Is Mr. Ji Xianlin a master of national studies or not?

Mr. Ji Xianlin is of course a master of national studies. The late Mr. Tang Yijie, a famous scholar, once said about Ji Xianlin:

"Except for Mr. Ji Xianlin, China has not seen any real master of national studies since the middle of the 20th century."

What exactly is nationalism?

Since the May Fourth New Culture Movement, the idea of nationalism has been developed through the process of official study, criticism, and return. -return to the course of different periods of time has emerged a lot of masters of national education, representative of Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, Deng Shi, Zhang Taiyan, etc.; there are also in the 1980s the culture of the period of the famous masters of national education, Mr. Hu Shi, Mr. Gu Jiegang and Qian Mu, etc.; there is a new period of revival of the national education of the stage of the academic community of the fever Rao Zongyi, Tang Yijie, Qian Mu, etc..

So what exactly is national education? I think there should be three interpretations: narrow, medium and broad. National studies in the narrow sense is the traditional Chinese academics; national studies in the middle sense is the Chinese academics developed on the basis of the traditional Chinese academics; national studies in the broad sense should include all Chinese-originated academics, no matter whether it is on the basis of Chinese tradition, or on the basis of the academics of other countries. The three kinds of nationalism can be interpreted in the broadest sense: nationalism is Chinese scholarship.

National studies in the narrower sense is traditional Chinese scholarship, which includes Chinese scholarship from ancient times until modern times, including all the disciplines that can be called scholarship, or more commonly known as academic scholarship, including the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. In the humanities and social sciences, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and traditional literature and art are often regarded as representative of traditional Chinese studies.

Chinese studies in the Chinese sense of the term is Chinese scholarship that has developed on the basis of traditional Chinese scholarship.

The history of China, the history of Chinese philosophy, the history of Chinese thought, the history of Chinese aesthetics, the history of Chinese painting, the history of Chinese calligraphy, and the history of Chinese music are all systematic new Chinese scholarship compiled on the basis of Chinese scholarship and inspired by modern Western scholarship.

From individual cases, such as Liang Shuming and Du Weiming's Neo-Confucianism, Lin Anwu's "Post-Neo-Confucianism" has absorbed modernist and post-modernist factors such as phenomenology and existentialism. And then the new poetics, from the vernacular poetry, such as Wen Yiduo's new meter, Guo Xiaochuan's proposed fugue of the reverberation of the unit law.

Theoretically speaking, Qian Zhongshu's "empathy", inspired by modern psychology, is a new refinement of traditional poetics. Then there are the ink paintings from Qi Baishi to Wu Guanzhong, the Peking Opera with its modern symphony soundtrack, the new martial arts novels of Jin Yong and others, and the modern Chinese style of architecture and garden art. Although oracle bone writing has been around for a long time, oracle bone study is a modern study that emerged only after thousands of years. The **** same characteristics of these studies are growing on the basis of traditional Chinese academics, and are forming a vast torrent.

Broadly speaking, the national studies should be all the Chinese master-created academics, which do not necessarily have to be based on the traditional Chinese academics. Chinese academics should have a more magnificent weather. All human scholarship, as long as the Chinese can go to the forefront and have new creations, should be regarded as broadly defined national scholarship.

Ji extended the vision of national studies on the basis of other masters of national studies' understanding of the idea of national studies, and further pointed out:

"The cultures of various domestic regions and the cultures of fifty-six nationalities should be included in the scope of national studies ......Dunhuang Studies are also Included in the national science ...... And the foreign cultures that were later integrated into Chinese culture also belong to the scope of the national science."

Mr. Ji Xianlin's definition of national studies is also known as the "Great National Science". The so-called "big" refers to the scope covered by the national science, which has the meaning of "big and complete", not only limited to the culture of a certain region or nationality of the Chinese nation, but also the culture created by 56 nationalities, which is a culture*** of one and the same body, with the characteristics of nationality and totality. The same body, with ethnicity and wholeness.