
Chinese cultural identity where you go?
China’s traditional culture is now what kind of circumstances? China’s traditional culture is still viable and the development of space? Whether the traditional Chinese culture has been destroyed us, or lost in an unfamiliar corner of it?
Mr. Liang Sicheng said: “Since the mid-nineteenth century, China has been defeated, the Chinese intellectuals and the ruling class have lost the confidence of all national essence. Their standards of beauty have all been disturbed, and the old were abandoned, For the new or the West, but no known loss. “Of course, China defeated, not from the” mid-nineteenth century “began before the Chinese invasion of the alien before the war often show repeated failures, so only the Southern Song, Yuan and Qing Dynasty. But this time the result of alien invasion is very proud of the Chinese people: the invasion of alien assimilated, were expelled without being assimilated. The “assimilation” process, is probably the contribution of traditional Chinese culture, and this aspect of Chinese traditional culture has demonstrated a strong appeal. After the alien invasion of the past, always take the initiative to accept the traditional Chinese culture, makes Chinese traditional culture to continue down the same strain, but to the “mid-nineteenth century”, China’s traditional culture has been a serious threat. In Western culture, filtering into the social background, many intellectuals in the emerging Chinese traditional culture and Western culture was a great confusion among them the first time ever forget this nation’s cultural superiority, omitted the national pride of this nation sense. But even in this situation, China’s traditional culture still retains its vitality and heritage. In feudal China, some of the necessary norms of traditional ethics in the social behavior of people still play a positive role.
Many people believe that traditional Chinese culture, there are two large shock, one was the “May 4th” New Culture Movement, another Cultural Revolution. “May 4th” New Culture Movement in promoting aspects of virtuous and cultural progress, but only a group of intellectuals on the Chinese traditional culture, “rebel”, can not shake the foundation of traditional culture. At that time, these young cynics their homeland, is still a cultural identity. The reason they angry because the current situation of social frustration, traditional dregs of nausea, the resistance of the rigid life. Their bones, the blood still flowing traditional, even feudal family and nation to do the traitors The Outsiders, for their country, their nation, they are still full of tears, full of passion. The Cultural Revolution, then, on the surface, large broken the “four olds”, it seems that Chinese traditional culture had devastating blow. However, careful analysis of just not hard to find: the Cultural Revolution, this movement is in the top soil of Chinese traditional culture, only possible throne to rebel. Ubiquitous throughout the country every household during the Cultural Revolution’s “loyalty” the word that: monarchical thinking to evolving forms, continues to play a leading role in even magnified. And this monarchical thinking is the core of traditional Chinese culture is one. Cultural Revolution, the impact of traditional Chinese culture, but in fact, form, and only nine thanks to three call-in turned into a loyal character dance, its essence is a face-lift of the return of traditional Chinese culture.
Well, maybe we ask our traditional culture in the beginning when the real loss, so we are so familiar with the traditional culture and indifference? Today, we face the traditional culture of the fault is what caused the phenomenon? Who is the culprit of them do?
“Ping” is another way of globalization, like football is “round”, and never come out of the end calculus. Political, economic and cultural globalization is already an unstoppable trend. The fear is that economic globalization can lead to cultural globalization? If economic globalization is the rapid development of science and technology as the driving force to the global operations of transnational corporations as the carrier, carried out a worldwide industrial restructuring, then, cultural globalization facilities actors who are moving forward who is the subject – Cultural Globalization and its cross-cultural communication under the guidance will not based on Western technology, the United States for the content of the cultural integration and homogenization?
There is no doubt that these problems so large that people confused. The seventh year in the new millennium, I can see the Chinese culture, the first reading of the news on. The years of my senses seemed to be convinced: China’s territory in the growing world culture, more and more clear, more and more influence in the foreign-depth and extensive. For example, the number of Confucius Institutes around the world at home, how many people are learning Chinese culture, Chinese culture, how amazing all kinds of cultural exchange activities. Even an international film on the Lianshu the actress, wearing a Chinese stomachers enough to cause cultural scream – this is “the pride of China.” Way of reading from this point of view, Chinese culture, in large part of traditional Chinese culture or Chinese traditional culture of the short. Talk about the context of Chinese culture, is thousands of years accumulated in the culture of a large library profound.
Actually, I saw Chinese culture, they feel oppressed people get overwhelmed. Our letter less and less, and gradually became only existing copies out of print, concomitant loss of breath vapor Chinese calligraphy civil basis. China now can test the 275 operas, and now “Me and” and how much? Chinese folk art, but also the need to rescue endangered to the point. Or information on the interpretation of capital investment is the primary problem. Han Chinese clothing soon as he appeared, the show was called narrow-minded nationalists. To “Meng Mu Tang,” as the representative of the modern private school, first of all from the procedure were to be denied. Display of traditional culture, build up the economy in the use of the stage, almost humble subordinate actors. This is the “silent majority” under the desktop experience. Deep-seated culture? Culture, surface temperature, and we perceive the cultural heart temperature is not hot outside in the cold?
Situation is this: the cultural treasure-house of our own, to have not taken seriously the best way to protect and maintain the best level of attitude. The foreign interest in Chinese culture is already doing in-depth study. Cultural Revolution in China, Cultural Revolution, but in abroad study. Dun Huang in Gansu and Dun Huang science is not in China. Some people in the United States of China’s “Mountains and Seas”, Japan has sent to bar scholars in Yunnan minority culture, Korea is more like Chinese than the Chinese people to learn Chinese culture. Chinese culture, as never before, “not” our own, was more distressed than their own children.
I do not know Go, Go on Japan and South Korea’s kings hegemony is very cold. 324 cells in the Go board, the refined calm of the players to the final is always flowing waterfall Khan’s Toshiba. Chinese players of the winning or losing, always reminds me of the three countries in the cultural game of chess. Hari Ha Han Chinese city youth, was exaggerated hypertrophy underwear set, my rollerblades in the street whistling, a roadside store is rhythmic rap songs. To learn from China in the Korean culture, and the United States to study the Japanese culture, has infiltrated is not developed to the southwest of this province. South Korea’s food and beverage outlets, clothing stores and open to the city’s streets, artisan-oriented culture of Japan, animation and digital products have excellent people can not refuse. “Dae Jang Geum” hit in China, we launched the Chinese version of Dae Jang Geum, “a woman cry”; “A Letter”, we in the “Ah Yung,” in his A letter manufacturing. I suspect the same time do not like that argument, like that Tanabata “Chinese Valentine’s Day”, the statement came out, we have already lost their own culture based on feeling and perception.
Witnessed a “Chinese Christmas Eve,” the madness, some domestic scholars and experts for the New Year began growing marginalization of the traditional culture was a concern. They issued a “Declaration of defending the Spring Festival,” called to consciously maintained the dignity of the national culture, to defend traditional culture. Experts with the vision and depth of experts to interpret the need to defend the New Year. As a general public, I have such reflections on the Spring Festival.
China’s Spring Festival originated in the Shang Dynasty ritual sacrifice of the first end of every activity, far-reaching impact of feudal society. As the city’s children come from the countryside, I witnessed the excitement of the Spring Festival. Young at home, sweeping dust, couplets, firecrackers, prepare rice dumplings, steamed rice cake with pork and other Eating Custom, New Year “““ adults and children with complicated ceremony for the pleasure, full of Chinese New Year festive atmosphere. Transfer of residence to the city, I Jianjue weak a lot of festive atmosphere. In particular, in recent years, with the network, Karaoke Disco, the rise of other entertainment and shopping centers dazzling array of goods, plenty of pockets of people on a holiday enrichment programs, will naturally have been the traditional New Year ceremony, a process simplified. Some families have dinner on a restaurant. This naturally makes some people worried, worry about the foreign section of fire, and the Spring Festival deserted, more worried about the loss of traditional culture.
Back in history, people within the traditional multi-band character, serious and cautious characteristics, passed along so far. The west wind east of the centuries, some foreign ideology and culture also affect and change the national character. City, advocating free, easy and fashion has become a great group of young people, this is a positive sense, living a life of thought is easier to respond to urban people. There is no doubt that Christmas in the “crazy” and the formation of this group is necessarily linked. They think the traditional Spring Festival, “unrealistic”, courtesy too much, thus making the Spring Festival has become sacred, become heavy, become unpopular. On the other side, the lack of entertainment and ideas in the rural areas of nostalgia, in fact, than the Spring Festival City, is still considered a very lively event.
Gangneung City, Korea, the mayor declared, “Dragon Boat Festival,” says the world’s cultural heritage: “As people are home from folk culture; as the hometown love, the folk roots of this diversity must be respected.” Protection of Korean Folk relies on culture, traditional culture and gurgling streams has not been given out in the cold. From the Korean literature to the television programs, such as the now red-hot “Dae Jang Geum” and then in real life, make people feel influenced by Confucian culture, after some of the traditional shadow. Such as respect for teachers, pay attention to morality and decency, respected classic. All this is organic and Western Civilization together, and they do not completely westernized, not completely old-fashioned, not favoritism. Rituals, should have been advanced culture and cultural integration of foreign students after a new culture of innovation. While only the continuous integration of culture can be continuously inheritance, development and generation of propagation.
How do the New Year of course be discussed and explore. But we should pay attention to is how to save the essence of traditional Chinese culture? Chinese New Year and traditional culture is the relationship between the leaves and roots. No long-term vitality of cultural roots, branches and leaves will be difficult to survive. Western Christmas “crazy”, with “Santa Claus” of the beautiful story and the “Bible” Legends of the public. Today our New Year, lost his arm and called “years” monster, lost one by one climax of folk tales. Santa vivid impression in many people. In the face of New Year filled with God of Wealth Zhao Gongming branded cheek beard, most of us do not know who he is, he does.
Economic globalization, cultural sovereignty intrusion has become the main problem facing traditional culture. Growing economy has brought diverse forms of cultural awareness and to make social values become more complex, more and more vulgar the.
Let’s take a simple example, is now one of the most popular entertainment programming is not that what the show called it? What is causing so many young men and women a kind of crazy scene then? That certainly is possible to see the overnight success and subsequent fame and fortune, fame and money standing in the eyes of young people so important, what causes it? The dominant values of society. If, money and fame has become the main pursuit of the things this society, when society, how can young people from the impact? So, we said that education is a big problem, the root of the problem is that the dominant values of society. Such a situation caused by society, the most important reason it is the loss of our traditional culture.
A country, a nation without the traditional culture as a backing, it determines that the national spirit of confusion, and when survival is no longer the primary goal of people when others need a spiritual pillar. Let us look at another social phenomenon, very sorry, now it is said, it is said to rot under the phenomenon of Sister Lotus. Criticize the community when such a phenomenon may have thought of such a phenomenon caused by another factor? That spiritual needs. Since our culture has been ignored, then for contemporary teenage life need to find a new concept of value system, regardless of Sister Lotus is fake or really narcissistic self-confidence, this is not important, important to be so contemporary youth to find a focus on personal cultivation of things, with the traditional culture, can be considered a kind of self-cultivation it! What then followed the so-called daisy-sister who was merely the innocent.
In the final analysis, the largest state of our society is a lack of spirit, and such a loss affects not only the younger generation to another, as well as society as a whole. Favor of the cold, numb sense of social responsibility is not the greatest of our modern society faces a problem? And this problem exists, how might we renew national spirit? We often said to be patriotic, but patriotism is everyone from our national pride, even if the traditional culture of a nation have lost, we have the sense of national pride?
Although, in our traditional culture, there are some more old stuff, say, respect, decency and propriety, but more is needed can be inherited inherited. Because it was gathered up thousands of national heritage and national spirit. Imagine if we can have modern ideas of the traditional culture of the home country the concept of the world, He will empty As an entertainment figure can be accounted for most of the people all of the spirit? Also if our mind has the concept of the traditional culture of good and evil, why has our society so cold? If we again inheritance criticism of our traditional culture, moral and ethical concepts, how can so many moral turpitude As things happen?
Everyone’s home in the fall, the beautiful girl and malnutrition is a guy, like moths to flame, like running to the construction of the city group. But the city eventually most of them do not belong. Not enough people, hometown not be home. Not enough people, native culture, such as not lush bloom of life. Home is not enough, we can not place nostalgia for thousands of years. No native culture, the way we stand is easily accessible by road can not find the return home. Our traditional culture is like the home of each of us, in reality, and everyone is working like mad to escape the home, in fact fled to know that only our culture was the most glorious. But if one day we do the traditional culture in front of each of us is gone, how should we do to find my way home?
We live in times of cultural identity ambiguous, vitality chop funeral. Old culture dating almost, if continued generation, is also very difficult to do that by ourselves a new era of cultural reconstruction of responsibility; new culture is not established, all from Western thought, art, technology, good and bad, the lack of system, not with China real harmony of society.
In this case, young people, especially sensitive, excitable young, try not to hit the heart of leading-edge of contemporary culture, just witnessed the cruel realities, the situation is complicated, of course, may become a nihilist, a non- Faith is faith, not the pursuit of the pursuit, no culture is culture, so heartless creature, ambiguous truth will give all loss, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism are reported for him, but was eventually reduced to a generation of angry youth, like water spinach.
Angry Young Men, China has never been lacking, must be the source, the Spring and Autumn Chu mad then public opinion may be the first young cynics, of course, when he met Confucius has been an angry old. The Bamboo Grove, is the most famous angry youth, some of them like the Department of deer drive cars, Jiao Puren against the shovel, side road edge to drink, and why not after getting death claims will be buried; others are indiscriminate go come to a dead on wept, and then stagger go home. After the angry youth well-known, there is the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu, Song Liang, Yuan Guan Hanqing, Li Zhuowu Ming, Qing tan and so on.
Although these ancient young cynics leading the trend, but have not formed much of the collective climate, until 54, a large group of skilled and colorful angry youth before school, from the hospital, from the factory, from the private school side, from overseas, from the countryside, a Bay out of some traditional classics nose Anzhe play, and some direct to refresh the old history, and some thousands of years old will be the temple of literature overturned and replaced by fresh grass literature. However, they still have a cultural identity.
But now the angry youth who has already lost a lot of cultural identity. Two words: old enough to eat, then no fresh taste. It is these new era of angry youth, the NetEase survey “the next life you do not do Chinese people” in the cast negative votes. Because they are the soul to nowhere, faith no home, empty nothingness party to walk in the road.
Do not get to know our traditions, the traditions are worthless; not see clearly the truth, they begin to anger; still do not understand their own blood, ready to defect to overseas the next life.
All these are due to a large extent, a cultural identity crisis, identity crisis of Chinese culture. A very real problem, this crisis is there, how to defuse the crisis, reconstruction of cultural identity,
About this regard, we can do?
Here are a reconstruction of cultural identity on four points, the color is very strong idealism, perhaps castle in the air, maybe wishful thinking. However, the “dream of the people are happy, if not see a better way, better not disturb him.”
The first tool is the Chinese history in the Compilation and spread again.
“States may destroy, history can not be destroyed”, which is thousands of years of great tradition. Because of this conviction, the Ming Dynasty Wan Sitong only to commoner into the Academia Historica, painful process for several years, excluding higher status treatment, led to “clear history” Huang Huang huge volumes.
This idea, also Ch’ien Mu’s “Outline of the History States” are vividly the preface states: “When the trust He Yiguo nationals, particularly over claims of nationals of knowledge in the horizon, past experience of their own history, should know a little. Otherwise, count only up to a knowledgeable person, can not be considered a knowledgeable citizens.
The so-called past experience of their own who know a little history, in particular, past experience must accompany a kind of history for their own warmth and respect.
The so-called past experience of their own history who has a warmth and respect, at least not hold its own history, a kind of extreme nihilism, that is, past experience as their historical value without a point, no one enough to he satisfied. Also at least will not feel now that we are standing on previous years, the highest peak of history. And all our sins and weaknesses of the body, and all blame-dumping in the ancient.
The second means is the traditional and contemporary literature in the great revival.
For the vast majority of angry youth, the traditional literature is dead. To reviving the traditional literature, only one way: read the original code, there is no shortcut to go. To chew Songs good, we must read the original, read what the vernacular translation of the same sex is like wearing socks, not feeling it. As for the traditional literary reading, I recommend some, others can not read or after the reading, these three works must first read, that is Songs of the South, Du Fu, Su.
In the contemporary revival of traditional literature, is very complex problem, there can only be put forward the concept of not covering in depth. In short, the real Chinese taste to write good articles, it must have a grounding in traditional literature, whether fiction, poetry or essays. The only way to achieve this height: the lyric is a trade union by Artemisia spring water dripping, the narrative is from the falcon off the rabbit optic Flint, commented on the strike bone marrow Officials break the old prison.
While angry youth, the more time the essence of traditional literary works, will certainly help to understand our culture, then a positive identification.
The third means is a blend of Chinese Physical Geography and Human Geography reconstruction.
The discipline of geography, history in China as a long branch, not getting enough attention. Chinese geographical point of view, in a very long time, is terrible, “Hai Ke Tan Yingzhou” type.
In modern times, our emphasis on geography education has only physical geography, almost no historical geography, or, human geography education. As well as we read the classics, see some names are often perplexed.
Lack of sufficient historical and geographical knowledge, even travels thousands of miles rivers and mountains, only from the perspective of landscape aesthetic line of travel, though understandable, but the overall history of human geography as much knowledge to swim a little more substantial and full, but also enhance the motherland cultural identity.
Fourth means, it is the inheritance of Chinese traditional philosophy and reform.
A long time, many people with so-called system of Western philosophy and logic to the framework of Chinese philosophy, and then come to the conclusion of China-free philosophy, the premise is totally wrong. Discussion of the philosophy of a country, we must state the words of a way to carry out. Although I think the word imperialism is soil, but each time the way other people to identify with Western philosophy, I think the word imperialism.
In fact, the Chinese traditional classics, philosophers of science, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Sui and Tang Buddhist, Neo-Confucianism, the philosophy is very authentic, but is only made in China. These should read more, it will not only temper their thinking, find yourself a lot more deep-seated source of ideas. (These types must be read: the Laozi and Zhuangzi, Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, ZHUAIYULE, with a teaching record)
Secretly Sound: This is a heavy but can not be ignored, in fact, all of us aware of our culture now what sort of a situation, how we should do is we very much understand. Increasing international competition, in particular, tend to compete more time in the cultural field, save the national culture, national spirit, renewal and cultural identity to become a very pressing issue.
Maybe things foreign are good, are good with me, or why so many Chinese people wear dresses to eat foreign food with rickshaw proud to open it? Crazy in Korea violated the sovereignty of our traditional culture, we should have more cool-headed thinking, not merely criticism or protest. Why do we never thought about the inscription, why do we never thought about protection? A student may borrow the words of that: the near future, I am afraid to be thought of Confucius and Mencius in the foreign land to find fertile ground for the real. Bringing something we embrace a comprehensive, but how the delays with opera, cooking, acupuncture and swagger to go out and have to unprovoked ashamed of it here?
To save our culture, to save our national character, like the real traditional Chinese culture deep into the hearts of every one of us.