Cultural perspective
Scholar Zeng Zhaocheng and the newspaper person Li Huiling have published on the United Morning Post, entitled that the mainland is a floating island -Singapore, 1990s, and Wang An Yinan's roots (November 21, 2022, now the supplement) and Singapore still wantDo you play a positive role in the Chinese world?(January 7, 2023 Edition) Two macro articles, revealing the care of Singapore Chinese and cultural prospects.Zhao Cheng said at the end of the text that "things can be completely pessimistic at all", looking forward to "Singapore's loss of more"; Hui Ling is worried that with the decline of the number of cultural advocates and practitioners of Chinese language, cultural advocates and practitionersOnce the background and cultural vision disappear, the destiny of the island country and culture.
The two discussions made me slide into the historical time tunnel and captured the two -century turning period I was more familiar with, and the lively cultural scene of Singapore.The farthest occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries alternate, and the last time it came to the turning point of the 20th and 21st centuries.In those two days, Singapore played a positive role in the Chinese world and created a bright moment of culture.Because of the once, Hui Ling would ask: "Singapore still wants ...?"
At the end of the 19th century, the Chinese Consulate and the Confucian Consulate in the south, as well as a group of Chinese intellectuals in a strait, embraced the willingness of Huahua South Island and committed to the extension, cultivation and spread of culture.The deserted gas also promoted cultural exchanges between Singapore, Nanyang, and China.The Consular Society of Zuo Binglong gathered thousands of scholars to write poems for the text, creating a cultural atmosphere.Qiu Xunyuan, who moved to Singapore, is well -known as "Nanyang First Poet" with literature, especially poetry.The new poets, such as Kang Youwei, Huang Zunxian and Liang Qichao.He advocates the Society of Lenwen Society and borrows newspapers to build a platform for celebrities such as Nanyang, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Shanghai.Singapore has thus becoming a town of Nanyang Poetry.
In the 1890s, Qiu Yiyuan and Lin Wenqing, a friend of Qiu Yanyuan, also launched an unprecedented Confucian revival campaign.They use the society, schools, newspapers, magazines, writing and speeches of Chinese and English, to promote Confucianism and Confucianism.On the one hand, the movement advocates the advocacy of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao in China; on the other hand, it promotes the opening of the Confucius Temple in the Southeast Asia Chinese Society to revive the mother culture in the native Chinese group.Affects the islands, spread to Malaysia's Perak, Kuala Lumpur, Penangyu, Malacca, and Wangka, Bada (Jakarta), Surabaya, and Yangon in Myanmar., Southeast Asian cultural interaction landscape.
In a blink of an eye, a hundred years have passed, and the culture of the Chinese society of the island country has gone through the localization process, and has experienced the transformation from Chinese culture to Chinese culture to Chinese culture.Its advocates, cultivators, and communicators were transferred from south to literati and scholars, and transferred to south to scribes and local Chinese educators, and then went to the Chinese school students and the Chinese community to provoke the beams.However, the following development made many intellectuals anxious.The country moves towards independence, and the Chinese language and culture are in a state of abnormality: the founding of Nanyang University in the 1950s is both the pinnacle of the development of Chinese education in Singapore, but also the beginning of the future of Chinese schools.The three divided into the Chinese people have witnessed the decline of Chinese schools that have worked hard for several generations.
Since then, although Singapore has taken off colonial rule politically, it has fallen into a state of "new colonialism" in culture. This phenomenon is the most prominent in Chinese society.Chinese intellectuals are not only distressed about the dishonesty of Chinese schools and the decline in Chinese status, but also worry about the foreseeable future. The lack of cultural faults, thin cultural and Chinese talents will definitely have an adverse impact on ethnic, society and the country.From the 1960s to the 1980s, they kept voicing in Chinese newspapers, condemning, reminded, and appealed, and the sound of wailing was endless.
In the 1980s and the next 1990s, the Chinese school system collapsed in the 1980s and the next 1990s."International College Debate" (hosted by China Central Television); the second drama camp planned by local drama Guo Baokun in 1987, ushered in the outstanding Chinese dramaists of the three places on both sides of the strait (such as Taiwan Lai Shengchuan, Beijing Gaoxingjian, Shanghai Yu Qiuyu, Hong KongRong Nian Zeng); In 1991, the Fifth International Chinese Literature and Art Camp in Lianhe Zaobao allowed China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinma and other places to gather the island nations (such as Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Long Yingtai, etc.).In addition, in 1998, the United Za posted a "cross -century cultural dialogue" organized by the 75th anniversary of celebration.Lecture with a four -person dialogue, the number of people attended about 1,200.
The second Confucian movement in Singapore also appeared in the 1980s.At the end of the 1970s, the transformation of the surrounding political climate, the prevalence of the Economic Miracle of the Four Xiaolong in the Confucian circle, the internationally founding heat in the 1980s, and the doubts of the "western crooked wind" of the island country leaders reiterated to the Chinese in Singapore."Identity" and revival of traditional culture provides a favorable environment.The government spends a lot of manpower and material resources to write Chinese -English bilingual Confucian courses and cultivate relevant teachers for middle school students, invite eight internationally renowned Confucian scholars headed by Du Weiming and Yu Yingshi, to guide and raise tens of millions of yuan. "East Asian Philosophy ResearchPlace".
In those years, the Confucian speeches, discussions, research, and publication of the island nations were held and published. The international Confucian conference was also uninterrupted. In 1987, he also held a large -scale international conference with the Confucius Foundation in Qufu, Shandong.In those years, college schools, folk academic groups, Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Zongxiang Club, newspapers, radio, television, etc., all participated.The feat of respect for Confucianism is internationally eye -catching.In Du Weiming's view, "Singapore has become the source of modern Confucianism in the minds of European and American intellectuals."On October 5, 1994, Beijing established the International Confucian Federation. Li Guangyao was elected as the honorary chairman and delivered a speech at the establishment of the conference.
However, at the end of the 20th century, although the lights on the Chinese cultural stage of Singapore, Guo Baokun, who planned the drama camp, had the distress of "cultural orphan" and the anxiety of the border people's situation;The industry has noticed the floating state of Singapore, and feels the pain of intellectuals worried about cultural faults.At the same time, the Confucian movement of the island nation ended for nearly 10 years.Confucianist ebb and tide factors are complicated, but it also reveals a fact, that is, as the Chinese school's decline and family terms turn to English, the folk Confucian cultural soil is seriously lacking nutrients.Decreased, development is far from the goal.
In the historical tunnel, the development trajectory of the mother's language and culture of the Chinese in Singapore is from the strong colors of China to the distinctive local characteristics.At the end of the 20th century, when people harvested the fruits of hard -working planting in the past, they faced the rapid deterioration of the soil and the flowers and fruits were about to wither.
In recent years, Singapore has indeed made some efforts to promote Chinese culture, but it has been far from leaving the popularity of substantive culture and deep culture.The embarrassment of the island country culture is that after the independence, the national form has transformed into a model of a large government and a small society. If everything is successful, the government's dominance is an important element.One; the multiculturalism of the diverse race is the precious resource of the island nation, but in the process of shaping, the "essential theory of cultural" and "cultural construction theory" has continued to have disputes. Therefore, the improvement of Chinese and culture has been questioned.Second; at the end of the 20th century, the leaf gathered in the advocate and practitioners of the Chinese world art and literary elites in Lion City, as well as Chinese intellectuals who actively responded to the national rejuvenation of Confucianism, or they were old or no longer young.After the system is disintegrated, the cultural soil is getting more and more barren. The century -old tree, the cultivation of the cultural heritage of the Chinese children is by no means a matter of four.ExceptThe national factors, the rise of foreign China and the international cold war, and the development of the mother tongue and parent culture of the island nation, which not only created a new opportunity, but also added layers of concerns.
In any case, if the importance of deep culture in the country, society, and individuals, the long -term culture of all ethnic groups is inseparable from the construction of Singapore culture, then serious reflection, adaptation, and departure are necessary.The advocacy and moderate participation of national leaders, the non -light words of Chinese educators and the old and middle -aged in the Chinese community, the serious and frank communication between the government and the people, and the friends of all friends are all right.
I look forward to playing a positive role in the Chinese world again, but it is just a spur. The island nation must work hard to cultivate the cultural quality of Singapore's children and not allow Singaporean culture to become empty and superstitious performances.
The author is a historian
In recent years, Singapore has indeed made some efforts to promote Chinese culture, but it has been far from leaving the popularity of substantive culture and deep culture.If the importance of deep culture on the country, society, and individuals, it is necessary to understand the far -reaching culture of all ethnic groups to build Singapore culture, then serious reflection, adjustment, and re -starting are necessary.
