The Song Dynasty was the golden period of Chinese cultural development, and Song Yun culture, as an important part of China's excellent traditional culture, is an important cultural symbol with Chinese style and Zhejiang recognition.
A Brief Reading of Song Yun Culture
The new book "A Brief Reading of Song Yun Culture", organized by the Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences and published by the Zhejiang People's Publishing House, was recently released. The "Sanwei BookHouse" program of Zhejiang Voice interviewed Chen Ye, vice president and researcher of Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences, taking readers to open the book, feel the cultural climate of Song Yun, which is diverse and inclusive, competitive in all kinds of work, the pursuit of excellence, elegant and exquisite, and accurately grasp the historical significance and contemporary value behind Song Yun culture.
Chen Ye, vice president and researcher of Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences
"Brief Reading of Song Yun Culture" is a comprehensive interpretation of the "Song Yun Culture" proposed by the Provincial Party Committee Cultural Work Conference, focusing on the conceptual connotation, spiritual essence, morphological characteristics and contemporary values of Song Yun culture, divided into 11 parts of system, economy, thought, literature, art, religion, science and technology, society, people's life, architecture and classics, showing the cultural climate of Song Yun, which is diverse and inclusive, competing for excellence, pursuing excellence, elegant and exquisite, accurately grasping its cultural essence, historical significance and era value, and organizing and refining' The core feature of Song Yun makes the millennium Song Yun "flow" and "inherit" in the new era.
What are the connotations of Song Yun culture?
Life and art are an indispensable part of Song Yun culture, and the song people's life aesthetics and artistic elegance also give Song Yun culture a unique temperament. However, if you only understand the Song Yun culture at this level, it is inevitable that it will be superficial and not to the essence.
The Song Yun culture we understand refers specifically to the excellent civilization elements, inner spirit and cultural values that have been passed down to this day in the two Song cultures. It can be roughly included: the rhyme of materiality in the field of daily life, the rhyme of ingenuity in the field of production technology, the rhyme of order in the field of social operation, the rhyme of intellectual knowledge in the field of discovery and invention, the rhyme of speculation in the field of academic thought, and the rhyme of aesthetics in the field of literature and art. It is presented as ideology, system, economy, people's life, society, literature, art, architecture, religion, science and technology and other forms. With its civilization achievements with cultural creation value and historical progress significance, it has converged into the essence of the culture of the two Song Dynasties and condensed into the unique temperament and fashion of an era.
When it comes to Zhejiang's cultural business card, it must be indispensable to the unique millennium Song Yun culture. Piano, chess, books, paintings, incense burning, tea ordering, hanging paintings, flower arrangements... The Song people's "elegant and ordinary everywhere" lifestyle and timeless and profound life aesthetics have had a profound impact on future generations and are also rooted in contemporary Jiangnan life. The contemporary value of Song Yun cultural research goes far beyond that.
What is the point of reading this book for us today? What can it show us and what does it teach?
(Chen Ye on the Contemporary Value of Song Yun Cultural Research)
Contemporary Values of Song Yun Culture (Excerpt)
The purpose of studying, transforming and disseminating Song Yun culture is to comprehensively understand and accurately grasp the characteristics, spirit, values and resources of Song Yun culture with a higher historical position, a longer and more realistic observation vision, a deeper rational exploration, a grander ideological pattern, and a more open cultural atmosphere, and provide historical perspectives, enlightenment and resources for the construction of culture in Zhejiang in the new era.
(1) Strengthen Chinese cultural identity, safeguard national unity and national unity, and carry forward the spirit of patriotism
On September 30, 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out when meeting with outstanding representatives of grass-roots ethnic unity: "China is a unified multi-ethnic country. The pluralism and unity of all ethnic groups is an important wealth left to us by our ancestors and an important advantage of our country. The people of all ethnic groups in our country jointly founded the People's Republic of China and have made outstanding contributions to the formation and development of the Chinese nation. "To inherit the Song Yun culture today is to inherit the rich heritage and tremendous advantages of the Chinese nation's pluralism and unity left to us by our ancestors, carry forward the fine tradition of the Chinese nation in safeguarding reunification and opposing separatism, cast a solid sense of the Chinese national community, resolutely safeguard national unity and social harmony and stability, resolutely oppose any separatist activities that undermine reunification and unity, and jointly create the glorious great cause of the complete reunification of the motherland and the great rejuvenation of the nation."
(2) Cultivate a pluralistic, inclusive, open and enterprising cultural mentality and world vision
During the two Song Dynasties, inheriting the spirit of Cosmopolitanism of the Han and Tang Dynasties, supporting the spontaneous and smooth flow of foreign exchanges with the rational cognition of economic development, relying on overseas trade to build an open network, integrating into the outside world, absorbing the excellent elements of other civilizations, promoting the development of the country, nation, society and civilization, and achieving a prosperous and enterprising pattern of Chinese culture. To build a socialist modern power today and seek the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must adhere to the spirit of the times with reform and opening up as the core, and comprehensively grasp the two overall situations of the world's unprecedented changes in a hundred years and the overall situation of the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation. In the face of the outside world, we face the world with a pluralistic and inclusive cultural mentality, adhere to cultural traditions with the national self-confidence of Yangyang China, and cultivate a world vision and pattern. In the face of expanding international exchanges, deepening cultural exchanges, and increasingly fierce ideological confrontations, it is necessary to broaden our minds, strengthen our self-confidence, improve our ability to adapt and cope, absorb the excellent elements of various civilizations, and accelerate the establishment of a community with a shared future for mankind. In the prosperous development of socialist culture, in the face of increasingly diversified interest patterns, conceptual forms, and value demands, we must persist in carrying forward the core socialist values, inherit and carry forward excellent traditional culture, absorb the positive elements in the creation of contemporary society and culture, advocate in-depth thinking, stimulate ideological collisions, and build a socialist cultural power with abundant and abundant cultural creation, leaving behind the strong ink of our times in the history of the development of Chinese civilization.
(3) Respect professional talents and knowledge, and establish confidence and courage to climb the peak of science
Scientific and technological innovation, represented by gunpowder, compass, and printing, was an important force in promoting the social development of the Song Dynasty, and it was also a remarkable and proud achievement of civilization in the two Song Dynasties. Science and technology are the primary productive forces, scientific and technological strength determines the changes in the balance of political and economic forces in the world, and scientific and technological innovation is the strategic support for improving social productivity and comprehensive national strength, and determines the future and destiny of the country and the nation. To realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must implement the innovation-driven development strategy and adhere to the road of independent innovation with Chinese characteristics. In today's world, science and technology are developing rapidly, international competition is fierce, risks and challenges are intensifying, and China still has many card neck technologies to be overcome. We must not only give full play to Zhejiang's advantages in scientific and technological innovation such as the Internet, digitalization, and artificial intelligence, but also strengthen cooperation and exchanges at home and abroad, and strive to master key technologies, achieve world-class scientific and technological achievements, and strive for good results in serving common prosperity.
(4) Encourage humanistic scholars to participate in social construction and promote ideological and cultural innovation
Looking back at the history of the Two Song Dynasties, Confucianism or Song Studies of the Song Dynasty has made important contributions to the ideological shaping, social development and civilization of the Two Song Dynasties. Commenting on Song Dynasty Confucianism, the American scholar DeBray dismissed it as "disdainful of the ancient forms of Confucianism—that is, of classical studies whose main nature is linguistic and historical; Disdain for encyclopedic erudition, i.e. inclusiveness without any criteria for evaluation; Disdain for articles that do not convey any moral purpose and message", are "solid", "real" or "practical" learning (practical). Song Dynasty scholars paid attention to the social functions of scholarship and the social concerns of scholars, actively participated in social transformation, and combined with social practice to innovate academic culture, which became an important aspect of Song Yun culture with positive significance.
At present, China is in the best period of development in history, and the world is in a major change that has not been seen in a century, and the two are synchronously intertwined and mutually exciting. Zhejiang has been entrusted by the Party Central Committee with the glorious mission of high-quality development and construction of a common prosperity demonstration zone, and in fact undertakes the important mission of exploring the way for the second centenary goal of the country. As Yuan Jiajun, secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial CPC Committee, pointed out, common prosperity includes both material and spiritual prosperity, and promoting people-centered modernization is a very important topic, and cultural work plays a decisive role in the construction of common prosperity demonstration zones with high-quality development and is a key variable. At present, the government has taken the lead in promoting the construction of rural cultural auditoriums and urban future communities, and civil society has spontaneously formed a boom in sinology, public welfare activities, philanthropy, and public art activities, and has achieved good results in enriching the public spirit, building rules of life, shaping public order, and reconstructing cultural spaces. Going deep into civil society, participating in life practice, walking with the times, making the voice of the times, relieving the difficulties of the times, building an ideological system from the aspects of economy, politics, society, ecology, science and technology, and the market, and shaping the concept of values are the social construction and cultural creation responsibilities that Zhejiang scholars must undertake, and it is also an inevitable path for building philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics.
(5) Stimulate the awareness and action of creating with the times and advancing with the times
The special circumstances of the times during the Two Song Dynasties brought huge development difficulties and also stimulated creativity that was different from the norm. For example, the dissolution of the clan and the prevention and suppression of armed forces have given rise to the emphasis on the scholar class; The difficult situation at home and abroad has given rise to a loose cultural policy; Drawing lessons from the insufficient financial mobilization capacity of the Prefecture and County Systems in the Tang Dynasty, institutional innovations such as the establishment of first-level bureaucratic organizations such as the Transit Department were born; The overland siege of the minority regimes in the north gave birth to the southern sea route transportation, maritime trade, and the development of the southwest region, the further research and development of agricultural and handicraft technologies such as farming, water conservancy, silk, ceramics, shipbuilding, and navigation, and the rapid growth of industrial and commercial civilization, which led to the great liberation of the productive forces in Jiangnan and the completion of the southward shift of the economic center of gravity. It can be seen from this that the objective environment is not a decisive factor in development, and any situation and situation have two sides or even many sides. Among the seemingly unfavorable constraints, there are new elements, new conditions, new mechanisms and new spaces to promote development. Standing firm in the historical position, basing ourselves on objective conditions, seizing development opportunities, giving play to the subjective initiative of seeing opportunities in danger and thinking of changes in the face of poverty, judging the hour and sizing up the situation, guiding according to the situation, and riding on the momentum are precisely the embodiment of the Chinese nation's national character, national spirit, and creative ability of indomitable and hard-working.
(6) Strengthen the traditional heritage and construction quality of the Zhejiang Project in the New Era Culture
In the process of the formation of Song Yun culture, Zhejiang has made outstanding contributions and benefited a lot. Zhejiang's beautiful landscapes, people's spiritual wisdom, rich products, economic prosperity, and brilliant humanities have provided Song Yun culture with rich nourishment for the development of people's livelihood, society, thought, science and technology, literature, and art. The Southern Song Dynasty established the capital of Hangzhou, bringing a special period in ancient history to Zhejiang. The emperor was stationed, the imperial city was established, the emperor's relatives and relatives were all over the territory, and the royal etiquette was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even the West Lake, which has "become more and more prosperous since the six branches of the temple", is no longer an ethereal and quiet natural landscape. Under the shroud of such a "emperor" word, life and fashion are extraordinary, the connotation of politics and the historical situation have become profound and meaningful, literary art and aesthetic taste have been developed accordingly, and the quality of life has been improved. Although the achievements of Zhejiang in this period were largely national, they were after all produced in the land of Zhejiang, and we can see the role and benefits played by Zhejiang. To be fair, Zhejiang is the beneficiary. To this day, the legacy of the Southern Song Dynasty can still be felt in the life of Zhejiang.
It can be seen more and more that Zhejiang and Song Yun culture are closely related, not only active participants and important contributors in the formation of Song Yun culture, but also a collection area of Song Yun culture. The Zhejiang elements in Song Yun culture are the creative achievements that the people of Zhejiang can find, the real and visible historical dedication, the affectionate and reliable emotional sustenance, the distinct and recognizable cultural identity, and the abundant available cultural resources. Therefore, we have the foundation, conditions, responsibility and ability to implement the "Song Yun Culture Inheritance Project", through the effective construction of the Song Yun culture excavation, protection, promotion, research, inheritance of the work system, creative transformation and innovative development of Song Yun culture, so that the millennium Song Yun in the new era flow, inheritance, for the new era of cultural Zhejiang construction inject historical wisdom and humanistic charm.
Let the millennium Song Yun "flow" in the new era and "inherit"
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