At the invitation of the College of Foreign Languages and organized by the lecturer group of the university's Guan Gong Committee, Professor Zuo Biao, a member of the lecturer group of the university's Guan Gong Committee and an honorary professor of the College of Foreign Languages, held a lecture on The Essence of Confucianism and its Relevance to Today's World in the lecture hall of the Foreign Languages Building in the afternoon of April 3. Qian Minfang, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the College, presided over the lecture, which was attended by some teachers, graduate students, and all undergraduate students of Grade 18.
In the lecture, Professor Zuo Biao firstly used two examples to illustrate the reverence for Chinese culture abroad, which led to the theme of the lecture. The first part is the essence of Confucianism, which focuses on the theoretical issues such as the concept, nature, core ideas and essence of Confucianism, as well as the three stages of the development of Confucianism and the representative figures of each period under the three stages. As the focus of the lecture, in the second part, Professor Zubiao focused on the relevance of Confucianism to today's world, which he explained at the individual, organizational and international levels. Professor Zuo Biao believes that in today's changing world, one should respond to all changes with no change, i.e., respond to the unpredictable situation with the principle of constancy, and individuals should pay attention to moral cultivation, and establish oneself to establish others, and attain oneself to attain others. At the international level, mutual respect, fairness and justice, cooperation and win-win situation, and harmony and difference should be achieved. At the end of the lecture, Professor Zuo Biao bilingually recited the poem Walk in your own time zone to the students and teachers in the audience, hoping that they would do their best in their own time zone and harvest their own achievements.
The lecture let the students in the audience understand the essence of Confucian knowledge systematically and made them realize the profoundness of Chinese traditional culture, which played a good role in promoting college students to learn traditional culture and establish cultural self-confidence. Throughout the lecture, Xi Jinping's Socialist Thought with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, such as the propositions of morality and law and community of human destiny, encouraged students to better spread Chinese culture in their future work and study, and also gave college students an open lesson on Civics. The lecture was preceded by a discussion on foreign languages.
Some students also interviewed Professor Zuo Biao before the lecture on foreign language translation and foreign language learning.
(Reported by the College of Foreign Languages office; Written by Ouyang Shu; Translated by Li Huixian)
