The characteristics of traditional Chinese culture are summarized and summarized

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-02-05

February**Dynamic Incentive Plan 1, eclectic, full of tenacious vitality.

The traditional culture of the country has a long history and is endless. In the 6,000-year history of human civilization, only Chinese culture has developed according to its own track and has continued to this day. Most of the cultures of other ancient countries have been faulted, and some have even died out. Chinese culture has endured hardships and has undergone thousands of years of development, and has gradually integrated the cultures of the Zhou region and other ethnic minorities, forming a traditional culture of the country with the Han culture as the main body and the Central Plains culture as the core. Chinese traditional culture is the backbone and essence of the Chinese nation, the embodiment of the spiritual outlook of the entire Chinese nation, and the common psychological quality of the Chinese nation. It has tenacious vitality, and in the face of the invasion of foreign cultures, it has a generous inclusiveness and strong assimilation power, which has played an important role in the survival and continuation of the Chinese nation and effectively safeguarded the independent development of the nation.

2. Actively join the WTO and take Confucianism as the core.

Chinese culture is a large and complex dynamic system. After entering the feudal society, Confucian culture occupied a dominant position. Nowadays, most people also think that Confucian culture is the traditional Chinese culture. Confucianism advocates the enterprising spirit of "actively joining the WTO", advocates the healthy character of the individual that "the rich and the rich cannot be lewd, the mighty cannot be bowed, and the poor and the lowly cannot be moved", and "sacrificing one's life for righteousness" is the highest moral standard in life. Emphasizing a strong and positive attitude towards life, there is a "day hike, a gentleman with self-improvement" outlook on life in "Zhou Yi"; Focusing on reality, not paying attention to the afterlife, not pursuing the Elysium after death, and being far away from the gods and close to people, Confucius's so-called "not talking about strangeness, power, chaos, and gods" and "failing to do things to people, only being able to do ghosts" have a huge impact on this kind of thinking; It advocates the rule of virtue and the love of the people, and takes morality, education, propriety, and wisdom as the basic policy of governance. The society realized by Confucianism is a hierarchical society with monarchs and ministers, upper and lower, relatives and relatives, and nobles and lowly, but each level is like a family, harmonious and unified, and pursues the integration of things and the unity of heaven and man.

3. Emphasize moral cultivation and take it as the foundation of life.

In ancient China, the power of morality far surpassed that of law, and it became more effective and important. Traditional Chinese culture is an ethical culture, and in the traditional concept, it attaches great importance to the cultivation of personal morality, forming a deep-rooted "rule by virtue". Confucius believed that the key to changing "there is no way in the world" to "there is no way in the world" lies in the need to achieve benevolence, wisdom and courage in personal moral cultivation. The psychology and consciousness of the whole nation have been infiltrated by this ethical thought of Confucianism, and at the same time, many people with lofty ideals like Fan Zhongyan have been created who "worry about the worries of the world first, and enjoy the joy of the world after the world", and the lofty character and virtue that they shine on have become the moral ideal pursuit of our whole nation. However, on the other hand, the development of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty and the emergence of Song and Ming Dynasty science made Confucianism move towards the anti-humanist extreme of "preserving heavenly principles and destroying human desires", which made the society present an orderly but very rigid state.

4. Emphasis on groups, light on individuals.

Emphasizing groups over individuals is a very prominent national characteristic of the Chinese nation. In ancient China, great importance was attached to the group, and the interests of the individual were insignificant compared to the family and the country, and each individual had an unshirkable responsibility for the family and the country, and when the interests of the family and the country conflicted with the interests of the individual, the individual should sacrifice himself, otherwise it would be unfilial, unkind, and unjust. The individual in the society, first of all, is a family member, the fate of the family is the fate of the individual, the family is the further expansion of the family, the country is the expansion and extension of each family, only the social value is realized, the value of the individual can be realized. On the one hand, this high degree of group consciousness has maintained social stability and promoted social progress, but on the other hand, this kind of ideology of light on the individual has seriously inhibited the free development of the individual, weakened the subjective initiative of the individual, and ignored the individual's own value.

5. Emphasis on harmony, wholeness, intuition, and practical way of thinking.

Harmony, wholeness, intuition, and practicality are a major feature of China's traditional way of thinking. Chinese pay attention to harmony, ancient China is a feudal ** society characterized by great unification, so harmonious interpersonal relations and ruling order are particularly necessary. Confucianism advocates "valuing harmony" and "do unto others what you would not do to yourself", all in order to maintain social stability and harmonious development; Chinese people pay attention to the whole, and the traditional Chinese holistic thinking is vividly demonstrated through the two modes of thinking of "Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, Five Elements" and "Heaven and Man Unity". Under the influence of this thinking, Chinese are good at grasping problems as a whole, but lack accurate analysis of problems; Chinese pay attention to intuition, and the categories of "Tao", "Reason", "Nature", "Heart", "Qi" and "Sex" in traditional Chinese philosophy can only be understood, not spoken, and cannot be accurately described by concepts. Therefore, when grasping them, you can only experience them intuitively; Chinese attach great importance to practicality, and in traditional Chinese thinking, they attach great importance to practicality, that is, "vast and clever without departing from daily use". In ancient China, the four applied sciences of medicine, military science, agriculture, and mathematics were highly developed, and they were also very closely related to the daily life of the people. However, this has also led to the excessively narrow side of ancient Chinese science, neglecting to study inventions and creations that cannot see practical value for a while, and lacking patience and interest, resulting in the lag of the overall development of ancient science in China, which is also a short-sighted behavior to a certain extent.

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