The Cultural Mission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) People in the New Era
Author: Han Meiqun (special researcher of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theoretical System Research Center, Hubei Province, vice president, professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Marxism, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)
Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind. Looking back on the course of cultural construction in the past century, in the fierce collision between eastern and western civilizations, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people have always adhered to the guidance of Marxism, taken human development and social progress as their own responsibility, never forgotten the original, absorbed foreign countries and faced the future, thus opening a new chapter in the development of Chinese culture. Culture makes the country prosperous and the nation strong. In the new historical position and starting point of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s entering a new era, facing new development opportunities and challenges, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people are shouldering a more arduous cultural mission.
1, cultural heritage, realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The prosperity of a country and a nation is always supported by cultural prosperity, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation needs the development and prosperity of Chinese culture." China’s excellent traditional culture nurtured in the development of civilization for more than 5,000 years is the blood and soul of the Chinese nation, the cultural gene that Chinese sons and daughters can never give up, and the cultural support for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In the development process of nearly a hundred years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) not only shoulders the heavy responsibility of national independence and national prosperity, but also undertakes the cultural mission of the development and prosperity of Chinese culture.
Chinese traditional culture is a complex ideological system and cultural organism, which has both nationality, times and class. If it is simplified and abstracted into a fixed and simple individual, it will be one-sided and metaphysical.
Culture makes the country prosperous and the nation strong. The picture shows the campus opera festival held by Yuhua West Road Primary School in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province with the theme of "carrying forward the classic Chinese quintessence of opera art". Xinhua news agency
In the past, we have made serious mistakes, such as completely denying the value of traditional culture because of its backward or decadent elements, or unilaterally upgrading its status because of its progress or positive side, and so on. These are all things we should be alert to. In the new era, great changes have taken place in the domestic and international environment, and ideological trends or tendencies such as "cultural nihilism", "cultural conservatism" and "cultural fanaticism" are still presented in different forms to varying degrees. How to inherit and develop Chinese excellent traditional culture according to the characteristics of the new era is a major strategic task for the Communist Party of China (CPC) people in the new era.
On how to inherit Chinese traditional culture, Comrade Mao Zedong once proposed to "take its essence and discard its dross". The selective absorption of traditional culture can only be completed through people’s purposeful free and conscious activities. In the new era, under the guidance of Marxism, we should follow the logic of cultural development, focus on grasping and analyzing traditional culture from the perspective of historical and cultural continuity, not only understand its historical position and historical value, but also recognize its era connotation and practical significance. At the same time, we should face the future, strengthen our cultural self-confidence in the great practice of realizing the historical mission of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, stick to our cultural stand, oppose "cultural hegemony" and "cultural invasion", and strive to create Chinese culture with China characteristics, China style and China style.
2, cultural innovation, building a socialist modernization power in an all-round way.
Innovation is the soul and motive force of cultural development and progress. Throughout the history of human civilization, whether in the East or the West, cultural innovation has played a key role in the long-lasting and prosperous culture. In essence, the European Renaissance in the 14th and 16th centuries was not a cultural revival movement back to ancient Greece and Rome, but a thorough cultural regeneration and cultural innovation movement, which greatly accelerated the process of western civilization. In the modern new culture movement in China, cultural innovation and ideological emancipation have always been the main theme, which greatly promoted the transformation and modernization of Chinese traditional culture.
History and practice have repeatedly proved that innovation is an inexhaustible motive force for the country and the nation to maintain vitality and vitality forever.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always attached importance to cultural innovation and cultural construction. In different historical periods of China’s revolution, construction and reform, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people actively cultivated and spawned revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture under the guidance of Marxism, based on Chinese excellent traditional culture, based on practice and taking innovation as a breakthrough. At present, China is forging ahead along the goal of "two hundred years", and the Communist Party of China (CPC) shoulders the mission and task of cultural innovation entrusted by the times. "Raise the banner, gather people’s hearts, cultivate new people, promote culture and display image". Only by creating a new culture worthy of the times with the attitude of innovators can the Communist Party of China (CPC) people forge ahead in the journey of building a socialist modernization power in an all-round way and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and realize their glorious dreams.
To promote cultural innovation in an all-round way, we must handle the relationship between cultural inheritance and cultural innovation. Chinese culture has always paid attention to the dialectical relationship between "change" (innovation) and "constant" (inheritance). Confucius once said: "Yin gained and lost because of Xia Li, so we can know it; It is clear that Zhou gained and lost because of Yin Li. Its successor or successor, though immortal, is also known. " It is precisely because of the constant changes that Chinese culture has gone through thousands of dangers and changes, but it is still endless and endless.
To promote cultural innovation in the new era, we must uphold the guiding position of Marxism in the field of cultural ideology. Ideology determines the direction and road of cultural innovation and development. Marxism is the world outlook and methodology of the proletariat. Under the guidance of Marxism, the Communist Party of China (CPC) promotes the innovation and development of Chinese culture. Its essence is the process of Marxism in China, and it is also the process of Chinese cultural modernization. They are not simply "foreign" and "native", decided and decided, included and included or juxtaposed. In essence, they are a kind of agreement and integration of cultural content and cultural spirit.
3. Learn from each other and promote the construction of a new civilized order in the world.
As early as more than 100 years ago, Marx and Engels revealed and predicted the globalization trend of world history and spiritual and cultural production. They pointed out that "the satisfaction of the needs of every civilized country and everyone in these countries depends on the whole world" and "many national and local literatures have formed a kind of world literature". In today’s world, with the acceleration of globalization, the conflict and integration between different cultures has become an indisputable fact. In the extremely fierce international competition, the Communist Party of China (CPC) put forward that we should respect the diversity of world civilizations, transcend the estrangement of civilizations, learn from each other, transcend the superiority of civilizations, create a new concept of civilization, promote the construction of a community of human destiny, and build a new global civilized order, which has been recognized by the vast number of peace-loving countries and people in the world.
In the history of human civilization development for thousands of years, equal exchanges and mutual learning between world civilizations can promote the development of culture, and vice versa. Zhang Qian’s mission to the western regions and the establishment of the Silk Road greatly promoted the prosperity of eastern and western cultures; However, the Crusade became a "reversed history of Eurasian blood and tears". Civilization or culture has nationality, diversity and equality. The cultures of different nationalities in the world communicate on the basis of equality, are valuable because of communication, learn from each other because of value, and are promoted because of mutual learning.
In the tide of globalization, closing the country to the outside world and blindly excluding foreigners are moving against the current, which goes against the law of the development of culture itself. Of course, belittling yourself and worshiping foreign things will also lose yourself and lose your direction. The correct attitude is to strengthen cultural self-confidence, adhere to the principle of cultural equality, take everything in an open spirit, exchange and learn from each other, absorb the strengths of all ethnic groups and adopt the wisdom of a hundred schools. On the one hand, we will "bring in" and learn from the cultures of other ethnic groups in the world to strengthen cultural exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries; On the other hand, "going out" will enhance the world influence of Chinese culture. At the same time, we must resolutely oppose and refute the western thoughts of "clash of civilizations" and "cultural hegemonism", adhere to the cultural equality of all ethnic groups, replace confrontation with dialogue, replace exclusion with exchange, resolve conflicts and promote integration, and jointly create a new concept of civilization and a new civilized order of "civilization exchange, civilization mutual learning and civilization coexistence".
Guangming Daily (June 20, 2019, 05 edition)