Original title: Enhance the cultural self-confidence of young people in the strong flavor of the New Year.
During the Spring Festival holiday, the cultural tourism market in various places continued to be hot, with various folk activities rich and colorful, and a lively and joyful festival atmosphere everywhere. The Xiangshui Intangible Cultural Heritage New Year Exhibition in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province was held as scheduled, and hundreds of performers dressed in festive costumes and walked on a cheerful beat to present wonderful programs such as golden dragon leaping, waist drums ringing in unison, Yangge dancing, and flower boats swaying. In Jiangyuan Village, Tongshan County, Xianning, Hubei Province, a 369-meter-long "fire dragon" composed of 175 benches "paraded" in the village, and the festive atmosphere of the Year of the Dragon was full. The students also got close to the traditional culture during the winter vacation. During the winter vacation, schools around the country carry out a variety of cultural activities to guide students to better understand and fall in love with traditional culture. Tianjin held a paper-cut spring festival for students, Nanjing Ruijin Beicun Primary School held a special exhibition of dragon kites, "three and a half museum" entered Nanchang Yuxin School, and the winter vacation social practice team of Northwest University investigated the ...... of Shaanxi's intangible cultural heritage "mud calling".
Traditional culture "sings the leading role" and sings a strong New Year's flavor. In recent years, many folk rituals that have almost disappeared have gradually become warmer, and more people pay attention to the solar terms and paste the Spring Festival couplets. Many handicrafts that have been passed down for thousands of years but once encountered an existential crisis have been valued again. Parents are also happy to expose their children to traditional cultural classics, and for a time there are more people practicing calligraphy and learning traditional musical instruments. Traditional cultural elements are even sought after by the fashion industry, and Hanfu and cheongsam have become popular, and "national tide" has become a new fashion trend. Behind these phenomena is undoubtedly a microcosm of the return of traditional culture, which has "lived" a new style in various forms and continues to take root in the hearts of young people.
The times are changing, and the genes of China's excellent traditional culture are becoming more and more prominent, profoundly affecting the way of thinking and behavior of Chinese, and nourishing the souls of young people. Generations of Chinese have created and inherited the excellent traditional Chinese culture in the long river of history; The excellent traditional Chinese culture has also nourished generations of Chinese in the long river of history. Since ancient times, heroes have come out of youth, "when the youth is strong, the country is strong". Today, promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, and nourishing young people with the essence of China's excellent traditional culture, is related to the inheritance and continuation of Chinese civilization and the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
History is the foundation of a nation's life, cultural inheritance and national spirit, and Chinese traditional culture is the main manifestation of Chinese history. Traditional Chinese culture carries the genes and blood of the Chinese nation, contains the core of Chinese ideology and spirit, and nourishes young people with the essence of excellent traditional Chinese culture, which is conducive to young people's understanding of the world, establishing lofty ideals, cultivating family and country feelings, and having the courage to innovate and practice. "Donating one's body to go to the country, seeing death as if it were home. "Only solve the battlefield and die for the country, why should the horse leather shroud be returned." "Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad. "Young people can perceive the righteousness of the family and the country in the poetry kingdom constructed by the ancients, cultivate the quality of perseverance and high-spiritedness, and cultivate a sense of responsibility and family and country feelings of worrying about the country and the people, working hard.
The prosperity of culture is related to the prosperity of the country and the self-confidence of the nation, and without the prosperity of culture and the country and the self-confidence of the nation, there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. A nation without cultural self-confidence is a nation without self-reliance, and it is impossible to be self-reliant. Traditional Chinese culture stretches back to 5,000 years, and young people should actively absorb the essence of traditional Chinese culture and strengthen their cultural self-confidence. The 2024 Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala will create a show "New Year's Brocade", from traditional Chinese patterns to New Year's Brocade, not only showing us the beauty of traditional patterns, the beauty of traditional weaving and embroidery, and the beauty of Han, Tang, Song and Ming costumes, but also conveying to us the history of changes in Chinese national costumes, the history of changes in etiquette and charm, and the history of life changes. Young people can not only realize the aesthetic romance of the Chinese nation's pursuit of the unity of nature and man, but also see the eternal charm of traditional Chinese culture in the changing times.
Culture is the culture created by people, history is the history written by people, and the value of culture and history is created by people. Cultural self-confidence and the continuation of tradition all depend on the high-spirited spirit of people. During the Chinese New Year, when I walked into Tianjin, a pair of scissors and a piece of red paper cut out a vivid joyful and festive pattern, which conveyed the simple wishes of the people for a happy life; Walking into Chaoshan, Guangdong, one person dances at the head and one dances at the end, and people play the mascot through the "lion dance" to drive away evil spirits and avoid harm; Walking into Taizhou, Jiangsu, a bucket of iron juice, a flower stick, people express their longing and yearning for a better life through "iron flowers", which not only shows the Chinese romantic aesthetics of "iron trees and silver flowers fall, and the stars bloom at ten thousand points", but also shows the courage and courage of the working people. Vigorousness, self-improvement, and endless growth are the spirit and spirit of the Chinese nation that live out in practical life.
Young people are the future of the country and the hope of the nation. In today's era, Chinese youth are the vanguard of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We must be good at nourishing young people with the essence of traditional Chinese culture, guiding young people to establish the correct three views, strengthen cultural self-confidence, grow into new people of the era with a Chinese heart and national soul, bravely undertake the historical mission, cultivate the feelings of the family and the country, and constantly write the chapter of the nation and the country with the spirit of struggle and the courage to innovate.
Wen Xianqing is a professor at the Center for Chinese Ethical Civilization and the Department of Philosophy, and vice president of the Institute of Moral Culture at Hunan Normal University
*: China Education News.