"Unity Of Man And Nature" From The Perspective Of Chinese Culture

By Chen Huawen

For a country and a nation, there is a soft power that can not be ignored is culture. Chinese culture has a long history, which has nurtured the precious spiritual character of the Chinese nation and cultivated the lofty value pursuit of the Chinese people. The thought of continuous self-improvement and moral integrity supports the Chinese nation's continuous growth and transmission. Today, it is still a powerful spiritual force for us to promote reform and opening up and socialist modernization. In the era of cultural self-confidence, many scholars have studied Chinese traditional culture deeply and achieved fruitful results. Professor Lou yulie is one of them. Recently, he published the book "the perception of Chinese culture", which is his latest thinking and experience in the study of traditional culture in recent years.

Professor Lou yulie, who is over 80 years old, teaches at Peking University. He has studied Chinese philosophy and traditional culture for a long time. He has published metaphysics and traditional Chinese philosophy, theory of Confucian cultivation today, historical evolution and future prospect of Chinese Confucianism, etc《 The understanding of Chinese culture is the record of several lectures in recent years. It focuses on Confucianism, the belief of Chinese people, the unity of heaven and man in Chinese traditional culture, and the values and outlook on life in Chinese culture. It also deeply analyzes Chinese wisdom and Chinese character to readers. The main point of view in the book is that Chinese people have their own unique belief, that is, the Confucian thought of reverence for "the king of heaven and earth is his own teacher", and then he talks freely about the values of Chinese culture, Chinese wisdom and Chinese character around Confucian thoughts and theories.

When talking about Chinese culture, we must understand the basic spirit of Chinese culture. The specific performance of culture, including utensils, systems, habits, ideology and other aspects, is all connected with the cultural spirit. From the perspective of theoretical thinking, the so-called spirit of Chinese culture is essentially the national spirit of the Chinese nation. In a broad sense, the national spirit is the thought that guides the continuous development and continuous progress of the Chinese nation, and is also the leading ideology of national culture; As far as its nature is concerned, it is a great and outstanding spirit, as far as its manifestation is concerned; It permeates the excellent tradition of national culture. The basic spirit of Chinese culture, rich and colorful, broad and profound, including the unity of heaven and man, people-oriented, vigorous and promising, noble monk medium content.

Here, the author mainly analyzes the unity of man and nature. The reason why the unity of nature and man is highly concerned by all aspects not only has a high degree of coincidence with the current ecological civilization construction, but also points out the development direction for the harmonious coexistence of human and nature in the future. The unity of man and nature is not only the basic content of Chinese culture, but also the basic idea of Chinese culture. Ancient Chinese thinkers generally opposed to the separation and opposition of heaven and man, and advocated the harmony between heaven and man and the unity of heaven and man.

The unity of man and nature has a gradual evolution process in history. As an idea, the idea of the unity of heaven and man has been produced as far back as the pre Qin period, but as a clear proposition, it was put forward by Zhang Zai, a thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty. In his opinion, the highest state of life is the harmony between heaven and man, "set heart for the heaven and earth, set a life for the people, inherit the unique learning for the saints, and open peace for all the world", so as to achieve the unity of the way of heaven and humanity. In the long history from the pre Qin Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, countless thinkers have been exploring the mystery of the unity of man and nature. After Zhang Zai, different schools further explained the unity of heaven and man, but reached a consensus on the unity between heaven and man.

In terms of its theoretical essence, the unity of man and nature is about the unity of man and nature, that is, the unity of nature and spirit. It must be admitted that the content of the thought of the unity of man and nature in Chinese culture is very complicated. There are positive views and relatively negative views. The historical thought of the unity of nature and man should be analyzed and treated dialectically. It is not advisable to use the ancient idea of the unity of heaven and man directly for our use, because of the earth shaking changes in the times and environment. The thought of the unity of man and nature in ancient China emphasizes the unity of man and nature, the coordination of man's behavior and nature, and the consistency of moral reason and natural reason, which fully shows the dialectical thinking of ancient Chinese thinkers on the relationship between subject and object, between subjective initiative and objective regularity. According to this idea, man can't go against nature, can't surpass the bearing capacity of nature to transform and conquer nature, and can't destroy nature. Instead, he can only use natural resources on the premise of fully complying with the bearing capacity of nature. On the other hand, for human beings, nature is not a completely alien noumenon, nor is it a mysterious force that constrains human society, but an objective object that can be understood and used by us.

From a macro perspective, ecological environment governance and cultural construction are inseparable. Ecological environment is the most basic condition for human survival and the most important foundation for social sustainable development and cultural advancement“ There are times when Heaven breeds things, but earth produces limited wealth. " There is no substitute for the ecological environment. If you don't feel it, it is difficult to survive. Human development activities must respect, conform to and protect nature, otherwise it will be retaliated by nature. It's a rule that no one can resist. In the history of human civilization, especially in the process of industrialization, there have been a large number of incidents of destroying natural resources and ecological environment, which have led to painful lessons. Our ancestors have long recognized the importance of ecological environment“ When the grass and trees are prosperous and vigorous, they will not enter the mountains and forests, nor will they die, and they will continue to grow. "“ If we try our best to fish, will we not get it? There will be no fish next year; Burning the fire into the field, won't you get it? And next year there will be no animals. " These simple and wise views of nature still give people a profound warning. On the issue of nature, Engels also pointed out profoundly: "we should not be too intoxicated with our human victory over nature. For every such victory, nature retaliates against us

At present, vigorously advocating green development, in terms of its essence, is to solve the problem of harmonious coexistence between good people and nature. Green cycle and low-carbon development is the direction of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in the present era, and it is the most promising development field. China has great potential in this respect and can form many new economic growth points. We must adhere to the basic national policy of saving resources and protecting the environment, firmly follow the road of civilized development of production development, affluent life and good ecology, accelerate the construction of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, promote the construction of a beautiful China, and make new contributions to global ecological security. To promote green development, we must resolutely abandon development models and practices that destroy the ecological environment. It is necessary to promote the substantial increase of natural capital, make the good ecological environment become the growth point of people's life and the driving force to show China's good image, let the people breathe fresh air, drink clean water, eat safe food, live in a livable environment, and truly feel the real environmental benefits brought about by economic development, so as to make the sky of China bluer The mountains are greener, the water is clearer and the environment is more beautiful, which leads to a new era of ecological civilization.

The book "understanding of Chinese culture" contains Professor Lou yulie's unique feelings and cognition of Chinese culture. No scholar or any book can completely explain the broad and profound connotation of Chinese culture, which requires more people to participate in it. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out continuous exploration from multi-dimensional, multi-level and multi angle. Now we have to do, on the one hand, to learn and understand the essence of Chinese culture, and to remove its dross; On the other hand, we should combine Chinese culture with the demands of the times, inject new vitality into traditional culture, realize the creative transformation and development of traditional culture, and make it the source of national rejuvenation.

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