Chinese traditional culture

The theme of this month of our school is International Culture, and today what I want to say is one of the most precious treasure: Chinese traditional culture.

Our Chinese nation, with its industriousness and wisdom, has created a long and over-lasting history and a rich and colorful culture. As a Chinese, we are supposed to understand the traditional culture and realize its importance.

First, what is the traditional Chinese culture? Traditional Chinese culture includes material and moral products of ancient Chinese people. The moral products involve confucianism, taoism, legalism, buddhism and social system. Material ones include historic and cultural relics, ancient architectures and so on. No matter how broad Chinese culture is, the core of it is the moral. Therefore, we can get an answer to another question, why should we learn Chinese traditional culture, or we can say what ‘s the value of Chinese traditional culture. As the core of Chinese traditional culture, it can help us solve three major problems we are facing nowadays: problems of survival between man and nature; crisis of confidence between man and society; psychological problems exist in people ourselves.

For example, confucius believed that persuit of fortune is a general desire of human, but it must be limited by morality. People live for morality but not for fortune, and only in this way does life have value. If all the people in the society can realize this, horse storm would not appear.

Through a long history of westernization and with the improvement of material wealth, Chinese traditional culture is neglected at any rate by people. At this turning point when China faces the cultural globalization, we should excavate its traditional culture to strengthen its competitive ability, especially its essences which can serve the construction of modern culture.

And by this means, we Chinese, teenagers in particular, should take it as our responsibility to learn and develop our traditional culture

speech maker/Yuming Ma（senior grade two class two）