The spirit of scholar bureaucrat in chinese traditional culture

Chinese traditional culture

In Chinese history, the scholar bureaucrats were the elite of the society. They dominated the values, mainstream culture and mainstream ideology of Chinese society, and had a profound impact on Chinese culture. Scholar bureaucrat spirit is a noble quality cultivated by ancient Chinese scholars for a long time on the way of life of self-cultivation, family harmony, country governance and world peace.

The main feature of Chinese civilization is that it takes people as the center. It is how to grow into a gentleman through self-cultivation, and how to grow into a perfect person in the sense of moral rationality in the sense of zoology. As the core and basic proposition of social development, this is the most unbearable place for Chinese culture. This is the fundamental reason why the scholar bureaucrat group blossomed on the soil of Chinese culture.

Scholar bureaucrat spirit

As early as the founding of the Western Zhou Dynasty, China's humanism began to awaken, which was the beginning of the scholar bureaucrat spirit. Later, Confucianism, founded by Confucius, theorized and systematized the rule of virtue and propriety of Duke Zhou, and took self-cultivation, family management, national governance and world peace as the path of Chinese life.

After the Warring States Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties, people called the intellectual elites who devoted their lives to the country selflessly, devoted themselves and died as "literati".

Scholars and officials have the basic character of being knowledgeable, virtuous, ethical, selfless, ambitious and responsible. The spirit of scholar bureaucrats, which values the interests of the nation above everything else, has made important historical contributions to Chinese culture.

The Story of Yueyang Tower by Fan Zhongyan

How many scholar bureaucrats have been born in China since ancient times! Zhuge Liang's dedication of "devoting all his efforts to the future"; Su Shi's free and easy attitude of "bamboo sticks and sandals are lighter than horses. Who is afraid? One can live his life as long as it lasts"; Wen Tianxiang's loyalty to "no one has died since ancient times, and stay loyal to the Han Dynasty", Fan Zhongyan's cry of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the happiness of the world later", Lin Zexu's responsibility of "being obsessed with the life and death of the country, how can we avoid it because of misfortunes and blessings", and Premier Zhou's "studying for the rise of China"... The reason why Chinese civilization has survived for five thousand years is that generations of these scholars and officials have come forward to save the country and the people.

Today, how can we inherit their great mind and pattern and become a model worthy of the times? What do we practice? How to fix it? My father said, learning from ancient sages and bachelor doctors, the past study was the cultivation, the past study was the cultivation, the gold is also the inferior, the beauty is also the inferior, only the cultivation is the top grade, is the scholar doctor, is the pillar of the country.

Finally, let's listen to the reading of the Yueyang Tower by Fan Zhongyan to remember the feelings of the Chinese scholar bureaucrats, and thank Elder Martial Brother Xuefen for his selfless dedication and the efforts of volunteers.