Chinese language and literature and human cultivation

Language and literature are the crystallization of Chinese civilization. It has a long history and is a manifestation of the wisdom of our ancestors. The essence of literature is the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, and it is also the materialization of ideology. On this basis, it can play a great role in human cultivation. Whether it is a person's behavior or a change in consciousness, it has a great effect.

Cultivation is a person’s inner temperament and also an external behavioral manifestation. There are high and low levels of self-cultivation, as well as good and bad. Different people have different temperaments and different cultivations. Some people act bravely when they see justice, some sit back and watch, some like to relax, and some are hardworking and willing to work. This shows that cultivation has different natures and different manifestations. All kinds of cultivation have a qualitative rule in terms of general requirements, which is to develop in the direction of truth, goodness and beauty. This is exactly the same as the pursuit of literature. Objectively speaking, the pursuit of literature is essentially the pursuit of human cultivation.

1. Chinese language and literature can improve people’s cultivation

Literature is a world of truth, goodness and beauty. As long as you enter the world of literature, you will be fascinated by all its beautiful things. wrapped in something. Regarding human cultivation, literature can improve people's cultivation. Cultivation, first of all, is "cultivation". What kind of "cultivation" there is, there is what kind of "cultivation". Human beings are very imitative. Whether it is good things or bad things, people's ability to distinguish between good and bad is not innate, but is formed on the basis of acquired morality. In other words, the quality of self-cultivation has a great relationship with the environment in which it is practiced. This is the truth as the saying goes: "Oranges grown in Huainan are called tangerines, and oranges grown in Huaibei are called tangerines."

2. Chinese language and literature can modify people’s cultivation

Human cultivation has its own characteristics, with some good aspects and some bad aspects. Literature can make the good side more solid, and the bad side can be carefully corrected. Literature, because of its inherent regularity, has an appeal to people, causing them to fall into emotional and rational thinking and reflect on their own behavior. People's thinking about emotion and rationality is a long-standing topic with a long history. Literature has given a very good explanation and regulation of this subject. At a high level, it has given a reasonable and reasonable overview of human emotions and rationality. On this basis, it has also explained the aspects of human cultivation that are not good. It has a very good correction effect.

3. Chinese language and literature can guide people’s cultivation

Cultivation is an acquired accomplishment, which requires the imitation of certain material forms, and literature can guide people very well. "imitation". The imitation of cultivation can be a real behavior or a virtual behavior. There are always certain flaws in the actual behavior. There are no saints in the world. The term saint is just an objective name given to saints. In fact, it is also a manifestation of ideology. On this basis, there are always more or less deviations in the behavior that people imitate. Chinese language and literature is the representative of world literature, the crystallization of China's 5,000-year-long human civilization, and the objective precipitation of Chinese people's self-cultivation. It plays a great role in the self-cultivation of Chinese people. We must face up to the role of Chinese language and literature in people's cultivation, especially in today's society where alienation is becoming more and more serious. We must standardize our own cultivation, beautify our own cultivation, and make literature and cultivation organically linked.

References:

[1] Cai Yuanpei. The Cultivation of Chinese People [J]. Workers Publishing House. October 2008

[2] Zheng Shuyuan. The spiritual cultivation of pre-Qin Confucians [J]. People's Publishing House. December 2006

[3] Beijing Normal University Literary and Art Research Center. Theory of Literary Aesthetic Ideology [J]. Chinese Social Sciences. 2008 4 month