On the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Dragon, the 2024 Hunan Cultural Festival was held in Hunan Mansion in Beijing a few days ago. **More than 300 Hunan veteran leaders, veteran generals, veteran ministers, academicians and scholars of state organs, Hunan relatives and Hunan sages from 14 cities and prefectures and representatives of Hunan students attended the ceremony.
At the opening ceremony, Professor Zheng Gongcheng, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, vice chairman of the Democratic League, and professor of Renmin University, delivered a keynote speech, speaking highly of the significance of the event. He said that with the theme of "Huxiang Culture", this event gathered Huxiang people to discuss and promote Huxiang culture, and practiced the spirit of the instructions of the general secretary of the People's Republic of China in Yuelu Academy to emphasize "Everbright Huxiang Culture" with practical actions, and at the same time showed the spiritual outlook of Hunan people in the new era, which is very meaningful.
He said that today we need to understand the profound heritage of Huxiang culture. It has been nurtured by the pre-Qin and Chu cultures and the refined culture of the Central Plains of the Song and Ming dynasties, and has been forged and improved by a group of prodigies with great talents and strategies in modern times, and has become a historical and cultural form with distinctive regional characteristics, relatively stable and inherited in the Chinese cultural map. In modern times, represented by Zeng Guofan and others, it has won the reputation of "a modern history of China, half written by Hunan people". Subsequently, there were more *** as representatives, leading the Chinese people to fight bloody battles and arduous explorations, so that the Chinese nation that has suffered a lot can once again stand tall in the east of the world and move towards glory.
We need to re-understand the essence of Huxiang culture. Some people summarize the spiritual essence of Huxiang culture as "worrying about the world, daring to be the first, indomitable, and eclectic", some people summarize it as "worrying about the world, daring to be the first, applying it to the world, and seeking truth from facts", and some people have refined "simplicity and righteousness, courage and martial arts, application to the world, and self-improvement", and so on. Each has its own reasoning and its own basis. Today, we are willing to summarize it with 16 words: "the unity of the family and the country, inclusiveness, worry before happiness, and the people first".
"The unity of the family and the country" is the civilization logic of Chinese-style patriotism, the country is a big family, and the family is a small country, and this feeling seems to be more distinct in Hunan people. From Qu Yuan's investment in the country, to the rise of Zuo Zongtang of Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang led the children of Huxiang to recover Xinjiang with an old and sick body that was over the age of sixties, etc., as Yang Du said, "If the Chinese nation dies, unless the people of Hunan die", and then lead a generation of Chinese Communists to fight a new China. Hunan people's feelings for their family and country, iron-blooded spirit are shocking, and they cry ghosts and gods.
In addition to the historical Hunan absorption of Chu culture and Central Plains culture, Wei Yuan is known as the first person in modern China to open his eyes to the world. ** He combined Marxism from the West with the specific practice of the Chinese revolution to create the great Communist Party of China, the People's Republic of China and the Chinese People's Liberation Army, made friends in the world, and was a great internationalist who made great contributions to the liberation of the oppressed nations of the world and the cause of human progress.
"Worry first and then be happy" represents a kind of dedication, which is not only written in the Yueyang Tower and engraved on the Yueyang Tower by the Dongting Lake, but also integrated into the bone marrow of Hunan people. Hunan people are worried about the country and the people, and in modern times, they have transformed this spirit of dedication into action, and countless Hunan children are dedicated to the country, and selflessly building New China is also dedication.
"People first" is the red culture, but also the highest feelings, which is forged by the Chinese Communists represented by the best, and the children of Huxiang are undoubtedly the most outstanding group. "People first" means putting the people in the supreme position, fighting bloodily for the cause of people's liberation, exploring hard for the people's happiness, people-centered development thinking in the new era, and taking the people's yearning for a better life as the value pursuit of the goal of struggle, all reflect that the supremacy of the people is the belief of the Chinese Communists and has also become the belief of the Chinese.
In the history of Huxiang culture, in the history of Chinese culture, the most outstanding representative of thousands of years, he not only raised Huxiang culture to a new realm, but also promoted Chinese culture to a new realm with the ideal of "equal creation, world harmony". **The greatness, non-Huxiang culture can be summarized, he belongs to China, belongs to the world, but he is from Hunan, is a child of Huxiang, with his own Hunan land and the nutrients of the sages of the past dynasties. Therefore, in the new era, to study and promote Huxiang culture, when researching and learning, this should become the strongest voice to promote Huxiang culture.
To carry forward Huxiang culture in the new era, we need to base ourselves in Hunan, and we must obey and serve the revitalization of Chinese civilization. Huxiang culture is only a vein of Chinese culture, we cannot solidify our thinking and form a mindset that Hunan people prefer Hunan Hunan culture and discuss Huxiang culture on Huxiang culture, but we must establish a big cultural outlook and put Huxiang culture into the overall situation of Chinese civilization for investigation.
In the context of the comprehensive acceleration of Chinese-style modernization and the obvious acceleration of the pace of common prosperity, the importance of culture has emerged, and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation requires strong material and spiritual strength. Only by guarding and consolidating the subjectivity of Chinese culture, including Huxiang culture, can we maintain a high degree of recognition of our own culture, consciously draw nutrition and wisdom from excellent traditional culture, and persist in following our own path and achieving steady and far-reaching results in full of cultural self-confidence. As *** pointed out: "How long the history is and how broad the civilization is, this is the foundation of our self-confidence and the source of our strength." ”
It is hoped that Huxiang culture will be carried forward in the new era, become an important pole of the powerful spiritual force of a modern socialist country, and shine in the new form of human civilization created by Chinese-style modernization.