【Editor's Note】Shandong has nurtured the roots and soul of Chinese civilization, and the Confucian culture founded by Confucius has always nourished the spiritual world of the Chinese nation. In 2021, under the leadership of the Ministry of Education and the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, the Nishan World Confucian Center will forge ahead in a pioneering spirit, actively explore in promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, anchor the construction of the "four highlands", shoulder the responsibility of the "two innovations" era, and shine with vitality. 2021 is about to pass, looking back on the road traveled in the past year, stepping into the fast lane of high-quality development has become the main theme of the work of the Confucian Center. China Confucius Network presents a set of retrospective shots to readers in the hope of repaying everyone's love.
On the afternoon of December 24, in the "Harmony Sound" of Chinese and foreign youth reciting the Analects in 8 languages, the "2021 Confucian Classics Interlanguage Reading Conference Annual Ceremony" was successfully concluded, with more than 16 million page visits, nearly 3 million likes, and more than 4.2 million online viewing through nearly 20 mainstream media platforms. This is the annual finale of the Nishan World Confucianism Center's construction around the "four highlands" and the creation of an international communication and exchange highland.
This cultural feast, which uses Confucian classics and Chinese and foreign languages as a bridge, creatively uses flexible communication methods to make more international friends feel good about Chinese cultural symbols and Chinese cultural stories, and further promote Chinese culture to "go out" and "go in". Show the world the real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China.
China, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and other 47 countries, as well as Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions and many Chinese culture lovers, will tell their love for Chinese culture, more than 3200 pieces of recitation works through the China Confucius Network centralized display, Chinese and foreign young people in different languages to recite Confucian classics, inherit and promote this excellent Chinese culture with common value in the world.
Strive to be good. In order to comprehensively enhance the international dissemination of Confucianism, the Nishan World Confucianism Center has built a multilingual, cross-cultural and high-level platform for civilization exchanges and mutual learning, which has opened up a new channel for China's excellent traditional culture to go abroad and go to the world.
Translation of the "Belt and Road" Analects: Connecting China and the World
Since ancient times, the traditional culture with Confucianism as the core has been transmitted from the Silk Road to Southeast Asia, Europe and other parts of the world through folk forces, and has built a well-known Confucian cultural circle at home and abroad in the process of cultural exchange and mutual learning and integration.
Today, the "Belt and Road" international cooperation mechanism advocated by China has once again spread the glorious Chinese civilization to the world and opened a new era of exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations.
"The construction of the 'Belt and Road' advocated by the state is not only to promote economic cooperation and trade exchanges, but also to deepen and expand exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations." Guo Chengyan, secretary of the party committee and deputy director of the Nishan World Confucianism Center (Secretariat of the Confucius Foundation of China), said in an interview with the media at the 2021 "Belt and Road" annual Chinese character conference.
It is true that the "2021 Confucian Classics Interlanguage Reading Conference" has attracted many traditional culture lovers thanks to the multilingual Analects reader launched by the "Belt and Road" National Analects Translation and Introduction Project.
The "Belt and Road" is an important way to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture with Confucian culture as the core and realize the "people-to-people connection". On May 15 this year, the latest achievements of the "Analects" translation project of the "Belt and Road" countries, arabic, Mongolian, Spanish, Czech, Portuguese five Chinese and foreign languages of the "Analects" were officially released at the 2021 "Belt and Road" annual Chinese character press conference. Up to now, a total of 11 Chinese and foreign languages have been completed, and the Analects are being disseminated to all over the world through various cultural exchange activities, which has greatly satisfied the enthusiasm of the people of the countries along the "Belt and Road" to understand Chinese culture.
Confucius Network of China: Building a Platform For Confucian Culture Network
Based on China, facing the world. Multilingual storytelling of the "Chinese story". The Confucius Network of China has become an important position under the Nishan World Confucianism Center and an important position to create a highland for the international exchange and dissemination of Confucianism.
On August 30 this year, the English, Japanese and Korean foreign language channels of China Confucius Network were officially launched, in addition to regular columns such as news information, Confucius's life, Confucian stories, Confucius sacred relics, world literature temples, Confucius treasures and other thematic sections, from the perspective of characters, stories, cultural relics and other perspectives, in the form of overseas audiences like to hear and hear of Confucius culture and Confucianism for diversified dissemination. Since the launch of the foreign language channel for four months, it has published more than 500 articles and received more than 200,000 visits. Confucius Network of China uses the Internet to build bridges and ties for cultural exchanges.
The foreign language channel was officially launched, and the translation work was very difficult. Jiang Di, secretary general of the Shandong Translation Association, said: "Compared with the general translation task, the translation of cultural content of the Confucius Network in China is more difficult, and if you want foreign readers who do not understand Chinese culture to read and understand the connotation of the article, it requires the translator to have a fairly deep sinology literacy and a fairly high level of foreign language." ”
Promote traffic with quality, integration and sharing. Not long ago, the 2.0 version of the China Confucius Network APP was newly launched, and through the deep cultivation of Confucian open classes and short video sections, the "Confucius Number" was launched to comprehensively create the first ecology of traditional culture. At present, it has formed an all-round and multi-platform communication matrix such as website, client, Weibo, WeChat, and self-media number, and the "network terminal micro-number" has accurately reached more than 6 million user fans, covering more than 100 million people per year.
Nishan Forum on World Civilizations: Peaceful Dialogue Enhances Cultural Identity
In order to deepen exchanges and mutual learning with people from other countries, the Nishan World Confucian Center takes the "going out" and "inviting in" of Chinese culture as its own responsibility to build an important platform for disseminating Chinese excellent traditional culture, carrying out foreign cultural exchanges, promoting world peace and development, and achieving win-win cooperation in the new era.
Breaking the dualistic and antagonistic thinking and establishing the thinking concept of the coexistence of multiple civilizations, the "Nishan Voice" resounded throughout the world. This year is the 2572th anniversary of the birth of The Prophet Confucius, the Seventh Nishan Forum on World Civilization was held in Qufuni Mountain, the birthplace of Confucius, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, former Philippine President Arroyo, Thai Princess Sirin made video speeches, 38 envoys stationed in China from 20 countries, 172 experts and scholars from 16 countries and regions attended the meeting.
In the face of the "great changes unprecedented in a century" in today's world, China proposes to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. Participating scholars believe that building a community with a shared future for mankind and achieving win-win sharing is the preferred solution to meet the needs of the people of all countries, solve the problems of world development, and optimize the form of human civilization. Peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom are the common value foundations for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
On the eve of the forum, the nishan World Confucianism Center's "Confucian Cross-Cultural Interpretation" project result "Anlezhe Comparative Confucian Philosophical Keywords" was released. An Lezhe, a confucian scholar in Shandong Province and a professor at Peking University, said that in the face of the global covid-19 epidemic, it is even more necessary for us to strengthen our sense of responsibility, change the tendency of individualistic thinking, bring Chinese culture and Chinese thought to the world, let the world understand China more accurately, understand Chinese culture, realize the homogeneity of Chinese and Western cultures, and build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Sinology Young Scholars Workshop: Truly feel the charm of Chinese culture
In the autumn, Eisen, a foreign scholar from the Iranian Research Center of Southwest University, participated in the "2021 Sinology Young Scholars Study Camp" jointly organized by the International Confucian Federation, Beijing Language and Culture University and Nishan World Confucianism Center. The campers who participated in the camp with him came from 14 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, and they were all young doctors with outstanding performance and outstanding achievements in sinology and cultural studies, Chinese cultural dissemination, international exchanges and cooperation. In Beijing, Jinan and Qufu, they personally experienced China's long historical civilization and contemporary development achievements.
"Traditional Chinese culture needs to be spread more abroad, especially foreigners in China have a greater responsibility to introduce the profound traditional Chinese culture to their own countries." Eisen was invited to speak at the "2021 Annual Ceremony of the Confucian Classics Interlanguage Reading Conference", and in his 12 years in China, he has translated many works such as "Analects", "Mencius", "University" and other works into Persian, and published them in Iran.
Wang Chengming, a Turkish phD student at the Institute of Confucianism in the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, said, "I am very happy to participate in this study camp and exchange with young people from all over the world, which has yielded great gains, and through the epidemic, our fate has been linked together." From the perspective of the community of human destiny itself, it contains the essence of many wisdoms from ancient and modern times at home and abroad. ”
Nishan World Confucianism Center focuses on the global vision, and will also create more opportunities for international sinology young scholars to spread the beauty of Chinese civilization of "grand and exquisite, ancient and modern, colorful and vigorous" to the world, and tell Chinese stories with temperature, emotion and resonance.
China-Korea Confucianism Exchange Conference: Bringing together the strength of Confucianism research
Shandong and South Korea are across the sea, both belong to the Confucian cultural circle, Shandong is the hometown of Kong Meng, Andong is known as "Haidong Zoulu", in the cultural spirit of each other.
On November 13th, the 8th China-Korea Confucianism Exchange Conference sponsored by Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, Nishan World Confucianism Center and Andong University of South Korea was successfully held, and the conference was held simultaneously in Jinan, China and Andong, South Korea.
Focusing on the theme of "Confucian Mind Thought and the Mental Health of Contemporary People", the conference held four academic exchanges, and more than 50 experts and scholars from the field of Confucianism in China and South Korea combined their academic experiences and research results to carry out in-depth and extensive exchanges and discussions, and published innovative academic views on "Analysis and Theoretical Construction of the Meaning of Pre-Qin Confucian Psychology", "Interpretation of the Modernity of Zhu Lixue and Lu Wangxin in the Lower Course of International Vision", "Confucian Mental Tradition and Contemporary Spiritual Health".
Since 2014, the China-Korea Confucian Exchange Conference has been successfully held for eight sessions, and has played an irreplaceable role in promoting mutual exchanges between Chinese and Korean scholars, strengthening the vertical connection of the "Confucian cultural circle", realizing the transformation of Confucian creative thinking, and expanding the international influence of Chinese culture.
Global Cloud Sacrifice Hole: Condensing the spiritual integrity of the Chinese nation
After five years of development, the "Global Confucius Worship" activity has become a special move for Shandong to deepen the interpretation of traditional classics and Confucian thought, popularize and disseminate, and strengthen cultural exchanges with overseas countries.
"Liturgy, Li Ya." Yang Chaoming, former deputy director of the Nishan World Confucianism Center, former president of the Confucius Research Institute, and a well-known Confucian expert, said that in the ritual, the connotation of "ritual" is more important than the form. "Etiquette" enables people to clarify their position in society, know how to respect and be humble, enable people to distinguish between right and wrong of things or behaviors, maintain social order and justice, and guide people to be kind and self-disciplined.
The "2021 Global Cloud Sacrifice Hole" webcast lasted three hours and exceeded 3 million viewers. All-round, whole-process and panoramic presentation of the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Quzhou Confucian Temple, Changchun Confucian Temple and other literary temples in different places with great Confucian cultural characteristics of the grand situation of Confucius Offering. Overseas institutions such as Sungkyunkwan and Wenyang Township School in South Korea, Shibuya School in Japan, Confucius Education Foundation in the United States, China-Australia Cultural Exchange Center in Australia, and the Chinese Education Promotion Association in the United Kingdom also demonstrated local confucius rituals through the "Global Cloud Sacrifice Hole" activity.
The "Global Confucius Festival" activities, along with the times, play an increasingly important role in promoting China's excellent traditional culture, strengthening cultural self-confidence, enhancing cultural identity and national cohesion, and enhancing the international dissemination of culture.
Overseas Confucius Institutes: Promote Chinese culture to penetrate into the lives of overseas people
In recent years, the Nishan World Confucianism Center has expanded overseas communication platforms and channels with the help of the cultural dissemination power of overseas Chinese associations, and promoted the construction of overseas Confucius Institutes. At present, 22 overseas Confucius Institutes are located in more than 20 Overseas Chinese communities in 15 countries, and 3 overseas Confucius Cultural Centers have been set up at the same time, which will spread Chinese culture and Qilu culture more widely and more deeply to all parts of the world, connecting the friendship of different nationalities and peoples around the world.
Professor Shi Jie of Shandong Normal University said: "In the post-epidemic era, Chinese culture should pay attention to strengthening the construction of the online education system when going out, and create an immersive, interactive and multi-perception virtual learning community through real-time, interactive and intuitive live broadcasting and recording and broadcasting, providing an effective platform and channel for overseas audiences to understand and become familiar with Chinese culture." ”
150 students majoring in Chinese international education from Shandong University, Shandong Normal University and other universities have become volunteers of overseas Confucius Institutes, telling the real China to overseas Chinese and Sinology enthusiasts through online teaching, attracting more than 1,100 overseas students to learn online.
Yuncheng is far away, and the practice is far-reaching. The Nishan World Confucianism Center has always been with the "great power of the country" in mind, and strives to build a world Highland for Confucian studies, a highland for the gathering of Confucian talents, a highland for the popularization and promotion of Confucianism, and a highland for the international exchange and dissemination of Confucianism. Always focus on the goal and mission of inheriting and promoting China's excellent traditional culture and deepening exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations, strive to achieve the vision of building a world Confucianism center with global leadership, and strive to promote the "two innovations" of Shandong's excellent traditional culture.