The Civilization and Tradition of the Great Revival of the Chinese Nation | Culture | The Chinese Nation
Author: He Zhonghua
To achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, it is necessary to build today's China into a cultural powerhouse and actively build modern civilization of the Chinese nation. This is the cultural mission of the Chinese people under the leadership of the CPC in the new era. To accomplish this cultural mission, it is necessary to further promote the sinicization and modernization of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture. This is an important prerequisite for the construction of modern Chinese civilization.
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Learn from the past, review the past and learn new things. The construction of a new China must be based on the premise of understanding the old China. Since the late Qing Dynasty, Western powers have opened the door to China with their strong ships and cannons, and the Chinese nation has encountered a major upheaval that has not been seen in three thousand years. For a nation with a civilization history of over 5000 years, strong cultural self-esteem, and long-term world leadership, this is undoubtedly an unprecedented great humiliation. Winning the independence and dignity of the Chinese nation has become a goal that modern Chinese people with lofty ideals have been striving for. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation means the revival of Chinese culture, and in order for our long-standing aspirations to come true, we must build a strong cultural nation and a modern civilization of the Chinese nation. This mission has historically fallen on the shoulders of the CPC.
The centennial history of the CPC leading the Chinese people in revolution, construction and reform is not only a history of practical exploration, but also a history of theoretical innovation and cultural construction. In history, our party has established a national, scientific, and popular new democratic culture. Entering a new era, the grand goal of building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation requires us to further liberate our minds at a new historical starting point and initiate the active construction process of a new form of civilization. In terms of historical connotation, the modern civilization of the Chinese nation not only contains and accumulates all the historical provisions of the process and results of Chinese path to modernization, all the achievements and cultural creation of the practice and theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, but also condenses and embodies the Chinese experience, Chinese programs and Chinese wisdom that the Chinese nation has contributed to the dynamic construction of a new form of human civilization.
The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is not only the result of building modern civilization of the Chinese nation, but also the basic symbol of the completion of modern civilization of the Chinese nation. Therefore, the modern civilization of the Chinese nation endows the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with specific cultural connotations, which means that we should understand its profound significance from the perspective of constructing civilization types.
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Our party has always taken a clear stance against cultural nihilism and a firm rejection of cultural revisionism in regards to traditional Chinese culture. Instead, we adhere to a scientific attitude of dialectical development and abandonment. From the screening and selection of "getting rid of its dross and absorbing its essence", to the establishment of the subject scale of "making the past serve the present and making foreign things serve China", to the metabolism and self transcendence of the cultural organism of "creative transformation and innovative development", it fully shows that our attitude and methods towards local cultural heritage and resources are becoming more mature and complete, reflecting the profound change from the object perspective to the subject perspective. Our party undoubtedly inherited the May Fourth tradition, but also adopted a dialectical analysis attitude towards its radical anti traditional stance, which is completely in line with dialectical materialism. Comrade Mao Zedong fully affirmed the important enlightening role of the May Fourth New Culture Movement in anti imperialism and anti feudalism, while objectively pointing out its limitations in treating cultural traditions in a simple way. History has proven that cultural issues have always been an integral part of our party's cause, and at the same time, our party is becoming increasingly conscious and confident in cultural consciousness.
In China's revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture, the basic spirit and excellent elements of traditional culture have long been permeated and contained in a dialectical way. Without the long and profound nourishment and cultivation of excellent traditional Chinese culture, the sense of responsibility and sense of responsibility of the Chinese people towards the common good, the patriotism of "the rise and fall of the world, and the value orientation of sacrifice and dedication for the interests of the nation and the country" cannot be presented in the unique way of the Chinese people. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out that Marxism can only be useful when it is combined with the characteristics of the nation and has undergone certain ethnic forms. The so-called "characteristics" and "forms" of a nation depend not only on its economic and political conditions, but also on its cultural conditions. It is precisely through the mediation of excellent traditional Chinese culture that Marxist practical materialism is characterized by a grasp of "seeking truth from facts", Marxist epistemology is characterized by an understanding of the "relationship between knowledge and action", and Marxist dialectics is characterized by an understanding of "dividing one into two"... These are not just simple linguistic transformations, but inherently carry the excellent factors of traditional Chinese culture. They constitute an indispensable cultural condition for the introduction of Marxism into China and its localization.
The combination of the basic principles of Marxism with the excellent traditional Chinese culture has achieved mutual achievements on the basis of mutual compatibility. On the one hand, Marxism has been integrated into the soil of Chinese culture, understood, interpreted, recognized, and put into practice in the context of Chinese culture, gradually achieving sinicization; On the other hand, excellent traditional Chinese culture has undergone the baptism, filtration, screening, and selection of Marxism, especially through the continuous reconstruction of revolution, construction, and reform practices guided by Marxism, achieving creative transformation and innovative development, gradually obtaining contemporary forms, and thus achieving modernization. This is a two-way interactive mutual construction, which has achieved the historical great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics led by the CPC. History has proved that the CPC is the true inheritor and developer of China's excellent traditional culture, because it adopts a dialectical attitude of critically inheriting traditional culture, which is also the only appropriate and scientific attitude. Correctly grasping the dialectical relationship between Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, we must not engage in "one size fits all" and "absolutization", which is the inevitable requirement of the methodological principle of "specific problem specific analysis".
To properly handle the relationship between Marxism and excellent traditional Chinese culture, it is necessary to place it in a specific historical context and grasp it according to time and place. In the practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, against the backdrop of the overall strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the unprecedented changes in the world, the profound value of excellent traditional Chinese culture is increasingly evident. The urgent demand for creative transformation and innovative development in the new era has put the construction of modern Chinese civilization on the agenda. In this context, vigorously promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture is an inevitable requirement of the new era. Today, we need to highlight Chinese characteristics and maintain the cultural characteristics of the Chinese nation in the trend of cultural homogenization caused by economic globalization. This in itself is the internal requirement for the constant advancement of the sinicization and modernization of Marxism under the new historical conditions, and also a clear manifestation of the CPC's mission of inheriting and developing China's excellent traditional culture.
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As a form of "soft power", culture holds an irreplaceable and important position, which has been unprecedentedly highlighted today. The "world history" based on universal human interaction revealed by Marx and Engels at that time led to substantive encounters between different civilizations, providing a solid historical foundation and favorable practical conditions for their mutual complementarity and integration. Despite two world wars and a long Cold War in the first half of the 20th century, this has not fundamentally changed the basic pattern and dominant trend of dialogue and mutual learning among human civilizations today. The world is still turbulent today, with occasional local conflicts and wars. However, dialogue replaces confrontation, and "positive sum game" replaces "zero sum game" to jointly promote peace and development remains a fundamental demand of the international community. Compared to economic and political power, cultural power is more profound and enduring. Therefore, the question of combining the basic principles of Marxism with the excellent traditional culture of China is not only a requirement for the continuous deepening of the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, but also an objective requirement for the increasing importance of culture.
The conscious establishment of the goal and mission of building modern civilization of the Chinese nation has answered and solved the problem of the subjectivity role of civilization in the Chinese context, and provided an appropriate answer to whether it is "whose" modern civilization and "for whom" modern civilization, which means establishing the subjectivity of the Chinese nation in modern culture. At the same time, it also puts forward demands on the dimension of the times from the perspective of constructing a new form of human civilization. Only through the organic combination of excellent traditional Chinese culture with the basic principles of Marxism, can we achieve creative transformation and innovative development, and complete the historical task of modern transformation. Cultural issues have become particularly important today, determining that the form of civilization we build is both "Chinese" and "modern". This defines the fundamental characteristics of the form of civilization from the dual dimensions of cultural ethnicity and contemporaneity, providing a spatiotemporal coordinate for the construction of modern Chinese civilization and establishing its own "here in" nature. The combination of creatively proposing and practicing the basic principles of Marxism with excellent traditional Chinese culture is a manifestation of cultural confidence and the conscious establishment of Chinese cultural subjectivity in the process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It will undoubtedly promote the brilliant brilliance of Chinese civilization once again in the great process of national rejuvenation.
