Wen 丨 Huang Xi
The 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation can be called a cultural epic.
Our ancestors created such ancient books as the Book of Shang and the I Ching, and created cultural wonders such as calligraphy and ink painting. From "benevolent people love people", "Taoist nature" to "gewu zhizhi" and "unity of heaven and man", Chinese culture has always fascinated the world with its broad mind, profound speculation and unique form.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the opening ceremony of the Eleventh National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Tenth National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association, "The broad and profound Chinese civilization is the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation, the foundation of contemporary Chinese literature and art, and the treasure of literary and artistic innovation." "The spiritual strength contained in Chinese culture will always be the strongest confidence for the Chinese nation to move forward firmly."
Cantonese opera, martial arts, chao embroidery... Throughout the ages, the land of southern Guangdong has bloomed with cultural flowers. Lingnan culture is an important part of Chinese culture and the root of the land. Over the years, the power of culture has helped us leapfrog the comprehensive construction of a well-off society and stride towards a new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modern power.
The history of the past five thousand years has enlightened us, and the struggle of a hundred years has given us strength. In the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, culture must and must become the source of motivation for us to move forward. Let the long-standing Chinese culture converge into a majestic trend of national rejuvenation in the new era. This is the vision of the culture of the new era.
Cultural roots, national soul
There is a saying in the Zhou Yi Ben Gua: "Look at the astronomy to detect the changes of the times; look at the humanities, and turn into the world." "The world of culture is a way of establishing and maintaining the state as opposed to military conquest. After Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, he regarded "book and text" as the primary task in establishing a unified country, which is a manifestation of this concept.
Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty further clearly put forward in the "Saying Yuan Zhi Wu": "Where the rise of the martial arts is not obeyed; the culture does not change, and then the curse is added." In traditional Chinese political thought, "culture" is often considered the root of a country and a nation, and is regarded as the "foundation of the country." Only through humanistic indoctrination, so that the people can accept, identify with and internalize the same culture, can we realize the true unification of the world, and the country and the nation have a common ideological basis for further prosperity and development.
The roots of Chinese culture have always constituted a spiritual bond that maintains national unity and national unity. In the process of human civilization, the road and destiny of any nation are not smooth. The Chinese nation has also encountered many difficulties and obstacles in history, and the land of Shenzhou will inevitably usher in dynastic changes in the process of division and integration. But a common belief remains constant: That China is a unified multi-ethnic state built on Chinese culture. Fundamentally speaking, the reason why the Chinese nation has been able to think of danger in times of good times and rise up in the face of adversity is because of Chinese culture as a spiritual pillar.
Chinese civilization has become the only uninterrupted and uninterrupted special existence in the birthplace of the world's five major civilizations, which is based on such a unique cultural heritage. In the long river of history, Chinese culture has always been broad, spreading its arms to all the people living in this land, absorbing the strengths of all on the basis of not forgetting the original, and expanding its influence. Chinese culture has been passed down throughout the ages, and only then has the blood of the Chinese nation continued.
The root of Chinese culture is an important carrier of the spirit and national feelings of the Chinese nation. When it comes to "culture", every Chinese will suddenly rise up a kind of sacredness and solemnity in their hearts. In the history of more than 5,000 years, Chinese culture has been deeply cast on us, and the spiritual realm of this nation has been constructed through historical accumulation, which can be called an unshakable "Chinese soul": she will be the absolute loyalty of "leaving Dan's heart to take care of Khan Qing", and at the same time, she will also have the people's feelings of "bowing down to the cows of the widows", and even more with the pride and ambition of "building the stone wall of the Xijiang River and cutting off the clouds and rain of Wushan Mountain"...
The Communist Party of China is the faithful inheritor and promoter of China's excellent traditional culture, and the original intention and mission of the Chinese Communists are precisely the crystallization of the highest spirit condensed by the Chinese culture and the national spirit in the period of national crisis. Comrade Mao Zedong said in "On New Democracy": "Establishing a new culture of the Chinese nation is our aim in the field of culture. "Over the past one hundred years, the party has led the literary and art front to continuously explore and practice, and has embarked on a path of literary and artistic development guided by Marxism, in line with China's national conditions and cultural traditions, and exalting the people's nature, which has pointed out the way forward for the prosperity and development of literature and art on the mainland. In the course of leading the Chinese nation to realize the great process of standing up and getting rich to becoming strong, the Communist Party of China has at the same time led and promoted the transformation of Chinese culture from traditional form to modern form.
Can't forget the hanging beam thorn strands, and can't forget the water drops stone wear. To this day, Chinese culture still bursts out of infinite vitality, creativity and cohesion, always reminds us of what is the national spirit, what is the most profound and fundamental thing of this nation, and always provides irreplaceable spiritual nourishment for every Chinese son and daughter. Whether it is the concept of "the unity of heaven and man", the pursuit of "the unity of the world", or the responsibility and family feelings of "the rise and fall of the world, the responsibility of the husband", or the way of benevolence and forgiveness, the way of dealing with the world, all of which not only make us admire the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture, but also always appreciate the experience and enlightenment she brings to us to govern the country and deal with the world.
The pointer of history points to the 21st century, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, but we will always be based on the land of Shenzhou, and what we rely on will always be Chinese culture. This is the most stable spiritual gene of the Chinese nation, and it is also the most fundamental spiritual support on our way forward.
Culture is strong, the nation is prosperous
On September 9, chongyang festival, many Teochew people, in addition to ascending, are indispensable to another major event - the sacrifice of Han Yu. The festival is a major local festival, presided over by a respected elderly man, who salutes the Korean public portrait in a neat and orderly manner. The festival will also set up a theater to invite the Chao Troupe to perform to help, and the actors on the stage will walk off the stage in costumes and salute the portrait of Han Wengong.
More than 1,000 years ago, Han Yu brought humanistic indoctrination to the people of Chaozhou, and also began the process of prosperity and development of this land. The people of Chaozhou built the Han Wen Ancestral Hall for this purpose, and renamed the Chaozhou landscape "Han Mountain" and "Han River". The importance of "culture" to our forefathers is evident here.
A glimpse of the big picture. The death of Qiang Qin II, "benevolence and righteousness do not attack and defend the momentum of the different", ignoring the humanistic indoctrination is considered to be an important reason. Whenever the country prospered, the feudal kings took the cultivation of Shangwen as the best footnote of the prosperous world, and the Yongle Canon and the Siku Quanshu were first completed. In the course of the development of the Chinese nation, when culture is prosperous, the country is prosperous, and when culture is strong, the nation is strong, and this is an indisputable truth.
In modern times, under the wind and rain of Europe, Chinese culture has been considered one of the obstacles to the country's modernization. The idea of "total Westernization" and "rebuilding civilization" is not uncommon. But any attempt to change Chinese culture in general and fundamentally will ultimately fail. History and facts have repeatedly shown that only with Chinese culture can there be the Chinese nation; only when Chinese culture regains its powerful gravitational pull can the road of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation become more and more down-to-earth.
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Without a high degree of cultural self-confidence and the prosperity of culture, there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Over the past one hundred years, the Communist Party of China has integrated the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, united and led the Chinese people to paint a magnificent and magnificent picture in the history of human development on this vast land, and wrote the most magnificent epic in the history of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.
Marxism is the unshakable ideological fulcrum of Chinese culture in the new era, and China's excellent traditional culture is the unchangeable historical origin of cultural construction in the new era. Whether it is the development of contemporary China's advanced culture or the promotion of the sinicization of Marxism into the times, once we leave the fertile land of China's excellent traditional culture, we will inevitably lose our vitality and vitality, and it will be impossible to gain the recognition and support of the broad masses of the people. The culture of the new era must have a new atmosphere. This requires the broad masses of literary and art workers to keep up with the pace of the times, feel the pulse of art from the pulse of the times, open up artistic creation to the great struggle of hundreds of millions of people, open up to rich and colorful social life, extract themes and extract themes from the changes of the times, the progress of China, and the call of the people, show the beauty of Chinese history, the beauty of mountains and rivers, and the beauty of culture, express the aspirations of the Chinese people to struggle, the strength of creation, and the fruits of development, and show the spiritual atmosphere of the new era in an all-round panorama.
History moves forward in twists and turns, and any culture must accept challenges and gain new life in the wind and waves. In the development of traditional Chinese culture for thousands of years, it has been constantly experiencing the process of sand panning. Therefore, inheriting the development of China's excellent traditional culture, realizing the elimination of the essence, and the introduction of the old is a must-answer question that we must do well. Based on the reality of contemporary China and combined with the conditions of today's times, we must let Chinese culture show its permanent charm and style of the times in the process of creative transformation and innovative development, and build spiritual power for national rejuvenation.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the people are the mother of literature and art. In the magnificent struggle of the people, the fiery chapter of creating history is jumping everywhere, and it is gathered together to be an epic poem of the people. Among the people, there is an inexhaustible source of abundance for all literature and art. Serving the people and serving socialism is the undisputed mission of cultural construction in the new era. Literature and art in the new era should give the most enthusiastic praise to the great process of the people's creation of history, and give the most affectionate praise to all the fighters who struggled for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and all the heroes who sacrificed and dedicated themselves to the people.
Cultural people can more condense the soul; with art, it is easier to communicate with the world. Based on the land of China and telling the Chinese story well, the world expects us to show a vivid and three-dimensional China with a deeper vision, a broader mind, and a more confident attitude. This is another important task for contemporary Chinese literature and art to "go out", better serve the great cause of national rejuvenation, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
This is the new socialist culture we need, as a support for social and economic development, and at the same time become a powerful "strong needle" and "power source" on the road of national rejuvenation.
Culture is prosperous, Lingnan is prosperous
On February 19, 2020, during the most difficult stage of the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, a "cultural gift" from Guangzhou quietly appeared in Wuhan Fanggang Hospital - 119 Xiaolin comics were pasted on the inner wall of Wuhan Fanggang Hospital.
"After chatting with Grandpa for a while, I told Grandpa that there is a comic exhibition today, and I will take you to see it." In the anti-epidemic graphic diary, Hong Guilan, a nurse of the Zhangzhou medical team in Fujian Province, wrote down the "new acquaintance" between the patients and Kobayashi Manga, which instantly received the attention of the whole network.
This is a shining moment for Guangdong culture in the fight against the epidemic, and it is also a best footnote for the rapid growth of Guangdong's cultural industry in recent years. Statistics show that the added value of Guangdong's cultural industry has ranked first in the country for 18 consecutive years, and it is an undisputed cultural province.
In order to make the cultural construction of the province further large and strong, the "Guangdong Provincial Planning Outline for Building a Culturally Strong Province (2011-2020)" ten years ago was born, which opened a golden journey of Guangdong's cultural development.
In the past ten years, Guangdong's cultural industry structure has been continuously optimized, of which the output value of digital publishing has leapt to the first place in the country, and the output value of animation and game revenue have also led the country, accounting for 1/3 and more than 70% of the country respectively. Driven by both investment and consumption in the cultural industry, the contribution rate of Guangdong's cultural industry to regional GDP has reached 9.61% in 2018. Culture has an obvious role in pulling economic growth.
Today, whether the development of culture and the development of the economy can be done well at the same time, and whether there is a conflict, this is a self-evident question. Cultural prosperity, Lingnan prosperity, has become the most real development experience in all parts of the province:
Wenchong Street, Huangpu District, Guangzhou, on the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the country's first exhibition hall with the history of the development of party periodicals as the theme of the "Century-old Party Periodicals Cultural Context Hall" was completed and opened in the quaint ancestral hall complex. In recent years, in the process of urban renewal, Wenchong Street has taken the initiative to retain the ancient building complex of the Lu Clan Ancestral Hall with a history of more than 800 years, creating the main axis of the "Guangzhou Happiness" cultural context, integrating traditional culture and red context, not only allowing residents to remember nostalgia, but also adding new red cultural punch points to the ancient village.
Walking on the country lanes of Shangju Town, Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, as far as the eye can see, lush. Between the small bridges and the flowing water, rows of exquisite small buildings with gray tiles and white walls are interlaced, like an idyllic and beautiful landscape painting. In recent years, Pingyuan County has created a "great beauty Pingyuan Colorful Village", taking the control of private houses as a specific starting point for rural revitalization, and small villages with strong Hakka style are haunting everywhere with fascinating beautiful nostalgia.
On December 3, 2019, China's first contemporary Yao musical "Ballads" was staged in Guangzhou. "Yao folk songs and music are particularly good." From Yao operas, to Huizhou Longmen peasant paintings, Chaoshan Ying song and dance, Yingde Kowloon town farming culture... Guangdong's rural cultural business cards highlight the rich cultural heritage and self-confidence.
With the rural revitalization spreading throughout the province, the scene of rural cultural prosperity is no longer rare in the land of southern Guangdong. Along with this, rural tourism has become a new trend, which has achieved an effective connection between consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, and at the same time allowing rural culture to further go out of the small world and move towards the big stage.
In 2022, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be held soon, which will set a new navigation mark for us to comprehensively build a modern socialist country and march toward the second centenary goal. For Guangdong's cultural industry, after ten years of rapid promotion of a culturally strong province, we will now usher in a new stage of development.
Autumn breeze is refreshing, rice flowers are fragrant, on the land of Lingnan today, we have a more reliable and solid economic foundation and cultural consciousness for revitalizing Chinese culture and thriving Lingnan culture than ever before, and of course we are also facing new requirements and new challenges in the new era. This is an issue of the times that cannot be ignored and has to be faced, and it is also a driving force that motivates us to forge ahead.
We all hope that Chinese culture will become stronger, and we all hope that Lingnan culture will flourish. In the new era and new journey, in line with the new goal of building a culturally strong province and the new requirements of the great cause of national rejuvenation for cultural undertakings, we should all strive to be active promoters of national rejuvenation in the "two overall situations"; we should all put the task of building a culturally strong country and a culturally strong province in a more active and active position in the "two hundred years" goal, constantly create new glory of Chinese culture, and constantly write a new chapter in Lingnan culture.
Stubble after stubble, our cultural undertakings will be further rejuvenated in the new era; stick after stick, our Chinese culture, will certainly provide a strong foundation and inexhaustible motivation for this nation to stride forward in a new journey and move towards a bright future of great rejuvenation!
(The author is a commentator of Southern Magazine and a researcher at the Southern Party Building Think Tank)
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