2、How to treat Chinese traditional culture

 Realistic attitude toward traditional culture

To develop socialist culture, we must creatively absorb the achievements of all civilizations, including traditional Chinese culture, in line with the spirit of the times. We must actively inherit and carry forward the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation and the revolutionary traditional culture formed by the Party and the people since the May 4th Movement. Mao Zedong once said: "Our nation has a history of thousands of years, has its own characteristics, and has many of its treasures. For these, we are still primary school students. Today's China is a development of historical China; we are the historicism of Marxism We should not cut off history. From Confucius to Sun Yat-sen, we should summarize it and inherit this legacy."

Any advanced culture is always in line with traditional culture and connected by blood. There is no innovation and development without tradition, but carrying forward excellent traditional culture does not mean absorbing it without criticism, nor does it mean copying it mechanically. Times are advancing and practice is developing. Traditional culture can only shine more brilliantly if it is inherited and developed in conjunction with the new era and practice.

For the general public, it is impossible for us to carefully distinguish between the essence and the dross of traditional culture, and we may lack the ability in this regard. We directly absorb what we think is beneficial from existing cultures, without considering whether a culture belongs to traditional culture or modern Western culture. Therefore, our attitude towards traditional culture should be as simple as possible. This attitude should enable us to have as little contact with the dross of traditional culture as possible so that we can have a vibrant, open, and modern cultural background. This attitude is first of all a denial of traditional culture. Since the dross and essence of traditional culture are mixed, and we cannot distinguish them, we must remain cautious and vigilant about traditional culture, and then form a critical attitude. For anything that comes from tradition, we should first realize that traditional culture is often conservative and backward. Although it has good things, it is not our responsibility to screen, that is the responsibility of scholars. We are just consumers, we only buy and Determine what is safe, so we do not accept the traditional culture.

This preconceived negative attitude towards traditional culture does not mean that we throw away everything in tradition. Our contemporary culture may still have many things that are the same as tradition, but they may not come from tradition and may be foreign. It can also be newly created, or it can be selected or evolved from traditional culture. If it comes from tradition, we should not emphasize inheritance, but rather selection and evolution. We should try our best to avoid forming a mentality of advocating tradition, but instead form a consciousness of opposing tradition and constantly innovating.

In short, when we treat the traditional cultural heritage of our motherland, we must first affirm it, affirm its long history, profoundness, and profoundness, and affirm its contribution to the development of civilization in China and the world. This is our glory and pride, and it is by no means our burden. The second is to conduct scientific analysis and research, dare to analyze the dross, and ruthlessly expose and criticize it. On this basis, absorb everything beneficial to the development of modern science and technology, so that it can regain its glory and reach new heights. This is the correct way to truly love the traditional cultural heritage of the motherland.

Although the development of society is a process of constantly breaking tradition, it does not mean that we do not inherit and absorb good things from tradition. We should maintain and carry forward those traditions that are in line with the spirit of the times and social development. Our general attitude towards traditional culture should be: we regard it as our enemy, but if the enemy insists on it, we will oppose it.

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