High Reward! What should we be proud of as Han Chinese? What are our outstanding places and our own characteristics?

Growing up, I envied people from ethnic minorities, with their special costumes, special customs, special legends, and a lot of special preferential policies for ethnic minorities.

Mention of the Chinese nation, we will think of a number of positive words should make people's blood boiling sentence: the Chinese nation is an excellent, great, hard-working, kind, courageous, simple, long history, cultural splendor of the ...... nation. (Although the "Chinese nation" is a general term for the various ethnic groups in China, but more than 90% of them are Han Chinese, and the history and culture of the Chinese nation is basically the history and culture of the Han Chinese, or how can Yue Fei be a national hero, the history of the world).

Yes, the thought of this sentence, as a Han Chinese, proud enough. But these words are good words, how empty they are! Some of the language that is supposed to be substantial feels numb in our daily lives because it is repeated so many times. For example, "There is no new China without the ****production party", such as "I love Beijing Tiananmen Square", such as "serving the people", and then " Three Represents"...... This sentence is also so, said too much, it is boring, few people really go to experience the meaning of the inside.

Even some people questioned, the Chinese nation is an excellent nation? Where is her excellence? Where is the long history? Where is the splendid culture? China's modern history is a history of national humiliation and invasion, even now, independent, but strong? I know that some people hate steel. But steel is too hard and not easy to survive, which is not the characteristic of Han Chinese.

Darwin's "survival of the fittest" is really a law of nature, and the survival of a nation is also in line with this law. The Han people have survived to this day and remained strong because they are "superior". The "superiority" of the Han Chinese people is not manifested by those nice-sounding adjectives above, but by the evolution of thousands of years to adapt to the development of history, adapt to the survival of the national characteristics - flexibility and tolerance.

No research has been done, but I don't think I need to do any research to be correct: the Han Chinese are the oldest, most numerous, and most influential people in the world today. Although historically the Han Chinese were once ruled by Mongols, Manchus and other ethnic groups, and invaded by Britain, France, Japan and other countries, the history of the Han Chinese has not been broken, and its influence has not diminished. This is a pliable ethnicity at work.

Flexibility is not the same as being submissive. The Manchus ruled the Han, forcing them to wear flag dress, shave their heads and practice Manchu rituals, thinking they could wipe out Han culture. Although there was also resistance for more than a hundred years, the Han Chinese could still accept foreign rule and could temporarily change their cultural traditions, but what was the result? Originally, they could have preserved their own culture, their own language and their own writing like other ethnic minorities, but they had to rule the Han. By now, most of the Manchus have dissolved into the Han, changed their Han name, spoke Han language, practiced Han rituals, and "their hearts have long been occupied by the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, Confucius and Mencius (in Yan'er language)", and the Manchus into the customs basically lost themselves and were completely assimilated by the Han.

Some people then said that when Japan invaded China, if the Chinese people did not resist, it is conceivable that if the Yamato nation ruled China, the result would be just like the Manchus, assimilated by the Han Chinese, and finally lost their own selves. So it was said, why should the Chinese people resist? The loss was so heavy. Yan'er said she "loved a line in The Opium War, where a British soldier doesn't understand why China is so backward in terms of weapons that they still resist, and their officer says that the Chinese believe in 'laying down their lives to kill', and that such beliefs are as good as any warship. " There is not only softness but also toughness in the ethnicity of the Han Chinese. How can a people just be ruled by other peoples? Even when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the country, the Han people resisted for many years. It is only natural to resist when you can, and this is what is necessary for a nation to survive. Look at the United States, there were many indigenous people in the Americas at that time, but it was because they were not a "great" people with "pliable" characteristics like us Han Chinese, the invasion of foreigners made them lose themselves completely. The Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China and failed to wipe out the Han Chinese.

The Han people have prospered to this day because of their tolerance, "the sea is full of rivers, and there is a great deal of tolerance". The Han did not have an influential religion of their own (Confucianism, which can only be considered a study, not a religion; Taoism is not very influential). Buddhism came to China, we welcome, Catholicism, Christianity, we also welcome, Marxism, come on, more welcome. The Chinese culture can absorb the best cultures of other peoples of the world and combine them with the local culture to form a new culture "with Chinese characteristics".

Can absorb, is a kind of "tolerance", can spread, is also a kind of "tolerance". The only way to spread it is to have it, and if it is good, it will be accepted only when it is spread out. Han culture is more important to spread, Confucianism in the world's influence is not inferior to the influence of the Han Chinese native. There are many Han festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, which have become national legal holidays in many Asian countries, making it more solemn than China, and some countries have even applied for heritage for this purpose, as if it is really them. If you apply for other reasonable, heritage ah, heritage ah, to trace back, no matter how to trace back is our Han heritage! But this shows that the Han culture has been y rooted into the cultural life of other people and has become an essential part of their lives. If Han Chinese can make up 1/4 of the world's population, I'm sure the people influenced by Han culture can make up 1/2 of the world's population. scary numbers.

The fact that our nation is great, glorious and splendid does not mean that we have not weathered storms and setbacks. We have been ruled, invaded, forced to give up, and without realizing it, we have lost. Nowadays, we have lost a lot. Some of what we have lost have been offered as treasures by other peoples, such as the traditional festivals that should have belonged to us, which they are going to bid for; and some have been forgotten because they have been away from us for too long, such as our traditional Han Chinese dress and our traditional etiquette. Fortunately, there is now a group of aspiring people who propose to revitalize the Chinese dress and Chinese rituals. What should have been ours, we have to find it back, pick it up, salvage it and continue to pass it on.

Now come to review this sentence: the Chinese nation is an excellent, great, hard-working, kind, courageous, pure and simple, long history, cultural splendor of the ...... nation. Isn't it a special feeling? I am one of them, I am proud! I am a Han Chinese, I am proud!