Using Traditional Culture To Promote China's Neighboring Diplomacy:Historical Experience And Future Path

Since the founding of New China,we have entered a new era after more than 60 years of hard work.Today,China is struggling to realize national rejuvenation and become a global power.In the process of China's peaceful development from a big country to a world power,it is particularly important to handle well the relations with neighboring countries and create a favorable surrounding environment for China.Only when there is a peaceful,stable,healthy and favorable environment,can China expand its openness to the outside world,build its own country and achieve peaceful development in accordance with its stated goals.So China must take active actions to carry out its surrounding diplomacy and improve its relations with neighboring countries in the most appropriate way.With a deep investigation,it is not difficult to find that the surrounding environment of China seems to be complica,but,in fact,there are also many favorable factors which can create a better surrounding environment for China.When carrying out neighboring diplomacy,the most important thing is to have a deep understanding of the specific circumstances of China's surrounding environment and the history and reality of these countries.Throughout history,we can see those countries and regions which are close to or border China with territory or territorial waters have had frequent contacts with China and have been interwined with each other since ancient times.And it is still continued today.In this process,these countries are all influenced by traditional Chinese culture and share the same or similar cognition and understanding of Chinese traditional culture.Passed from generation to generation,Chinese excellent traditional culture embodies many life philosophy and the universal values which deeply shapes Chinese way of thinking and behavior habits.In the process deeply affected.Culture shapes identity and influences behavior.And it is still continued today.In this process,these countries are all influenced by traditional Chinese culture and share the same or similar cognition and understanding of Chinese traditional culture.Passed from generation to generation,Chinese excellent traditional embodies many life philosophy and the universal values which deeply shapes Chinese way of thinking and behavior habits.In the process of external development and spread,China's surrounding countries have also been deeply affect.Culture shapes identity and influences beavior.Under the infiuence of common culture,the people of China and neighboring countrieshave the hommogeneity or commonlity in ways of thinking and beavior.People in this region tend to share the same understanding and cognition for one behavior,thus leading to similar bahavior.In the international communication,it is easier for actors with common cognitive culture to understand and support each other,to better determine the identity and to take action.China can make full use of this advantages in carrying out neighboring diplomacy.Under the current theme of peace and development,China sums up the past experiences and shortcomings of using traditional culture to carry out peripheral diplomacy,and draw lessons from the successful experience of using traditional culture to develop diplomacy in western countries,make full use of traditional culture as soft power to carry out neighboring diplomacy.China make use of traditional culture to shape a good country image,and construction of discourse system shared by this region to tell a good story,get their goodwill and centripetal force towards China,promote relations with them and realize China's peaceful development.