试说传统文化的“创新”与发展——以经典文献研究为例

On the “Innovation” and Development of Traditional Culture:Taking the Classic Literature as an Example

谈传统文化的"创新"与发展,首先应该对传统文化本身有正确认识。以经典文献为例,一直以来的研究并非已经完善。首先是经典文献各有众多版本,而且任何所谓好版本也只是相对的。尽管经典文献已经数千年的整理研究,而且每个时代都有其代表性读本,但文本与解读方面的问题依然不少,并各有其时代烙印。新时代必须要有新时代的读本,而新读本又必须对旧读本中的错误有所纠正,这本身就是一种创新。这种创新并非是另搞一套,而是要在纠正前人基础上的更加科学合理的创新。对于当代的文化研究者来说,首先需要保证所据用的文献材料真实可靠。只有这样,才有可能得出科学的研究结论,研究才有价值。而整个传统文化的所谓现代转化与创新性发展,实际上也应该从创新性的研究入手。

We firstly should have a correct understanding about traditional culture itself when talking about the“innovation”and development of traditional culture.Taking the classical literature as example,the traditional research has not been already perfected from the past to the present.Because there are many ver-sions of classic literature,and any so-called good version is just relative.Although the classical literature has been collected and researched for thousands of years,and every era has its representative reader,there are still many problems in the text and interpretation,and each has its own brand of times.In the new times,we must have new-aged readers,and the new readers must correct the mistakes in the old ones which is just an innova-tion in itself.It shows that this innovation is not to go one’s own way but on the basis of correcting predecessors,and is more scientific and reasonable.For the contemporary scholar for culture research,we must ensure that the literature materials which we use are true and reliable firstly.Only in this way,can scientific conclusions be drawn,and the study is valuable.The so-called modern transformation and innovative development of the whole traditional culture should start from the innovative research in fact.