Chinese Hehe Culture Promotion Project

Since the 1980s, the world has been focusing on the theme of peace and development. However, "clashes of civilizations" and "ecological crises" have also become major problems that humanity must solve. In particular, Huntington's theory of Clash of Civilizations believed that a clash of civilizations would be inevitable and would preoccupy future societies. Such a point of view aroused strong reactions in the international academic circles. The Chinese scholars analyzed and discussed Huntington's theory from the perspective of Chinese culture. They proposed an important view of handling such clashes with harmonious integration and coexistence of civilizations. It was against this backdrop that the Chinese Hehe Culture Promotion Project came into being.

Officially launched in 1996, the project is to study, elucidate and carry forward the Hehe spirit in traditional Chinese culture, so as to advance cultural and ethical progress in China, enhance the unity and cohesion of the Chinese nation, contribute to the realization of national reunification, and promote international peace. The project is not only a major academic and theoretical project focusing on in-depth exploration and research of Chinese Hehe Culture, but also a project promoting the excellent Chinese Hehe Culture through various media and art forms. 

Thanks to this project, since the late 1990s, Hehe Culture has caught greater attention and witnessed the emergence of valuable research results and literary and artistic works. The intellectual value and historical significance of Hehe Culture have thus been further improved, and contributed to the formation of the consensus of replacing estrangement with exchange, clashes with mutual learning, and superiority with coexistence.

中華和合文化弘揚工程 

20世紀80、90年代以來，“和平與發展”作為時代主題已成為人們的共識，但“文明沖突”“生態危機”等也成為人類必須解決的重大問題。尤其是亨廷頓的“文明沖突論”，認為文明的沖突是必然的，并將主導未來社會，這在國際學界引起了強烈反響。中國學者從中華文化的角度對亨廷頓的“文明沖突論”進行了深入分析和探討，提出了重要觀點，即主張以文明的和諧共融、共處來應對所謂“文明沖突論”。中華和合文化弘揚工程就是在這個背景下誕生的。

1996年，中華和合文化弘揚工程正式啟動。該項工程的宗旨是研究、闡發和弘揚中華傳統文化中的“和合精神”，以促進中國的精神文明建設，增強中華民族的向心力和凝聚力，推動祖國統一大業和國際和平事業。中華和合文化弘揚工程既是一項重大的學術理論工程，重在對中華和合文化作出深層次的挖掘研究，也是一項優秀傳統文化的宣傳弘揚工程，通過各種傳媒形式和藝術形式對和合精神予以展現。20世紀90年代末以來，在中華和合文化弘揚工程的推動下，和合文化受到越來越多的關注，研究成果和文藝作品不斷涌現，進一步提升了和合文化的思想價值和時代意義，深化形成了“以文明交流超越文明隔閡、文明互鑒超越文明沖突、文明共存超越文明優越”的廣泛共識。