固守传统、背弃传统与融合开新——对待传统文化态度的三次转向

Three Times Change of Direction about Attitude to Traditional Chinese Culture

自鸦片战争以来,我国对待传统文化的态度也发生了三次转向:其一是固守传统文化的内在理路,坚持中体西用的保守主义,文章把这种文化态度称为固守传统的零度转向;二是背弃传统文化,认为西方文化是先进文化,中国传统文化是落后文化,这是背弃传统文化的180度转向;第三种文化态度是一种融合古今中外思想的开放的文化态度,既珍视传统文化,又要走出华夏中心论和欧洲中心论的偏见,走出体用二元的形而上学思维方式,形成一种开放型、学习型的文化态度。

China has been confronted with the tremendous change since the Opium War. During this change the attitude to traditional Chinese culture has experienced three times change of direction： the first change is what we called the conventional zero change direction which adheres to the traditional inner logic and the conservatism of Chinese -style Westernization; the second change is the 180 degree break of the traditional culture which the western culture is considered as modem culture while the Chinese traditional culture is the slow one and thus it forms one idea that the traditional one is treated as the slow while the radical negation is the advanced; the last is the open cultural attitude blending the thoughts of East and West which values the traditional culture, sets up the cultural confidence and walks away from prejudice of the Chinese culture focus and the European focus and the metaphysical mode of thinking of the opposition in East and West.