During the Spring Festival, Chinese people always use traditional cultural poetry to look forward to the coming year and wish each other in a unique way. General Secretary Xi Jinping has delivered important speeches on different occasions, quoting classics and providing profound ideological enlightenment to people. On the occasion of the New Year, let us review these quotations from General Secretary Xi Jinping, appreciate the beauty of poetry, encourage each other, and continue to strive.
Chinese civilization has outstanding innovation. The Chinese civilization is a civilization that has revolutionized the past and is shining brighter with each passing day. The still waters and deep currents are intertwined with the magnificent waves. Continuity is not stagnation, nor rigidity, but a process of historical progress supported by innovation. The Chinese nation has always created its own material civilization, spiritual civilization and political civilization with the spirit of
"new every day, new every day, and new again"
, and has stood as the most prosperous and powerful civilization in the world for a long historical period. The innovative nature of Chinese civilization fundamentally determines the Chinese nation’s enterprising spirit of being upright rather than conservative, respecting the past rather than retrospecting, and determines the fearless character of the Chinese nation that is not afraid of new challenges and has the courage to accept new things.
——Xi Jinping’s speech at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development on June 2, 2023
【Original】
Tang Zhi's "Pan Ming" says: "Every day it is new, it is new every day, and it is new every day."
——(Spring and Autumn Period to Qin and Han Dynasties) "Book of Rites·University"
【Definition】
The three words "new" in "Gou Ri Xin, Day Day Xin, Ri Ri Xin" originally mean that bathing removes dirt from the skin and makes the body look brand new. It is often extended to the spiritual abandonment of the old and the pursuit of the new. Therefore, the meaning of this sentence is: If you can get rid of the old and renew every day, you must persevere.
"New every day, new every day, new every day" emphasizes continuous innovation from a dynamic perspective. The word "innovation" originated here. It can be seen that traditional Chinese culture places great emphasis on innovation, requiring people to adapt to and promote social development with an innovative attitude, rather than being conservative and blocking the progress of history.
It is relatively common in Chinese culture to extend bathing to spiritual baptism and moral cultivation. The ancient saints, if they want to nourish their nature, they must first cultivate their bodies, and if they want to purify their hearts, they must first cleanse their bodies, such as "Bathing in the snow and rejuvenating" in "Zhuangzi Zhibeiyou". "Book of Rites·Confucianism" also states that "Confucians bathe their bodies and bathe their virtues". Kong Yingda, a Confucian scholar of the Tang Dynasty, said: "To 'bath the body and bathe in virtue', bathing the body means bathing the body to cleanse the body without staining the turbidity; bathing in virtue means bathing in virtue, and using virtue to purify oneself."
(Editor: Wan Peng, Design: Liu Yuanyuan)
(Source: "Xi Jinping's Useful Dictionary" Vol. 1, Qiushi)