The Ancient Chinese "and" With The "concept Of The Contemporary Cultural Diversity Problems

As culture is the blood vessel of a nation, cultural past and future correlate with the location, which can settle down the culture and get on with cultural pursuit. We have to confront the tremendous tide, which is brought by globalization. Will the world culture be the most brilliant or just as splendid as others? Will the cultural traditions go downhill or realize a change? Every nation all the world must be thinking such questions with different sorts of feelings after experiencing a baptism of globalization. Looking back the reality, we can find the dark currents of cultural clashes hiding under the cover of obvious political and economic clashes in some partial areas. Painfully we are seeing some precious cultural resources losing silently in the process of modernization. And then the dispute about "the possibility of cultural diversity and how to realize the diversity" is brought forth. Facing such a reality, there is no shirking the responsibility for us to show solicitude for social philosophy and think it by ourselves. At present, there is a focus in all kinds of viewpoints in academic circles. The focus is: the cultures are tending to be the same or to be diverse in the trend of globalization. Considering the two viewpoints, we will pay our attention to the cultural organism that is familiar to us, recognize and think cultures through its organism. The pattern of "Diverse Yuan and One Ti" of ZhongHua nationality and the reality of harmonious existence side by side of minority nationalities in YunNan province make us believe: the cultural gardens in this world are still a great gardens in which a hundred flowers blossoming and a hundred odors sweet-smelling after experiencing a very long course of development. I can't help recalling the views about "He" and "Tong" in ancient China. Under the background of globalization, all kinds of scholars are exploring the trend of cultural development in order to find the key to wisdoms through going back to cultural traditions of their nations. Some of the scholars point out explicitly that cultures have fallen into acute two-waycollisions between the One and the Diverse, the Same and the Different. The guiding ideology, which can break away from this predicament, may be the thinking of "He" and "Tong" in Chinese traditional culture. At the same time, compromising and uniting the theory of contemporary trend of cultural development can seemingly draw support from wisdoms of ancient China.In fact, there had already been the exploration of this issue in the long thinking of "He" and "Tong" in Chinese traditional philosophy. As early as at the Western Zhou Dynasty, the dispute of "debate of He and Tong" had revealed unadornedly but penetratingly the ideology of "things are born from He, but don't continue from Tong". The ideology confirmed the diverse harmony of "He" be really a lively state. After the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring states Period, the viewpoints of "He" and "Tong" were led into a more widespread and profound field thanks to the inheritance of various schools, the dispute from various angles and the exquisite construction by the sages in Song-Ming Dynasty. The viewpoints involved nature and society, centralized intensively various domains and levels like "cultivating one's moral character, arranging one's family, running one's country and putting the world in order", realized the unity of world outlook and values outlook and methodology, and internalized thoroughly into Chinese traditional culture.The expounding of idea will make us understand: the concept of "He", whose equilibrium won't be unchanged, is a diverse harmony and a law by which all the things in cosmos can exist and develop. So when we envisage the condition of''Diversity" heavy-heartedly, why don't we examine and recognize closely the thought of "harmony but not the same"? The thought, which is full of tenacity and tension, is a mode of thinking and wisdom of existence. Let's whisk historical dust, guide cultural development through world and values outlook of "things a...