How to draw wisdom from history？ The supreme leader said this.

Socialism with Chinese characteristics culture, which originated from the excellent traditional Chinese culture nurtured by the 5,000-year civilization history of the Chinese nation, was cast in the revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture created by the Party leading the people in revolution, construction and reform, and was rooted in the great practice of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

— — On October 18, 2017, the report was published in The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Strengthening cultural self-confidence is inseparable from the cognition and application of Chinese national history. History is a mirror, from which we can better see the world, understand life and know ourselves; History is also a wise man. By talking with history, we can better understand the past, grasp the present and face the future.

— — On November 30, 2016, he delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the 10th National Congress of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the 9th National Congress of China Writers Association.

Both history and reality have proved that the Chinese nation has strong cultural creativity. At every major historical juncture, culture can feel the changes of the national movement, establish the tide of the times, make the first sound of the times, and drum and shout for hundreds of millions of people and the great motherland. Chinese culture not only adheres to its roots, but also keeps pace with the times, which enables the Chinese nation to maintain firm national self-confidence and strong repair ability, and cultivate common feelings and values, common ideals and spirits.

— — On October 15, 2014, speech at the symposium on literary and artistic work

More than 2,000 years ago, the grand occasion of hundred schools of thought appeared in China. Thinkers such as Laozi, Confucius and Mozi studied astronomy and poor geography, extensively explored the true meaning of the relationship between people, people and society, and people and nature, and put forward a profound ideological system. Many ideas put forward by them, such as filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, honesty and shame, benevolence and love, kindness to others, harmony between man and nature, natural Taoism and self-improvement, still deeply affect Chinese’s life. Chinese has his own unique value system when he looks at the world, society and life.

— — Speech at the European Institute in Bruges on April 1, 2014.

Without the inheritance and development of civilization and the promotion and prosperity of culture, there would be no realization of the Chinese dream. The ancestors of the Chinese nation have long yearned for a world of great harmony in which people’s material life is full and carefree and their moral realm is fully sublimated. Chinese civilization has always incorporated people’s spiritual life into life and social ideals. Therefore, realizing the Chinese dream is the development process of fly with me’s material civilization and spiritual civilization.

— — Speech at UNESCO headquarters on March 27th, 2014.

Don’t forget that you can open up the future, and you can innovate better if you are good at inheritance. We should persist in making the past serve the present, bring forth the new, treat it discriminately, inherit it without discarding the useless, and strive to educate people with all the spiritual wealth created by the Chinese nation.

— — On February 24, 2014, he delivered a speech at the 13th collective study in the 18th the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

We should not only understand the history and culture of China, but also open our eyes to the world, understand the history and culture of different nationalities in the world, discard its dross, take its essence, get inspiration from it and use it for us.

— — Speech at the celebration meeting of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Central Party School and the opening ceremony of the spring semester in 2013 on March 1, 2013.