"Chinese civilization has a long history and is broad and profound, which is the unique spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation, the foundation of contemporary Chinese culture, the spiritual bond that binds Chinese people all over the world, and the treasure of Chinese cultural innovation." General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture, pointing out that "we must attach importance to the protection and inheritance of history and culture, and protect the endless roots of the Chinese nation's spirit". Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has profoundly grasped the historical orientation of the new era, put forward a series of new concepts, ideas and strategies for cultural construction with firm cultural consciousness, broad historical vision and far-reaching strategic considerations, insisted on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, led the promotion of the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, and activated the vitality of China's excellent traditional culture with the spirit of the times in the magnificent great practice. Create a new brilliance of Chinese culture.
Chinese civilization is vast and brilliant. At the foot of Yanshan Mountain on the central axis of Beijing, in the Central General Hall of the National Version Pavilion, the basic display "Sven Zaizi - Ancient Chinese Civilization Version Exhibition" presents the historical origin, development context and basic trend of China's excellent traditional culture in three dimensions, and the theme exhibition "Light of Truth - Marxism Sinicization Classic Version Exhibition" shows the glorious course of Marxism Sinicization.
Liu Chengyong, director of the National Version Pavilion:
General Secretary Xi Jinping's proposal of "persisting in integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture" provides us with a fundamental guide to follow and act, we must deeply grasp the main theme of China's historical development and the evolution of Chinese civilization, integrate the excellent traditional Chinese culture and the essence of the Chinese spiritual era into the exhibition work, and strive to make positive contributions in building a socialist cultural power.
"The excellent traditional Chinese culture created and continued by the Chinese nation in its history of thousands of years is the root and soul of the Chinese nation", and "Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has not only been an active leader and practitioner of China's advanced culture, but also a faithful inheritor and promoter of China's excellent traditional culture". General Secretary Xi Jinping firmly grasped the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, pointing out that "China has firm confidence in the road, theory and system, and its essence is cultural self-confidence based on more than 5,000 years of civilization inheritance."
Cultural self-confidence is the most basic, deepest and most enduring force in the development of a country and a nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has twice presided over the collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on the Chinese civilization source exploration project, and put forward a major thesis: the research results of major projects such as the Chinese civilization source exploration project have empirically proved the mainland's million-year human history, 10,000-year cultural history, and 5,000-year-old civilization history. During the local inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping conducted many on-site investigations on the protection and inheritance of traditional culture, from the Confucius Institute in Qufu to Dunhuang, the "Pearl of the Silk Road", to Guangji Bridge in Chaozhou, and carefully understood and inspected the protection of historical and cultural heritage everywhere; Rooted in the long-standing cultural heritage, from the Zhuxi Garden in Wuyi Mountain to the Sansu Temple in Meizhou to the ruins of Anyang Yinxu, it shows the consistent concern and thinking about the protection of historical and cultural heritage and the continuation of the Chinese cultural context.
General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward "persistently integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific conditions and with China's excellent traditional culture", which pointed out the direction and provided fundamental guidelines for promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture.
Under the personal leadership and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the "Opinions on the Implementation of the Project for the Inheritance and Development of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture" was promulgated, which for the first time promoted the continuation of the Chinese cultural context and the inheritance of Chinese cultural genes in the form of a central document; Subsequently, "Several Policies on Supporting the Inheritance and Development of Chinese Opera", "Several Opinions on Strengthening the Reform of the Protection and Utilization of Cultural Relics", "Opinions on Strengthening the Protection and Inheritance of History and Culture in Urban and Rural Construction", "Construction Plan for the Great Wall, Grand Canal, Long March, Yellow River and Yangtze River National Cultural Park" were issued one after another. "Inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture" was written into the outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, so that the inheritance of the excellent traditional Chinese culture has a starting point and a path for development.
Professor Wang Haijun, Deputy Dean of the Institute of Party History and Party Building of Chinese Minmin University:
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions, enriched and developed Marxist cultural theory, and provided a fundamental basis for inheriting and promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Chinese-style modernization is rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and it is the proper meaning of China's modernization to realize the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, and to make the excellent traditional Chinese culture closely follow the theme of the times of Chinese-style modernization.
"It is necessary to strengthen the excavation and interpretation of China's excellent traditional culture, so that the most basic cultural genes of the Chinese nation can adapt to contemporary culture and harmonize with modern society", so that China's excellent traditional culture will become an important source for the preservation of socialist core values. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the whole society has been guided by the core values of socialism, adhered to creative transformation and innovative development, and let the excellent traditional Chinese culture inject strong confidence and impetus into the modernization of Chinese style.
In 2022, the national major cultural project "Fuxing Wenku" will be published and distributed. The "Rejuvenation Library" concentrates on the ideological achievements that influenced China's development process, led the progress of the times, and promoted national rejuvenation, and profoundly revealed the historical logic, ideological source and cultural context of the Chinese nation towards the great rejuvenation.
Revise history and establish classics, preserve history and enlighten wisdom, and educate people with culture. By the end of 2021, more than 2.7 million ancient book census and registration data had been completed nationwide, more than 3.85 million ancient books had been restored, and 17 national standards and industry standards for the protection of ancient books had been formulated and promulgated. At the National Library's "Protecting Treasures Together and Continuing the Chapter-Achievements Exhibition of the Special Fund for the Protection of Ancient Books", a number of national treasures such as the "Lake" character book of the "Yongle Classic" were exhibited, and the use of science and technology to restore precious ancient books achieved fruitful results.
Protect the flame of civilization and pass on the context of eternity. At present, the mainland has announced 140 national historical and cultural cities and 6,819 traditional Chinese villages; There are more than 36,000 immovable revolutionary cultural relics in the country, and more than 1 million movable revolutionary cultural relics in state-owned museums.
"With the rules of the ancients, open up your own life." A number of phenomenal high-quality programs such as "China in the Classics" and "Searching for Ancient China" activate the vitality of excellent traditional culture with the spirit of the times; Literary and artistic masterpieces and creative cultural products that extract themes and nutrients from the treasure house of Chinese cultural resources and embody the connotation of traditional culture continue to emerge. With the successful inscription of "Traditional Chinese Tea-Making Techniques and Related Customs", the number of items inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (Roster) has increased to 43, ranking first in the world.
Based on reality, rooted in history, guiding the future. Looking at the land of China, the light of civilization illuminates the road to rejuvenation, and the Chinese cultural context is carried forward in the continuous inheritance. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "Chinese-style modernization is deeply rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture", and under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the excellent traditional Chinese culture has laid a solid historical and cultural foundation and lasting practical development impetus for the development of Chinese-style modernization.
Source: CCTV News