Discussion Of The Culture Transformation In The Contemporary Chinese Society Transformation

From the historical experiences of commercialization in many countries of the world, modernization which expresses as industrialization, commercialization and urbanization is not a simple question about economic growth and technology development, but represents the most profound human civilization transformation in the world history between traditional agriculture to modem industrial civilization. Modernity is not a non-essential and side issue characteristics of the modern society, it is the blood of modern society and permeates into every fields of modern society using its inside mechanism, the deep structure and schema, conscious civilization spirit.Therefore, the modernization must be an overall process including the changes of main aspects in human and society. From a macroeconomic perspective, the modernization of unity can be roughly divided into two and relatively connected aspects: the one is the social modernization, which uses the market economy, technology development and system maturity as the main connotation. The other is the modernization of human, which uses the cultural transformation, improvement the quality and the changes of the living and acting mode as the main contents. The most essence connotation of human modernization is the human transformation between free and spontaneous tradition subject which relying on the culture factors of tradition, habit, customs, patriarchal kinship and natural emotion to the conscious and creative subject which has subject consciousness, critical awareness and technical rationality. This is the transformation of cultural patterns.The development of modernization has two modes. One kind is endogenous, as in western countries, the corresponding exogenous modernization patterns is this mode. The other kind is exogenous mode, like China, the modernization apparent under external pressure is a typical exogenous mode. In the country of the latter the exogenous modernization mode, the cultural transformation often falls behind economic and technical transformation. Hence, it tends to become the important factors of modernization. From the westernization movement, many arguments about Chinese modernization are concentrated in cultural level. The new culture movement in "May 4th" movement and the "Culture Heat" began in the 1980s are trying to use radical cultural enlightenment to promote the transformation of traditional culture mode, so as to realize the modernization and individual of the Chinese people. However, till now, this radical cultural enlightenment did not touch the Chinese traditional culture pattern. The reason is this cultural enlightenment mainly stays on the surface enlightenment and did not touch the deep essence and foundations of traditional culture. The foundation of traditional culture mode produced from the traditional agricultural civilization is not science, art and philosophy of self-consciously human spirit productive labor, but the basic necessities like food, men and women, weddings and funerals, such ease of daily life. It is the spontaneously free daily life created the traditional culture model and China the huge People's Daily lives become the apartments and foundations of traditional culture. Therefore, to realize the modernization of the people and the cultural transformation, it must began from criticize and reconstruction of daily life, using deep cultural enlightenment to replace the current surface cultural enlightenment, and accomplish the permeation from consciousness of rational culture spirit to daily life world.