What is the traditional Confucian view of home and country?

The isomorphism between home and country is an important feature of ancient China society, and it is the product of the specific historical conditions in ancient China. On the other hand, the concept of "isomorphic state of home and country" has not only failed to promote the benign interaction between home and country, but has widened the distance between home and country and moved towards opposition. At the same time, it also combines filial piety and loyalty out of natural feelings, requiring subjects not only to make rational absolute obedience to the monarch, but also to make emotional patriarchal identification. This makes the "legitimacy" of its regime more secure. Finally, it had a series of influences on the development of China's traditional politics. Today, when democracy is advocated, it is of practical significance to clarify the old meaning and the concept.

Yesterday, I read an article on Xinhuanet: "China people's concept of home country should be changed" (Author: Xu). The main arguments are as follows: Our starting point is too low. Once upon a time, the word "society" didn't exist in China's dictionary. These two words only appeared in modern times and were invented by the Japanese. China people have always had only a country and a home, and a home country is still a country. The moral education we receive is responsible for the family and the family, and for the country. Most people put family first. They said, "I am for my country, but who is for me?" Only outstanding people put the country first, that is, "How can we be home until the Huns are extinct" and "How can we gloat and avoid the country?" China people have no cultural tradition of being responsible for others and society. Why should I be responsible for them? You want me to be responsible for you? Ok, bring the money. Careful observation of all kinds of bad behaviors and ugly phenomena in today's China society is related to this, and they all flow from this source.

Business trip! All kinds of bad behaviors and ugly phenomena in China society have never flowed out of the Chinese concept of home and country. Why do you see it? The reason for this is the following：

First, people are naturally selfish, regardless of Chinese and foreign.

"Despicable greed is the driving force of civilization from the first day of its existence until today; Wealth, wealth, and the third is wealth-not the wealth of society, but the wealth of an insignificant individual, which is the only and decisive purpose of civilization. " (Engels: The Origin of Family, Private Ownership and State, People's Publishing House, 1972, p. 174).

Throughout the history of the world, every war, every revolution or restoration is a life-and-death struggle between one interest group and another. The essence of group interests is the individual interests in the group. Please don't forget the dirty British opium trade with China, the shameless plunder of the Yuanmingyuan by the British and French Coalition forces, and the fanaticism of the great powers to carve up China at will; Please don't forget the cruelty of the "enclosure movement" of western capitalists, the bloodiness of selling black slaves and the ferocity of shooting Indians! Please don't forget the brutal iron hoof of the Japanese invaders! Unfortunately, Xu Gong just tried his best to forget. He just wants to say: Westerners have social concepts, but most people in China have no social concepts, only families have no country.

Second, the family is the cell of society, and the state is the whole of society.

It is true that the word "society" was not invented by China, but "self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world" has always been the lofty goal that countless people with lofty ideals in China have been striving for all their lives. Please don't deny that the family is the cell of society, the state is the whole of society and society exists objectively. Therefore, the invention right of the word society can be ignored. Xugong said: "Our starting point is too low. Once upon a time, China people didn't have the word society in their dictionaries. These two words only appeared in modern times and were invented by the Japanese. " ... the mentality of national nihilism is on the paper. Then ask: When and where did Japanese characters originate?

It is also extremely wrong to say that most people in China only have a home but no country. Xu Gong: How to explain China's eight-year war of resistance? How to explain the flood fighting and emergency rescue of 1998? To say the least, even if it is true that most China people only have a home but no country, they can only strengthen their own concept of home and country, instead of "changing China people's concept of home and country". Xu Gong tried his best to set family, society and country against each other, and blamed all the existing disadvantages of the country on the selfishness of the Chinese people. It's nothing more than coming up with amazing words and grandstanding.

Third, the source: the lack of checks and balances of power and the incomplete legal system.

Undoubtedly, at the present stage when China is still in the period of social transformation, the source of all kinds of bad behaviors and ugly phenomena in society is not the so-called concept of home and country that needs to be changed, but the lack of checks and balances of power and the urgent need to complete laws.

The democracy, legal system and power balance system in western countries have a history of more than 200 years and are improving day by day. However, the construction of democracy and legal system in China only started in the last 20 years. Whether it is the check and balance of public power or the restraint of private power, there are institutional defects that cannot be ignored, and the construction of democracy and legal system has a long way to go. I didn't see it, and the corrupt officials went wave by wave; Don't you see, fake and shoddy, and the money is surging; Don't you see, this is all about forgetting righteousness for the benefit? who is it? The system is lacking, the checks and balances are weak, and the same is true for small risks and large profits. What does it have to do with the concept of home country?