The Narrative Code of Ideological-Political Courses “Enlightening People to Comprehend the Way” on the New Journey of the New Era

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “On the new journey of the New Era, the construction of ideological-political courses faces new situations and new tasks, and must have new momentum and new achievements.” This not only points the direction for the construction of ideological-political courses but also sets higher and stricter requirements for ideological-political course teachers. “Profound truths must move and persuade people through storytelling.” The charm of stories lies in the “relevance” between the events they contain and the existence of the audience; the audience can relate to their own circumstances, exercise their imagination, and indirectly obtain certain tendentious information or even action instructions. On the new journey of the New Era, ideological-political course teachers should continuously enhance their narrative thinking, using the world-renowned achievements of socialism with Chinese characteristics as content support, and taking fine traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture as the foundation of strength. They should be adept at excavating stories, skillfully using events to clarify meaning, and improving the pertinence and appeal of ideological-political courses through storytelling that is down-to-earth, cultured, broad in vision, and demonstrates skill.

习近平总书记强调，“新时代新征程上，思政课建设面临新形势新任务，必须有新气象新作为”。这不仅为思政课建设指明了方向，也为思政课教师提出了更高更严的要求。“深刻道理要通过讲故事来打动人、说服人。”故事的魅力在于其蕴含着事件与受众生存之间的某种“相关性”，受众可以在故事中关联处境、施展想象，并间接获得某种倾向性信息甚至行动指令。新时代新征程上，思政课教师应不断提升叙事思维，以中国特色社会主义取得的举世瞩目成就为内容支撑，以中华优秀传统文化、革命文化和社会主义先进文化为力量根基，善于挖掘故事、巧于借事明意，在接地气、有文气、见视野、显水平的讲述中提高思政课的针对性和吸引力。

Learn from the past to illuminate the present; use stories to explain the way of Chinese history and culture. The more than 5,000 years of development of Chinese civilization have nurtured the unique value system, cultural connotations, and spiritual traits of the Chinese people. Ideological-political course teachers must possess broad historical vision and profound cultural heritage, diligently mining story resources from the matrix of Chinese culture to provide rich spiritual nourishment and cultural support for students’ growth and success. Skillfully utilize the “abbreviated text” narrative function of Chinese character structural combinations and the “object-embodied event” implication of ancient artifacts, ingeniously displaying the profound wisdom of the interconnected and endlessly meaningful Chinese cultural spirit, stimulating association and enlightening thought through dialogue between ancient and modern times. Narrate the wisdom of the sages, citing elements that profoundly influenced traditional Chinese culture, such as the various schools of thought and their exponents, folk tales, and mythological histories, drawing extensively on authoritative sources to explain the ideological connotations of respecting the people, establishing virtue, self-cultivation, encouraging learning, and earnest practice. Transform the ideological essences of benevolence, people-centeredness, integrity, justice, harmony, and the Great Unity into valuable nutrients for values education. Flexibly employ the educational function of poetry and song lyrics, which convey profound meanings in subtle words and express the Way through literature, using finishing touches to narrate the Chinese nation’s feelings of serving the country, enterprising spirit, pioneering consciousness, and noble righteousness, thereby enhancing cultural confidence and national pride through aesthetic experience, achieving the effect of ideological-political courses in conveying emotion, expressing intent, and elucidating principles.

知古鉴今，用故事讲好中国历史文化之道。中华文明五千余年的发展历程，孕育出了中国人独特的价值体系、文化意蕴和精神特质。思政课教师要具备宽广的历史视野与深厚的文化底蕴，勤于从中华文化的母体中开采故事资源，为学生成长成才提供丰厚的精神滋养和文化支撑。巧妙运用汉字构型组合的“省文”叙事功能、古代文物的器物“表事”意味，匠心独运地展现中华文化气脉相通、韵味无穷的深刻智慧，在古今对话中激发联想、启迪思想。讲述先贤智慧，通过援引诸子百家、民间传说、神话史传等深刻影响中国传统文化的元素，旁征博引地阐释敬民、立德、修身、劝学、笃行等思想内涵，将仁爱、民本、诚信、正义、和合、大同等思想精髓转化为价值观教育的宝贵养分。活用诗词歌赋微言大义、文以载道的育人功能，画龙点睛地讲出中华民族的报国情怀、进取精神、开创意识和浩然正气，在审美体验中增强文化自信与民族自豪感，达到思政课传情、写意、达理的效果。

Continue the bloodline; use stories to explain the Party’s successful revolutionary way. Properly inheriting the red genes and ensuring that the red rivers and mountains never change color is the sacred mission the Party has entrusted to ideological-political courses. Ideological-political course teachers should delve deeply into Party history, vividly narrating the arduous pioneering work of the revolution, the great deeds of the base areas, and the spirit of sacrifice of heroes and martyrs from the Party’s century-plus struggle, thereby inspiring students’ national righteousness and deeply cultivating their patriotic sentiments. Utilize the spatial advantages of regional resources and school-based resources to fluently and vividly narrate the red stories behind revolutionary spirits such as the Long March Spirit, the Xibaipo Spirit, the Red Crag Spirit, the Yan’an Spirit, the Red Boat Spirit, the Jinggangshan Spirit, and the Soviet Area Spirit, stimulating students’ profound insights into the Party leading the people through hardships to compose a history of revolution, struggle, and heroes. Flexibly employ various narrative carriers such as textual narrative, image narrative, venue-based study tours, character interviews, artistic performances, and virtual experiences to vividly and three-dimensionally display the glorious course of the Chinese nation, under the Party’s leadership, striving for national salvation and prosperity, conveying the profound significance and enduring value across time and space contained in revolutionary stories, inheriting the soul of the Party’s revolutionary spirit, and inspiring students’ deep love for the Party, the people, the nation, and the country.

赓续血脉，用故事讲好党的革命成功之道。把红色基因传承好，确保红色江山永不变色，这是党赋予思政课的神圣使命。思政课教师应深入钻研党史，从党的百余年奋斗中生动讲述革命的筚路蓝缕、根据地的伟大事迹、英雄烈士的献身精神，激发学生的民族大义、厚植爱国情怀。运用地域资源、校本资源的空间优势，灵动流畅地讲述长征精神、西柏坡精神、红岩精神、延安精神、红船精神、井冈山精神、苏区精神等革命精神背后的红色故事，激发学生对党领导人民历经艰辛，谱写革命史、奋斗史、英雄史的深刻感悟。活用文本叙事、图像叙事、场馆研学、人物访谈、艺术展演、虚拟体验等多种叙事载体，生动立体地展现中华民族在党的领导下救亡图存、奋发图强的光辉历程，传递革命故事蕴含的深远意义与跨越时空的恒久价值，传承党的革命精神之魂，激发学生对党、对人民、对国家、对民族的深沉热爱。

Inspire fighting spirit; use stories to explain China’s reform and development way. From the vast countryside to bustling cities, from coastal areas to inland hinterlands, from the deep transformation of the economic system to the grand layout of comprehensively deepening reform and opening up, the great journey of reform and opening up has painted a magnificent picture showcasing China’s confidence, self-reliance, and self-strengthening. As witnesses, thinkers, and observers of the era, ideological-political course teachers need to adopt confirmatory and infectious narrative methods to tell vivid cases such as: the historical opportunity provided by the restoration of the college entrance examination, enabling countless young people to pursue knowledge and change their destiny; the “life-and-death contract” of Xiaogang Village’s household contract responsibility system, which pioneered the rural household contract responsibility system with remuneration linked to output; the clear reflection of Zhongguancun’s transformation on China’s scientific and technological innovation development; the profound revelation of the “lucid waters and lush mountains” enlightenment on the harmonious coexistence of economic development and environmental protection; and the significant contribution of nearly 100 million people being lifted out of poverty to the global poverty reduction cause, fully demonstrating the historic changes in the process of reform and development. As personal participants and meaning distillers of the New Era stories, ideological-political course teachers should display with majestic momentum the brilliant achievements of the Communist Party of China in upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics and promoting Chinese-path modernization in various fields in the New Era. With solid confidence, they should manifest the Party’s strategic wisdom of adhering to “drawing up the blueprint and carrying it through to the end,” “coordinating nationwide efforts as in a chess game,” and “concentrating resources to accomplish major undertakings.” They should guide students to deeply perceive the Party’s spiritual qualities of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, its realm of pursuit in pioneering, innovating, and making sharp changes, and its broad-mindedness of openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation. They should encourage students to actively practice the spirit of reform and opening up and bravely shoulder the mission of youth.

激昂斗志，用故事讲好中国改革发展之道。自广袤的农村至繁华的城市，由沿海地带至内陆腹地，从经济体制的深度变革至全面深化改革开放的宏大布局，改革开放的伟大征程绘就了一幅展现中国自信、自立、自强的壮丽画卷。作为时代的见证者、思考者和观察者，思政课教师需以印证式、感染式叙事方式，讲述恢复高考赋予无数青年追求知识、改变命运的历史性机遇，小岗村大包干“生死契约”所开创的农村家庭联产承包责任制之先河，中关村变迁对中国科技创新发展的鲜明映射，“绿水青山”启示录对经济发展与环境保护和谐共生之道的深刻揭示，近1亿人口脱贫对全球减贫事业作出的重大贡献等生动案例，充分展现改革发展过程中的历史性巨变。作为新时代故事的亲身参与者和意义提炼者，思政课教师应以磅礴的气势展现新时代中国共产党坚持和发展中国特色社会主义、推动中国式现代化建设各领域取得的辉煌成就，以坚实的底气彰显党坚持“一张蓝图绘到底”“全国一盘棋”“集中力量办大事”的战略智慧，引导学生深入感知党解放思想和实事求是的精神品质、开拓创新和锐意变革的境界追求、开放包容和合作共赢的博大胸怀，鼓励学生积极践行改革开放精神，勇于担当青春使命。

Integrate China and foreign countries; use stories to explain the way of human civilization. In the long river of human history, diverse civilizations have shone brightly and coexisted and progressed together, constructing a rich and colorful world picture. Exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations are an important driving force for the progress of human civilization and the peaceful development of the world. Ideological-political course teachers are not only inheritors of Chinese civilization but also promoters of exchanges and mutual learning among human civilizations. They need to be committed to guiding students to possess an international perspective and establish a global vision, enabling students to maintain independent thinking and an open and inclusive mindset amidst the wave of globalization, inherit the marrow of the human spirit, and become a positive force in promoting the development of human civilization and world peace. By narrating the brilliant civilizational achievements jointly created by Chinese civilization, such as Dunhuang culture and Silk Road culture, together with peoples of the world, they reveal the profound implication of interdependence and common development among different civilizations, allowing an understanding of the diversity and inclusiveness of human civilization. By sharing cooperation stories among countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, they demonstrate the actual results of exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, enabling students to deeply recognize that this initiative has not only promoted economic exchanges between countries but also fostered extensive exchanges and cooperation in fields such as culture, education, science and technology, people’s livelihoods, and transportation. By presenting the outstanding achievements and unique charm of Chinese and foreign civilizational histories in fields such as art and philosophy, they guide students to understand that exchanges and collisions between different civilizations are not only the transmission of knowledge and technological innovation but also the fusion and sublimation of ideas and concepts. Paying attention to global hot issues, they reveal that peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom have always been the common value pursuits of human civilization, enabling an understanding of the Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions provided by the Global Civilization Initiative for humanity to address global challenges, achieve peaceful development, and move towards prosperity and progress.

融通中外，用故事讲好人类文明之道。人类历史长河中，多元文明交相辉映、共生共进，构筑了丰富多彩的世界画卷。文明交流互鉴是推动人类文明进步与世界和平发展的重要动力。思政课教师既是中华文明的传承者，也是人类文明交流互鉴的推动者，需致力于引导学生具备国际视野、树立世界眼光，使学生在全球化浪潮中保持独立思考与开放包容的心态，传承人类精神之髓，成为推动人类文明发展与世界和平的积极力量。通过讲述敦煌文化、丝路文化等中华文明与世界各国人民共同创造的辉煌文明成果，揭示不同文明间相互依存、共同发展的深刻意蕴，领悟人类文明的多样性与包容性。通过分享共建“一带一路”国家间的合作故事，展现文明交流互鉴的实际成果，让学生深刻认识到这一倡议不仅推动了国家间的经济往来，更促进了文化、教育、科技、民生、交通等领域的广泛交流与合作。通过呈现中外文明史在艺术、哲学等领域的卓越成就与独特魅力，引导学生理解不同文明之间的交流与碰撞不仅是知识的传递和技术的革新，更是思想观念的交融与升华。关注全球热点问题，揭示和平、发展、公平、正义、民主、自由始终是人类文明的共同价值追求，领悟全球文明倡议为人类应对全球性挑战、实现和平发展、迈向繁荣进步提供的中国智慧和中国方案。

(The author is a researcher at the Chongqing Branch Center of the Research Center for the Theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics of Chongqing Normal University and a lecturer at the School of Marxism, Chongqing Normal University.)

（作者系重庆市中国特色社会主义理论体系研究中心重庆师范大学分中心研究员、重庆师范大学马克思主义学院讲师）

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