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China's historical periodicity and China's historical periodicity.

In China, the extreme disparity between the rich and the poor is the driving force of the historical periodic law. There is a unique cyclical law in the history of China-extreme unfairness leads to social collapse, so as to achieve new relative fairness, and so on. This invisible hand dominates the historical process of China to a great extent.

The Guangwu Uprising in Chen Sheng brought a unique cyclical phenomenon to the history of China. The middle and lower classes in China started their unique way of promoting history. Since then, almost every dynasty has experienced a cycle from relative fairness, to unfairness, to extreme unfairness, and then to the lower class people who have no choice but to overthrow and start over. On the eve of the end of each dynasty, the production capacity was greatly improved, the wealth was highly concentrated, and almost all of them had an abnormal "elite prosperity", especially the land was highly concentrated. In the 20th century, some people thought that land concentration was socialization, but in the history of China, the degree of land "socialization" was very high at the end of almost all dynasties.

In this cycle, every dynasty that can win long-term stability for 200-300 years begins with breaking the original social structure and achieving relative fairness through the "land equalization system". In the agricultural society, "field" is the land and the most important means of production, just like today's capital. Those dynasties that did not do this required course well often became short-lived dynasties. There are several such examples, the most famous one is Jin, and the closest one is the Republic of China.

After the Revolution of 1911, the original social structure was almost completely inherited by the Republic of China. Except that the Qing Dynasty became the Republic of China, everything else followed. We accept the social structural problems such as the disparity between the rich and the poor and the concentration of land in the late Qing Dynasty as they are. Observing the Republic of China in China's historical cycle, we can see that in China's historical cycle, at the beginning of each longevity dynasty, the Republic of China did not complete the required courses. Sun Yat-sen put forward the "Three People's Principles", averaging land rights and controlling capital, which laid a social foundation for the continuation of the Republic of China. However, due to various reasons, this process was interrupted by the monopoly of wealth and power by giants. As a result, the Republic of China lost a historical opportunity that could last for a long time. The elite of the Republic of China went to the opposite of the middle and lower classes, and China entered a long-term turmoil.

It was not until the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC) that this problem was finally solved and the social unrest in modern China was eliminated. From the historical background, it is obvious that the founders of New China had a very profound understanding of the history of China. * * * Since the founding of the Republic of China, it began to break the unreasonable social structure and tried to lay the foundation for the long-term stability of China from the perspective of institutional fairness.

Judging from the historical process of China, China, who was still thinking about governance after the chaos at that time, had to make up the lesson of fairness. The historical environment in which New China is located determines that China still needs to make up the "modernization" course. China needs to build a modern industry quickly, which requires large-scale and rapid accumulation. How to realize industrial accumulation and fairness to most people on the basis of low level was a great challenge in China at that time. This interaction of historical factors has formed a new system with fairness as the core and government mobilizing resources as the means. At that time, only the government could realize the concentration of resources, complete the process of primitive accumulation of capital and re-accumulation completed by western countries on the long road of development in a relatively short time, and ensure that the accumulated wealth was used to build China's own modern industry. This rapid accumulation is obviously at the expense of restraining consumption. In this case, justice, especially the fairness of distribution, is very important. Therefore, the choice of fair system at that time was not only a summary of thousands of years' history of China, but also the necessity of modern history of China.

The unification of Qin set a benchmark for the unification.

Take Qin Wei as an example. The unification of Qin is obviously not perfect, but without the short-term unification of Qin, today's China may have many countries like Europe. After the Qin Dynasty, China was on and off. But after every turmoil, there are people who conform to the people's hearts, clean up Jin Ou and rebuild unity. Because the unified Qin Empire perished in the second year, its short-lived existence turned the unified Qin Empire into a subconscious pursuit of the Chinese nation, a possibility of active choice and a way of life. Without the brief reunification of Qin, perhaps the Chinese nation simply didn't know this possibility and this option. This is Qin's contribution. Set a benchmark for the Chinese nation.

A fair system is a subconscious pursuit.

Judging from the conscious choice of the middle and lower classes today, the spirit of the fair system is similar. Its significance lies in that it lets the Chinese nation, especially the middle and lower classes, know that there is still a fair lifestyle and a fair social choice. It may become another subconscious pursuit of the Chinese nation and set a new epoch-making benchmark for the Chinese nation. No one should underestimate this historical memory and tradition. At any time, when the lower classes are cornered, this memory may become a dream, a worship of the fair system, and a worship of the people who established the fair system.

After the Yellow Emperor, the Chinese nation experienced evolution and integration, and today's Chinese nation is the result of great integration. After the Qin Dynasty, the unified and centralized county system was passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. In today's China, combining market economy with fairness and justice may be a historical breakthrough to solve the unfair distribution.

In the historical tradition of China, the underclass and the cultural elite are highly consistent on the issue of "fairness". Confucius praised social justice with "not suffering from widowhood but suffering from inequality"; Bobby Chen and Guangwu use periodic actions to promote the same idea; Decades of socialist education has also emphasized fairness and equality. Of course, a society cannot be absolutely fair. However, a society can't artificially create arrogance and unfairness, and can't dress up unfairness as "sacred rights", "natural human rights" and "universal values". To some extent, the individual "cultural elites" who cheated have long betrayed the "justice" tradition of cultural elites in the history of the Chinese nation.

1March, 949, China * * * party member went to Beijing from Xibaipo, Hebei Province to "catch the exam", and began the unremitting exploration of cracking the historical periodic law with democracy, pushing the democratic construction forward continuously.