Research On The Issue Of "Confucius Culture Going To The World"

Since the reform and opening up, the independent politics, the booming economy and the rejuvenated culture has continuously strengthened Chinese comprehensive national strength, and made China play a more and more important role in international affairs. As far as comprehensive national strength is concerned, in the global information age, although the traditional "hard" power including economy, military, science and technology, and mineral resources is still important, the cultural soft resources influence and cultural soft power have become an important indicator in measuring the comprehensive strength of a country and a region. As one of Chinese major cultural soft resources, how to promote Confucius culture to the world, in order that on one hand, the world could know and understand Chinese culture more thoroughly, on the other hand Chinese cultural soft power could be improved, Chinese comprehensive national strength could be strengthened, and China's influence in world affairs could be improved, is a significant topic to be solved.The first chapter is the introduction, which analyzed the research significance, the research status and the research ideas of the issue that under the context of globalization, Confucius culture, which is Chinese most important cultural soft resources, go to the world. The research significance lies in as follows:firstly, it promotes the implementation of "the strategy of strengthening the province through culture" of Shandong province. Secondly, it could make the public have a clearer mind of the historic status and eternal value of excellent traditional culture represented by Confucius culture and improve the culture self-awareness and confidence. Lastly, it could help to improve Chinese cultural soft power, strengthen the say and influence of China in international stage. Through the analysis of the existing research achievements, it is apparent that by now there is still not any works that make comprehensive research on the history, present situation and future trend of Confucius culture's going to the world. Therefore, in this circumstance, this research has both theoretical value and realistic significance. In this paper, the author will in accordance to the theory of culture, analyze the varied values of the different parts of Confucius culture, on the basis of the historical experience and lessons, summarize the theories, combined with national policies and specific practices find out the problems and plight from the domestic and overseas perspectives, and try to pose the solution in order to better promote Confucius culture to the world.The second chapter is the "regionalism" and "globalization" of Confucius culture, which chiefly analyzed the relationship between Confucian doctrines and Confucius culture, and the author especially pointed out that Confucius culture embodies the genes of the mainstream of Chinese culture from the very beginning, the reason of which lies in the characteristic of Lu culture and Confucius'"epitome" work. In fact, the course that Confucius culture develops from "local culture" to "mainstream culture" is the preliminary procedure of Confucius culture' going to the world. Meanwhile, thanks to Confucius culture becoming the mainstream culture, Confucius' influence on China and even the world becomes more evident. The author pointed out the inevitability and possibility of Confucius culture'going to the world by analyzing Confucius culture'double character of "regionalism", namely "particularity" and "globalization", namely,"universality".The third chapter is "the overseas spread of Confucius culture", which researched on the course of Confucius culture' spreading to East Asia, Europe and America. The author points out that the successful spread of Confucius culture in East Asia is caused by many factors such as the local government advocating Confucius culture education, the guarantee of the imperial examination system, the international students studying in China, the input and publication of massive Confucian classics, and the multi-pronged measures including enlarging the influence of Confucius by setting Confucian temple and holding Memorizing Confucius Ceremony. In the course of the spread of Confucius culture to Europe, the major agent is the missionaries, the secondary agents are the overseas Chinese and European scholars. The spread of Confucius culture in America started comparatively later, but made considerable achievements, due to the promotion of American government, the endeavor of overseas Chinese, the pushing of American scholars and the publicity of the media. However, on the whole, the overseas spread of Confucius culture is not an active conduct, but implemented the counter part, which is to some extent related to Chinese culture tradition of "the learner rather than the teacher should be active in the teaching of ritual".The fourth chapter is "the preliminary practice of'Confucius culture going to the world" which mainly discusses China's existing experience in terms of Confucius culture going to the world since the new era. On one hand, the author analyzed the background, connotation and significance of "Confucius culture going to the world" in the national strategy level, on the other hand, the author analyzed the successful experiences and ideas of varied regions of China in the implementation of "going out" strategy in order to provide reference for Confucius culture going to the world. At last, the author summarizes the work that Confucius'hometown Jining has done in promoting Confucius culture to go out, and these "Jining experiences" could set a good example for Confucius culture in other regions of China to "go out".The fifth chapter is "how Confucius culture better go to the world", which analyzes the plight and challenge that Confucius culture confronts in "going to the world", including the lack of talents and the deficiency of subject consciousness, the lack of innovation in content, the lack of say because of the singleness of spreading mode, the challenge of the external environment that the audience are facing, and so on. In addition, there are a lot of restricting factors to be solved, including the foreign factor, namely, western countries' prejudice and misunderstanding to Confucius culture; the domestic factor, namely, the fracture of traditional culture; the cultural factor, namely, the idiosyncrasy of Confucius cultural tradition; and so on.We should optimize and integrate Confucius culture resources in Qufu city and its surroundings, to protect and inherit Confucius culture internally and exhibit the charm of Confucius culture externally, we should prepare to construct experience base of worldwide Confucius Institute headquarters to provide new platform to vividly experience Confucius culture for overseas students.we should strengthen the overseas spread of Confucius culture, especially exerting the role of Confucius Institute and overseas Confucian Temples.On this basis, We tries to pose several suggestions to promote Confucius culture better "going to the world". Firstly, we should break the traditional mentality of "the learner rather than the teacher should be active in the teaching of ritual", and set active and positive cultural spreading belief. Secondly, the local government and the national level should increase the intensity, and organize relative talents from the cultural circle, the academic circle, the educational circle and the business circle to jointly establish feasible strategy of culture going out. thirdly, we should strengthen domestic traditional culture, especially the classics education and the talent training, to provide reliable talent reserves for the spreading of Confucius culture to the world. Fourthly, we should improve and optimize the function of Confucian Temples, making it fully play the role of teaching the public, respecting the passed sages, and effectively enhancing the attainments and virtue of the public, in order to provide the most profound motivation for the overseas spreading of Confucius culture. Fifthly, we should optimize and integrate Confucius culture resources in Qufu city and its surroundings, to protect and inherit Confucius culture internally and exhibit the charm of Confucius culture externally. Sixthly, we should prepare to construct experience base of worldwide Confucius Institute headquarters to provide new platform to vividly experience Confucius culture for overseas students. Seventhly, we should do the classics translation work satisfactorily, which requires us to further cultivate and train the translators and interpreters. Eighthly, we should make full use of the aesthetics, psychology, and custom of different countries and use high-tech means to exhibit Confucius culture from many angles and in many forms. Ninthly and the last, we should strengthen the overseas spread of Confucius culture, especially exerting the role of Confucius Institute and overseas Confucian Temples.