An analysis of the causes of the fault of traditional culture in China

After the chaos of the quiet and complete era of the Western Zhou Dynasty, during this period, until the Spring and Autumn Period (around 550 BC) when Laozi and Confucius lived, during this 300-year period, Zhou Guo and the people of various vassal States did not get a good rest, nor did they really live and work in peace and contentment, and they have been living in war. This period can be called the first "cultural fault" period.

The merger war in the Warring States period was more intense, frequent and larger than that in the Spring and Autumn Period. By 222 BC, the Qin Dynasty attacked Liaodong, wiped out Qi and unified China. During this period, it was over 200 years. Although Confucius and Mencius thought did not disappear, it rarely passed down. In particular, Qin Shihuang's "burning books to bury Confucianism" is undoubtedly a great blow to the inheritance of these ideas. This is the second "cultural fault".

In the Song Dynasty around A.D. 1 150, Zhu took Cheng Yi's disciple as his teacher and discovered the "flaw" in the study of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, so he devoted himself to studying Confucianism, inherited the second course and developed independently, forming his own system, which was later called Neo-Confucianism. On the basis of Dong Zhongshu's theory of yin and yang and five elements, he kneaded and interpreted Taoism as Confucianism. He is a master of "rites" and one of the main representatives of Confucianism in China feudal society. His academic thought, in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in China, has always been the official philosophy of the feudal ruling class, marking a more complete ideology of feudal society. The class interests of the ruling class consolidated the theoretical basis of Zhu Xue's political and cultural autocracy as a superstructure and became a powerful spiritual pillar to consolidate the ruling order of feudal society. It strengthened the "three cardinal guides and five permanents" and hindered the later changes in feudal society, especially the variation of Confucius and Mencius' thoughts, which was the third "cultural fault".

19 19 The May 4th Movement was a new cultural movement against feudal culture. On the one hand, we expect and demand the realization and development of freedom, rationality, rule of law and democracy, on the other hand, it is the rise and proliferation of all-round anti-tradition. Until the "Cultural Revolution" in the 1970s, the idea of total westernization was still stirring. Today, there are still many people who denounce Confucianism as feudal dross and think that only "science" can strengthen the country and save the country. This is the fourth "cultural fault". The "cultural fault" marks the collapse of the axiomatic interpretation system of human society, so people, every living thing on the earth, will only worship "God" (the mysterious phenomenon in the unknown field) (the religious reasoning system), will only close themselves up with limited explanations, build their own "fortress" of mind, and then treat others, other things and unknown things with limited knowledge and narrow world outlook and outlook on life. Faced with a series of life and death problems in real life, people naturally form various interpretation rules based on villages, regions, customs and habits, and specific cultural atmosphere. The collapse of the social axiom interpretation system established by Zhou Wenwang, Confucius, Ceng Zi, Zi Si and Mencius made the rulers of China all defend their own interests first, then barbaric, and then rational. In this "cultural fault", most people in China are at a loss because of the destruction of Confucianism, so ordinary people "enjoy themselves" in an independent production unit, construct their own narrow self-centered reasoning system and lifestyle on the basis of their own narrow self-centeredness, and dream of a bright future.

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