Why did Chinese traditional culture break down?

1 Chinese traditional culture has been impacted by Western culture, and traditional culture has been affected to a certain extent. On the one hand, Western culture enriches our lives and makes our lives more colorful; on the other hand, we blindly accept Western culture, causing China's traditional culture to fall into a crisis of conflict with Western culture, which in turn causes us to lose some traditional culture.

In the modern Opium War, Chinese culture faced threats from Western culture. After the Opium War, China began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and was impacted by the advanced Western culture. It could no longer continue the historical cultural development model of self-centered tolerance and absorption. China had to learn Western culture. By the 1860s, Western countries had further intensified their aggression against China, and the Westernizationists had sprung up a cultural and ideological activity of "Chinese learning as the body and Western learning as the application." They once thought that Western learning was a "bad trend," but now they think it is Knowledge that can strengthen a country. Because of this impact, China began to understand its own shortcomings, and at the same time began to criticize and reflect on its own culture. In order to save the country from danger, advanced intellectuals launched the New Culture Movement. On the one hand, they inherited the spirit of Western democracy and science. On the other hand, intellectuals represented by Hu Shi and Chen Xujing advocated "total Westernization". It is believed that it is the choice of the times to learn from advanced Western culture and to rebel against traditional Chinese culture, which has caused a cultural rupture to a certain extent. However, during the New Culture Movement, some traditional cultures returned to the stage, such as the promotion of vernacular Chinese and the promotion of new literature.

From the time when Western powers opened China’s door during the Opium War to today’s life, we seem to be influenced by Western culture all the time, so much so that our lifestyle has also been affected to a certain extent: watching Hollywood blockbusters , drink Coke, eat hamburgers, celebrate Christmas and other Western festivals, and advocate Western technology, etc., while China's Double Ninth Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, etc. have been left out. At present, more and more Western culture has penetrated into our daily life, such as hospital medical equipment, factory machinery and equipment, foreign clothing styles, etc. While enjoying Western culture, we should not forget our roots, but be inclusive.

2 Our country focuses on economic construction, and economic development has become the focus of various undertakings across the country. Such a single-minded approach to economic development has caused us to relatively ignore the necessity of protecting and continuing Chinese culture.

In the early days of the founding of New China, our party established the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It believed that the way for China’s future development was to combine the guiding ideology of Marxism with China’s actual conditions, and formulated the "Let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend" However, during the "Ten Years of Turmoil" period when class struggle was the keynote, dogmatism copied Mao Zedong Thought, refused to absorb and learn from the essence of Western and Chinese traditional culture, and defined all advanced Western cultures as bourgeois, China's traditional culture has been criticized as feudal superstition. Many cultural relics and historic sites have been destroyed, and only "red" things such as slogans and slogans are left in cultural life. The inheritance of China's traditional culture has been greatly restricted.

Chinese calligraphy is a traditional art unique to Chinese characters. The beauty and techniques presented by calligraphy art all reflect the wisdom of the ancients and the essence of Chinese character culture. At the same time, our country's calligraphy is loved by countries such as Japan and South Korea. At present, Japanese calligraphy has slowly surpassed China, the originator of calligraphy art, in terms of popularity, calligraphy achievements, and mounting quality. In Japan, one in five or six Japanese people learns calligraphy. There are about 1 million people in Japan who can be called calligraphers and can hold solo exhibitions and publish collections of works [1]. Although computers are now commonplace, Japan still inherits the tradition of calligraphy. Ministers basically use a brush to sign national documents or sign on formal occasions, because they believe that signing with a brush is an important way to show personal qualities. And every New Year's Day, Japanese men, women, and children go to temples and shrines to write calligraphy. After writing, they put their palms together and recite, and finally enshrine them in the temple to fulfill their wishes at the beginning of the year. The popularization and emphasis on calligraphy education is also one of the important reasons why Japan has been able to inherit the art of calligraphy. Calligraphy classes are offered in primary and secondary schools in Japan. In addition, Japan also offers many calligraphy interest classes to provide learning and learning opportunities for calligraphy enthusiasts. Opportunities to develop interests.

It can be seen that without the understanding and promotion of traditional culture, inheriting traditional Chinese culture will be water without a source and a tree without roots.

3 The development of modernization has led people to the road of prosperity, but along with it has come a decline in moral values ??and conflicts with the values ??of traditional culture. As early as the pre-Qin Dynasty, Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, put forward the concept of "benevolence", which is mainly reflected in concern and respect for people. The idea of ??compassion and universal salvation proposed by Buddhism also reflects the concept of humanity. He and Confucianism The benevolence and righteousness of Mohism are consistent with the universal love of Mohism. Taoism advocates respecting nature and complying with the laws of nature. Human activities should be carried out without damaging the natural environment. These schools actually advocate the concept of the unity of nature and man to achieve a balance between nature and man. However, in recent years, the news has continuously exposed various ugly phenomena, and the unhealthy trend of corrupt officials has also grown and spread. Secondly, people greedily seek from nature, causing air, water and other necessities of survival to be polluted and destroyed. The indiscriminate use of chemical additives by unscrupulous traders has become a hidden danger to food safety and threatens our living environment. We should not do anything based on personal interests, but should consider the overall situation and ensure the harmonious development of man and nature. We should keep in mind the wisdom and morality of Chinese culture.