第九辑 圣贤之音 - 文化与道德的乐章 Volume 9: Culture & Virtue - Echoes of the Sage
摘自《莲花智慧1》
Excerpt from Lotus Wisdom 1
十几年前，无意间听到某人这样评价当今的多数中国人：有知识，没文化。笔者听后有点感想和大家分享：
More than ten years ago, I unintentionally overheard someone describing the majority of Chinese people in the present day as having knowledge but lacking culture. Upon hearing this, I had some thoughts that I would like to share with everyone.
所谓文化：文者，语言、文字也。化者，转化、变化也。
The so-called culture (Wen Hua in Chinese): Wen refers to language and writing; Hua refers to transformation and change.
文化是用来熏陶和转化人们心灵的语言或文字。
Culture is the language or writing used to nurture and transform people's minds.
文化是在一个民族中绵延流传下来的观念、习俗、思想、艺术、宗教等。更具体地体现在人们的生活方式、风俗习惯、心理特性、审美情趣、价值观念中。
Culture encompasses ideas, customs, thoughts, art, religion, and more that have been passed down through generations within a particular nation. More specifically, culture is manifested in people's way of life, customs, psychological traits, aesthetic preferences, and value systems.
文化有传统文化和现代文化，或主文化与亚文化之别。
Culture can be categorized into traditional culture and modern culture, or as the distinction between mainstream culture and subcultures.
文化具有民族性。每一种社会形态都有与其相适应的文化，每一种文化都随着社会的发展而发展。社会发展的连续性，决定文化的发展也具有连续性和历史继承性。
Culture possesses an ethnic nature. Each social form has a corresponding culture, and each culture evolves with the development of society. The continuity of social development determines the continuity and historical inheritance of culture.
所谓知识：知者，了知、了解也。识者，认知、认识、识别也。
The so-called knowledge (Zhi Shi in Chinese): Zhi refers to understanding and comprehension, while Shi refers to recognition, cognition, and identification.
知识是人类从社会实践中总结的认识成果。包括科学知识、技术知识、文化知识、历史知识等几大类，科学知识又包括自然科学知识、社会科学知识。
Knowledge is the collective result of human understanding derived from social practice. It encompasses several major categories, such as scientific knowledge, technological knowledge, cultural knowledge, and historical knowledge. Scientific knowledge further includes natural sciences and social sciences.
知识没有民族性，是人类共享的。其中文化知识指的是对文化的了解和认识，但还没有接受或认同，一旦接受或认同，便有转化其心灵的作用，此时知识便可转变成文化。
Knowledge is not bound by any specific ethnicity; it is shared by all of humanity. Cultural knowledge refers to the understanding and recognition of culture, but it has not yet been accepted or embraced. It exerts a transformative influence on the human mind once it is accepted and embraced. At that point, knowledge transforms into culture.
例如，佛教文化知识是对佛教文化的了解和认识，但还没有接受或认同，一旦接受或认同，便有转化人们心灵的作用，此时佛教知识便转变成佛教文化了。
For example, cultural knowledge of Buddhism refers to the understanding and recognition of Buddhist culture, but it has not yet been accepted or embraced. Once it is accepted and embraced, it exerts a transformative influence on people's minds, and at that point, Buddhist knowledge becomes Buddhist culture.
知识和文化区别的重点在“识”和“化”，一者是识别，一者是转化。
The key distinction between knowledge (Zhi Shi in Chinese) and culture (Wen Hua in Chinese) lies in "Shi" (recognizing) and "Hua" (transforming); the former involves recognition, while the latter involves transformation.
知识更新速度越来越快，目不暇接，但文化却是不容易更新的。释道儒三大传统文化，虽然经过了几十年的彻底的洗劫，几千年累积和传承下来的民族文化绿洲几乎变成了一片沙漠，但是现在它们又慢慢复苏了，真是应了“野火烧不尽，春风吹又生”这句话了！
The pace of knowledge renewal is getting faster and faster, overwhelming and hard to keep up with. On the other hand, culture is not easily updated. Despite the thorough cleansing of the three major traditional cultures of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism after decades of upheaval, the cultural oases accumulated and passed down for thousands of years almost turned into a desert. However, now they are slowly reviving, just as the saying goes, "A wildfire may be extinguished, but spring breeze brings it to life again!"
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