On the morning of January 25th, the deputy dean of Beijing International Chinese College Gui Fan led a 26-people delegate to Confucius Research Institute for visit and inspection. The deputy dean of Confucius Research Institute Chen Xiaoxia accompanied them during the inpection and gave the lecture of the Confucian Culture and Its Value in Contemporary Times.
Gui Fan’s delegate inspected Biyong Square, Confucius Institutes Headquarter Experience Center, World Confucian Documents Collection Center, “Great Confucius” show room and the meeting room where General Secretary Xi Jinping held the symposium with the experts and scholars.
After the visit, Chen Xiaoxia gave the lecture of the Confucian Culture and Its Value in Contemporary Times to the delegate at the roundtable meeting room. She elucidated the reasons why the Confucian culture originated from Jining from the historical context and geographical position, pointing out that Jining is located at the south side of Mount Tai, and constitutes one of the sites where our ancient ancestors live and the one of the cradles of Chinese culture, it is also the original capitan of Shang Dynasty and the birthplace of traditional rites and music civilization of Western Zhou Dynasty. It has very profound cultural root with massive ancient empires’ cultural relics and carving stones and portraits of Han Dyansty.
Secondly, she introduced Confucianism from its founding, essence, value pursuit and the comparison between Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and elucidated the rich characteristics of Confucianism. She pointed out that the longevity of Chinese culture is closely related to Confucius and the Confucianism he founded.
Thirdly, she sorted out the later famous Confucians’ contribution to Confucianism, the rulers’ vigorous support to Confucianism in traditional society, the spread of Confucian classics overseas and the development process of Confucianism since Han Dynasty to the 20th century, especially General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on carrying forward Chinese traditional culture, especially the Confucian culture.
At last, based on her systematic analysis of Confucianism and its value system, she put up that we must follow the call from the Central Party Committee, making Chinese excellent traditional culture into the important source to foster socialist core value system, restoring and strengthening the moral bond and force from the genes of our excellent traditional culture under the context of modernization; and the rulers should absorb the Confucian wisdom an foster the political ethics.
Chen Xiaoxia’s lecture on the Confucian Culture and Its Value in Contemporary Times benefited the audience greatly, who agreed that they will merge this experience into their future teaching practice, and make due contribution to improving the influence of Chinese culture and rejuvenating the traditional culture comprehensively.