It is the specialty of culture decides that cultural construction must uphold fundamental principles and break new ground.
Cultural construction must uphold fundamental principles and break new ground. These characteristics decides the effect and function of culture, as well as the pace of cultural development.For cultural construction, only by upholding fundamental principles can we not lose ourselves or our direction, and only by innovating can we grasp the times and lead the times.
Culture is an outward manifestation of civilization, and its development and evolution, like the course of human civilization,have followed certain internal regularities. Marxism reveals the law of evolution of human social history from primitive society to slave society, feudal society, capitalist society, and ultimately to communist society through socialist society, and the basic principle of materialist history that productive forces determine the relations of production and that the economic foundation determines the superstructure. The Marxist theory of culture emphasizes that culture is ever-changing and ever-evolving, and that it is an indispensable and crucial factor in advancing social development and human progress. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground,that upholding fundamental principles is the prerequisite. To continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a great socialist culture and build a modern civilization for the Chinese nation from a new historical starting point, it is necessary to adhere to the laws of cultural development, insist on being guided by Marxism, and ensure the direction of the development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.
Culture is the genes and bonds that are fused in the course of a country's and a nation's development. Various cultural elements,such as language, values, traditions and customs, art forms, etc.,created by human society, are passed on and perpetuated through generations. The inheritance of culture enables people to draw wisdom from history and enhance a sense of national belonging, as well as to enhance people's awareness of their cultural identity, strengthen their cultural self-confidence, and cultivate their love and respect for their own culture. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds require not only the inheritance and preservation of the nation's outstanding cultural traditions and spiritual character, but also the promotion of their innovation and transformation in accordance with the requirements of the times, as well as the continuous creation of cultural products that meet the needs of social development and the people.
"Culture is the spiritual lifeblood of the nation" and "culture is an important source of strength". Culture is the spiritual achievement of mankind's transformation of the world, and as the superstructure of society, culture should be compatible with the requirements of social development and be able to reflect the progress of the times and the needs of the people. When culture reflects to the fullest extent the requirements of the development of the productive forces, the fundamental interests of the broadest possible range of people and the direction of society as a whole, it is able to provide a world outlook, outlook on life, and values that are compatible with the requirements of practice, thus enhancing the cultural identity of society as a whole and releasing the vitality of the people's thinking. With the continuous progress of science and technology and social changes, people's lifestyles,values and aesthetic concepts are changing. Cultural construction needs to make timely adjustments to its development strategy, plan its development layout, keep pace with the times in its forms of dissemination, mechanisms and carriers, and expression of its content, so as to adapt to changes in the social environment, better satisfy the people's needs for a better cultural life, and become a powerful force for promoting the survival and sustainable development of society, and for safeguarding social unity and stability.
Deeply understanding and grasping the spiritual characteristics of Xi Jinping's cultural thought of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds.
The person who knows the normal truth but understands the variations is a winner in life, and the person who stays true to justice but keeps up with the times keeps progressing. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has given full play to its advantages and grasped the opportunities, attaching great importance to the observance of righteousness and innovation in the construction of culture, and promoting the propaganda, ideological and cultural work to show new actions and a new atmosphere, thus laying a solid foundation for the realization of the people's spiritual affluence and the construction of a strong nation of socialist culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to "demonstrate a new bearing on the basis of solving problems thoroughly, and realize a new role in keeping the right and innovating", and he has made a series of innovative and strategic plans for the development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, especially for the inheritance and development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, clarifying the significance of the meaning of keeping the right and innovating and the value of the status of the right and innovating, and embodying the cultural stance and the cultural pursuits of the Communist Party of China in the new era.
It manifests the theoretical character of Xi Jinping's cultural thought. The Chinese nation is a nation of righteousness and innovation, and traditional Chinese philosophy is rich in wisdom about righteousness and innovation. "Righteousness" means adherence to the right path and truth. Confucius said, "If one's name or reputation is not right, then the words spoken will not be acceptable." "Being in a position of authority, if your own behavior is proper, your subordinates will follow you without giving orders." Not only Confucianism, but also Taoism emphasizes the status and influence of "righteousness", for example, Laozi particularly emphasized "ruling the country with righteousness". The "right way" embodies Chinese philosophy's correct understanding of and objective attitude towards following laws and the development of things. The word "innovation" means to change the old and bring in the new. The Book of Changes states: "Only those who can make the business situation new every day can be called outstanding in their accomplishments." According to the Book of Rites, "If you can one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day." These are the importance and revelation of innovation in Chinese philosophy. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds have both the objective requirement of adhering to the right path and following the law and the subjective action of advancing with the times, reflecting the methodological wisdom of Chinese philosophy and fitting the dialectical thinking of Marxist philosophy. Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that "upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds is an important ideological method for the Party to govern the country in the new era", and emphasized that "no matter how the times evolve, we must stimulate the national wisdom of keeping the right and innovating and striving forward". The report of the 20th CPC National Congress emphasized that "we must insist on upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds",pointing out that "only by upholding fundamental principles can we not lose our way or make subversive mistakes, and only by innovating can we grasp the times and lead the times. We must treat science with a scientific attitude and pursue truth with a spirit of truth, adhere to the basic principles of Marxism, the overall leadership of the Party, and the socialism with Chinese characteristics without wavering." In terms of cultural construction, General Secretary Xi Jinping has called for "upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds, continuing the historical lineage and writing a new chapter for the times with righteousness". Xi Jinping's cultural thought is deeply rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, enriches and develops Marxist cultural theory, insists on combining the basic principles of Marxism with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and applies materialistic dialectics to analyze and apply the excellent traditional Chinese culture, which reflects the theoretical character of observing justice and innovation.
Embodying the practical requirements of "the second combination". The "Two Combinations" is a major innovation of Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "To open up and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics on the basis of the profound foundation of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's concrete realities and with China's outstanding traditional culture is the way to go. This is the regular understanding we have come to in exploring the road to socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is a major magic weapon for our success." The "second combination" is a vivid practice of promoting cultural construction, which requires that, on the basis of respecting the laws of the development of Marxism, we adhere to the basic principles of Marxism, actively explore the points of convergence and innovation between it and the Chinese outstanding traditional culture, promote the continued advancement of the modernization of the localization of Marxism in China, and advance the creative transformation and innovative development of the Chinese outstanding traditional culture in an ever-deepening manner. In terms of the cultural field and cultural construction, adherence to the basic principles of Marxism embodies the "righteousness" thinking of the CPC, and the promotion of the creative transformation and innovative development of China's outstanding traditional culture embodies the "innovative" requirements. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party has adhered to the guidance of Marxism in the field of cultural construction, promoted the innovative theories of the Party in the new era to the people's hearts and minds, the core socialist values have been widely disseminated, the excellent traditional Chinese culture has been creatively transformed and innovatively developed, the cultural undertakings have become increasingly prosperous, the network environment has continued to be clean, and the situation in the field of ideology has undergone a global and fundamental transformation, and the cultural self-confidence of the entire Party and the people of the whole nation has been obviously strengthened, and the spirit has become even more energetic and vigorous.We proved the importance of “upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds” to promote cultural construction and the “second combination” by real practice.
3. Insisting on upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds, and promoting the construction of culture with Chinese characteristics.
Cultural construction needs both righteousness and innovation,which are the wings of the construction and development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds is a lawful and demanding innovation, which requires us to dialectically treat "upholding fundamental principles" and "innovation", both of which are indispensable.
On the one hand, to uphold the fundamental principles is the prerequisite, "to keep the right cannot deviate from Marxism and socialism", which requires us to adhere to the "righteousness" of Marxism and the soul of the CPC's cultural construction. "Ideology determines the direction and development path of culture." Socialist culture with Chinese characteristics is socialist culture under the guidance of Marxism, which is its essential attribute and inherent requirement. Adherence to Marxist guidance is the first and foremost principle that must be followed in advancing the Party's cultural work in the new era. The first thing that is emphasized in upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds is to adhere to the ideological attributes of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics and to adhere to the guiding direction of Marxism. Marxism reveals the general law and future direction of cultural development in a scientific manner. Facing the profound changes unseen in a century, this is our Party’s spiritual weapon against civilizational conflicts, cultural hegemony, and the rumor of “the end of history”, it is also a spiritual guide to realize the wealth of ideas.
On the other hand, innovation is the motivation. “Innovation in new ideas, new discourse, new mechanisms and new forms”, to meet the will of the people and the requirements of the times in the form of dissemination and expression of content. On the new journey, in order to take up the new cultural mission, we need to stimulate the vitality of cultural creativity of the whole nation with innovation, dare to say what no one before us has said and do what no one before us has done, and guide new practices with new theories. By giving full play to the people's spirit of initiative and stimulating the enthusiasm of cultural creators, cultural workers at large will be able to create works worthy of the people and the times, in accordance with the requirements of the times and the needs of the masses. Standing on the historical height of the "Two Overall Situations", we will construct a communication discourse that is in line with the values of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, close to the actual development of the Chinese nation, and explains the strategic reality of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The long-established and glorious traditional Chinese culture is the crystallization of the wisdom and spiritual bloodline of the Chinese nation, contains the spiritual strength for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and is a great treasure for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to govern the country and realize cultural prosperity. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "we should adhere to the principle of righteousness and innovation, promote the compatibility of the excellent traditional Chinese culture with the socialist society, display the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation, and better construct the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese power." To deal with the adaptability of the connotative value of the excellent traditional Chinese culture to the development of the socialist society, the adaptability of the innovative form of the excellent traditional Chinese culture to the acceptance of the people, and the adaptability of the degree of innovation of the excellent traditional Chinese culture to the protection of cultural inheritance. Vigorously carry forward the revolutionary culture, innovate the way of red culture dissemination, create red cultural scenic spots, and enhance the infectious and appealing power of red culture. Actively develop the socialist culture, deepen the reform of cultural system, improve modern public cultural service system, prosper and develop public cultural undertakings and cultural industries.
It is our new cultural mission in the new era to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a great socialist culture, and build a modern civilization for the Chinese nation from a new starting point. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds is the spiritual characteristic of Xi Jinping cultural thought,it is also the principle of direction that the Party must persist in and conscientiously carry out in leading the construction of culture for a long time. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds needs both rational and dialectical attitude and confident and tolerant bearing. Adhere to the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, more consciously and proactively activate the vitality of China's outstanding traditional culture with the power of Marxist truth, promote revolutionary culture, develop advanced socialist culture, stimulate the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation, and strive to forge a new splendor of Chinese culture and write a new chapter of modern civilization for the Chinese nation.