Editor's note.
During the Spring Festival, Chinese people will always look forward to the coming year with traditional cultural poems in a unique way and wish each other well. **The general secretary has delivered important speeches on different occasions, quoting scriptures and classics, giving people profound ideological enlightenment. On the occasion of the New Year, let us revisit these dictionaries of the general secretary, understand the beauty of poetry, encourage each other, and continue to struggle.
The Chinese civilization is characterized by outstanding innovation. The Chinese civilization is a civilization that is reforming the old and making the new, and the glow is renewed, and the still water is deep and the waves are magnificently intertwined. Continuity is not stagnation, let alone rigidity, but a process of historical progress supported by innovation. The Chinese nation has always been constantly creating its own material, spiritual and political civilization in the spirit of "renewing every day, renewing every day, and renewing every day", and has stood tall in the world as the most prosperous and powerful civilization for a long period of time. The innovative nature of the Chinese civilization fundamentally determines the Chinese nation's enterprising spirit of upholding the right and not keeping the old and respecting the past and not going back to the past, and determines the Chinese nation's fearless character of not being afraid of new challenges and having the courage to accept new things.
On June 2, 2023, ** speech at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development.
Original Classic] Tang Zhi's "Pan Ming" said: "Gou is new, every day is new, and every day is new." ”
From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, "The Book of Rites and the University".
Interpretation] Gou Ri Xin, Day by Day, and Day New" in the three "new" words, the original meaning refers to taking a bath to remove the dirt on the skin, so that the body is refreshed, often extended to the spirit of abandoning the old and drawing the new. Therefore, the meaning of this sentence is: if you can get rid of the old and update it every day, you must persevere.
Gou is new, new every day, and new every day" emphasizes continuous innovation from a dynamic perspective. That's where the word "innovation" comes in. It can be seen that Chinese traditional culture emphasizes innovation, requiring people to adapt to and promote social development with an innovative attitude, rather than sticking to the old ways and blocking the pace of historical progress.
The extension of bathing as spiritual baptism and moral cultivation is relatively common in Chinese culture. The ancient sages, if you want to cultivate your nature, you must first cultivate your body, and if you want to purify your heart, you must first clean your body, such as "bathing in snow and spirit" in "Zhuangzi Zhibei Tour". "The Book of Rites: Confucianism" is also called "Confucianism has a bath body and bathes in virtue". Tang Dynasty scholar Kong Yingda Shu said: "Those who 'bathe the body and bathe in virtue', the bathing body is said to be able to bathe and clean the body, and it is not stained;Bathing virtue is to bathe in virtue, and to clean up with virtue. ”
Editor: Wan Peng, Design: Liu Yuanyuan).
Source**: Dictionary of Uses, Series I, Seeking Truth).