Folk culture is an effective carrier for cultivating college students' cultural self-confidence

Author: Chang Shan (Associate Professor, Shangqiu Normal University)

The young college student group is the backbone of the future construction of the country and shoulders the hope of the future development of the country and the nation. The university stage is an important stage in the development of life, and it is also an important period for the formation of a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values. Therefore, implanting the seeds of national cultural identity and cultural self-confidence in the hearts of young college students is related to the future development of the country and the nation. At present, the state cultural and education departments vigorously advocate "educating people with culture and culture", vigorously promoting traditional culture education among young college students, and making it an indispensable link in ideological and political education in colleges and universities.

The younger generation should strengthen cultural self-confidence

For some time, Western countries have tried to infiltrate the mainstream culture of the mainland through film and television, online media, games, literature and other means to promote the so-called "universal values" and liberal and hedonistic models of the West, in a vain attempt to influence and change the outlook on life and values of Chinese especially the young generation. Under the adverse influence of this popular culture and consumer culture, some young people worship so-called entertainment stars more than they worship heroes and model figures; Individual college students have a certain trend of "Westernization" in their daily life styles and values, and the spiritual world has been gradually eroded by money worship and exquisite egoism.

Chinese youth are young people with lofty ideals and ambitions, young people with deep feelings for home and country, and young people with great creativity, and they have always been the vanguard force for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. When young people's ideological understanding is confused and their life choices are at a crossroads, we must encourage them to lift their spirits, move forward courageously, and strengthen their cultural self-confidence in a targeted manner.

In view of these phenomena among some college students, school education has made many efforts and achieved remarkable results. For example, today's college students have strengthened their cultural self-confidence, no longer only for April Fool's Day, Christmas and other Western festivals, but also more and more familiar with traditional Chinese folk events rich in national emotions and memories, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Lapa Festival, and Twenty-four Solar Terms. These seemingly ordinary seasons, festivals and folklore events, with "earthy atmosphere" and "mud taste", are very close to the lives of college students, and it is easy for college students to understand and accept the essence of traditional culture and strengthen cultural self-confidence.

Based on the new era and new journey, we must skillfully play the role of folk culture, lead the majority of students to live based on the fiery era, form a healthy and culturally charming way of life, devote themselves to socialist construction, and strive to grow into a new person of the times who is worthy of the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation.

Folk culture is an important starting point to help college students build cultural self-confidence

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his important speech at the opening ceremony of the Tenth National Congress of the China Federation of Literature and Art and the Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association: "Cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper self-confidence, and a more basic, deeper and more lasting force. "Culture is the sum of the material wealth and spiritual wealth created by human beings in the process of social and historical development, and it is the most basic and profound force of a nation, casting the soul of a nation. At the same time, culture is the existence that embodies the essence and creativity of people, and is also an important part of the individual world view, outlook on life and values, which constitutes the core of a person's spiritual home, and provides value orientation and evaluation standard system functions for its practical cognitive activities. The adherence and self-confidence of its own national culture is a nation's full affirmation of its own original culture, and it is also a manifestation of national culture that has strong vitality through time and space, and it is also an important source of national cohesion, self-confidence and creativity.

Folk culture is an important carrier to help college students build cultural self-confidence. Folk culture, also known as folk culture, is a general term for the customs and life culture of the broad masses of the people in the process of long-term historical development, and occupies an important position in the traditional culture of the mainland.

Folk culture is a rich concept of cultural synthesis. First of all, folk culture is a vertical cultural complex. In the process of the development of the mainland's historical civilization for more than 5,000 years, a large number of folk culture types have been derived, such as festivals, food, clothing, housing, life etiquette, family genealogy, and entertainment folk culture. Compared with contemporary culture, these traditional cultural forms are expressed as a vertical concept of time, the crystallization and spiritual destination of the long-term collective wisdom of an ethnic group. For a long time, folklore has also been closely linked to the real life of the masses. Through integration, mutation and development, many traditional folk customs have been integrated into the lives of modern people as new folk events, and have participated in and shaped the overall image and cultural character of contemporary China. For example, on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve of "one night is two years old, five is divided into two years", the family gets together to watch the Spring Festival Gala has become a new custom of "keeping the year"; Auspicious emojis, electronic red envelopes, SMS blessings, etc. based on modern communication technology have replaced the traditional way of visiting the New Year; In recent years, online sacrifice culture has arisen during the Qingming Festival and the Zhongyuan Festival; Wait a minute. Although the external form of traditional folklore has changed, the core of folk culture of family reunion, sharing heaven and blessing has not changed.

Secondly, folk culture is a horizontal cultural complex. In the vast land of China, different regions, different local customs, habits, and concepts, thus forming a colorful and colorful type of folk culture. The so-called "hundreds of miles of different winds, thousands of miles of different customs", each type of folk culture behind the specific cultural genes of a region. In the process of historical development, countless types of folk culture have been cultivated and formed together with other cultural forms, which is a larger cultural complex of Chinese national culture, and also constitutes the basic form and schema background of national culture. Feng Jicai, a researcher of folk art, believes that "folk culture is a 'mother culture' that gives us emotions and flesh and blood." Folk and folk culture carry the feelings and memories of the nation, and its main characteristics lie in folk, popular and customary. Therefore, folk culture is also regarded as a living fossil that records the development of Chinese civilization to the present, and contains the spiritual origin and cultural totem of Chinese civilization. It inherits the genetic code of national psychology from generation to generation, continues the bloodline and ethnic identity of Chinese descendants, is a cultural treasure worthy of our pride and cherishing, and is also an important cultural theme worthy of in-depth study and exploration by contemporary people, especially young college students.

Ensure the quality and effectiveness of the folk culture courses in colleges and universities

In view of the problems exposed by the current cultural and spiritual outlook of some college students, taking the folk culture course as the starting point to stimulate the recognition and recognition of the excellent traditional Chinese culture of contemporary college students is an effective way to shape the cultural self-confidence of college students.

First of all, it is necessary to strengthen the emotional quality education in the ideological and political courses of folk culture. The function of folk culture is more that it is an important carrier of national spirit and emotion, and the embodiment of national cohesion and affinity. Therefore, folk culture education in colleges and universities should strengthen national consciousness and homeland feelings, strengthen patriotic education, and enhance the sense of national identity and cultural self-confidence of contemporary college students.

Secondly, the typical feature of folk culture is that it is the culture of life, or that folk culture is a part of life. Therefore, the traceability of folk culture should grasp the characteristics of folk culture, use the charm of folk culture to infect contemporary college students, so that they can discover the preciousness and brilliance of folk culture as spiritual wealth, and let the traditional ethical and moral concepts and virtues in folk culture, such as benevolence and filial piety, honesty and knowledge, self-cultivation and prudence, self-denial, dedication, and seeing profit and righteousness, implanted in the hearts of contemporary college students, and become the guidelines for their daily lives to be practiced in the world. In this way, it can help to dissolve the negative effects brought about by Western individualism, "universal values", consumer culture, etc., so as to resist its invasion and penetration of the worldview, outlook on life and values of contemporary college students.

At present, there are some areas that need to be urgently improved in the inheritance education of traditional culture and folk culture. The ideological and political content of folk culture courses in many colleges and universities is shallow, and there is a lack of systematic folk culture ideological and political teaching system structure and expansive research. College students have a relatively mature mind, have a certain ability to think independently, and can rationally analyze relevant cultural phenomena. Therefore, the results of traditional folk culture education for college students in a purely didactic manner are often superficial. Therefore, the thinking and politics of folk culture courses should be gradual from the surface and the inside, and the main study should be heuristic and inquiry-based. For example, colleges and universities can fully tap local folk culture resources, invite some intangible cultural heritage inheritors to enter the campus, and through lectures, on-site demonstrations, etc., so that students can intuitively and three-dimensionally understand local folk culture and improve their interest in learning folk culture. Secondly, college students can be encouraged and guided to carry out research on folk culture and declare related topics, deepen the rational understanding of folk culture, and effectively promote folk culture to play the function of ideological and political education. Finally, the university student group is guided to find the link point with their respective academic research fields from the spiritual core level of folk culture, and to comprehensively consider the value of traditional folk culture in the context of the culture of the times, and then integrate learning into fun, teach in mind, and find cultural resonance points and value balance points between professional fields, era culture and traditional ethnic culture, so as to ensure the quality and effect of folk culture courses in colleges and universities in the new era.

The feeling of home and country and the spirit of dedication contained in traditional folk culture are one of the important spiritual driving forces for uniting and mobilizing all outstanding sons and daughters of China to forge ahead in a new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modern power and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the current era of great change, and it is also an important cultural support and internal driving force for the Chinese nation to persevere, forge ahead and rise again after a century of ups and downs.

Source: China Education News