(Han Jian Xueer)

It is undoubtedly worthy of everyone's respect to lay down one's life for righteousness, but you can only ask yourself like this, and you can't ask others to lay down their lives for righteousness. Confucius once said, "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you." But we must never think that "doing what we want" can be "applied to others". It's your business to sacrifice your life for righteousness, but you can't force others to sacrifice their lives for righteousness.

Based on humanitarianism, the west thinks that life comes first, but this is not always the case. Western humanistic spirit originated in Greece, but it was suppressed in the Middle Ages, and it didn't become the mainstream of people's consciousness again until after the Renaissance. The spirit of China is not what you say. Righteousness is more important than life, which has been a consistent view for thousands of years. Primitive Confucianism, represented by Confucius and Mencius, has many humanistic thoughts. For example, Mencius loved his lover but was not patriotic. He can accept the conquest of those righteous foreigners. He believes that as long as the people are good, the country is not a problem. In modern times, he is afraid of being labeled as a traitor.

However, later Confucianism represented by Zhu greatly revised the spirit of Confucius and Mencius. For example, Confucius said, "Jun Jun and chenchen." It means that the monarch is mainly responsible and the minister is responsible. Moreover, according to Confucius' theory, the duty of a gentleman is heavier than that of a minister, which is similar to Rousseau's social contract theory. But later, Confucianism deliberately misinterpreted it as "the outline of monarch and minister", meaning that ministers should obey the monarch and minister, rather than the original mutual obligation relationship. Another example is Zhu's idea of "preserving righteousness and destroying human desires", which completely violates the spirit of Confucius' "benevolence". Benevolence is human nature, but later Confucianism suppressed human nature, which made China's spirit enter the dark Middle Ages. Lu Xun thinks that Confucianism is "the ethical code of cannibalism", which is correct, but it is Zhu who eats people, and it is Confucius and Mencius who take the blame for him.

China's May 4th Movement failed as an enlightenment thought. The Renaissance in the West excavated the spirit of humanism from its own civilization. However, the May 4th Movement in China became a self-castration movement against traditional culture, because China people lost confidence in finding a way out in their own culture. It is also good for China to completely abandon his traditional culture and accept western humanism, but China people don't know what their problems are and why their own culture can't be accepted, so they don't know what western culture should be transplanted. As a result, various western cultures swarmed in, and China people accepted the autocratic culture that was closest to their medieval tradition (instead of Confucius and Mencius tradition). This is a similar smell. Zhu Suli of Peking University put forward the theory of "the local resources of law", arguing that the transplantation of legal system needs local resources. In fact, law is only a part of culture, and the transplantation of culture does not need local resources!

China is a bit like Lin Pingzhi in the legendary swordsman, because he has put up with humiliation and devoted himself to the cultivation of the world's highest martial art, the Sunflower Collection, but China is not as lucky as Lin Pingzhi. Since the palace, Lin Pingzhi has cultivated the sunflower collection and got revenge, but China didn't. China is more like a hacker in the well-known Flash on the Internet. The hacker stole the sunflower scroll, the first one, and said, "If you want to practice magic, you have to enter the palace first." He did, but when he opened the second page, he saw that it said, "Even if you enter the palace, you may not succeed." China called it a day and failed.