National Spirit Of The Simple Theory

National spirit is the general psychological disposition of a nation, developed on the ground of the common language, commom territory and economic life, reflecting the nation's culture. It is the combination of a nation's psychological character, cutural tradition and self-consciousness. It is the self-identification of its members with the nation's ideal and goal. It is also the immense spiritual force for the realization of the national ideal and the attainment of the national goal.National spirit has the characteristics of being popular, traditional, epochal, stable and independen. It is first of ail the psychological charater of the entire nation. Its history is created and developed by every individual of the nation. Once it is formed, it comes to be stable and permeated in the culture of the nation, the psycology of the people in it and the structure of the people's life.National spirit lies in national consciousness, standing always at the core of the various levels of the national consciousness. It is, on the one hand, with its national discrimaination and identification, the spiritual source of national cohesive force. It, on the other, being the best and most valuable part and excluding the passive elements in a nation's consciousness, embodies a concentrated refection of a nation's core ideology.National culture breeds national spirit in different ways. National culture has its dross and essence, but national spirit is the symbolic light that rises high above national culture and constitutes the core and the essence of national culture. As the vein and strength of national culture, national spirit decides the nature and the direction of national culture.Tenacity, diligence, generosity, and benevolence have always been the highest realm of Chinese national spirit. Jiang-Zeming, on the basis of the generalization and conclusion of the research work of our predecessors, and a close study of Chinese history and its actual condition, pointed out in his report at the 16th NationCongress of the CPC that "In the long history of five thousand years, Chinese nation has cultivated the great national spirit of patriotism, unity, peace-loving, daring and tenacious, with patriotism being the core." This is the most comprehensive, scientific and accurate account and generalization of Chinese national spirit of the day. These charaters of the Chinese national spirit go inseparably interconnected, constitute the main body of Chinese national spirit, work together for the main course of loving and deveoping the contry. In the live-thousand-year development, they have become the soul of the whole Chinese nation.To cultivate and promote the national spirit, we should uphold the integrity of patriotic education and socialist education, the integrity of national spirit education and the reform-opening education, the integrerity of the ambition of loving our motherland and actual behaviour of serving her, the integrerity of succession and innovationand and the integrerity of cultivation and development.