Feng Tianyu And The Contemporary Development Of The Study Of Chinese Cultural History

The history of Chinese culture is a special history discipline that has arisen since the gradual contact between modern China and the West.In the early 20th century,with Liang Qichao’s "New History" as the symbol,the study of Chinese cultural history was in vogue.After the promotion of the New Culture Movement and the rise of the national crisis,considerable progress was achieved in the 1930s and 1940s.During the period after the founding of New China,influenced by the concept of class history,the study of Chinese cultural history once fell to the bottom.Since the reform and opening up in the 1980s,the study of Chinese cultural history has revived.In the course of the renaissance of contemporary Chinese cultural history research,a number of highly successful scholars and books have appeared.Feng Tianyu and his books are among them.Feng Tianyu’s writing on the history of Chinese culture has undergone the holistic research in the 1980s and the thematic studies from the 1990s to the early new century.He recently introduced his book Da Chengcheng’s History of the Generation of Chinese Culture.In the book "History of the Generation of Chinese Culture," Feng Tianyu discussed issues concerning Chinese cultural consciousness,cultural mechanisms,cultural traits,and cultural history,and proposed that cultural generation is a process of cultural freedom and cultural awareness.It focuses on the mechanisms of cultural generation.The four levels of geographical environment,economic foundation,social structure,and political system have horizontally summarized the basic characteristics of Chinese culture and vertically divided the stages of the development of Chinese cultural history.The issues presented in the History of the Generation of Chinese Culture and some important expositions are all summarizing the long-term research on past cultural history.Many of the ideas in the book are closely related to previous works either before or after.For example,the problem of cultural consciousness has been explored in the "Mysteries of Ancient Chinese Culture";issues of Chinese cultural characteristics and cultural generation mechanisms have successively been in the "Mysteries of Ancient Chinese Culture","History of Chinese Culture" and "Outline of Chinese Cultural History.Such issues as the gradual separation of Chinese cultural history have gradually been revised in the "China Culture Development Thread" and "Chinese Cultural History."Comparing Feng Tianyu’s works on Chinese cultural history with the works of representative cultural history in different eras,it can be seen that Feng Tianyu’s research features on Chinese cultural history.In the creation of the theory of cultural history,Feng Tianyu constructed and gradually improved the theory of cultural ecology,and discovered the structural features of Chinese culture by exploring the deep mechanism of cultural generation.On the issue of Chinese cultural connotation,Feng Tianyu consciously foresaw future cultural trends with cultural awareness and proposed Chinese culture.Transcendence should be achieved through the negation of negative dialectic process;in the field of disciplines,we must open up the integration of ancient and interdisciplinary studies,and combine organic and subtle.From the early 1980s to the present,Feng Tianyu has never interrupted writing and research on the history of Chinese culture.In terms of writing style,he adheres to the methods of historical research on "justification,textual criticism,and deciduous writings",advocates a comprehensive research perspective of "crossing ancient and modem times,and breaking through China and the West",and brings into full play the characteristics of the macro and microscopic features of cultural history to the extreme;Create cultural and historical research theories such as "cultural ecology" and "historical and cultural semantics",build academic theoretical systems for the cultural transformation of Ming and Qing Dynasties,and establish and continuously improve the modem academic system of Chinese cultural history research;Feng Tianyu takes the history of Chinese culture as the field of cultivation It shoulders the mission of academic revival and mission of the era of cultural history research.Based on the foundation of the previous generation,it is rooted in the contemporary era and continuously pushes the study of Chinese cultural history into in-depth development.It is the contemporary scholars represented by Feng Tianyu that have reconstructed the study of the history of Chinese culture as a historical mission.The study of Chinese cultural history has been able to better carry forward the past and carry forward the future.