The Revolutionary Culture

It refers to the cultural form formed during the historical period of leading the New Democratic Revolution by the Communist Party of China that reflects the Chinese people’s spiritual pursuit for national liberation, spiritual character, and spiritual power. It not only inherits the excellent traditional Chinese culture, but also leads and develops the advanced socialist culture. It has played a role of inheritance, integration, development and innovation in the long history of Chinese civilization, and is the most unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation. Revolutionary culture has been continuously developed in the course of the Chinese nation’s frustration and rebirth since modern times. It has always been concerned about the destiny of the country and the nation. With its patriotic cultural character, scientific and democratic cultural pursuits, it inherits and develops the traditional Chinese culture in the process of reflection and criticism, and has become an important promising form in the development of Chinese culture. In the period of the new democratic revolution, revolutionary culture is the culture of new democracy, that is, as Mao Zedong pointed out in “On New-Democracy”, “The national, scientific and popular culture is the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal culture of the people, the culture of new democracy, and the new culture of the Chinese nation”. The revolutionary culture represented by the May 4th Spirit, the Red Boat Spirit, the Jinggang Mountains Spirit, the Soviet Area Spirit, the Long March Spirit, the Yan'an Spirit, the Xibaipo Spirit, etc., is the unique cultural form of the Chinese nation cultivated and created by the Chinese Communists, and has unique cultural value.

Revolutionary culture is the inheritance of Chinese excellent traditional culture. A modern history of China is the history of the revolutionary struggle of the Chinese people. From the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement, from the Anti-Japanese War of the entire nation to the National Liberation War, to the great victory of the New-Democratic Revolution, a tortuous history of revolutionary struggle was formed to oppose injustice, resist aggression, pursue prosperity and democracy, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Chinese revolutionary culture is precisely the high-level cultural cohesion of the history of the Chinese nation’s revolutionary struggle, showing the unique charm of Chinese culture. Revolutionary culture has absorbed the nourishment of Chinese excellent traditional culture. From the traditional people-oriented thinking of “although the world is vast, the people are the foundation of the country”, “the people are more important than the monarch”, and “monarchs are like boats, and people are like water. Water can carry or overturn a boat”, to Mao Zedong's thinking “of all things in the world, people are the first and precious” and the public servant’s philosophy of “serving the people wholeheartedly”, all of them embody the value orientation of the Chinese Communists to satisfy the people’s interests. Revolutionary culture is the source of advanced socialist culture. The development of revolutionary culture has made the advanced socialist culture form more distinctive Chinese characteristics. The revolutionary culture demonstrates Communists' outstanding quality of loyalty to the Party, embodies their distinctive character of taking responsibility, cultivates their sense of purpose of serving the people, and demonstrates their honest and clean work style. Revolutionary culture is therefore also the driving force for the great new project of Party building. After the founding of New China, with the establishment of the socialist system, the new-democratic culture was gradually transformed into advanced socialist culture. Revolutionary culture was nurtured in the great struggle of the Party and people. It is a high-quality gene for the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics and lays the foundation for the formation of advanced culture. Carrying forward revolutionary culture can strengthen our communist convictions and strengthen patriotism enthusiasm. On the contrary, denying revolutionary cultural traditions and cutting off history will inevitably lead to confusion in the people’s minds and ultimately loss of the forward momentum. To realize the Chinese Dream for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must adhere to and promote the revolutionary culture, inherit the red gene, and cultivate generations of revolutionary successors.