Adhering to the principles of integrity and innovation, allowing traditional culture to shine brightly. Culture | Tradition | Splendor
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Authors: Li Lin and Liu Haiping
From Qu Yuan's reflection in "Tianwen" over 2300 years ago to the successful flight of Shenzhou 16, the exploration of the universe by the Chinese nation has never stopped. This spirit of exploration and innovation is the most precious gene for inheriting excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Excellent traditional culture requires innovative expressions of the times in order to truly connect the past and present, and communicate with the times. How to integrate excellent traditional culture into modern life, achieve creative transformation and innovative development, is currently a problem worth paying attention to and thinking about.
Today, with the greatly enhanced comprehensive strength of our country, Qu Yuan culture, as one of the representatives of excellent traditional Chinese culture, contains a spirit of patriotism, people-oriented thinking, and a romantic sentiment that transcends reality. It has a more unique humanistic radiance and inheritance value. In the process of protection and inheritance, people uphold innovative concepts and actively integrate into modern life scenes, making them constantly "new" and "outstanding" with the development of the times.
Observing the past and learning from the present, excellent traditional culture can only shine and integrate well into modern life by adhering to tradition and innovation. Adhering to integrity and innovation are the cornerstone and direction of inheriting traditional culture. The two should not be neglected, but should be equally emphasized and advanced together. But the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture will not be achieved overnight, and it requires persistence. Governments at all levels and relevant departments should guide and encourage the public to spontaneously inherit and innovate traditional culture, transform festival activities into daily experiential learning, and use new technologies to effectively integrate traditional culture into modern life.
Shouzheng aims to "stand firm". To uphold integrity, one must first understand the essence of traditional culture and adhere to its core. If the essence is not grasped well, culture will become tasteless. For example, in recent years, some traditional folk activities have excessively pursued superficial prosperity and liveliness in order to earn traffic and attract attention, resulting in a tendency towards vulgarization and entertainment, deviating from the true needs of the people and ignoring the traditional cultural connotations behind them. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the interpretation, research, and effective dissemination of traditional culture, actively seek connection points with modern life, and not let traditional culture be shelved or forgotten, nor blindly seek novelty and change, and let traditional culture "take shape". Only by making the people truly understand what the "righteousness" of traditional culture is, can they know how to "uphold" it.
Mr. Liu Kuili, an expert in folklore, once proposed that "live fish must be seen in water", emphasizing that traditional culture should be inherited in people's lives. The Qu Yuan culture has been able to thrive in Miluo for thousands of years precisely because it follows the laws of cultural development, the emotional needs and customs of the local people. In order to better serve the people, the Miluo River International Dragon Boat Invitational not only holds professional dragon boat races with high specifications and standards, but also various folk dragon boat competitions, organizing multiple dragon boat teams with various departments and townships as the main body, continuing the tradition of Miluo folk dragon boat races, improving the participation of the whole population in dragon boat races, and making the Dragon Boat Festival on the Miluo River exciting and extraordinary every year.
Innovation aims to "forge the soul". With the rapid development of modern information technology, the combination of technology and culture has become a trend of cultural innovation and development. Among them, immersive experience makes traditional culture more vibrant and dynamic. For example, Gansu Dunhuang Research Institute and Tencent jointly created a super spatiotemporal participatory museum called "Digital Scripture Cave", reshaping the communication between the grottoes and the public. The exquisite visuals, super realistic scenes, and immersive interactive experiences allow the general public to deeply appreciate the intricacies and brilliance of Dunhuang grotto art; A series of cultural and tourism projects, such as Tang Palace Dinner, Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Wonderful Night, and Qingming Fantastic Tour, created by Henan Satellite TV, have realized the integration of tradition and modernity, set off a climax of cultural confidence, and excited audiences across the country.
Various regions utilize traditional folk stories to create anime or games, achieving diverse and cross-border traditional culture. The immersive real-life script experience game "Chu Xun Ji" with nine tripods and ten thousand people has been highly sought after by young people, becoming a new path to spread ancient Chu culture and explore the connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival, giving the Dragon Boat Festival culture a new form of expression.
In short, actively integrating traditional culture into modern life through new technologies, creating immersive experiences for participants, enhancing their cultural identity, can make traditional culture more modern and attractive, allowing more people to experience the charm of excellent traditional culture and feel the breath of modern life.
In the context of digitalization, the development of new media technology has brought more opportunities for the innovation and development of traditional culture. In the era of "Internet plus", live broadcast, short video and other communication methods have become important means of promotion, and many social media platforms are also important channels of communication. By maintaining tradition, constantly absorbing, accepting, and utilizing new things and techniques, the splendid culture of the Chinese nation, spanning five thousand years, will surely shine brightly in the new era and continuously enrich the beautiful life of the people.
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