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Let cultural originality race forward

2025-03-11   

The creation of a dual "myth" of market and reputation in "Ne Zha: The Demonic Children Roar in the Sea"; Yushu robot twisted the "Cyber Yangge" and performed on the Spring Festival Gala stage; Foreign tourists encounter the first "Intangible Cultural Heritage Edition" of Chinese Spring Festival during "China Tour"; The Chinese Lantern Festival has made its debut abroad, attracting the attention of the world; From 2013 to 2023, China has published over 576000 literary books, produced more than 9300 films, and created millions of works by active authors in online literature... The "spring water" of cultural originality has stirred up waves. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the important role of originality in promoting cultural prosperity and building a strong cultural country. From emphasizing the need to integrate the spirit of innovation throughout the entire process of literary and artistic creation production and enhance the ability of literary and artistic originality at the 2014 Forum on Literary and Artistic Work, to emphasizing the need to promote academic and artistic democracy, enhance literary and artistic originality, and promote literary and artistic innovation in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China; The series of important statements made by General Secretary Xi Jinping, from emphasizing the need to improve cultural originality and enhance the service, guidance, and organizational mechanisms for literary and artistic creation during the 17th collective learning session of the 20th Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, to visiting and comforting grassroots cadres and masses in Liaoning before the Spring Festival this year, emphasizing the need to strive to improve cultural originality and launch more high-quality works, have provided a clear path and direction for enhancing cultural originality. Cultural originality originates from the consolidation and manifestation of the subjectivity of Chinese culture. Only with a profound understanding and high confidence in its own culture can a country or a nation gain the determination to persist, summon the courage to strive for progress, and radiate the vitality of innovation and creation. General Secretary Xi Jinping creatively proposed the important idea of "two combinations", especially the "second combination", which, with the theoretical courage of "another ideological liberation", safeguarded and consolidated the subjectivity of Chinese culture, provided theoretical guidance for integrating the soul of Marxism and the root of excellent traditional Chinese culture into a unified cultural life form, and had a firm cultural sense of self. More and more cultural workers, with a high degree of cultural confidence, are rooting their creations in the long-standing and profound Chinese civilization, learning from and drawing on all the excellent achievements of human civilization, and striving to launch cultural achievements that blend ancient and modern, and integrate Chinese and Western cultures. Any creation is not created out of thin air, and the elements rich in originality of each era must always be captured in the hot real life. The reason why Mountain and Sea Sentiment and Human World are popular is that they vividly depict the change of Chinese material life and the growth of the spiritual world under the tide of the times; Seizing the opportunity of transformation and upgrading of the cultural and tourism industry, "Erbin Re" has established a strong presence by creating a super IP for ice and snow tourism and providing "popular customer" services; The "Village Evening" and "Village BA" are connected to the cultural enthusiasm of the vast number of farmers on one hand, and to the vigorous vitality of comprehensive rural revitalization on the other, quietly reshaping the current cultural landscape... Contemporary China is undergoing the most extensive and profound social change in its history, as well as the most grand and unique practical innovation in human history. We must integrate cultural creation into the great practice of promoting Chinese path to modernization, embed it in the current of the times of reform and development, make the most of it, and continue to draw on the power of originality. Cultural originality often arises from the exchange and collision between ethnicity and the world, tradition and modernity, history and reality. It cannot be separated from the author's ideals and pursuits, emotions and courage, inspiration and creativity, as well as a good cultural ecology and social environment. To take stimulating innovation and creativity as the central link in deepening cultural system and mechanism reform, and to build a system and mechanism conducive to the continuous emergence of original achievements. We must vigorously promote innovative culture, tilt resources, funds, awards, etc. towards original works, guide creators to eliminate the interference of capital and flow logic, overcome the tendency of imitation and cloning, clustering of themes, and homogeneous content, and forge ahead towards the forefront of cultural development with persistent pursuit. We must vigorously promote academic democracy and artistic democracy, create a positive, healthy, relaxed, and harmonious atmosphere, promote the exchange and mutual learning of ideas, content, styles, and schools, and allow cultural creation to flourish and compete among a hundred schools of thought. The future of building a strong cultural country relies on the shoulders of young people. We need to provide more development opportunities for innovative young talents, further cultivate their cultural confidence, stimulate their desire for innovation and change, encourage them to inject their thoughts, emotions, and experiences into originality, and form unique cultural expressions. In response to the question about cultural originality, DeepSeek said, "In the era of artificial intelligence, the future of cultural originality may lie in the 'enhanced creativity' of human-machine collaboration, where humans provide value judgments and meaning frameworks, while machines implement combinatorial innovation and hyper dimensional computing." For advanced technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, we should actively embrace and make good use of them, and promote their empowering applications in cultural creation and design, content production, dissemination and experience. The prosperity of culture cannot be separated from the nourishment of originality. As cultural originality surges forward, the socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era will undoubtedly stand among the advanced cultures of humanity with strong ideological guidance, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence. (New Society)

Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang xiao jing

Source:people.cn

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