传统大同理想的现代化发展及其时代价值

The Contemporary Development and Contemporary Value of the Traditional Ideal of Great Harmony

"大同"概念出自《礼记·礼运》,集先秦各家理想追求于一体,高度概括和表达了古代人民对理想社会的追求,是中华民族大同理想的话语之源。大同的深刻内涵,使人们在历史变革中以返本开新的方式对其进行阐释和解读,从而形成了持久的生命力。近代以来,中国社会发生了深刻的变革,大同理想也从传统向现代转化。但以往不同历史时期提出的大同理想都无法超越所处时代的局限,因而"大同"只是一种乌托邦。直到中国共产党人把传统的大同理想与社会主义结合起来,将这种理想追求与现实选择统一,落脚到为最终实现"天下为公"的共产主义大同理想而奋斗的社会实践中,实现了大同理想的现代化。

The “Great Harmony”thought from “The Book of Rites: Evolutions of Rites”integrates the ideals and pursuits of various schools in the pre-Qin period. It highly summarizes and expresses the Chinese people’s pursuit of an ideal society, and has become the source of discourse for the ideal of Great Harmony of the Chinese nation. Its profound meaning has made people interpret it in a way of “returning to the original and opening up the new”in the course of historical changes, thus forming a lasting vitality. Since modern times, Chinese society has undergone profound changes, and the ideal of Great Harmony has realized the transformation from tradition to modernity. However, since the ideals of Great Harmony put forward in different historical periods have been unable to surpass the limitations of their own times and history, the ideal of Great Harmony is only a fictitious utopia.Until the Chinese Communists integrated the traditional ideal of Great Harmony with socialism, in the socialist practice of making the unification of the pursuit of ideal with realistic choices finally embedded in the ultimate realization of the classless communist ideal of Great Harmony based on the ideas of “the world for the public”, the modernization of the ideal of Great Harmony was realized,