The Contemporary Value of Deepening the Memory of Red Culture

Cultural memory is a spiritual activity that takes the historical culture about the origin of the collective as the memory object, with the purpose of demonstrating the rationality of the collective status quo, so as to consolidate the identity of the collective subject. The inheritance of cultural memory follows a specific and strict form, with its own symbol system or presentation methods, such as words, pictures and rituals. Since modern times, the Communist Party of China has led the Chinese people to form a rich and profound red culture. Red culture is a historical portrayal of the growth and development of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese nation's pursuit of national liberation and great rejuvenation, and it has been continuously inherited and developed as a valuable spiritual wealth of the party and the country. Red culture memory is an important form of the inheritance and development of red culture, which includes two levels: explicit symbols and internal meaning. The red cultural memory takes the red cultural system as the main body of memory, and takes a series of revolutionary documents, revolutionary war sites, literary and artistic works, revolutionary songs and cultural relics, memorial sites, revolutionary bases, important historical figures and major historical events, memorial ceremonies, revolutionary spirit, revolutionary traditions and values condensed in them as the carrier. These symbols represent the Communist Party of China and the people's revolution led by it, the revolutionary regime and communist belief, the bloody sacrifice of revolutionaries for the happiness of the people, and the value pursuit and spiritual realm of the Chinese Communists. These symbols record the misfortunes and sufferings, glory and dreams of the Chinese people in modern history The present is closely linked with the future, and constitutes the collective memory of the Chinese people for nearly a century.

　　 Deepening the memory of red culture has great practical significance

The memory of red culture is the historical accumulation of the successful experience of the revolution, construction and reform led by the Communist Party of China and its leadership. It has a distinctive theme of the times and irreplaceable value of the times. In the current era of world economic and cultural integration and conflict, deepening the memory of red culture is of great practical significance to resist historical nihilism, strengthen cultural self-confidence, highlight Chinese characteristics, and enhance value identity.

First, deepening the memory of red culture can effectively resist historical nihilism. In recent years, the sediment of historical nihilism has emerged. The essence of historical nihilism is historical idealism. It advocates rewriting history with western values by totally denying the history of revolution, construction and reform led by the Communist Party of China and its leadership, and attempts to deny the historical inevitability, political legitimacy and realistic legitimacy of the Communist Party of China's ruling from the historical basis, so as to realize its confusion of people's thoughts The evil purpose of shaking the people's faith and obstructing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The memory of red culture is the combination of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, which deeply proves the historical inevitability, political legitimacy and realistic legitimacy of the CPC's ruling. Deepening the memory of red culture can not only reveal the hypocrisy and reactionary purpose of historical nihilism, but also clean up the source and eliminate the disadvantages of historical nihilism.

Second, deepening the memory of red culture is conducive to strengthening cultural self-confidence. General Secretary Xi Jinping has always stressed the need to build firm cultural confidence, and pointed out that cultural confidence is more fundamental, broader and deeper confidence. Red culture, rooted in the fertile soil of Chinese culture, is the great historical experience of modern Chinese revolution, construction and reform under the guidance of Marxism. As Comrade Mao Zedong said: "Since learning Marxism Leninism, the Chinese people have turned from passive to active in spirit. Since then, the era of looking down on the Chinese people and Chinese culture in modern world history should end. The culture of the Chinese people, in terms of spirit, has surpassed the whole capitalist world." Deepening the memory of red culture can inspire the spirit of the Chinese people, let Chinese culture develop new vitality, and finally achieve the transcendence of western culture, which becomes the solid foundation of Chinese cultural confidence.

Third, deepening the memory of red culture can greatly highlight Chinese characteristics. Red culture has shown its unique Chinese style in various historical periods, such as the "Red Boat Spirit", "Jinggangshan Spirit", "Anti Japanese War Spirit" and "Xibaipo Spirit". Deepening the memory of red culture can comprehensively demonstrate the great achievements of the Chinese people led by the Communist Party of China and the historical track of China's development and progress since modern times. This historical track is unique to China in modern world history, which has created a socialist system and road with Chinese characteristics, and has also successfully written a unique chapter of human historical and cultural memory.

Fourth, deepening the red culture is conducive to strengthening the value identity. The red culture records the historical vicissitudes of the Chinese nation in modern times for a hundred years, and shows the magnificent picture of the Chinese Communists who have adhered to the values since 1921, never forgot their original aspiration, kept their mission in mind, led the people of all ethnic groups in the country to fight hard and work hard, committed to seeking national independence and people's liberation, and achieved the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; It witnessed the historical process of the Communist Party of China through revolution, construction and reform, from the party that led the people to struggle for the national power to the party that controlled the national power and was in power for a long time. Deepening the memory of red culture can carry forward the revolutionary spirit and revolutionary tradition of the Communist Party of China based on the current situation by arousing, reappearing, solidifying and writing. Its core content is to enhance the recognition of the value concept of the Communist Party of China.

　　 To deepen the memory of red culture, new measures should be taken in the new era

People's memory is not unchangeable, and the memory of red culture will gradually fade with the passage of time, thus its value and efficacy will be affected. In the new era, to deepen the memory of red culture, we need appropriate methods and effective measures.

First, we should make full use of the symbolic resources of red cultural memory. As a special "historical accumulation", the memory of red culture is not a pure historical review, nor a simple copy of information, but a transmission of value symbols. The symbol resources of the memory of red culture are very rich. The solemn and sacred red boat of Jiaxing South Lake, the magnificent monument of people's heroes, and the impassioned oath of joining the Party need to be fully explored Preserve and properly use the precious symbol resources. Organizing red tourism, reviewing the oath of joining the Party, watching red movies, holding the flag raising ceremony, etc. are the appropriate ways to make full use of the red cultural memory symbol resources, which should be strongly encouraged.

Secondly, we should pay attention to the emotional effect of red cultural memory. To deepen the memory of red culture, it is important to learn theory and convince people with reason. The effect of emotional education and moving people with emotion cannot be ignored. Emotion is the basis of the unity of people's values. Compared with theoretical learning, emotional education has its own unique advantages. Truth comes from seeking truth from facts. In the process of leading the people to carry out revolution, construction and reform, the Communist Party of China has emerged numerous impressive heroic deeds, which are the best material for emotional education. To vigorously publicize the heroic deeds in various ways is the best footnote to deepen the memory of red culture, strengthen the emotional touch, and move people with emotion.

Thirdly, we should vigorously strengthen the field experience of red cultural memory. Field experience is an important form of deepening the memory of red culture. It is mainly through people's behavior to "experience" the historical presence and restore the experience of historical plots and scenes, so that the common memory of social members is solidified in constant repetition, thus transforming from "let me remember like this" to "I want to remember like this". There are various forms of field experience to strengthen the memory of red culture: visiting the relics and sites during the revolutionary war, taking the Long March again, holding the national public memorial ceremony, listening to the oral history of the old Red Army, and so on. In personal experience, the perception of the field containing great historical experience is internalized into individual recognition of the party and the country, and externalized into actual action to truly fulfill the Chinese revolutionary spirit and revolutionary tradition, so as to achieve the unity of knowledge and action.

Finally, we should properly integrate the era elements of red cultural memory. Red cultural memory contains high-quality socialist cultural genes, directly represents the great achievements of the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and has valuable value across time and space. Therefore, we need to take into account the authenticity of the value of red culture, combine the new era and new situation, integrate the elements of the era, integrate the memory of red culture into the modern wisdom achievements, and enhance the era charm of the memory of red culture through more vivid and vivid expression.

　　 (Author: Hu Jidong, Special Researcher of the Central Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics of the Communist Youth League)