中华文化起源于天文学,在关于天人关系的思考中,形成了天人合一理论尤其是心性之学,其本质是追求内心光明,其方法论是允执厥中,其信仰是天命,这一传统持续了上万年之久,呈现独特而经典的发展规律。在先民观象授时、立表测影时,太阳、月亮的光明成为他们身心两方面至死不渝的追求,光明成为天人合一的同义词和内在本质。这一追求也推动了心性之学的诞生和发展。中华文化经历了春秋末期和清末民初两次数千年未有之大变局。党的十八大以来,中华文化实现了从自卑、自强到自信的伟大转变,中华文化的当代使命是创造新的文化形态,创造社会主义工业文明,创造新的天人关系,建设社会主义文化强国。
Chinese culture originated from astronomy.The theory that humankind is an integral part of nature,especially the study of Mind-Nature,had generally been formed in the thinking of the relationship between the inner law of nature and humankind.Its theoretical essence is the pursuit of inner brightness,the methodology is Golden Mean,and the belief is natural law.This tradition of astronomy giving birth to Chinese cultural has lasted for about ten thousand years,illustrating a unique and classical law of development.Chinese ancestors stuck to their pursuit of the bright of the sun and moon physically and mentally until they left the world when they set Chinese calendar by observing astronomical phenomena and measuring shadow with the help of the sundial.As a result,brightness became the synonym and the essence of the theory that man is an integral part of nature.Their pursuit of the brightness also prompted the birth and development of Mind-Nature Theory.In the late Spring and Autumn Period and from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China,Chinese culture went through twice revolutionary changes.From the 18th Communist Party of China National Congress,Chinese culture has achieved a series of changes,which included inferiority,self-improvement and confidence.The modern mission of Chinese culture is to create a new cultural formation,create socialist industrial civilization,create a new relationship between heaven and humankind and build a culturally strong socialist country.