Every civilization is rooted in its own survival soil, embodies the extraordinary wisdom and spiritual pursuit of a country and a nation. The Chinese nation has been through hardships for thousands of years and has been in constant succession. The fundamental reason is that it has a strong cultural awareness and firm cultural confidence. Cultural awareness and cultural confidence run through, integrate and permeate the cultural and cultural veins of the Chinese nation, extending endlessly and becoming new forever. Fundamentally speaking, cultural consciousness and cultural confidence come from our cultural subjectivity.
Strengthening cultural subjectivity is the fundamental direction of building modern civilization of the Chinese nation
”China” and “BabaylanChina” are not only a geographical reference, but also a historical and cultural concept. The “Chinese nation” not only focuses on blood ties, but also emphasizes cultural integration. A nation that has lost its cultural subjectivity can only follow others, and it is difficult to be self-reliant and unable to move forward for a long time. Building a socialist cultural power and modern civilization of the Chinese nation are both great practices carried out with “China” as the main body, so it is extremely important to enhance cultural subjectivity. Only by constantly consolidating the subjectivity of Chinese culture can we have a high degree of recognition of our own culture, truly have a firm self in the cultural sense, have the confidence and consciousness to “go on our own way”, demonstrate the Chinese spirit, gather Chinese strength, and show the Chinese atmosphere, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has the deepest spiritual power.
In modern times, Western powers opened the door of China with strong ships and powerful guns. The normal development process of Chinese society was forced to be interrupted and fell into the abyss of suffering of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The country was humiliated, the people were distressed, and civilization was covered with dust. The Chinese people’s confidence in their own culture was ruthlessly destroyed by Western colonialists. After modern times, China was backward and beaten, resulting in some intellectuals beginning to “open their eyes to the world” and seek wealth and strength. Modern intellectual elites were also brainwashed by the West in terms of ideology, culture and spirit, and fully recognized the thinking mode of “determining literature and wildness by strength” of the great powers. Because of their relatively backward hard power such as material and force, they considered themselves as barbaric, lost their cultural confidence, and even adopted a radical attitude of total denial of traditional culture. They are trapped in “Western-centrism” and cannot extricate themselves Komiks also does not have the confidence and ability to objectively examine the connotation, value and vitality of Chinese culture. Even the history that has accumulated a profound foundation has been derogated, and the extreme “China’s no history theory” has responded to it. Chinese historiography unconsciously emulates Western academics. The most important carrier of Chinese culture, Chinese characters, has become a hurry to get rid of it. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanThe abolition of Chinese characters in the early 20th century once became the focus of discussion, believing that Chinese characters can only represent “ancient childish thoughts” and cannot represent “civilization of the new world”. In the name of seeking oneself, the reality of culture condemnation, the foundation of Chinese culture is shaken and dissolved, cultural confidence disappears, respecting the West and moving to the new has become a trend of the times that no one can control.
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Establishing cultural subjectivity
Achieve spiritual independence
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. With the rapid growth of the country’s hard power, China’s rise is unstoppable, and the cultural confidence of the Chinese people is becoming increasingly firm. Western theories, which were regarded as the criterion in the past, have increasingly shown difficulties in explaining China’s development path. Saying goodbye to “Western-centrism”, getting rid of the shackles of Western culture since modern times, and establishing the subjectivity of Chinese culture is to build a modern civilization of the Chinese nationThe inherent requirement. China must base itself on the great history of the Chinese nation and contemporary practice, use Chinese principles to summarize Chinese experience, elevate Chinese experience into Chinese theory, establish cultural subjectivity, and achieve spiritual independence and autonomy.
From the perspective of modern history, before Marxism entered China, Western capitalist culture had been spreading in China for more than half a century. However, capitalism has never taken root in China. The fundamental reason is that Western capitalist culture and Chinese traditional culture are not in line with some aspects. The core of Western capitalist culture is individualism, while traditional Chinese culture is based on society (the whole). It is no accident that the Chinese people choose Marxism, but it has its profound historical and cultural roots.
The Communist Party of China’s understanding of Chinese traditional culture has undergone a continuous deepening process. Early Communists were also influenced by the trend of the times, and their understanding of traditional culture was extreme and biased. As revolutionary practice continues to advance, the Communist Party of China continues to mature in its ideology. Comrade Mao Zedong, the first generation leader of the Communist Party of China, has a profound understanding of the value of China’s excellent traditional culture. He clearly stated that traditional culture should not be completely denied, but should be removed from the dross, take the essence, and be critically inherited. Many important contents of Mao Zedong Thought are directly derived from the life wisdom and political wisdom of Chinese traditional culture, with a distinct Chinese style and Chinese style. Guided by materialism, Mao Zedong founded the new democratic cultural theory. Babaylan, and criticized the conservative idea of respecting Confucius and retro. He also pointed out that the long feudal society in our history has left a lot of precious cultural wealth for future generations. We should remove the dross, take the essence, and use excellent traditional culture as the nourishment for the development of new culture; Cinema proposed the article “using the past for the present and the foreign for the Chinese” href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema‘s principle of transcending and abandoning, emphasizing the absorption of the “element of democracy in ancient culture is a necessary condition for developing new national culture to improve national self-confidence”, thus affirming the strong vitality and contemporary value of “ancient excellent national culture”.
General Secretary Xi Jinping inherited the scientific attitude of leaders of the Communist Party of China towards traditional Chinese culture with a strong cultural spirit of responsibility, and deeply realized that the Communist Party of China is inheriting Chinese civilization.The historical mission it shoulders clarifies the main responsibility of the Communist Party of China in the inheritance of national culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: “Chinese traditional culture has a long history and is profound and profound. The various ideological and cultural emerged in the formation and development of the Chinese nation. It records the spiritual activities, rational thinking and cultural creation of the Chinese nation in its long-term struggle, reflecting the spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, and the most core content has become the most basic cultural gene of the Chinese nation.” Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has attached great importance to the historical inheritance and innovative development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and has always viewed the excellent traditional Chinese culture from the depth of the deepest and deepest spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, inherited the excellent traditional Chinese culture from the perspective of promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. Under the new situation of great changes in the world that has not been seen in a century, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture are of crucial significance for establishing the roots and building the soul for the spiritual home of the Chinese nation and gathering our hearts and minds for the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Consolidating the dominant position of Chinese culture
It is the foundation for the Chinese nation to settle down
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stated that the profound and profound Chinese excellent traditional culture is the foundation for us to gain a foothold in the turmoil of world culture. Abandoning traditions and losing the roots is equivalent to cutting off one’s own spiritual lifeline and will inevitably disappear the subjectivity of Chinese culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping inherited the excellent traditional Chinese culture from the perspective of national strategic resources, drew on the essence of traditional ideas, and formed a systematic and profound theoretical method, opening up a new state of governance in deep traditions and consolidating the foundation. It is no exaggeration to say that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s emphasis on inheriting and reviving the excellent traditional Chinese culture has reached an unprecedented level and formed a complete and systematic theory. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is based on real China and rooted in history. It is the crystallization of the perfect combination of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture. It inherits the essence of traditional culture with a long history and has undergone historic sublimation, so that the Chinese nation will always maintain the self-centered and used demeanor in openness and inclusiveness, so that China can show its traditional texts with superiority.In the new era, Cinema has brought out a new look and eternal charm, which is the most powerful embodiment of the subjectivity of Cinema.
The subjectivity of Chinese culture is established by the Communist Party of China on the basis of promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, inheriting revolutionary culture, and developing advanced socialist culture, and learning from and absorbing all the excellent achievements of mankind’s civilization. The existence of a nation is inseparable from the inheritance of culture. If a nation loses its cultural tradition, it is like a rootless duckweed. History and reality show that the rise and fall of a nation is ultimately the rise and fall of the nation’s culture. Chinese traditional culture has a unique content and a rigorous system, carries the basic value pursuit of the Chinese nation, contains the national spirit of the Chinese nation, is the spiritual lifeline of the Chinese nation, and has distinct national characteristics.
From the historical dimension and the perspective of comparison between China and foreign countries, China’s excellent traditional culture is a unique logo and unique advantage gradually formed in the long historical evolution that is different from other nations. It is the collective memory of the Chinese nation. It has played a crucial role in forming and maintaining a political situation of unity and unity in China, forming and consolidating China’s multi-ethnic harmony, forming and enriching the spirit of the Chinese nation, and inspiring the Chinese people to maintain national independence. The rich wisdom contained in China’s excellent traditional culture provides important enlightenment and solution paths in solving the dilemma of modernization, promoting ecological protection, improving social governance, and improving the overall administrative ethics, promoting ethnic exchanges, and strengthening moral construction.
Consolidating the dominant position of Chinese culture is the foundation for the Chinese nation to settle down and the fundamental qualification of the Chinese nation to stand tall among the nations in the world. History and reality show us that China’s excellent traditional culture is the profound foundation of the spiritual edifice of the Chinese nation. It not only preserves and inherits in the form of classics and classics, but has also penetrated into the blood of contemporary Chinese people, and is reflected in daily life at all times. It has become a deep historical and cultural psychological accumulation of the nation, a rich nourishment for us to gather the spirit of the people, an indispensable and valuable asset for China’s contemporary cultural construction, and an inexhaustible driving force for promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. China’s national governance in the new era, the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the human vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind must be rooted in the deep soil of China’s excellent traditional culture.
(This article is the second of the “Lantai Youth Scholars’ Talk” series of Chinese History Research Institute)
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Historical Theory of the Chinese Academy of History and “Lantai Youth Scholar” of the Chinese Academy of History)