Inheriting Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture and Undertaking New Cultural Missions for Development | China | Culture
Author: Wu Wenxia
The Chinese nation has a long history of over 5000 years and a splendid traditional culture. In its long-term development, it has accumulated profound characteristics and cultural genes, forming a very rich civilization. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is the wisdom crystallization and essence of the Chinese civilization, which has shaped the continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness and peace of the Chinese civilization. Inheriting Chinese excellent traditional culture is an inevitable requirement for realizing the modernization of Marxism in China, promoting cultural self-confidence and self-improvement, and promoting Chinese path to modernization. Inheriting Chinese excellent traditional culture must adhere to creative transformation and innovative development.
Inheriting excellent traditional Chinese culture is an inevitable requirement for achieving the sinicization and modernization of Marxism
The excellent traditional Chinese culture reflects the unique spiritual world and value pursuit of the Chinese nation. It is an important embodiment of the world outlook, world outlook, social outlook and moral outlook accumulated by the Chinese people in their long-term production and life. It not only provides reference and enlightenment for the masses of the people to understand and transform the world, but also provides ideological wisdom for our party to maintain progressiveness, reflect the times and promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The combination of the basic principles of Marxism with the excellent traditional Chinese culture is an essential requirement for continuously opening up new horizons of Marxism's localization and modernization in the new era. Chinese excellent traditional culture, as the spiritual driving force for promoting China's development, is the profound foundation and fertile soil for Marxism to be rooted in China and continuously sinicized and modernized. It provides Marxism with rich spiritual nourishment and cultural infiltration, and also provides a more solid and profound historical support for the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
At a new historical starting point, we must firmly adhere to the guiding position of Marxism and steadfastly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Scientifically analyze the internal relationship between the basic principles of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, activate the vitality of the excellent traditional Chinese culture with Marxist positions, views and methods, absorb the ideological essence and moral essence of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and display the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese people. Adhere to the soul of Marxism and the root of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and continuously promote the sinicization and modernization of Marxism.
Inheriting excellent traditional Chinese culture is an inevitable requirement for promoting cultural confidence and self-improvement
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "we must strengthen our confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture" and "promote cultural confidence and self-improvement, and create new brilliance in socialist culture". To promote cultural confidence and self-improvement, we have sufficient reasons and confidence, and one important foundation is the vast and profound Chinese civilization and brilliant traditional culture nurtured by the more than 5000 years of history of the Chinese nation.
To promote cultural confidence and self-improvement, it is necessary to comprehensively understand the main content of excellent traditional Chinese culture. The Chinese nation is an ancient and great nation in the world. We must strive to draw wisdom from the excellent traditional culture that has been passed down from generation to generation across time and space, deeply grasp the outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization, continue the genes of Chinese culture, showcase the charm of the new era, enhance the high level of cultural confidence and self-improvement, and continuously consolidate the development foundation of cultural confidence and self-improvement. Confidence and self-improvement are not only the inherent characteristics of Chinese culture, but also the direction for future development. We should apply the worldview and methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and stand at the height of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation to study the magnificent development process of Chinese civilization over 5000 years. From the depth of history, we should understand, learn and inherit excellent traditional culture, highlight China's cultural confidence, demonstrate China's cultural characteristics, and stimulate the spiritual power of confidence and self-improvement.
To promote cultural confidence and self-improvement, we must base ourselves on our own country and face the world. The culture of every country in the world continues the spiritual bloodline of its nation. We must respect cultural diversity, promote equal exchange, mutual learning, and harmonious coexistence among different civilizations, and draw on and absorb all outstanding achievements of human civilization with a more open perspective, broader mind, and more inclusive sentiment, so that they can be used for our own benefit. We should write a new picture of mutual learning among civilizations that are beautiful, beautiful, and shared, adding glory and color to world civilization.
The unique spiritual traits, cultural connotations, and significant values of Chinese culture are the distinctive features that distinguish us from other ethnic groups and countries. On the new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country, cultural confidence and self-improvement provide solid support for the development of the Chinese spirit, and thus inject lasting and strong development momentum into the Chinese nation. Only by being full of confidence in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, enhancing the self-confidence and pride of being a Chinese, can we confidently advance and steadily move forward on the path of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture is an inevitable requirement for promoting Chinese path to modernization
The excellent traditional culture of China is the spiritual lifeline of the Chinese nation. Chinese path to modernization is rooted in the ancient and profound Chinese civilization, and is the modernization of the ancient civilization. To build a socialist modern country in an all-round way and promote Chinese path to modernization with high-quality development, more than ever before, we need the guidance of ideas, the nourishment of culture, and the construction of Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese power.
Deeply explore and scientifically interpret the contemporary values of benevolence, integrity, justice, and seeking great harmony contained in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, promote traditional virtues such as respecting the elderly and loving the children, helping the needy, acting bravely in righteousness, and being kind to neighbors, and explore and utilize moral education resources such as loyalty to the country, advocating morality and goodness, self-improvement, and propriety, righteousness, and integrity, making them an important source of cultivating socialist core values. Building a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leadership, so that all the people can closely unite in their ideals, beliefs, values, and moral concepts, consolidate the common ideological foundation of unity and struggle among the whole Party, the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and gather a strong spiritual force for unity and struggle in the new era and new journey.
Deeply explore and meticulously refine the cultural essence carried by the excellent traditional Chinese culture, such as putting the people first, integrating nature and humanity, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and seeking harmony while being different. Not only should we fully demonstrate the solid foundation of the Chinese nation in standing firm in the world cultural turmoil, but we should also demonstrate the common values of all humanity contained in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and promote the development and progress of human civilization by absorbing the world's excellent culture.
We should tap into and absorb the rich nourishment of China's excellent traditional culture, widely carry out publicity and education on socialism with Chinese characteristics and the "Chinese Dream", actively promote the mutual promotion and balanced development of the "two civilizations", promote the common prosperity of all people's material and spiritual life, and lay a deep foundation of Chinese culture for the cohesion, cultivation and soul of Chinese path to modernization.
Inheriting excellent traditional Chinese culture must adhere to creative transformation and innovative development
The CPC is a faithful successor, builder and promoter of China's excellent traditional culture. In the great practice of leading the people in revolution, construction and reform, it has always shouldered the historical responsibility of inheriting and developing China's excellent traditional culture. We must adhere to the principle of "creative transformation and innovative development", promote the integration of the basic principles of Marxism with excellent traditional Chinese culture, and deeply understand the basic connotations and practical requirements of the cultural "two creations" policy. We must adhere to the principle of using the past for the present, innovating through the old, and promoting the flourishing of a hundred flowers and a hundred schools of thought, continuously enhancing the spiritual power to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Adhere to the basic principles of Marxism to provide methodological guidance for the modern transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture. We need to comprehensively and deeply understand the history of Chinese civilization, inherit and selectively transform traditional culture that has been developed and abandoned, supplement, expand and improve excellent traditional culture that still has reference value today, extract and display the spiritual symbols of Chinese civilization, endow excellent traditional culture with new era connotations and modern expressions, highlight the basic characteristics of Chinese civilization, and strive to build modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
Based on the historical position of the new era, combined with the new conditions of the times, we will promote the advancement of excellent traditional Chinese culture with the times. We must shoulder the new historical development mission and cultural inheritance responsibility, guided by the socialist core values, endow excellent traditional culture with new vitality, make the genes of Chinese excellent traditional culture adapt to contemporary culture, coordinate with modern society, and accelerate the construction of a new pattern of development of Chinese excellent traditional culture with Chinese style, era characteristics, and openness and diversity.
Adapt to the new needs of the people in the new era and continuously meet their new expectations for a better life. We must adhere to serving the people and socialism, stimulate the innovation and creativity of the entire nation's culture, fully tap into the important elements of traditional culture, organically integrate the inheritance of excellent traditional culture and the development of advanced socialist culture, develop through inheritance and development, enhance its influence and appeal, and meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people.
Guangming Daily
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