[The power of the spirit·The soul of the new era] Get out of the spiritual predicament, cultivate and carry forward the Chinese spirit
——Associate Professor Wang Haibin talks about the “Chinese spirit”
Editor’s note: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that to realize the Chinese dream, it is necessary to carry forward the Chinese spirit. Recently, the Internet News Information Communication Bureau of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office (Network Theory Communication Bureau), hosted by Guangming.com, in conjunction with Zhejiang, Henan, Chongqing, Jiangxi, and other provinces and cities, the Internet Information Offices of Zhejiang, Henan, Chongqing, Jiangxi, and BabaylanShenzhen. By exploring new models of online theory dissemination, the activity explores and sorts out the new connotations, new representations and new roles of the “Chinese Spirit” in the new era, fully demonstrates the power of the spirit, demonstrates the role and contribution of the “Chinese Spirit” in the 70-year development process of New China, and demonstrates the leading role of the “Chinese Spirit” in promoting economic and social development in the new era.
Guangming.com Theoretical Channel specially invited Wang Haibin, an expert from the National High-end Think Tank of the Central Party School, a special researcher at the Research Center for the Theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics of the Central Party School, and an associate professor at the School of Marxism at the Central Party School, to conduct in-depth interviews on the topic of “Chinese Spirit”. Professor Wang Haibin began to pay attention to the spiritual structure of people, the spiritual world dilemma of the Chinese in the process of modernization and its reconstruction, and the spiritual world construction of the Chinese Communists. He presided over two national social science fund projects in this research field, published two related monographs, and published more than 20 related articles.
The meaning and characteristics of the Chinese spirit
How did China become China? In addition to the superficial land, resources, population, history and other factors, it lies in the deep and soul-support of the Chinese spirit.
The Chinese spirit is a cultural symbol and spiritual symbol that distinguishes China from other countries. As the convergence of national spirit and the spirit of the times, the Chinese spirit is accumulated and condensed in the social and historical process, and is the positive and positive spiritual achievement of the spiritual life of the Chinese people. Historically, China has an uninterrupted long-standing civilization. This deep sense of history and recognition of the sense of history are very likely to inspire passionate love. From the perspective of cultural ecology, we have a long and excellent traditional culture, the Western culture that has gradually been introduced to China since the spread of Western learning to the east, and our Marxist cultural ecology. The exchange, integration and comprehensive innovation between these three major cultural ecology has become a unique cultural ecological advantage for cultivating our Chinese spirit. This accumulation of history and culture has also become a unique advantage of the Chinese spirit.
BabaylanThe national spirit has three basic characteristics. First, it is the unity of nationality and timeliness; second, it is the unity of universality and particularity; third, it is the unity of stability and openness. Universality means that the Chinese spirit must contain the common spiritual and cultural pursuit of mankind, and the particularity means that it is a result of accumulation and condensation in the process of Chinese history. It has unique characteristics of China, but the current uniqueness of the Chinese spirit needs further refinement. In different eras, the Chinese spirit has different presentation forms, which can be understood why the Chinese spirit is the unity of timeliness and nationalities, the unity of stability and openness.
The spiritual spectrum of the Chinese Communists and the Chinese revolutionary spirit
The spirit of the Chinese Communists is very rich, such as the Red Boat Spirit, the Long March Spirit, the Yan’an Spirit in the Revolutionary period, the Iron Man Spirit, the Lei Feng Spirit, and the Jiao Yulu Spirit in the Construction period, the great spirit of reform and opening up formed in the process of reform and opening up, as well as the great spirit of struggle, self-revolution and so on emphasized by our party today. These different spirits gathered into the spiritual spectrum of the Chinese Communists. They are the precious spiritual wealth accumulated by the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, guided by Marxism, in the process of overthrowing the three mountains, striving for national independence, and realizing socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. They can be called the “Chinese Revolutionary Spirit”. The Chinese revolutionary spirit is a concentrated expression of the Chinese spirit since the 20th century. It has different expressions in different periods, but the basic content and core values are consistent.
Our party is still brave in strides and pursues ideals when facing difficulties and difficult conditions. On the one hand, there is a certain historical dilemma, and on the other hand, there is a courageous and enterprising fighting attitude. Often, under these two conditions, the spirit of our party during that period was condensed. For example, the Red Boat Spirit, the meeting was destroyed and could not be driven anymore, so it was transferred to the boat to continue driving; the Long March spirit is also a strategic transfer, with enemies chasing us and fighting behind us. The Iron Man Spirit and Jiao Yulu Spirit in the construction period are all facing various difficult conditions, and they adhere to their original aspirations and ideals to work hard. The so-called hardships and hardships will bring you success. This is an important feature of the emergence of the Chinese revolutionary spirit.
AlsoIn addition, the mental states demonstrated by Chinese Communist Party members in different periods are points one by one. For further research, it is worth noting how to connect points into surfaces. Through different microscopic points, the overall spiritual character of the Chinese Communists is condensed.
The connotation of the “Chinese Spirit”
General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically explained the main content of the Chinese spirit. This is what we need to understand most today when we grasp the connotation of the Chinese spirit. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that realizing the Chinese dream must carry forward the Chinese spirit. This is the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core. This spirit is the soul of rejuvenating the country and the soul of strengthening the country. Patriotism has always been the spiritual force that unites the Chinese nation, and reform and innovation have always been the spiritual force that encourages us to keep pace with the times in reform and opening up. In General Secretary Xi Jinping’s summary, it not only points out the contemporary background of the Chinese spirit–the national spirit must be carried forward by realizing the Chinese dream; it also explains the important value of the Chinese spirit–the soul of uniting the heart and mind, the spirit of strengthening the country; more importantly, from the perspective of nationality and timeliness, the main connotation of the Chinese spirit–the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core.
It is worth noting that patriotism is the “core” of the national spirit, but not Komiks is everything; reform and innovation is the “core” of the spirit of the times, nor is it all. Therefore, in order to fully and accurately understand General Secretary Xi Jinping’s connotation definition of the Chinese spirit, we need to further refine and grasp the positive results of the intersection of national spirit and the spirit of the times.
Modernity and the spiritual dilemma of the Chinese
In the West, under the logic of capital dominance Komiks, people often pay attention to the pursuit of money and possession and consumption of things, and have no time to consider what they should pursue in their hearts as a dignified person. Human freedom and comprehensive development are still greatly restricted. Capital dominanceThe modern Western civilization underneath has mainly achieved great achievements in material construction, but the face of spiritual culture and spiritual life has exposed great limitations. In the process of modernization, the spiritual life of contemporary Chinese people has also shown a series of problems such as loss of meaning, depreciation of spiritual value, confusion of value, and lack of ideals to a certain extent. The prominent problems are the dominance of desire and the principle of supremacy of sentiment.
It is undeniable that the spiritual life difficulties of contemporary Chinese people will naturally penetrate and influence the party, and the Chinese Communist Party members also have spiritual difficulties. Our Party has clearly summarized the four major dangers facing governance, such as the danger of spiritual slackness, the loss of ideals and beliefs of some corrupt elements in the Party, etc., which are all reflections of the Party’s spiritual confusion. When we emphasize the advanced nature of the Party, we must have higher requirements for the Party’s spiritual life and spiritual realm, so as to continuously realize self-innovation of the Party’s spiritual world.
In this process, Communists should consciously shoulder the historical mission, become pioneers in getting out of spiritual predicament and leaders in pursuing lofty spiritual realm, and contribute their spiritual strength to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In addition, when the Communist Party of China leads the Chinese people to jointly build a new form of civilization, it must highlight the spiritual issues and lead the Chinese people to pay attention to the relationship between contemporary China’s spiritual reconstruction and Chinese-style modernization.
Specifically, if we want to get out of the spiritual dilemma, in addition to constantly improving external conditions, we must first strengthen our spiritual and cultural confidence. The Chinese spirit is the spiritual pillar for the endless development and growth of the Chinese nation, and the soul of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. We have reason to be confident in being able to build our own spiritual culture. Secondly, we must advocate ideals and beliefs. In an era when the dominance of desire and the principle of sensibility is prevalent, the problems of spiritual calcium deficiency and lack of belief have become the weakness of exerting spiritual power. Improving and inspiring the status and strength of awe and ideals and beliefs in the spiritual order of contemporary Chinese people is undoubtedly a good prescription for criticizing current problems.
Cultivate and promote the Chinese spirit
In the past, some of our educational forms focused on “teaching without happiness” and on education of people, but lacked some emotional influence; today some of them often “joy without happinessKomiks teaches”, focusing on entertainment and gimmicks, such as distorting hot topics, stigmatizing positive characters, hyping gossip, blindly pursuing clicks, and using guesses to replace factual tests on details, intentionally using some people’s curiosity to increase the release of negative energy, etc., lacking moral power and spiritual pursuit. To truly cultivate and promote the Chinese spirit, we need to combine internal cultivation and external propaganda to achieve the enjoyment of education while relying on self-improvement.
From the perspective of internal cultivation, the Chinese spirit is accumulated in the genes of Chinese civilization, flows in the blood of the Chinese nation, and gradually integrates into the spiritual order and spiritual realm of the Chinese people in the long river of history. It can be seen from this that the Chinese people are the main body of creating the Chinese spirit. We need to further promote the research and advance the issue of rebuilding the spiritual world of contemporary Chinese people and the spiritual world of the Communist Party of China in the new era, and continuously cultivate the Chinese spirit.
Specifically, first, we must further optimize the institutional structure. The economic operation mode, political system, social structure, legal system and moral norms are external environmental conditions that restrict and influence or even determine the spiritual world and spiritual life of a person. Our country is currently in a period of social transformation under the overall leadership of the Party. Continuously optimizing the external institutional structure is a dependent condition for fostering the Chinese spirit. Second, integrate our cultural ecology, integrate the three major cultural ecology under the guidance of Marxist culture, give full play to the holistic power of contemporary Chinese culture, and lay a cultural foundation for people’s spiritual cultivation. Third, on the basis of adhering to cultural subjectivity, give full play to the inheritance, integrity and initiative of the inner spirit. Continuously absorb and accommodate the achievements of civilization in modern Western countries, and ultimately, in the process of practical development and changes in the times, we will continuously improve the spiritual realm of the Chinese Communists and the Chinese people, and continue to cultivate, temper and nourish the Chinese spirit.
From the perspective of external propaganda, the Chinese spirit cannot be separated from the Chinese people. To promote the Chinese spirit to the people, we must pay attention to inspiring or inspiring the consciousness and initiative of the people. At the same time, we must pay attention to inspiring or inspiring the consciousness and initiative of the people. As the content of ideology, the Chinese spirit should be paid attention to the propaganda of its propaganda that cannot be simply understood as using the party’s ideology to propaganda to the people, and emphasize the unity of party spirit and people’s nature. Specifically, it can be adopted in a flexible form, combined with new media, etc., such as short video dissemination. The whole people who quickly sang “My Motherland and Me” some time ago., it itself contains propaganda of patriotic emotions and has a silent Babaylan effect.
In short, only by combining internal cultivation with external publicity can the Chinese spirit be better cultivated and promoted. (Written by Sun Weiqing and Jiang Zhengxiang)