The Spiritual Power of the Chinese Road

In the 21st century, China is increasingly approaching the center of the world stage and making greater contributions to mankind. What is it that makes the long-suffering Chinese nation usher in the great leap from standing up, getting rich to becoming strong? To answer this question, we need to explore the deep driving force of social development. The cohesion, creativity and sense of responsibility created by Marxism and Chinese traditional culture constitute an important spiritual force for the success of China's road.

The Cohesion Produced by the Pursuit of Moral Value

One of the distinctive features of Chinese culture is to attach importance to human values and regard morality as the primary quality of human beings. Confucius said that "one is also benevolent, and kissing is great", and Mencius also said that "compassion is the end of benevolence". Children's love for their parents and people's compassion for the weak are the fundamental attributes that distinguish people from animals. People should realize their nature and value through moral cultivation. This value choice focuses on the promotion of human virtue rather than self-preservation and appropriation. Value choice is the core element of culture. Moral value choice enables China to form a strong centripetal force and cohesion in politics, society and culture.

From the perspective of social life, the promotion of human virtue should be realized in the relationship with others, which requires that "one wants to stand up to others, one wants to reach others, and one does not want to do to others". This makes it difficult to form individual rights and individual standards, which helps to form unity and mutual assistance between people, so that the Chinese nation as a whole can "think in one place and work hard in one place", thereby promoting social harmony and promoting development progress. From the perspective of cultural construction, human moral nature is real as human emotional experience, and human mutual assistance and friendship are even more desirable as interpersonal requirements. Therefore, moral value orientation can easily form value identity in society, and even reach a value consensus among different cultures. Confucius said: "Therefore, if people from far away are not satisfied, they will repair Wende." In history, the Central Plains culture has continuously attracted and absorbed the surrounding cultures to develop itself. In the era of economic globalization, this cultural and moral power can promote cultural integration and seek common economic development.

Creativity formed by dialectical way of thinking

The traditional formal logic of the West advocates that the supreme principle of a single nature dominates everything. Marx, on the other hand, critically inherited Hegel's dialectical logic and profoundly explained the law of the development of human society with the unity of opposites. In common with this, Chinese culture advocates that everything is unity on the basis of differences. "Yi Zhuan" talks about "one yin and one yang is Tao", Confucianism talks about "harmony but difference", and Taoism even talks about "misfortune is the place where misfortune depends, and fortune is the place where misfortune lies". This kind of understanding of the world has produced a dialectical way of thinking, which is manifested in being good at tolerating differences, analyzing specific situations, insisting on the unity of principle and flexibility, especially innovating development concepts and looking for development opportunities in the integration of contradictions.

As the guiding ideology of China's road development, the Sinicization of Marxism is a successful attempt to use dialectical thinking to innovate the concept of development. Under the banner of Marxism, the Chinese Communists creatively used "rural areas encircling cities" and "patriotic united front" to achieve national liberation. During the period of socialist construction, we combined the basic principles of Marxism with the specific reality of Chinese society, found a path of socialist transformation suitable for China's national conditions, and established a socialist system; on this basis, we proceeded from China's national conditions, Adhering to materialist dialectics, carried out arduous explorations on socialist construction, and achieved a series of major theoretical and practical results. Since the reform and opening up, we have adhered to materialist dialectics, got rid of the dogma of planned economy economically, made full use of different means such as state planning and market regulation, implemented a socialist market economy, and made great efforts to make the market play a decisive role in the allocation of resources and give better play to the role of the government to promote economic development, thus opening up the chinese road and creating the chinese miracle. The above-mentioned practical wisdom is all bold innovations based on specific conditions, and the creativity formed by dialectical thinking has undoubtedly opened up broad prospects for China's road.

Self-improvement of life practice to develop a sense of responsibility

The concept of moral values and the dialectical way of thinking have jointly created the life practice of the Chinese nation's self-improvement. "Yi Zhuan" has a saying: "Heaven is healthy, a gentleman strives for self-improvement", "the terrain is Kun, a gentleman carries things with virtue". Self-improvement and virtue express the basic spirit of "enterprising innovation" and "tolerance and integrity" in Chinese culture. Self-improvement is not only the continuous improvement of morality, but also the positive creation of real life. This is the inward search road of "no complaining about heaven, no one". It not only shapes the tenacity and practical spirit of the Chinese nation, but also cultivates each individual's strong responsibility for himself and the country.

In fact, moral cultivation and life creation are intrinsically interlinked. "The Doctrine of the mean" points out that human moral cultivation is to understand one's own virtue with a sincere heart, and then push oneself to others, to help others and all things realize their own nature. This process of moral cultivation is the contribution of the counselor's education. And "if you can praise the transformation of heaven and earth, you can participate with heaven and earth". Responsibility for all things enables people to obtain human dignity comparable to heaven and earth. The dignity and nobility of human nature make Chinese culture claim that responsibility is more important than right. The spirit of self-improvement and the responsibility for the country and the world have given the development of China's road an inexhaustible impetus. Since modern times, even in the dark situation of internal and external troubles, the Chinese nation has not lost hope but has been seeking to save the nation from subjugation. After its establishment, the the People's Republic of China still made major breakthroughs in economic development and scientific research in the absence of foreign aid and in the face of blockade. "Gou Rixin, new day by day, and new day by day", this kind of national spirit of moral cultivation, enterprising, self-improvement, and heavy responsibilities will continue to erupt infinite social forces in the journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and push China's road to victory.

Source: People's Daily Online