Mao Zedong’s View On Traditional Culture And Its Contemporary Value

In the long history of the development of the Chinese nation,Chinese traditional culture has once renewed its brilliance and become an important source of national self-confidence and pride.However,with the acceleration of the modernization process,traditional culture has encountered a huge "survival crisis" and its living space has been severely compressed.Under this circumstance,how to correctly understand,locate and treat traditional culture and organically integrate traditional culture with modern society has become an important theoretical and practical problem that needs to be solved urgently.Mao Zedong is deeply acquainted with Chinese traditional culture.In the process of revolution and construction,guided by Marxist theory,he has formed a unique traditional cultural concept.In concrete terms,Mao Zedong ’s traditional cultural and cultural view is a process of tortuous development and continuous enrichment.From the student period to the founding of the Communist Party of China,Mao Zedong’s traditional cultural concept was in its infancy.During this period,Mao Zedong’s understanding of traditional culture was mostly fragmented and fragmented,and still in an immature stage;from 1921 to around 1942 Mao Zedong combined with the practice of revolution and struggle,using the basic principles and methods of Marxism to analyze traditional culture,and achieved fruitful results in both theory and practice.Mao Zedong’s traditional cultural concept gradually matured;from 1942 to 1976,Mao Zedong’s traditional cultural concept was deepened.During the development period,Mao Zedong summed up the historical experience of the development of traditional culture since the May Fourth Movement and continued to deepen his understanding of traditional culture along the cultural development logic of "criticism-inheritance-innovation".Due to the miscalculation of the situation at home and abroad,Mao Zedong in his later years regarded traditional culture as a collection of various cultural ideas in the old society,and made a more thorough criticism of traditional culture.The traditional culture suffered a great blow.Mao Zedong’s traditional cultural view is a rich collection of meanings.Mao Zedongbelieves that Chinese traditional culture is essentially the culture of the feudal era with the essence and dross.From the perspective of historical orientation,Chinese traditional culture is an inseparable historical heritage,a concrete form of Marxism in China,and a culture.Building important resources requires people to use Marxist methods to criticize inheritance,take its essence and go to its dross,and widely absorb foreign excellent cultural components,and innovate a new culture that the people love.In general,Mao Zedong’s traditional cultural view has five characteristics: directional,practical,national,popular and innovative.With the socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era,it puts forward higher requirements for the inheritance and development of Chinese excellent traditional culture.Studying Mao Zedong’s traditional cultural concept not only has important theoretical significance,but also has great practical significance.Inheriting and developing the excellent traditional Chinese culture,we must adhere to the guiding position of Marxism,strengthen the confidence of cultural self-confidence,adhere to the people as the center,and constantly promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture.