Historical Materialism Perspective Of The Upsurge Of The Contemporary Chinese Traditional Culture

Culture is generated on the basis of the practice activities. The change in people’s practice activities determines the change in the culture, so the formation and development of any kind of culture should be explained by the nature of the production method and the switching scheme in the final analysis. In different forms, different types of cultures, there is differ with superiority and inferiority, advanced and backward. Evaluating any kind of culture should adhere to the historical, scientific, rational scale, we must firstly place it on the specific historical conditions, and then analyze that it is whether advantageous to the advanced production method and the switching scheme production and development, the third to see if it is beneficial to the preservation and evolution of the human race, and whether it helps the human quality comprehensive improvement and enhancement of the whole human freedom, and that whether it is conducive to people’s full and free development.Confucianism as the mainstream of traditional culture is a product of the feudal agrarian age, it is also the reflection of the feudal production method and the switching scheme, it is compatible with the mode of production and exchange of that era. It is a kind of feudalism culture which is a service of the feudal autocratic rule in essence, it has indisputable progressiveness and rationality in its own era.But in the contemporary, under the globalized and marketization back-ground, The Confucian culture on which the survival and development of soil is very poor or has disappeared. Hierarchy as the core of Confucian cultural values no longer meets contemporary production. Democracy, freedom, and equality of cultural idea have filtered into people’s minds. Trying to revive the Confucian culture which is the reflection of the outdated mode of production and exchange in contemporary is not only progressive, but reactionary. It is a retro of history reversing. We should be alert to this situation. The creative activities of a nation are based on the existing historical achievements; the creation of the cultural activities is no exception. The existing cultural achievements are the basis of cultural creation in the new historical conditions. The studying of traditional culture, correctly understanding and grasping the spirit of Chinese culture, have a very positive sense for inheriting the tradition, the Chinese nation’s cultural Renaissance, and the continuous development of Chinese culture.In order to build the socialist culture, we must first have a clear understanding of the nature and characteristics of different cultures, distinguish what is the advanced culture, what is the backward culture. On the basis of this cultural awareness, based on the practice of socialist modernization construction, absorb a variety of advanced cultural materials which is conducive to the building of socialist culture timely, and then digest and innovate. So that we can adhere to the direction of the culture construction, and create the socialist culture which adapts to the times and social development requirements.