On the Transformation of the Contemporary Chinese Culture and its Tendency of Development

Actually, the transformation of contemporary Chinese culture is the shift from traditional culture to modern culture. At present, the traditional culture comprises three parts: 1) the ancient traditional Chinese culture; 2) modern Chinese culture; 3) the traditional-culture-based socialist culture. Up to the time of Reformation and Opening to the outside world, the cultural construction in China had almost completed the transition from ancient Chinese culture to the New Democratic culture and then to the socialist culture. It is in this sense that the transformation of traditional culture into modern culture in contemporary China turns to be the shift from the pattern of traditional-culture-based socialist culture which comprises many cultural elements to the pattern of modern socialist culture. The aim of the transformation of Chinese culture is to establish the pattern of modern socialist culture which is based on the individual self-identified cultural consciousness. Therefore the establishment of the individual self-identified cultural consciousness is the remarkable sign of cultural transformation and cultural modernization. The overall tendency of the development of contemporary Chinese culture should be the integrated development of pluralist cultural elements based on the establishment of the individual self-identified cultural consciousness.