Yesterday's sage said: "If China's culture exists, then China will prosper;" If China culture is absolutely gone, China will perish. "
Riding an angry horse like a broken rope
Buddha said, "Bodhisattva is afraid of cause, but ordinary people are afraid of fruit."
"Madness and sedative Qi Fei, depression and narcotics go hand in hand."
In emerging countries such as Britain, Germany, France and Italy, there is a militarism of "being strong outside and being dry inside, singing justice inside". At the same time, changing democratic autocracy into dictatorship is called aggression under the guise of justice. & lt Edgar Allan Poe's Note: It properly explains the social phenomenon brought about by the early development of western industrial civilization. The law of the jungle means the survival of the fittest. Therefore, American and Australian aborigines, African blacks, Eight-Nation Alliance, China under the Japanese Imperial Army, and Jews under Hitler's "Best Germanic" system all deserved bad luck. This is a kind of "pure scientific ethics" without religious background, and it is an out-and-out robber logic. There is no "fraternity" advocated by Christ. Patriotism, who can say that Hitler was not a very good and enthusiastic patriot? & gt
In short, China1Teenagers at the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 20th century, that is, the middle-aged and elderly people we hear and see now, are like a group of demolition teams that demolish old and illegal buildings and a group of garbage cleaners. When we were young and strong, everyone took hoes and axes, trying to open up a broad road for future generations and build a new cultural paradise. Who knows that at the beginning of the construction, someone suddenly set off a wildfire, leaving only a desolate place in the end. Later, a group of children followed, and when they saw this picture, they inexplicably cursed the old teenagers of these predecessors as "incompetent" and "irresponsible". The more they watched it, the more angry they became. They ran around naked, jumping around, cursing and fooling around. Crying, screaming, cursing, nothing. Everyone was tired and at a loss, so they had to lie on the ground and cheat, claiming that they were happy in know life! This kind of picture is enough to represent the picture books of the history and culture of the East and China in the 20th century, which is one of the reasons for the psychological blank of modern teenagers. & ltPo Note: The Lost Tradition-China's cultural tradition has its roots in modern times and can be called Sinology. However, due to the wanton aggression and humiliation of western powers, intellectuals at the beginning of the century went in the direction of "total westernization", dug up the "grave of Confucius and Mencius" and strongly rejected Chinese studies. This is the beginning of China's research on trauma. Later, the anti-rightist movement and the Cultural Revolution in the mainland were even more disastrous, so the ideal of "total westernization" was almost realized. In fact, "westernization" is not complete, but "middle school" has been successfully cut off, and we have lost "Chinese studies" and culture. Scholars who lead the culture now have no knowledge base of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and perhaps some people with mental retardation will naturally get used to calling Confucius "Kong Laoer". This is an era when "culture" has no roots, and Chinese mainland people can't even make decent martial arts novels. & gt
World War II ended a tragedy in the East, but it also decided the fate of Western Europe. /kloc-Italy, Germany, France and even Britain, which claimed that there was no sunset in the 0/9th century, all declined one after another. The remnants of European culture, except some historical traces for people to mourn, are sad to see that the "client countries" in Europe, such as Germany and France, are only "poor and restless bones by the river, still living in dreams".
At present, the only western culture that shocked the world is the dollar and science, its young history of nearly 200 years from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, and American-style democracy and freedom. Using these capitals, American pioneers came from behind, and without any experience in leading the world history, they added the style of "breaking promises and demoralizing", swaggering through the city and working hard. Slope note: the hand next to it is embarrassing. However, no matter how naive and shallow American culture is, in the last 30 years of the 20th century, it has exerted enough influence on China and the East, as well as other areas with backward scientific civilization and industry and commerce. & lt Note: In contrast, Europeans tend to think that they are more literate than Americans, such as art. In their view, Americans are a group of rude and ignorant upstarts. It is said that people in Paris can't speak English, and neither can they. Speaking English, especially American English, may undermine their dignity. But who can resist the ubiquitous American army? Now it is survival of the fittest, and aspiring young people in China are busy taking TOEFL or getting visas. The evolution of history is in line with Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest". The concept of "gunboat policy" cannot be found in the traditional culture of China. China people learned the experience of "being beaten behind" at the cost of blood, so the disaster of Chinese studies began and has not ended yet. Today, the United States has even created the robber logic that "human rights are greater than sovereignty", thus forcibly pushing the "culture" of industry and commerce to the whole world, which is unstoppable. This is the fate and karma of all mankind? ! & gt
Four years ago, a sociology professor from an American university visited the East during his summer vacation. . . He asked: "China has experienced several times of national subjugation, but this country, nation and culture have not died out. Every time it has experienced historical disasters, it has become more brilliant and powerful. This is almost unprecedented in western history. What power is this? " I answered him simply and clearly: "This is the power of cultural unity." He listened, though he kept taking notes in his hand, but his attitude was full of doubt. & lt note: All dynasties in which foreigners ruled the Central Plains failed to stop the long river of Chinese culture. The great stream of foreign culture injected into Chinese civilization is Indian Buddhism, which has been transplanted and integrated into the body of China culture. However, the invasion of modern western industrial culture in Chinese mainland almost cut off the three schools of Chinese studies, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, and it remains to be seen how it will end in the future. According to my feeling, China's culture will be extinct, the era of absolute lawlessness will come, and mankind will rest in peace. When China's culture prospers, human society will be sunny, but the prediction of the last French era mentioned by the Buddha will fail? Difficult, difficult, difficult! ! ! & gt
America. . . The spirit of "owned by the people, governed by the people and enjoyed by the people". However, freedom and democracy, which are concerned anyway, have potential industrial and commercial interests and values in their bones. This was the case at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it is still the case today 200 years later. To tell the truth, your current democratic politics and the mastermind behind the scenes are still inseparable from the influence background of industrial and commercial capital. Really! So far, the United States has no great territorial ambitions for other regions, but it cannot be said that there is no market demand! & lt slope note: As President Reagan said in his autobiography, if there is ambition to occupy the territory of other countries, by the end of World War II, the United States has occupied more than half of the earth and all Americans have retreated. Take Japan as an example. In fact, Japan with developed economy has actually occupied many markets in the United States. The trouble with Japan is that it has become a copy of the American social system. Now the whole of Japan is as busy as ants on hot bricks, with developed materials and decadent spirit. America seems to be a big guy who grew up eating instant noodles. The trouble is that it tries to forcibly take away everyone's food and let them live a happy life of "He Dazhuang brand instant noodles" every day, and it is willing to use the gunboat policy to enforce this happy life as understood by the American nouveau riche, and no one can do anything about it. & gt
European countries, such as Britain, France and Germany, have always looked down on the United States with traditional self-esteem, but in the historical evolution of the trend of the times, it is still inseparable from the twists and turns of the American atmosphere. & ltPo Note: In fact, the emergence and proliferation of the American model is the inevitable result of the early industrial revolution in Europe and America. This result is expressed by a terrible song by Liu Yida, which laments the hole in the ozone layer-My God! ! ! & gt
War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China. Because of the Japanese imprudence, China and the whole culture of the East were ruined. & lt slope note: Japan rose rapidly after the Meiji Restoration, and was on an equal footing with European and American powers militarily. It can be said that it is a very successful "learning from foreigners." But with the development of history today, have the Japanese been happy? A friend of mine recently came back from Tokyo and sighed, "At least I don't want to live there. Four subways have been dug underground in Tokyo, and many people are busy running on the escalators. The whole city is like a huge and busy mouse nest and ant nest. This country is completely crazy. " I'm not sure whether this statement is completely correct or not, but I know that many China people are proud of going to Japan to make a living or gilding, instead of learning westernization and rejuvenating China like some predecessors in the 1920s and 1930s. China is moving towards this modernization. It's hard to stop a car with a gladiator's arm. Try to save yourself and others with fate. & gt
Britain, Germany, France and Japan have all passed, and now it is America's turn to be the most popular. However, we blindly follow this friend whose history is too young, too energetic, too self-motivated and too naive, worship its nude beauty and be infatuated with its ecstasy, which is as terrible as playing with beautiful women on a volcano. & lt Note: I copied the last sentence correctly. However, history seems to obey Darwin's law of the jungle, force is supreme, and people with profound cultural background are inevitably slaughtered. For example, Mongolian barbarians used pure force to rule the four fields and dominate the world. However, looking back at history, the Mongolian Empire eventually disappeared without a trace because of illiteracy, leaving only the word "yellow disaster" in the dictionary, which is enough to make the descendants of Genghis Khan proud. The "Qing" empire only left such rubbish as "Gege". Will oriental culture really win the victory of saving the world in the future? It's hard to say, but the superiority of oriental culture in wisdom is beyond doubt. For example, the most wonderful operation method of "saving life and death" is simply vacant in western scientific civilization, so westerners with great wisdom are either extremely painful or addicted to Orientalism. Today's Americans are really a bit like Mongolian warriors. It seems that human suffering on this earth continues. If the oriental culture is unfortunately extinct in the future, the "era of absolute doom" will come and the world will become hell, suffering and torment. & gt
I often hear our own friends proudly quote former British Governor Ge Lianghong's speech in the United States. He believes that "19th century is the century of Britain; The twentieth century is the century of Americans; 2 1 century will be the century of China people. Unfortunately, I didn't hear it with my own ears, so it's difficult to confirm this sentence 100%. & lt note: Lao Tzu said, "Far is the opposite". Perhaps if industrial civilization goes to extremes and human beings are not extinct, it is really possible for human beings to find the way of "returning to simplicity" again. At that time, the ancient oriental culture will be useful. At present, the future is still in the fog, only knowing that there are nuclear bomb targets everywhere, the ozone layer is destroyed, species are gradually extinct, the temperature is gradually rising, and busy people are constantly heading for the mouth of death. Human beings as a whole still lack rational consciousness. & gt
Internally, under the banner of "American-style" democracy and freedom, the whole country is full of various crises, such as pornography, blue (workers' problems), white (drug abuse and narcotics use) and black (racial problems). & lt note: 1999, there were many cases in which some people were driven insane by the pressure of survival, so they fired at schools, stock markets and even kindergartens. And American life is always inextricably linked with bombs. The extramarital affair between the current president and his wife is widely known, which symbolizes the "high civilization" of the American model. America is really a paradise created by industrial civilization. & gt
The so-called "American-style democracy and freedom" is characterized by the famous saying of one of the people who started from industry and commerce: "The greatest learning in the world is how to make others give me the money in their pockets happily." & lt note: Balzac will definitely recognize such a wise man as the authentic direct descendant of Old Grandet. Seriously, he said, "The greatest and most important knowledge in the world is to find ways to escape from death. Buddha and Laozi are both masters of this teaching of escaping from prison." & gt
"Learning to be excellent is an official, and business is excellent."
The country is the product of the people; Man is a tool of the mind.
Today's America is just a bright star in western culture. It is the experimental field of scientific civilization, not the indicator of the whole human culture. < Note: According to the wisdom of the celestial comet, it is also appropriate to use it to compare the Mongolian empire that swept the world that year. I just don't know whether the large group of mice used in this experiment will be completely extinct during this experiment. Whether it is a nuclear arsenal or a sinkhole, it is no joke. & gt
Tang Yao, a famous man in China's ancient history, was a saint, but his son Dani was a black sheep. Gu Sou is not a good man, nor is his wife, but their son Yu Shun is a saint. & lt Edgar Allan Poe's Note: Indeed, human wisdom, artistic talent and so on are often not passed on to future generations. For example, the children of Einstein, Newton and others are not smart people. And the list goes on. This phenomenon can not be explained by modern genetics at all, but can be explained by reincarnation in Buddhism. Some people, such as American psychic Prach, even find that some wandering special souls will focus on helping some lucky people to do artistic creation, which explains that a few people who have never experienced art will unconsciously draw Picasso-style paintings and sell them at high prices abroad. In other words, it makes sense for some people to go to the temple and ask Guanyin Bodhisattva for their sons. If you don't make some efforts and get pregnant with a poor soul, even an evil soul, it will be miserable. & gt
In China culture, the earliest example of family education is The Book of Rites. I always hope that my compatriots and my nation can get to know their own culture first. At least, everyone must read the important part of the Book of Rites.
Since Emperor Wendi and Emperor Jingdi, the educational spirit of "ruling the world with filial piety" has gradually laid a foundation. . . After arriving in Wei Wendi, he strongly advocated filial piety, which made emperors of past dynasties form the motto and criterion of "ruling the world with filial piety" in political thoughts and measures.
"A loyal minister must be at the door of a dutiful son."
There is absolutely nothing wrong with "ruling the world with filial piety", which is the characteristic of China culture. & lt Abao's Note: Indeed, "filial piety" is a strong concept peculiar to China. In western culture, there is only "love", and with the progress of material civilization, the scope of this "love" is narrowing to "sex". Ang Lee's masterpiece Pushing Hands profoundly reveals this point. However, in today's China, with the overthrow of traditional culture and the progress of social science, this "filial piety" has become increasingly indifferent. Maybe one day, when the society evolves to a considerable extent according to the model of western countries, the old people will be afraid of being "old", such as wearing bright clothes in western society and trying to squeeze into the ranks of young people. "Your dad" is not a respectful title in America. There is almost no filial piety in an educational culture in the west. Second, young people are too busy to take care of themselves, so it is inevitable that social progress will throw away filial piety. Therefore, it is popular to say that "America is a paradise for children, a battlefield for young people and a hell for the elderly." But don't forget that everyone will become an old man. Is society really progressing? Whether the highly developed scientific civilization has made people get an increasingly happy life! & gt
Mencius said, "There are three kinds of unfilial, and the last is the greatest."
At the turn of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Emperor Taizong inherited the way of selecting scholars in the Sui Dynasty and established the imperial examination system before proudly saying, "Heroes in the world, my generation are all words of' China'." Since then, the method of selecting scholars through examinations has evolved into the imperial examination system in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. So "the night light is on, it's time for a man to make up his mind" and "no one asked under the window for ten years, and once he became famous, he became famous all over the world"
From the name of "foreign school" to the current three-tier academic system and graduate school. Education is really popular, and the knowledge level of ordinary citizens has really improved. The popularization of knowledge makes the true spirit of all learning collapse, especially the essence of China culture and eastern and western culture, almost completely in a hopeless situation. & lt Edgar Allan Poe's Note: This educational system inherited from the West has trained many people who only know one subject and only have professional knowledge. Most of the books they read are professional books, so-called "educated and uneducated" talents. The professor at West Point Military Academy will be very surprised to learn that China's ancient famous Yue Fei and others are poets at the same time. & gt
Now our education is becoming more and more popular, and the scope of knowledge is becoming more and more common, which is not comparable to that in the previous 30 years. However, our young people's academic thoughts, the spirit and psychology of "being brave" and "saving the country and strengthening the country" are far less than those of the older generation. Because we imitate the progress of material civilization and make us satisfied with the enjoyment of real life, we have no other thoughts. Chasing the development of industry and commerce to strive for economic prosperity, there is no spare capacity to learn and ponder in the precious and tense trend of time. Therefore, cultivating social atmosphere and blindly attaching importance to the skills of natural science are almost regarded as luxury and waste for the study of humanistic thought. However, no one has seen the future world situation. The abnormal development of natural science will lead to the tragic situation of "lions eat lion meat" in human culture. < Note: With the help of modern industrial civilization, human beings, like cancer cells, are madly eroding and destroying the earth's environment, and they are also attracting more and more terrible disasters because of too much abuse. Maybe "the disease of love" is just a wake-up call. & gt
What books did the confused students in "home school" read at that time? Roughly divided into two situations:
If you become famous by reading, you will probably read The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, The Doctrine of the Mean and University at first. Between the ages of six and nine, you must memorize the four books listed above to prepare for the initial test of the "boy exam". As for "Study in Qionglin", "One Thousand Poems" and "Three Hundred Tang Poems", they are also extracurricular books that should be read, and they all need to be memorized skillfully in case of emergency.
If we only aim at reading, we will read three-character classics, hundreds of surnames, thousands of words, prodigy poems, augmented scholar's works and so on. From the beginning, this was inconsistent.
As for poetry, it is a compulsory course after two or three years of "confusion". . . It is not too difficult to learn to write poetry at the age of ten. Whether you can write a good poem is another question. & lt Edgar Allan Poe's Note: Poetry is a very common accomplishment in China tradition. Today, after the spread of western learning to the east, the atmosphere of reading and writing poems has been greatly reduced, especially the new style poems written by modern people, whose skills, knowledge and IQ are very problematic. & gt
From the first grade of primary school, children are desperately taught to recite a lot of unnecessary knowledge in the current textbooks to prepare for the monthly and final exams. Therefore, for families eager to "make their children succeed", for more enterprising children, homework is more serious than in the imperial examination era, and it is more serious than taking exams for fame and fortune and memorizing stereotyped writing.
I once chatted with a student studying normal education and accidentally talked about these problems. I asked him, "Where is the real value of our education now?" He sighed, smiled and said to me, "For the exam."
& lt Note: In this exam, cyclists are often asked how to make steel frames, how many bicycle bars there are and how many centimeters the wheel diameter is. If you are just an excellent cyclist, guarantee zero points. The examiner became an abuser. Teenagers who are studying now are almost deprived of a happy childhood. & gt
To tell the truth, in recent decades, if we only rely on the method of ordinary school education, I'm afraid the spirit of China culture would have fallen to the ground. & ltPo Note: Indeed, in the modern education system, it is absolutely impossible to cultivate a master of Confucianism, a Taoist priest and a mage. Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are all dead. What else can there be in China culture? Crosstalk? ! Also came out. Why? What is its ending? Today, the "cultural war" that started a hundred years ago is still suffocating the oriental culture. I wonder if there will be any chance to surface in the next century? It is a great irony that many westerners are paying attention to learning and appreciating oriental culture now. Today, how many "intellectuals" in China can understand that Chinese studies are mainly based on Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism? When it comes to China culture, it is probably considered as the worst among Beijing opera, cross talk, storytelling and martial arts. & gt