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.
中华和合文化弘扬工程
20世纪80、90年代以来，“和平与发展”作为时代主题已成为人们的共识，但“文明冲突”“生态危机”等也成为人类必须解决的重大问题。尤其是亨廷顿的“文明冲突论”，认为文明的冲突是必然的，并将主导未来社会，这在国际学界引起了强烈反响。中国学者从中华文化的角度对亨廷顿的“文明冲突论”进行了深入分析和探讨，提出了重要观点，即主张以文明的和谐共融、共处来应对所谓“文明冲突论”。中华和合文化弘扬工程就是在这个背景下诞生的。
1996年，中华和合文化弘扬工程正式启动。该项工程的宗旨是研究、阐发和弘扬中华传统文化中的“和合精神”，以促进中国的精神文明建设，增强中华民族的向心力和凝聚力，推动祖国统一大业和国际和平事业。中华和合文化弘扬工程既是一项重大的学术理论工程，重在对中华和合文化作出深层次的挖掘研究，也是一项优秀传统文化的宣传弘扬工程，通过各种传媒形式和艺术形式对和合精神予以展现。20世纪90年代末以来，在中华和合文化弘扬工程的推动下，和合文化受到越来越多的关注，研究成果和文艺作品不断涌现，进一步提升了和合文化的思想价值和时代意义，深化形成了“以文明交流超越文明隔阂、文明互鉴超越文明冲突、文明共存超越文明优越”的广泛共识。
