[Guangming Forum]
The Yellow River falls to the East China Sea, and Wan Li writes in his mind. The Yellow River has witnessed the rise and forge ahead of the Chinese nation and stirred up the splendid civilization that has lasted forever. As an important part of Chinese civilization, the Yellow River culture is the root and soul of the Chinese nation. Recently, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed at the symposium on comprehensively promoting ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin that the times value of the Yellow River culture should be deeply explored, and the national character and spirit of struggle of the Chinese nation should be fully demonstrated. The water vein is connected with the cultural context. Strengthening the cultural protection, inheritance and promotion in the Yellow River Basin is the only way to continue the historical context and strengthen cultural self-confidence. The important exposition of the Supreme Leader General Secretary has provided us with important follow-up and pointed out the way forward.
The Yellow River culture embodies the spirit of perseverance, perseverance and courage. The Jiuqu Yellow River rushes forward, and its magnificent momentum leaves a deep impression on people. As the mother river of the Chinese nation, the Yellow River has nurtured countless Chinese sons and daughters in the long years, nurtured the spiritual characteristics of Chinese civilization, and shaped the national character of self-improvement, perseverance and indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation. At the same time, the Yellow River, as an unruly "worry river", is "silted, determined and frequently moved" and "burst twice every three years and changed its course once every hundred years". Faced with the changefulness of the Yellow River, Chinese sons and daughters manage the Yellow River and defend their homeland with courage and wisdom. Dayu led the people to abandon "blocking" and change it into "dredging" to calm down the flood with creative dredging strategies; In the Ming Dynasty, Pan Jixun invented the method of "bundling water and washing sand", which managed the river four times and built three long dikes. Jiao Yulu, secretary of Lankao County Party Committee, led the masses to explore hard. After decades of efforts, Lankao finally bid farewell to the long yellow sand and the vast saline-alkali land … … It is in the process of overcoming disasters and sufferings again and again that the Chinese nation forged indomitable and self-reliant character and tenacious vitality, and formed the outstanding characteristics of the Yellow River culture and Chinese culture. With the hard exploration and unremitting efforts of generations, the Yellow River is magnificent in An Lan, with beautiful scenery on both sides.These are the best praise for the spirit of struggle and perseverance of the Chinese nation.
The Yellow River culture shows the enterprising attitude of the Chinese nation, which is vigorous and promising, seeking new things and making changes. As a multi-level and multi-dimensional cultural complex interwoven with time and space, the Yellow River culture has been continuously enriched and expanded in the labor practice of hundreds of millions of people, and has developed new connotations with the times. Pangu created the world, The goddess patching the sky and Kuafu pursued the sun, and Yugong moved mountains … … These myths and legends born in the Yellow River basin all bear the value pursuit of innovation and change of the Chinese nation. Whether it is astronomical calendar, papermaking, compass, printing and other major inventions, or many revolutionary practices that have taken place along the Yellow River, it has strongly proved that the Yellow River culture contains the gene of seeking novelty and change. Today, the book of rites, University, and the book of songs, Elegance, record that "although Zhou was an old country, his life was renewed", which still inspires the Chinese nation to innovate and develop continuously. Nourished by the spirit of innovation and enterprising, Henan and other places along the Yellow River economic cluster have developed new quality productivity according to local conditions, implemented green manufacturing projects, and cultivated key industrial chain clusters. Zhengzhou and Kaifeng new energy automobile industrial clusters, Luoyang modern agricultural machinery equipment manufacturing cluster and other clusters have been selected into the first batch of advanced manufacturing clusters in Henan Province, developing new advantages and accelerating accumulation, injecting more kinetic energy into promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin.
The Yellow River culture contains profound wisdom of harmony but diversity and eclecticism. For thousands of years, distinctive regional cultures such as Hehuang culture, Guanzhong culture, Heluo culture and Qilu culture have been formed along the Yellow River basin, and many scholars have emerged. This flowing river bears witness to people’s exchanges and cultural exchanges. In the pre-Qin period, different schools of Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism contended, which promoted the prosperity of China’s thought and scholarship. The Silk Road and the Yellow River waterway have jointly achieved a large-scale cultural blending in the history of human civilization; Buddhism was introduced into China and integrated into Chinese culture, resulting in the cave temple culture represented by Longmen in Luoyang and Maijishan in Tianshui … … It is in the process of colliding with grassland nomadic culture, farming culture and religious culture that the Yellow River culture glows with strong vitality, showing the grand atmosphere of integration, tolerance and pluralism, and gradually forming the unique spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation’s "harmony and harmony" and "seeking great harmony". The inherent characteristics of openness and tolerance endow the Yellow River culture with strong vitality, and also enhance the leading, cohesive, shaping and radiating power of Chinese culture, which has effectively promoted the exchange and mutual learning of world civilizations. For example, the sixth Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo was opened to build an international cultural exchange and cooperation platform; Nishan World Civilization Forum is held continuously to exchange ideas and gather wisdom around building a community of human destiny;The dance drama Rain on Silk Road, inspired by grotto art, has performed more than 3,800 performances in more than 40 countries and regions, setting a Guinness World Record for dance drama … … Today’s Yellow River still tells an open and inclusive story of the East.
It is our sacred mission to deeply explore the value of the Yellow River culture in the times and let the precious spirit and cultural heritage be passed down from generation to generation. In the new era and new journey, we should strengthen our cultural self-confidence, do a good job in the study of the Yellow River culture and the protection of cultural relics in the site, innovate and promote the activation and utilization of cultural relics in the Yellow River, push the Yellow River culture out, and tell the "Yellow River Story" in the new era. It is necessary to constantly activate the vitality of the Yellow River culture, inspire the spirit of self-improvement and perseverance, provide strong support for comprehensively promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and unite majestic forces for building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
(Author: Zheng Jingbin, deputy academic director of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, the supreme leader of Shandong Province, and professor of Marxism College of Shandong University)
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