People's Leaders | Protecting the Cultural Roots of the Heart of the Red Child History | Inheritance | Culture

At the age of Dragon Boat Festival, I recited Qu Yuan again.

Before the launch of the Shenzhou 10 manned spacecraft, General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically instructed relevant parties that astronauts must eat zongzi in space and have a special Dragon Boat Festival.

The general secretary mentioned Qu Yuan many times, using Qu Yuan's spirit to "shape the heart" for the people and "stand up" for practice ".

The General Secretary also often quotes Qu Yuan's famous sentence in order to trace the origin of the national spirit and create a path to keep pace with the times.

He likened the excellent traditional Chinese culture to the "cultural roots of the Chinese nation" and regarded it as the "foundation to stand firm in the world cultural turmoil".

"Chinese culture is very civilized, progressive, and advanced."

In June 2023, while inspecting the China National Version Museum, the Chinese Academy of History and attending a symposium on cultural heritage and development, General Secretary Xi Jinping explained his profound thoughts on the historical, contemporary and world significance of Chinese civilization over the years: "Our culture is here, ah, very civilized, progressive and advanced. In the future, it will be passed on for 5,000 years, not more than 5,000 years."

On June 2, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended a symposium on cultural heritage and development in Beijing and delivered an important speech.

Under the historical freeze frame, these two meaningful moments.

September 9, 2014, Beijing Normal University.

More than a month later, a symposium on literary and artistic work was held to guide the direction of China's literary and artistic progress.

In drawing up the great plan of national rejuvenation, General Secretary Xi Jinping has far-reaching thoughts: "The rejuvenation of a nation requires strong material strength as well as strong spiritual strength." Over the years, the General Secretary has devoted a lot of effort to protecting the roots of Chinese culture, and the "cultural footprint" has spread throughout the country.

On August 20, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Jiayuguan Guancheng, climbed the tower to inspect the overall appearance of Guancheng, and listened to the introduction of the history and culture of the Great Wall and Pass in the Hexi Corridor.

"When I visited Shandong, I went to see the Confucius Temple in the Confucius Mansion, and I also went to Mount Wuyi to see Zhu Xi." When I visited the Zhu Xi Garden by the Jiuqu River, the General Secretary lamented that he had seen and heard all the way, "If there was no five thousand year civilization of China, where would there be Chinese characteristics? If it was not Chinese characteristics, how could we have such a successful socialist road with Chinese characteristics today?"

The Sansu Temple in Meishan, Sichuan is imbued with a profound cultural atmosphere due to the legend of "one father and son, three poets, and four great writers throughout history". On the spot inspection, General Secretary deeply felt: "A drop of water can see the sun, and a Sansu Temple can see the vastness and profoundness of our Chinese culture."

When discussing with experts and scholars at the Dunhuang Research Institute, he spoke with great sincerity: "Dunhuang culture showcases the cultural confidence of the Chinese nation. Only a confident civilization can tolerate, learn from, and absorb various different civilizations while maintaining its own national characteristics."

"In today's world, when people mention China, they will think of the Great Wall; when they mention Chinese civilization, they will also think of the Great Wall." On board the "first pass in the world," the general secretary hoped: "We must attach importance to the protection and inheritance of history and culture, and protect the endless roots of the Chinese nation's spirit."

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To see is to know, to observe is to know. Watching the past is also a journey towards the future.

"To protect, inherit, and make good use of China's excellent traditional culture"

"What I am most concerned about is the most precious thing left by the vicissitudes of Chinese civilization. Our culture continues to flow and pass on, and the treasures left behind must be taken care of and cherished by every means possible."

This is a sentence made by the General Secretary when he inspected the China National Version Museum.

From attaching importance to the inheritance of cultural heritage to strengthening the protection of natural heritage, from promoting the protection and utilization of tangible cultural heritage to stimulating the innovative vitality of intangible cultural heritage ...... General Secretary Xi Jinping is here to emphasize the need to protect, inherit and make good use of China's excellent traditional culture, and to explore its rich connotation, so as to better strengthen cultural self-confidence and unite the national spirit.

On March 24, 2021, the figure of General Secretary Dang appeared in Sanfang Qixiang, Fuzhou, Fujian, and it became lively here. People still remember vividly, "If it weren't for his protection and support, San Fang Qi Xiang would have been gone.".

On July 10, 2021, under the sunset, the Sanfang Qixiang Historical and Cultural District in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.

During the booming urban development and construction in the 1980s, the former residence of Lin Juemin and Bing Xin, located at the northern corner of Sanfang Qixiang, was about to be demolished.Six months later, the renovation project of the former residence quietly began. The difference from "dismantling" to "repairing" is a world of difference.

The Chinese nation has a long-standing traditional culture and is sure to create new brilliance in Chinese culture.

General Secretary Xi Jinping put Chinese excellent traditional culture in the perspective of civilization inheritance, the progress of the times, and the development of the world, and put forward the major issue of "promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture." it is necessary to make the cultural relics collected in museums, the heritage displayed on the vast land, and the words written in ancient books come alive.

Before the successful application for World Heritage at the Liangzhu Ancient City Site, he conducted two surveys in Liangzhu and gave important instructions on the protection and application work of the Liangzhu Site multiple times. People exclaim that the care of General Secretary has made the Liangzhu Site shine brightly.

He personally guides and promotes every key point and challenging period of the project, writing a magnificent story in the history of Chinese culture.

He walked into the Cantonese Opera Art Museum and encouraged his fans to inherit and promote Cantonese opera well; He noticed every stitch and thread of Miao traditional clothing, praising Miao embroidery as both traditional and fashionable; He spent money to buy handmade traditional Chinese medicine sachets made by inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, and smiled and said, "I also want to cheer for them."

As evidenced by the mountains and rivers, the General Secretary has personally explored ways to protect and inherit Chinese excellent traditional culture, and to keep integrity and innovation.

"We have gained confidence now"

General Secretary Xi Jinping summarized "self-confidence" into four aspects, namely, road self-confidence, theoretical self-confidence, institutional self-confidence and cultural self-confidence. "More basic, broader, and deeper" is cultural self-confidence.

He said, "We are now the closest era to the cultural revival of the Chinese nation. We have become more confident. How people think about things is related to the genetic lineage accumulated over five thousand years of culture. We still need to identify our own treasures ourselves, so don't underestimate yourself."

On April 7, 2023, Baiyun Hall, Songyuan, Guangzhou, Guangdong. The millennium old guqin plays "High Mountains and Flowing Water", and the heads of state of China and France appreciate it together. "High mountains and flowing water, the millennium guqin plays the masterpiece of the millennium, and high mountains and flowing water yearn for friends. It is a beautiful ancient story, the story of Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi..." Chinese leaders casually introduced it, leaving a deep impression on foreign leaders who came from afar.

On April 7, 2023, the heads of state of China and France enjoyed playing the guqin at the Baiyun Hall in Songyuan, Guangzhou, Guangdong.

The cultural treasures of Canruo Xinghe are shining golden business cards.

At the opening ceremony of the first "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, President Xi Jinping used the thousand-year-old "gilt bronze silkworm" as evidence to tell about the feat of our ancestors who opened up the ancient Silk Road more than 2000 years ago and opened a new window for friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries.

The phrase "The blue and white vases from the Yuan Dynasty are very few preserved, and this collection can be said to be a panda in ceramics" is vivid and interesting, making the foreign leaders present smile knowingly.

At the first China-Central Asia Summit, as the host, President Xi Jinping's keynote speech started from the history of Xi'an, where the summit was held, and explained the great practical and far-reaching historical significance of deepening China-Central Asia cooperation.

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As precious as a book, well intentioned.Opening the pages of the book, the global sentiment nurtured by over 5000 years of Chinese civilization shines with even more dazzling brilliance in the new era.

Today in China, the "spring water" of excellent traditional Chinese culture has been fully activated.

The Chinese Civilization Exploration Project has empirically demonstrated the over 5000 years of civilization on the land of China through archaeological data, as well as the overall characteristics of Chinese civilization that are "diverse, integrated, and continuous.". The long-standing inheritance of civilization is no longer just a yellowed memory in history books.

On July 24, 2020, visitors visited the Suzhou Museum.

On the land of China, clocking in museums has increasingly become an important way for public leisure and entertainment. Traditional cultural programs such as National Treasures, China in Ancient Books and Records are popular, and "new China-Chic" such as national style music, cultural creativity in the Forbidden City, and the emergence of time-honored brands are gradually warming up. A lively situation is taking shape for everyone to inherit and develop the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

Spanning time and space, the brilliant light of civilization illuminates the path of national rejuvenation.