China is a civilized and ancient country, and traditional culture is a unique historical and cultural deposit of China.

Traditional Chinese culture is the material and intangible cultural heritage of ideas, values, moral cultivation, poetry, architecture and other aspects handed down from generation to generation in the history of more than 5,000 years of the Chinese nation, covering the cultural resources left by the ancestors of the past dynasties.

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What is tradition? What is inheritance?

Culture seems invisible and colorless, but it determines where our society comes from and where it is going. ——Chai Jing

Something did not inherit, can only be called "the past." If it is passed down to the present day, it can be called "tradition".

Tradition is the sum of the thinking mode and value concept of predecessors on the world and life, as well as the lifestyle and behavior mode handed down from history, and is an organic system created by human beings composed of culture, ideology, morality, mentality, art and system, which is condensed, extended and changed by history.

Tradition is a kind of resource, a kind of spirit, a kind of idea, a kind of cultural general rule shared by the whole nation.

It is also an ideographic symbol of the systems, beliefs, values and ways of behavior created by people in history, and a cultural process of interweaving, inheriting and continuing in time and space.

Tradition is not only condensed in institutions and cultural concepts, but also deeply buried in people's psychological consciousness, containing emotional power and divine appeal, which can touch the softest sincerest feelings in our hearts.

Tradition, just like seeing flowers in the fog, cannot give clear boundaries, but it is everywhere in our life, culture and thought, and it is affected.

The 24 solar terms summarized by the ancients for agriculture are still used in agricultural production today, and have become an important tool for working people to master seasonal changes, which is a tradition and inheritance.

It is a tradition and inheritance for poets to express their feelings and express themselves through poems and poems, which become the spiritual guidance and inspiration of modern people.

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Inheritance, there are two meanings, one is "pass", the other is "bearing"; Carry forward the past and the future.

But the real inheritance must be combined with innovation. Innovation in the process of inheritance and inheritance in the process of innovation are meaningful and valuable inheritance.

In fact, in China's traditional culture, there are innovative content itself: "If the new, every day, and new" "although the old state of Zhou, its order to restore the new" in the traditional culture, has always been "worship the ancient" and not "old-fashioned".

What we should keep is not the old, but the Way. The Tao is the core, and the Tao does not change with time.

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"Tao" cannot be new, but the external expression of "Tao" can be new.

For example, our harmonious relationship with nature cannot change. However, the form of harmony between man and society and family, which is suitable for the present, can change.

For example, taking personal cultivation as the starting point, and ultimately taking "leveling the world" as the purpose of personal ambition, will not change. However, the steps and methods of realizing personal value developed from this process can be changed.

It is not necessarily "governing the country", it can be "learning" or "industry" or "education", because the modern social division of labor is more detailed. Some do not need to change: for example, the spirit of exploration of "extreme physics and extreme reason" contained in "material knowledge".

For example, we pay attention to "politeness", the unity of inner and outer "beauty".

For example, the "benevolent lover" of the gentleman's virtue.

These values, which have been recognized by all ages and at home and abroad, why change them?

Innovation can't come out of nothing. All our new behavior must have a cultural source and rational basis, is suitable for the time and space of the material transformation of the environment, and "although the old state, its destiny to restore the new" social relations correction. "Tang's plate inscription says: If the day is new, the day is new, and the day is new," which also means "make it new."