Culture is alive. Or to put it another way, a culture that has vitality will last and last. The old man Liang Shuming once gave a definition of culture: "Everything on which our life depends." ”

How to understand this sentence?

Eating is a food culture, and there is an agricultural culture behind eating. Wearing is clothing culture, and there is industrial culture behind wearing. There is also a business culture behind food and clothing. What is trending is called fashion culture, and what is outdated is called backward culture. Home is the architectural culture, travel is the transportation culture, the peaceful days have the leisure culture, the war years have the military culture, and the people's life, old age, sickness and death are the folk culture. The growth of people must be educated, the development of the country depends on science and technology, the number dictionary does not forget the ancestors is rooted in the traditional culture, and a nation is truly strong in the forest of the world, but also open to absorbing foreign cultures.

The way a person does things is a person's personality, which is called personality. The way people in a region do things, this collective character, is precipitated, which is called culture.

In China, this difference in collective character is obvious and concrete. People living in the Yellow River basin and the Yangtze River basin have a big difference between food, clothing, housing and transportation. In the Yellow River Basin, people from Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi are close neighbors, Henan people are close neighbors with Shandong people, and Qinghai people and Ningxia people are close neighbors, but the collective personality differences between the neighbors are obvious. In the Yangtze River basin, there are also differences between Hunan and Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Further afield, the difference between Beijingers and Cantonese is even more prominent.

As far as Shaanxi Province is concerned, the people of Guanzhong, southern Shaanxi, and northern Shaanxi are also very different. In Guanzhong, there is a difference between the people of Xifu and the people of Dongfu. In northern Shaanxi, there is a difference between Yan'an and Yulin people. In southern Shaanxi, the same is true for the Shangluo, Hanzhong, and Ankang people. We have two old sayings about cultural character, one is called "Ten miles of different customs". The difference between folklore and custom is close. Another saying is "he who grew up drinking a river of water". The latter sentence refers to the fact that there is a mutual integration in the personalities of different cultures. When we study regional cultures, we must not only see the different sides of each other, but also look for the side that integrates with each other and generates synergies.

The cultural character of a region is the specific image of a region, and it is the same thing as the imprint, which is not easy to get rid of, such as the carefulness of the people of Shanghai, the roughness of the people of the Northeast, and the people of Henan. Cultural construction is also a regional image construction, but this kind of image construction is not something that can be done overnight or "how fast and good the province" can be done, nor is it a fortune, with a little money, the cultural image will be glorious and high. Today, China's economy is the "second" in the world, but the overall image of our Chinese behavior and doing things, in the eyes of foreigners, to be honest, don't say that it ranks second, can the top twenty be ranked?

On this issue, it should be said that the contemporary Chinese are ashamed of our ancients and have disgraced their ancestors. In the past, China was called the "State of Etiquette", and each industry should have its own rules, and "benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith" are basically deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Nowadays, there are two hot words for self-examination: "lack of integrity" and "lack of faith", which are actually inappropriate, in fact, they are lack of rules. We don't follow the rules of our ancestors when we do things now.

Nowadays, when I talk about "prosperous culture", I think I should first have a clear and sober understanding of culture.