925, Cao Yunxiang, then president of Tsinghua University, said in his speech at the opening ceremony of Tsinghua University National College: "It must be based on the cultural spirit of China" and "I hope to find the soul of China in the college." President Cao proposed that the study of Chinese studies should "seek the soul of China", which is also our long-term responsibility and mission today.