Chinese Author Reading Hall Content Introduction We treat traditional culture with a critical eye, because traditional culture has been divided by two major contemporary damages.
When we evaluate a thing or a person, we like to use proportions to explain it intuitively.
So in traditional culture How big is the ratio of the essence? This book is collected and produced by 80 e-books from the Internet. It is only for preview, exchange and learning. The copyright belongs to the original author and the publisher. If you like it, please subscribe to buy genuine books. More exciting books and more original mobile e-books We are professional format e-book download because of you, please log in 80 e-book Beside the Chinese Chapter New Era Traditional Culture Be kind to the essence of traditional culture Treat traditional culture with a critical eye because traditional culture has been affected by two major contemporary destructions When we evaluate a thing or a person, we like to use proportions to explain it intuitively. So how big is the proportion of the essence in traditional culture? To say this proportion, we must first talk about the version. Before the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, it was basically a question of Confucian classics.
Its distinction is the difference between modern Confucian classics and ancient Chinese classics.
After the May Fourth Movement, they began to have different views on Confucianism. New Confucianism paid more attention to exploring the comparison of Confucianism. In their view, the positive place is the place where the original place has not been distorted. Confucius thought was later used and distorted by the ruling class to become a state religion and a tool of the ruling class. Therefore, the proportion of the essence depends on where it is.
It’s in the edition. Going straight to the Analects of Confucius and reading Dong Zhongshu’s interpretation of him are two completely different things.
As far as Confucius himself is concerned, the essence of his thoughts is the main one, so how to divide the essence from the dross is a very important issue for us. In the past, the standard was whether it was beneficial to social progress. In today’s words, it is whether it is beneficial to the realization of modernization. This is a perspective. Whether it is good or bad for social development mainly refers to the part of social ethics and morals in traditional culture. This part of thought is It can be used for different purposes.
For example, the ritual of Confucius can be said to maintain the ruling order, but it can also be used to standardize the relationship between people.
Therefore, there is a problem of how to explain and apply traditional ideas, because it is difficult for you. What is its original intention? Its original intention depends on your explanation.
From this point of view, traditional culture can be used as a rich ideological resource. The current think tank is facing the current practical problems.
How should we solve the traditional culture that is most fundamental to life? Some wonderful and intelligent explanations of the problems.
These things will never be outdated and are the common wealth of human thought.
Because the essence of traditional culture has two levels.
The first level is the thinking and answering of the fundamental problems of human beings.
This part is the most valuable.
The second level is beneficial to the development of society and can serve the reality. These two levels are the essence. Talking about tradition means talking about things in the past.
Things in the past must have that.
There are some characteristics of the times, there are things that are still very backward today, and some inevitable dross. Of course, today we will no longer completely follow the tradition.
Any tradition has something that we have to throw away.
It is very important for every nation. This is because we are looking at things from the past. There must be some concepts that need to be completely negated when the things in the past are placed in the present.
It is obviously dross.
It is particularly important whether we can correctly treat the essence and dross of traditional culture today.
Traditional culture and contemporary society are relative to modern culture. Therefore, when we examine traditional culture, we must inevitably consider these two aspects.
The first question is what is the relationship between traditional culture and modern culture, and the second is what role traditional culture can play in contemporary society.
It is difficult to clarify the relationship between modern culture and traditional culture.
This is a very complicated question and a very common one.
The misunderstanding is that modern culture seems to be foreign culture. Traditional culture is Chinese culture. In fact, it is not the same thing. Traditional culture and modern culture are a matter of time order, not a matter of spatial location. In fact, traditional culture should have a modern form to become modern culture.
An organic part, of course, how to take a modern form of traditional culture involves the absorption of foreign cultures, but more importantly, it is a matter of developing on the basis of traditional cultures rather than not letting traditional cultures introduce something from outside.
It is impossible for a nation to abandon it. One’s own culture completely absorbs foreign cultures to achieve modernization. Modern culture is a modern form of traditional culture.
Its core is an extension.
One thing is the essence of tradition. The culture of a nation is almost non-transplantable. The national culture is deeply rooted in a nation. We can learn from foreign things for our own essential things, but we must understand that we have a set of traditional things that have lasted for thousands of years.
It is our thinking mode, survival mode, and behavior mode. These things are difficult to change. This involves how to treat the past.
And modern problems. Some things were bad in the past. We don’t have to stick to them, but we have to cherish the good things in the past. Not only do we cherish them, but we also need to inherit and carry them forward.
Now this aspect is too bad. It seems that we were poor in the past. If you are bullied or feared, you have to learn from them.
In fact, these are not caused by cultural differences, but cultural levels.
How should we look at the role of traditional culture in today’s social development and the relationship between traditional culture and contemporary culture? several aspects to understand on the one hand