The essence of dragon culture
Loong originated from primitive totem culture, but its essence and mainstream cannot be simply attributed to primitive totem culture. From the four aspects of "background of the times-specific content-cultural significance-social function", China's dragon capital is significantly different from the original totem, thus showing the following essential characteristics:
From totem, beyond totem
China's dragon culture is not only a few relics in modern China, but also maintains a strong vitality, abandoning the negative factors of feudalism, mysticism and absolutism. Although Dragon Culture can't play a leading role and mainstream cultural role in the history of national unity and national rejuvenation, it still has a strong appeal, cohesion and centripetal force to the Chinese nation.
Not worship in kind, but cultural creation.
Totem culture is essentially the clan culture of primitive society, and the dragon in China, the primitive dragon, was born around 3000 BC, which is the disintegration period of primitive society in China, the origin period of Chinese civilization, and later the dragon of Chinese civilization in China. Although the prototype can be found in nature, it is not an existing thing in nature in essence, but a cultural creation and cultural symbol based on national cultural concepts. The formative period of the times.
The essential feature of dragon is that it transcends the consanguinity of clan culture and sublimates into the connotation of national culture based on geographical relationship.
Dragon-This is the unique cultural creation, concept creation and symbol creation of China people. "Dragon Spirit" is a symbol of the Chinese nation, a symbol of China's 5,000-year great history, and the spirit of the great China people who are industrious, brave, indomitable, bold and innovative, honest and harmonious.
The Connotation of Dragon Culture
Reveal the multiple connotations of dragon culture from three levels:
On the first level, from the image of the dragon, the concept of the dragon contains four most important concepts of China people, namely, the world view of the unity of man and nature; The interactive subject view of benevolent and loving; The development view of yin-yang intercourse; The inclusive view of multiculturalism.
On the second level, the concept of dragon, behind the image of dragon and the concept of dragon, contains the ideal goals and values of China people in dealing with the four major relationships, and pursues the harmony of harmony between man and nature, interpersonal relationship, contradiction between Yin and Yang and multicultural relationship.
On the third level, the dragon spirit is pluralistic and integrated, and the basic spirit of China culture is comprehensive and innovative, which is the deepest cultural connotation of dragon image and dragon culture. Wang Dong believes that exploring the deep connotation of dragon culture will help solve some civilized conflicts in the contemporary world.
However, China's dragon, with its unique form of oriental mysticism and complicated artistic modeling, contains four basic concepts unique to China people and China culture:
First, the world outlook of harmony between man and nature; Second, the concept of mutual subjectivity of benevolence and love; Third, the concept of development (or change) of yin and yang intercourse; The fourth is the inclusive cultural view.
The cosmology and worldview of the unity of man and nature can be regarded as the core concept in Chinese national culture. With vivid and concrete images and mysticism, the dragon contains the idea of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.