The Internal Connection between Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture and Socialist Core Values

Abstract

Since the 18th national congress of the communist party of China (CPC), general secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized how to inherit and carry forward the Chinese excellent traditional culture and how to cultivate and practice the core socialist values by elaborating the internal connection between the Chinese excellent traditional culture and the socialist core values. The internal connection between the two is reflected in two aspects. On the one hand, the excellent traditional Chinese culture is an important source for the cultivation of socialist core values, and it includes three parts: ideological content, structural composition and cultivation and practice methods. On the other hand, the socialist core values are the inheritance, creative transformation, and innovative development of the Chinese traditional culture. Only by seeing and deeply understanding these two complementary aspects we can realize the mutual promotion of the development of the Chinese excellent traditional culture and the core socialist values.