Research Article

The Further Integration Path of Chinese Guanyin Culture, Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture, and Socialist Core Values: Take Putuo Guanyin Cultural Park as an Example in Zhoushan, China

Hanglu RenZhejiang Ocean University* Jinghong BeiZhejiang Ocean University

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

Guanyin's belief has a profound influence on the field of Chinese belief. Guanyin is not only the most popular object of god worship in China but also the Guanyin culture that accompanies the belief in Guanyin and the worship of gods has also given birth to the unique Chinese Guanyin culture in the long course of China's feudal history of nearly two thousand years. Chinese Guanyin culture has participated in shaping the spiritual world of the Chinese nation and the basic framework of Chinese traditional culture. The compassion, purity, equality, and harmony contained in it have become one of the cultural elements of China's excellent traditional culture, and are in line with the core socialist values of the country, society, and There is a certain coupling relationship between the three aspects of value pursuit at the three levels of individuals: what kind of country to build, what kind of society to build, and what kind of citizens to cultivate.

Keywords: guanyin culture; traditional Chinese excellent culture; socialist core values; integration paths
Published: November 28, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/17/20230861
Volume: CHR Vol.17
pp. 92-101
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