Xi Jinping: We must grasp the relationship between inheritance and innovation, learn from the past without conforming to the past, break the law without violating the law, and make China's excellent traditional culture an important source of literary and artistic innovation.
This passage comes from General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony of the 11th Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the 10th Congress of the Chinese Writers Association on December 14, 2021.
China's excellent traditional culture contains profound historical heritage and national wisdom, accumulates the deepest spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, and represents the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation.
"Follow the rules of the ancients and open up your own life." Integrating Chinese cultural values into contemporary literary and artistic creation, and inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture in literary and artistic innovation and creation, is by no means a simple retrospect, nor is it blind exclusion, but a process of dialectical choices and innovations. In recent years, our country has successively launched a large number of new cultural programs and excellent literary and artistic works, which have been welcomed by the market and consumers, demonstrating the charm of creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture in the new era. For example, "China in Classics" presents the historical background and core content of the formation of Chinese classics in the form of stage interpretation, allowing the audience to appreciate the power of Chinese classic culture in an immersive audio-visual experience; "Meeting Friends with Poems" of the "Chinese Poetry Conference", The "combination of poetry and painting" in "Poetry and Painting China" organically combines traditional culture with aesthetic creativity, which is refreshing; the dance poetry drama "Only Green" combines the famous Northern Song Dynasty painting "A Thousand Miles" through dance, music, stage beauty and other artistic means. The landscapes and artistic conceptions in "The Picture of Rivers and Mountains" are reproduced and interpreted to fully demonstrate the charm of Chinese culture.
At the same time, with the help of "Internet +" as an important carrier, the charm of Chinese culture is being more widely disseminated and recognized around the world. From the film and television works and the classic book "Going Out", to the "Twenty-Four Solar Terms Countdown" at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics to interpret Chinese romance, to the "Beauty" of Jiangnan at the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games, which vividly displayed the "beauty" of the south of the Yangtze River. "National Style and Elegance" performance... The vast number of literary and artistic workers in our country use various excellent works and literary and artistic performances as a bridge to allow Chinese stories and Chinese voices to be more widely disseminated to the world.
Only by not forgetting history can we open up the future, and only by being good at inheritance can we pioneer and innovate. On the eve of the Spring Festival this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Tianjin to visit grassroots cadres and the masses and emphasized that Chinese-style modernization is inseparable from the inheritance and promotion of excellent traditional culture. On the new journey, we must comprehensively improve the quality of the supply of spiritual and cultural products, so that people can enjoy rich, colorful, healthy and uplifting spiritual and cultural products and services while having a prosperous material life. Literary and art workers must enhance their cultural consciousness and strengthen their cultural self-confidence, continue to deeply explore the ideological concepts, humanistic spirit and moral norms of China's excellent traditional culture, constantly create masterpieces with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style, and actively promote the cultural construction of our country and the prosperity and development of literature and art, making new contributions to the construction of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
Special expert for this issue: Zhang Dawei, Institute of Literature and Culture, Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences