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Dragon Boat Festival, to understand Xi Jinping's traditional cultural complex
The rice dumplings overflowed, and hundreds of boat races arrived. As one of the four traditional festivals in China, the Dragon Boat Festival has been evolving for thousands of years and has been inherited to this day, condensing a profound and profound Chinese traditional culture.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the inheritance and promotion of China’s excellent traditional culture, and clearly stated in the report of the Party’s 19th National Congress that it is necessary to dig deeply into the ideological concepts, humanistic spirit, and moral standards contained in the Chinese excellent traditional culture In line with the requirements of the times, inherit and innovate, so that Chinese culture can show its permanent charm and style. During the Dragon Boat Festival, let us understand Xi Jinping's traditional cultural complex together in the strong folk customs.
Home country feelings, national spirit, Xi Jinping frequently emphasized
On May 28, 2018, the 19th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 14th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering were grandly opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Pengshe
"Whoever speaks during the Dragon Boat Festival is said to have been rumored to be Qu Yuan." There are many origins of the folk customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, among which commemorating Qu Yuan has the most extensive influence. Qu Yuan is a great patriotic poet in Chinese history. He is worried about his homeland, loves the people, has the courage to explore, and has a clean and noble personality charm and ideological essence, which is admired by the world. Xi Jinping has quoted Qu Yuan's poems many times, frequently emphasizing his country's feelings and national spirit.
"Sincerity is both brave and powerful, and at the end it is strong. It can't be overpowered. The body is dead, the spirit is spirit, and the soul is the spirit." September 3, 2014, in commemoration of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War and the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War 69 At the anniversary symposium, Xi Jinping quoted Qu Yuan's poems and spoke highly of the patriotic spirit of a group of anti-Japanese generals and heroes.
On October 15th, 2014, Xi Jinping used Qu Yuan's "Long Tai Xi to cover his eyes and mourn the people's livelihood" at the symposium on literary and artistic work, encouraging literary and artistic workers to create more works that deeply reflect the voices of the people.
At the conference to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping quoted Qu Yuan’s famous saying, “The road is long and long, and I will seek it up and down.” He warned all comrades of the party that they must continue to move forward without forgetting their original intentions.
"Your heart is good, even if you die nine times, you still have no regrets." On May 28, 2018, Xi Jinping used Qu Yuan again at the opening meeting of the 19th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 14th Academic Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering The verse encourages science and technology workers to be creative.
Why is excellent traditional culture important? Xi Jinping explained
On May 4, 2014, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Peking University. This was Xi Jinping's cordial conversation with the reciters when he watched the Youth Poems for the 95th Anniversary of the May Fourth Movement on campus. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Zhancheng
As China's first Chinese traditional festival to be selected as a non-legacy in the world, the Dragon Boat Festival contains the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. For the importance of excellent traditional culture, Xi Jinping has profoundly explained from multiple dimensions on different occasions.
——The spiritual lifeline of the Chinese nation. "Cultivating and promoting the core values of socialism must be based on China's excellent traditional culture. Firm core values have their inherent roots. Abandoning traditions and throwing away roots is equivalent to cutting off your spiritual lifeline. Broad and profound Chinese excellent traditional culture is ours Rooted in the foundation of the world's cultural shock." On February 24, 2014, Xi Jinping explained the importance of excellent traditional culture in the thirteenth collective study of the Politburo. On May 4th of the same year, Xi Jinping emphasized in a seminar with teachers and students of Peking University that excellent Chinese traditional culture has become a gene of the Chinese nation, rooted in the hearts of Chinese people, and subtly influences the way of thinking and behavior of Chinese people.
——The cultural fertile soil rooted in socialism with Chinese characteristics. Standing at the height of the times, Xi Jinping has built a lofty position and profoundly pointed out that China’s excellent traditional culture is our deepest cultural soft power, and is also the cultural fertile ground for socialism with Chinese characteristics. "A country's governance system and governance capabilities are closely related to the country's historical heritage and cultural traditions." "Only by adhering to the future from the history and pioneering from the continuation of the national cultural blood, can we do today's business" "No The inheritance and development of civilization, without the promotion and prosperity of culture, there will be no realization of the Chinese dream"... These statements show that the construction of socialism with contemporary Chinese characteristics is inseparable from Chinese history, reality and cultural traditions, and from Chinese excellence The continuous nourishment of traditional culture.
——Help to strengthen cultural self-confidence. Xi Jinping emphasized in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that "strengthening cultural self-confidence and promoting the prosperity of socialist culture" and pointed out that "the socialist culture with Chinese characteristics is derived from the excellent Chinese culture bred by the Chinese nation over 5,000 years of civilization Traditional Culture". At the philosophical and social science work symposium on May 17, 2016, Xi Jinping pointed out that we said that we should strengthen the self-confidence, theoretical confidence, and institutional self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the final analysis, we should strengthen cultural self-confidence. Cultural self-confidence is a more basic, deeper and more lasting power. Both history and reality show that a nation that has abandoned or betrayed its own history and culture is not only impossible to develop, but also likely to stage a historical tragedy.
How to inherit and promote excellent traditional culture? Xi Jinping thinks like this
From November 24 to 28, 2013, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Shandong. This is the morning of November 26, Xi Jinping visited the Confucius Institute. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Pengshe
How to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture and let the excellent traditional culture promote the development of the socialist cause? "Ancient use for the present and innovation for the past" "Realization of creative transformation and innovative development" is an important methodology that Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized.
On November 26, 2013, Xi Jinping came to Qufu Confucius House for inspection. In a discussion with representatives of relevant experts and scholars, Xi Jinping said that in studying Confucius and Confucianism, we must adhere to the historical materialist standpoint, adhere to the past for the present and use coarseness, refinement, and hypocrisy, and guide the situation to deepen the research and "make it play an active role in the new era."
On October 15, 2014, Xi Jinping's speech at the symposium on literary work pointed out: "Inheriting Chinese culture is by no means simple retro, nor is it blindly xenophobic, but is used for the present and the foreign for the past, dialectical choices, innovation, and abandon the negative factors , Inherit the positive thoughts,'create your own life with the rules of the ancients', and realize the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese culture."
"Chinese culture continues the spiritual blood of our country and nation. It not only needs to be passed on for generations, to be guarded from generation to generation, but also to keep pace with the times and bring forth new ideas. It is necessary to strengthen the digging and elucidation of China's excellent traditional culture, so that the most basic of the Chinese nation The cultural genes are compatible with contemporary Chinese culture and harmonious with modern society, carry forward the cultural spirit that spans time and space, transcends national borders, has eternal charm, and has contemporary value, activates its inner strong vitality, and allows Chinese culture to create Together with colorful cultures, it provides correct spiritual guidance for mankind." On November 30, 2016, Xi Jinping pointed out in a speech at the opening ceremony of the Tenth Congress of the Chinese Cultural Federation and the Ninth Congress of the Chinese Writers Association.
Communicate and learn from each other, tell Chinese stories to the world, and use traditional culture like Xi Jinping
On April 26, 2019, President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the Second Belt and Road International Cooperation Summit Forum in Beijing and delivered a keynote speech entitled "Together Create a Better Future of the Belt and Road". Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Pengshe
"The rich philosophical thoughts, humanistic spirit, enlightenment thoughts, and moral ideas of China's excellent traditional culture can provide useful enlightenment for people to understand and transform the world, can provide beneficial enlightenment for governing the country, and can also provide useful inspiration for moral construction." Xi Jinping once said frankly that since childhood, he has continuously drawn wisdom from the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The ideology and concepts of Chinese history and excellent traditional culture have also become an important source of his thoughts on governance. On the international stage, Xi Jinping has always been a "spokesperson" for China's excellent traditional culture. He uses a high degree of cultural awareness and cultural self-confidence to tell Chinese stories and Chinese ideas to the world with Chinese excellent traditional culture.
On March 28, 2015, at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2015, Xi Jinping cited the words of the ancient Chinese thinker Mencius in his keynote speech-"The difference between husband and wife, the emotion of things", emphasizing "different civilizations There is no distinction between advantages and disadvantages, only differences in characteristics", which expresses the profound thought of promoting exchanges and dialogues between different civilizations and different development models, drawing on each other's strengths in competition and comparison, and developing together in exchanges and mutual learning.
"There is no distance between each other, and thousands of miles are still neighbors." On November 21, 2016, Xi Jinping quoted a famous sentence in the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Jiuling's "Send to Weicheng Li Shaofu" during his important speech in the Peruvian Congress, indicating that although the two countries are geographically The distance is far away, but national relations can still be as close as neighbors.
On January 18, 2017, Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva entitled "Building a Community of Shared Destiny for Humanity." China has also contributed to global development and welcomes all countries to take the “smooth car” developed by China.
On April 26, 2019, in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the second "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, Xi Jinping explained that the "One Belt and One Road" will be built together To comply with the historical trend of economic globalization, to meet the requirements of the era of global governance system changes, and to the strong desire of people of all countries to live a better life.
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"Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Culture rejuvenates the country, culture is strong and the nation is strong." Today, we are tracing the sages and praying for peace in colorful folk activities, inheriting and enriching the collective memory of our Chinese nation. Recognizing the importance of excellent traditional culture, vigorously promote excellent Chinese traditional culture in practice, jointly protect the spiritual home, and actively integrate with advanced culture to achieve creative transformation and innovative development in inheritance and promotion, we will definitely build socialism A culturally powerful country to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(Sources in the article: People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, CCTV)