0n Zhu Guangqian’s Ideas Of Youth Cultivation

The works of Zhu Guangqian contain strong thoughts on youth cultivation.Under the background of severe national crisis and social turbulence,he paid particular attention to the ideological trends and social situation of youth groups and tried to point out the direction for the confused and wandering youth in order to build up strength for the national rejuvenation and national salvation.Such cultivation from healing the young generation to the whole people deserves further summary and exploration.Zhu Guangqian’s thoughts on youth cultivation mainly includes moral cultivation,sports cultivation,literature cultivation and Aesthetic feeling cultivation.So this paper contains six parts,including introduction and conclusion:The introduction part introduces the significance of the topic and the status of the research.From the time of Zhu Guangqian and the trend of writing letters to young people in the academic circle at that time,the social and cultural context of Zhu Guangqian’s cultivation thoughts is revealed.Chapter1 discusses literature cultivation.Starting from his own experience,Zhu Guangqian talks about what kind of book to read,how to read.He talks about the method of writing.It is science and feasibility.The young students need this to guide.Through reading and writing,we can taste the joys and sorrows of literature and develop the pure literary interest.Zhu Guangqian suggested starting with poetry,because all pure literature should have the characteristics of poetry.By acquiring a broad interest in literature and learning a writer’s eye and sympathy in experiencing human and material conditions,young people’s literature cultivation on the whole will be a success.Chapter2 discusses aesthetic feeling cultivation.Zhu Guangqian advocated aesthetic education.Through aesthetic education,we can see the new and interesting side of the life and the world so that people can be liberated from the reality and nature to get the comfort and liberation of the soul.Zhu Guangqian’ aesthetic cultivation is a good medicine for the confused youth.The youth should be attend to beauty and kindness.Chapter3 summarizes Zhu Guangqian’s moral cultivation thought of youth.Zhu Guangqian emphasizes on the youth to measure the strength of virtue and to recognize the reality.Sound morality is inseparable from healthy psychology.Zhu Guangqian pays special attention to the mental health of the youth.The moral cultivation he advocates is built on the basis of mental health cultivation.Chapter4 points out that Zhu Guangqian reveals the reality of national physical infirmity and the formalization of physical education from the perspective of physical culture.Appeal ling to the youth pays attention to physical health,strengthens physical exercise,and calls on the government to strengthen physical education.Zhu Guangqian has been practicing sports from a young man to an old man.At the same time,Zhu Guangqian advocates the sportsmanship.The conclusion part is a conclusion of Zhu guangqian’s thoughts on youth cultivation,and analyzes their relationship.And it explains its contemporary realistic significance from three aspects: healthy psychology derived from healthy body,sportsman’s demeanor,and scientific attitude of emotion and reason.The four aspects of Zhu Guangqian’ youth cultivation are progressive and interlinked.Firstly,reading and writing are the basic skills of young students.They are also the important ways to improve their physical and mental cultivation.They are the first thing for the youth who are in study stage.Developing the pure literary interest is not only the key point of literature cultivation but also accumulates important knowledge reserves for the youth.The youth need aesthetic feeling cultivation in order to develop more.As a kind of emotional education,aesthetic feeling education builds a bridge with moral education to train the youth’ happy and nurturing.Aesthetic feeling cultivation and moral cultivation lead to the same destination.Then,Zhu Guangqian proposed to establish a "moral universe",set his heart on morality,pay attention to the youth’s mental health,establish the concept of "mental suicide but not physical suicide" to create some light for the society,and realize the life value of young people.Mental health is built on the basis of physical health.Zhu Guangqian further advocates sports,improving the national physical fitness through scientific exercise.It can cultivate the youth’s spirit of struggle,unity,cooperation,and discipline.The healthy and harmonious development of body and mind is the basis of all undertakings.