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Historical sages subverted: a moral decline or an advancement of the times

-Subverting the myth of the historical sages is a great progress of the times. Worship and study of sages and saints is a lingering humanistic plot in the Chinese tradition, as the old saying goes: see the wise and think alike. Today under the leadership of the ****production party set up a variety of industry typical and exemplary standard-bearer is very much, almost all Chinese people are familiar with, but the purpose of the practice with the former has not changed, the same, these so-called sages and typical are in order to inculcate the common people with political and economic, cultural and ethical education and so on and set up a special textbook, and they do play a lot in a certain period in history, it can be said that throughout the ages and nowadays, the myth of historical sages and sages is a great progress. It can be said that throughout history the ruling class has always utilized the role of sages and role models to the fullest extent, and the great man Mao has said a winning phrase: the power of role models is infinite! And since sages and role models are a good textbook, it is inevitable that those in power and those who come after them do not write about their lives and deeds to the high and mighty, covering up the shortcomings and enlarging the advantages ten thousand times over without stinting, and as for sages and role models, whether people can learn and climb up, or whether it is painful for them to learn or not the rulers don't ask, but the ruling class only cares about whether it is favorable for helping to maintain their own rule, and the result is that for thousands of years the Chinese people have looked up to sages and role models. In the process of learning from the sages over the centuries, the Chinese people have not only learned to be nerds, but have also learned to be fools and loyal to the political, economic, cultural, and moral machines that serve the authorities at the mercy of others, and have lost more and more of their own individuality and dignity, and have learned to be uniform and inferior to the stupid lackeys, and have even become a kind of fools' tools, although they are full of "devotion". Although they are full of "dedication", but without exception, their selflessness, fearlessness and even life dedication is given to the slave masters, rather than the people themselves, in other words, this is not called dedication, is completely and utterly disguised as slavery! Time has changed, when the reform and opening up of ancient China out of the closed-door arrogance, with the diversification of cultural trends and living environment more free, modern Chinese people's sense of individuality is awakening, a wave of cultural thinking and education in the subversion of the history of sages and sages of the unattainable myths of the age of the inevitable came, as some people exclaimed - almost all of the thousands of years of civilization of the birth of China's tradition! Sages and heroes have never been so massively questioned and defeated, so happy to continue to subvert the new wave of people have, playing to save traditional culture and traditional sages and celebrities of the conservatives are also quite a lot of the current formation of the two main fronts, then the subversion of the myth of the historical sages is the era of the decline of the morality of the times or the era of great progress! Undoubtedly I advocate the latter. Recently more fierce noise is Zhuge Liang's "table of division" to be deleted from the secondary school textbooks, Phoenix Satellite Television, a tiger talk program I saw the two factions of tit-for-tat fighting scene, the two sides of the experts and scholars between the emotions are very excited, but from the debate on Zhuge Liang's literature and historical texts in the traces of the almost intelligent people can be able to judge the basic ideas and attitudes of its people, Zhu Geliang and Thousands of sages and typical are human, not God, but he is in some ways better than the average person, is an outstanding talent, but traditionally traditional culture and moral education often like to always demand these outstanding talents to become dependent on the emperor's excellent lackeys, using some of their aspects of the psychological needs of the people in line with the folk unlimitedly elevated its image, in order to achieve the sinister purpose of blackmail, the "Exit of the Master" and the "The Master's Guide" of Zhuge Liang as well as the historical traces, almost intelligent people are able to judge the basic ideas and attitudes of his people. Zhuge Liang's "Table of Exit" and its people's moral example of the word between the lines do not emanate a kind of corrupt Confucian loyalty to the idea of the emperor, which has a history of significant personal limitations, not a big surprise, but nowadays advocating the democratic individuality of the times so that the fallacy of soaked in the toxins of feudalism is extremely inappropriate to circulate, the young people, especially in the secondary school students do not have a mature age of the mind to be misinterpreted and misinformed is very serious, a teacher suggested to move the It is sensible and feasible for a teacher to suggest moving the "Exodus Table" to the university language textbooks. Obviously, the anti-transmission of the new wave of unification and conservative retro school other similar arguments are too many to list, but all the time not to the world to convey a message, that is, the rise of these two streams of positive and negative thinking is not accidental, but rather the traditional culture and the new wave of the West democratic culture of the era of confrontation of the background to produce an inevitable phenomenon, it is interesting to me to find that behind the controversy in fact not only is a kind of cultural values. Competition, but also a party to the political, economic and cultural interests of the competition, such as Yu Dan, a typical representative of the retrofuturist, she was able to make a name for herself, stand out, famous and profitable, is that the arguments on behalf of its people and the authorities in power and political interests of the match, she spoke of the Analects of Confucius as well as the thinking of the Old Testament in line with the overall situation of social stability and harmony, this is one, and the second, she happens to be interested in the Analects of Confucius, a deep study, and the other, she has a deep understanding of the topic. If knocked down the image of Confucius as a saint, she studied for many years of learning is simply worthless, a person a tiger to talk about the program to support Zhuge Liang without exception are experts in ancient history and culture, professors, writers is a proof of this, you are welcome to say, leaving the traditional cultural feast they even become a problem, not to mention the delicious food! Obviously, it is impossible to get a real answer by talking about the advantages and disadvantages of traditional culture with these direct interests in selling traditional culture, just like the grandmother who sells melons, even if her melons are even more bitter, she will not admit it, and a writer of "Boiled Three Kingdoms" even touted that Zhuge Liang's book guided his life, rather than saying that his book "Boiled Three Kingdoms" is also able to give the public a perfect life textbook, not to talk about self-deception, but also to say that the public will be able to give the public a perfect life textbook. Not to talk about self-deception, but also borrowing power, foxes and tigers! Historical sages and heroes as well as typical models as the cultural soul of a country and nation, was integrated into the profound sea of traditional cultural thought, due to the thousands of years of feudal rulers of shameless tampering and unlimited grafting and upgrading, they have been some very vicious emperors and generals implanted in the ideology of the lackey, and today some ulterior motives attempt to borrow the body to return to the soul, cultivate the slavery. The harm is extremely serious, I do not object to a historian's "a country and nation without their own sages and heroes is terrible," but for all the sages and heroes we should not look at the kneeling, but should stand and look at the current subversion of their cultural authoritarian image of the fundamental purpose is not to completely defeat them, I think all of the anti-traditional new wave of thought I think all the experts and scholars as well as the general public just want to make the history of sages and heroes and typical models to go off the altar, to restore its original face, only so that the general public can find once lost themselves, do not rely on the sky and not relying on the ground, their own to seek to master their own destiny of the rudder handle, in fact, the most basic qualities of the citizens of a democratic society is to have an independent personality and thinking, or else even if the exercise of the democratic power, but also in vain, so, even if the exercise of democratic power, it is also in vain. Otherwise, even if one has the power to exercise democracy, it is all in vain. Therefore, I am convinced that subverting the myth of the historical sages is a great progress of the times! Although the road ahead for experts and scholars as well as the general public is still unpredictable and full of resistance, the revival of the personalities of all the Chinese people will surely promote a series of political, economic and cultural reforms and bring about a new take-off of the Chinese nation!

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