以“国学热”为题写一篇英语作文,带翻译

国学热
The national learning craze
近年来中国出现了一股引人注目的文化热潮即国学热.一些大学成立了国学院、国学研究所和名目繁多的国学讲堂竞相阐释传统的儒、释、道思想.在乡间坊里各种旧习俗、新事物纷纷打着国学旗号以壮声威祭孔庙、拜黄帝陵之类的活动搞得声势浩大风水、占卜、星相之术也大行其道.这种内容庞杂的国学热具有极强的精神感召力与中国高速增长的经济实力和日益复苏的大国理想相互砥砺使得当前中国文化在精神面貌方面呈现出一种与改革开放初期的全盘西化倾向迥然而异的景象.从冷战时代结束以后的全球文化发展趋势来看这股国学热表现了一种文化保守主义的价值取向蕴涵着一种现代化而不西方化的文化要求表现了一种民族文化身份的自觉意识同时也难免带有泥沙俱下的复杂性.
In recent years,a striking cultural movement in the form of a “national learning
craze” has swept China.Some universities have set up national learning collegesand research institutes as well as variously named lecture halls,all competing to interpret traditional Confucian,Buddhist and Taoist thought.In rural areas,all
kinds of old customs and new things flaunt the banner of “national learning” to
bolster their standing,and Confucian temples and the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor conduct resplendent ceremonies.Feng shui or geomancy,divination
and astrology are also widely practiced.This kind of catch-all
“national learning”has a strong intellectual attraction.It works in with the rapid growth in China’s economic power and the revival of the ideal of China as a great
nation,so that the intellectual atmosphere of today’s Chinese culture is quite the opposite of the trend toward “wholesale Westernization” in the early stages of
reform and opening up.Seen in the light of global cultural trends following the
end of the Cold War era,it is similar in some respects to the Islamic revival in the Middle East and the rise of Hinduism in the South Asian subcontinent in that it
displays a culturally conservative value orientation.The “national learning craze”
contains an implicit cultural demand for “modernization but not Westernization,” evincing aconsciousness of the status of national culture,albeit a complex one in which the wheat and the chaff are inevitably mingled.