Author: Ye Zicheng, Director of the Center for China Strategic Studies, Peking University
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. In the report of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the content of "strengthening cultural self-confidence and promoting the prosperity of socialist culture" occupies a large part. Its main purpose is to revitalize and promote China's cultural construction, and to realize the cultural rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the process of realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The development of Chinese thought and culture must return to the subjectivity, self-nature and originality of Chinese culture
In modern times, due to changes in the international community and the needs of internal changes, the elite of the Chinese nation have had to rethink and reflect on China's cultural ideas, introduce foreign ideas again and again, and try to fight against the Western powers in an attempt to save the nation and revitalize the country. From 1840 to the 20th century, China studied almost all the countries in the world that were considered to be learnable, introduced the main ideologies of the world's major countries, and had an unprecedented impact on China's ideology and culture. In this context, Chinese culture has also undergone three major ideological and cultural transformations, that is, from the late Qing Dynasty's Yixia yiyi to learning from the West, from the Chinese body and Western use to the body during the Restoration period, from the May Fourth time not only the body use, the system to change, to the people's thinking to change completely.
In the more than 100 years of studying the West, China has made great progress. But one of the negative consequences of studying the West is that Chinese culture has no self-confidence and has lost its cultural subjectivity. We study Japan, germany, Russia, and the United States, what are we doing? What is our cultural subjectivity? Where is our five-thousand-year history and culture? Mr. Qian Mu once pointed out heavily, "Over the past hundred years, China has been unable to withstand the strong impact of Western culture, swept away its national self-esteem and cultural self-confidence, and not only learned from foreign countries in the military, economy, and politics, but also in literature and art, and even in daily life, it is necessary to learn from foreign countries." Therefore, the development of Chinese thought and culture must return to the subjectivity, self-nature and originality of Chinese culture.
General Secretary Xi Jinping not only emphasized that China continues to learn from all foreign good experiences and good ideas, but also vigorously advocates the cultivation of a socialist core value system based on China's excellent traditional culture. He pointed out, "We are born to be Chinese, the most fundamental thing is that we have a unique spiritual world of Chinese, and we have values that the people use every day without realizing it. The socialist core values we advocate fully embody the inheritance and sublimation of China's excellent traditional culture, "excellent traditional culture is the foundation of the inheritance and development of a country and a nation, if it is lost, it will cut off the spiritual lifeline."
What is the basis of Chinese culture, Chinese thought, and Chinese values?
China should not only build a country that is rich and strong, but also inherit, develop and innovate China's history and culture, and on this basis, form a Chinese culture, Chinese thought and Chinese values that conform to the trend of the times and show the core values of the Chinese nation.
So, what is the basis of Chinese culture, Chinese thought, and Chinese values? Some people call it Sinology, and some people call it Excellent Traditional Culture. In my opinion, both concepts are relatively broad and not easy to grasp. For example, what is Sinology? Some people say that Sinology is the inherent scholarship of China, that is, the study of the four parts of the history of the classics, some people say that Sinology is a traditional Chinese thought that has been stimulated by the West and has been sorted out by Western methods, and some people say that Sinology is the study of the soul of the country. All three of these statements are problematic: there are more than 36,000 volumes of the Four Books of Learning, and who can grasp it? The tradition of being stimulated by the West is Sinology, so chinese medicine, martial arts, Chinese food, and calligraphy that have not been sorted out by Western methods are not Sinology? The study of the national soul, what is the national soul? These are very controversial and difficult to grasp.
Huaxiaism can become one of the most basic ideological sources and cultural genes in the cultural rejuvenation of the Chinese nation
"Huaxia Ism - The Great Wisdom of the Chinese System for 500 Years" proposes that Huaxiaism be grasped from the following elements: First, the culture of a country and a nation has all aspects, such as material culture, scientific culture, art culture, etc., but its core, essence, and core are the contents that reflect the basic, common and core values of the country and the nation; second, there are many nationalities in China, but the Han nation is the main body of the Chinese nation, and the core value of the Chinese nation must be reflected first and mainly from the value of the main nation. Or some of the common basic core values of the various ethnic groups are also reflected in the core values of the juche nation; third, there are many different ideological and cultural traditions in the juche nation, some of which have withdrawn from history, or whose content has been included in other more influential schools of thought.
Although China's history has been more than 5,000 years, and although the culture is broad and profound, from the perspective of the content of the most essential and core values of Chinese culture, and from the most far-reaching and extensive perspective, the core of China's political culture and value culture lies in the three schools of Taoism and Confucianism, and more specifically in the original Confucian law of the original Dao, in the thoughts of Laozi, Confucius, and Shangzi. We call the core and essence of the ideas of Lao Tzu, Confucius and Shangzi Huaxiaism.
Huaxiaism, that is, the unity of the essence of Taoism and Confucianism, can basically summarize and represent the essence of the political culture of each school of Chinese culture. Does using Huaxiaism to refer to the essence of traditional Chinese culture mean that we use the ideas of the Han nationality to exclude other nationalities? No, because Huaxiaism is of course the ideological subject of the Han people, but the concept of Huaxia is not the concept of the Han nation, it is broader than the Han nation, and Huaxia is not a concept based on national blood relations, but a cultural concept. Huaxia thought is the main idea of the Han people but not the unique thought of the Han people.
Huaxiaism can become one of the most basic ideological sources and cultural genes in the cultural rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, containing the main content of the core values of socialism, in addition to the value of democracy, the other eleven values can be supported by Huaxiaism: Lao Tzu and Taoist thought contains values such as harmony, civilization, freedom, equality, justice, patriotism, honesty, and friendliness; Confucius and Confucianism contain values such as harmony, civilization, justice, patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendliness; Laozi and Confucius both advocate people-oriented thought. Huaxiaism is not only the theoretical basis for the country's long-term peace and stability, but also the ideological pillar of national prosperity and prosperity, and also the ideological and cultural homeland for more than 1.3 billion Chinese who can cultivate themselves and live a well-being.
Source: Guangming Network
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