What are the shortcomings of carrying forward fine traditions?

There are many good places in China's traditional culture. Our ancestors left us the richest classics. No country has so many classics as China. On the other hand, China also created many treasures, including various works of art and ideological heritage; Some things are still working, such as Chinese medicine. But like other things, China's traditional culture also has shortcomings and deficiencies.

First, the unity of ethics and politics. The backbone of China's traditional culture is Confucianism, which stresses ethics and politics. This set of "self-cultivation, governing the country and calming the world" embodies a basic feature of China society: patriarchal autocracy, unity of ethics and politics, which fully conforms to the social situation at that time. Because the society at that time was a natural economy, the economic state was relatively stable.

The second characteristic is the strict hierarchical relationship under the autocratic system. Britain had a Magna Carta in 12 15, and the king had to get the consent of the vassal to increase taxes and guarantee the right of freedom and autonomy. Everything in China is decided by the emperor or elders, and resistance is a great sin.

Confucian political theory rationalizes these. China has no feudal system defined by international academic circles or recognized by most scholars. If it is a feudal system, there is a contractual relationship between the king and the vassal, but China does not have this relationship.