Please talk about your personal understanding of China's traditional culture.

Let me give you my opinion. Please don't laugh at inappropriate points.

Yi Jianlian should be the first of the four great men you mentioned, but I don't agree to put Yi Jianlian in the same position as the other three. In my opinion, Yi should be different from the other three, but higher than the other three, because Yi itself has been applied to the other three. Yi is equivalent to the function of tools, just like mathematics.

Besides Yi, there should be Taoism and Confucianism first (it is difficult to determine the order). It is an attitude of doing nothing and conforming to nature; Confucianism stresses etiquette, and the taste of being an official is stronger. However, the period when Confucianism and Taoism appeared was the war, and neither thought was accepted by the society at that time. By the way, legalists are mentioned here. At that time, it was during the period of warlord melee, and the power policy was favored by Qin Shihuang, and the first emperor won the world with it.

After the demise of the Qin Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu ruled the whole country. At the beginning, due to the long-term war in the country, the national strength was not strong and the economy was weak. To improve national strength, it is necessary to cultivate self-cultivation, so Taoism is valued. At that time, Liu Bang also used Confucianism. After he joined the WTO, ministers were brothers who fought side by side with him, so they used Confucian etiquette to regulate their behavior. Later, Emperor Zhenhua and Fei Daoli became Confucian, and Confucianism began to flourish.

During the late Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the country was in turmoil, and the literati were disappointed with politics, and found sustenance in Taoist thought, and Taoism flourished. After that, Taoism and Confucianism ran through the whole feudal dynasty of China. Feudal emperors enslaved the people's thoughts with Confucianism, while some literati lost in officialdom found solace in Taoism, which occupies an extremely important position in China's literature, calligraphy and painting.

To tell the truth, Buddhism was very cold when it first came to our Central Plains, but it was later accepted by us because it incorporated elements of China in order to survive. However, due to the uniqueness of Buddhism, it has been widely popularized after being integrated with the local culture of China.

It must be pointed out that China culture is quite tolerant. At present, the Buddhism we believe in is not Indian Buddhism, but the Buddhism after the integration of Indian Buddhism and China culture, which has the characteristics of China. In history, many sects were introduced into China, or assimilated, and those unwilling to be localized died out, such as Manichaeism and Islam (of course, referring to pre-Han areas) ...

Forget it, I'm tired, that's all. I will explain in detail the relationship between the inclusiveness of China culture and the continuity of China civilization, so I have the opportunity to discuss it.