China Traditional Life-And-Death Essence And Its Contemporary Significances

Life-and-death essence is the nucleus of the philosophy and the basis of the establishment of the cultural value system. The nucleus of humane noumenon and ultimate value of China culture is to look into the problems about all things on earth and where human beings come from and go to. So the life-and -death problem is indeed a sharp challenge that human beings' intellect is facing. The answers to this problem are the foundations on which human beings determine the life attitude and life target, and establish the view of life, view of value and ethics.The paper shows several main kinds of china traditional Hfe-and-death essence from views and gives out its contemporary explanation. And then it describes cultural enter points of getting down and getting on with, and it discovers the important significance of life education: On one side, it profoundly studies and explains the death culture, such as Confucianism, Taoist, Taoism and Buddhism which have occupied the special position in China ideological history and have deeply affected the forming of China national culture; On the other side, studying the contemporary significance of China traditional life-and-death essence and dispelling human beings fear death psychology and death misunderstanding can make human beings understand death correctly. Thus human beings will value their lives and establish correct view of life and correct view of death.Confucianism starts from death onto logy and holds the reason doctrine attitude that death must come. It fills up the gap between life and death with humanity's existence and encourages people to word hard before death for developing their causes, cultivating and acting on their moral quality with the fames spreading far and wide after death. Confucians attach more importance to the significance and value of individual death, and regard the moral value realizing as the key for people to solve the life-and-death problem. They highly praise immortality and realize transcendence of life to death throughsetting up morality, honor, and theories ,and Confucian view of death with the moral value as its nucleus derives the life attitude of positive living and exertion and promising and the life guiding principles such as dying for a just cause and laying down life for a just cause, which provide ideas and standards for people's life and encourage people to be loyal to country, be filial to parents, be respectful to elder and be friendly to friends .Taoist whose representative is LaoZhuang worships "Providence" and yearns for "nature". It advocates "attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing" and is bent on the unconvention of individual to society. Taoist loves life and pays more attention to life but not cravenly cling to life; it likes integrated life and long life but doesn't hate death. Its thought that life and death is an organic whole and the explore of death and immorality provide a certain function for understanding life-and-death problem, dispelling fearing death feeling, and relieving some unnecessary sufferings in one's life. At the same time, Taoist attitude of going with the nature and stream opened up an aesthetics life realm of real nature.Though Buddhism is a foreign religion, rapidly, China culture and Buddhism penetrated each other in the history. It not only deeply affected the nobles, but its religion believing power has deep effects on Chinese common people's view of death. The Buddhism understands itself with essence, pleads mukti of life-and-death suffering as its purport, and makes "no personal conditions in heart" as the main ways for life-and-death convention. Buddhism advocates the stand of "setting life and death", and makes how to really understand self as the studying problem. Buddhism has clear answers to the life-and-death amazement, Buddhism basic views for death is that life and death are shifting in turn. The life essence is suffering. The people can multi life and death provided whole heartedly thinking about the Buddhism. And in the end, the people can achieve permanent Buddhi...