What are the natural factors that affect China's traditional culture? What impact did they have?

To understand this problem, we must understand the essence of China culture.

The words "harmony between heaven and earth and nature" are the essence of China traditional culture.

China's traditional culture should include hundreds of thoughts such as Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Mohism, as well as Yijing, Chinese medicine, geomantic omen, martial arts, Qigong, temperament, calligraphy and painting, Weiqi, tea ceremony, architecture, service, diet and etiquette, all of which come from these eight words.

("Roundness" refers not to physical structure, but to appearance, function and artistic conception. Understanding "the sky is round" means understanding the culture of China. The concept of a circular place,

"The sky is round and the place is round" is the way to know things and the basis to look at things. "Harmony between man and nature" is a firm belief, direction and the criterion of all actions.

Compared with the most popular western culture, these eight words are easier to understand:

Western culture is "the separation of heaven and man", with "man" as the center of the universe, and its development direction is to transform and rule nature, just like God.

China's culture is "harmony between man and nature", which pursues that man should live in harmony with nature and finally achieve the perfect combination with nature, that is, the so-called "enlightenment" and "enlightenment".

Please don't use western science to measure whether enlightenment and buddhahood are "scientific". Science in China has developed for 5000 years, while science in the West has developed for hundreds of years. The "scientific nature" of western science needs to be further tested for a long time. In fact, it has already faced problems. For example, relativity believes that "wormholes" in the universe can make people go back to the past, but in fact, is it possible? What should I do if I accidentally gave birth when I went back? Western science cannot explain and avoid this logical paradox. )

Western culture pays attention to the individual and structure, and everything must find the most basic unit of physics, such as anatomy, chemistry and so on.

China culture only pays attention to function and appearance. For example, Chinese medicine, meridians. Kidney in traditional Chinese medicine refers to a series of metabolic functions such as kidney, not anatomical kidney. "Kidney deficiency" means that the function of this system is weak, but it does not mean that there is something wrong with the cell tissue of the kidney. Another example is Jin Mu's fire, water and earth, which represent the functions of five natural elements, instead of gold and wood.

Which is more "scientific", focusing on structure or function? Judging from the research results of western scientific system at present, it is still inconclusive whether structure determines function or function determines structure. For example, the generator, is the internal structure of the machine determined that it can generate electricity, or is it because people want to make something that can generate electricity that they have a generator to generate electricity? Is the internal structure determining how much power it generates, or is it because people want it to generate? At present, the empirical research results in the west are: structure determines function, and function reacts on structure. Therefore, China culture pays attention to function, at least it is unscientific and backward. Otherwise, how can Chinese medicine, which only pays attention to human body function, cure the disease? )

China traditional culture is called "extensive and profound", but how extensive and profound is it? Many people don't understand. Have you ever heard someone say that western culture is profound? Although western culture has created so many material miracles.

Western culture runs counter to China's idea of "harmony between man and nature", but I believe it will eventually move closer to "harmony between man and nature", which also proves that it is changing from "transforming nature" to "returning to nature".

However, although China's culture is extensive and profound, China people always have no confidence in mentioning it. Before western culture, it was like rural people met city people and even scolded themselves with city people. Why? Because of the development of science and technology in the West in the past 200 years, its material wealth has surpassed that of China.

But the ultimate goal of China culture is not to create the greatest material wealth. Think about it. What are the benefits of western culture creating material wealth for the whole universe and the whole nature? It also proves that "matter is immortal." Since matter is immortal, the material wealth created by human beings can not be called "creation", but should be called "material wealth transformed by human beings", and "wealth" can only be used by people.

Therefore, China people should be proud of the China traditional culture of "the unity of man and nature". Sooner or later, westerners will say, "Wow! The ancients in China were great and great. They knew the true face of the world as early as 5,000 years ago. "

Unfortunately, however, many China cultures have been labeled as "pseudoscience" by China people themselves. In fact, the measurement standard of "pseudoscience" here is still a set of western empirical science, which is used to measure China culture, just like a girl saying to a boy, "You don't have breasts, so you don't develop well."

Take divination as an example. In China, people use the theory of the Book of Changes to predict the unknown, just like "the known hook is 3, the stock is 4, and the metaphysics is 5 according to the Pythagorean theorem" in mathematics. At least, asking questions and doing math problems are consistent in reason and form.

The Book of Changes is a "mathematical model" obtained by ancient people in China by observing various phenomena and functions of astronomy and geography. Just like Newton's "law of gravitation" founded by observing the apple falling to the ground, it is a model, regardless of whether the model has been strictly verified by logic like a mathematical formula (in fact, physical laws such as gravitation are just a kind of speculation that has not been verified in advance, and can be applied to most things after speculation, and it is verified to be correct, which is no different from the Book of Changes). Just look at its practical application for thousands of years-the theory of yin and yang is applied to everything, and the meridians in Chinese medicine have not been confirmed, but they are not so useful and very "scientific".

In fact, isn't the gradual research path of modern physics such as gravity and relativity always aimed at finding a "big law" that can be applied to the macro universe? Don't you also hope to get the unknown from the known by applying this "big law"? What's the difference between this and asking for help?

However, modern physics has fallen into its own logical paradox (the wormhole hypothesis mentioned above). If we don't turn "the separation of heaven and man" into "the unity of heaven and man", this solution will not be obtained at all.

China traditional culture basically mastered this "great law" thousands of years ago, which is the root of China traditional culture. Therefore, China culture is "extensive and profound".

However, China people's tradition of "keeping one's skills" and numerous cultural disasters such as "war" and "burning books to bury Confucianism" have thrown away too many more practical, scientific and credible "real things", so that we can only look at this "Dafa" piecemeal now and reuse it after the May 4th Movement.

In fact, we just need to respect this great law. If we have to prove it, we may come to a conclusion in the future: modern western empirical science has just taken a detour.

Therefore, we must love the traditional culture of China and have national confidence. Perhaps what we should do is to learn, think and apply from the classics left by the ancients as much as possible. Of course, the ancients referred to here should be before Qin and Han Dynasties.

In addition, foreigners often say "My God!" When they are surprised or sigh. China people say, "Oh, my God!" This day actually refers to nature, the laws of nature, the so-called "great laws."

Why else would Newton Darwin and others study God?

Because China people's concept of "harmony between heaven and earth and people" has been deeply rooted as early as 5,000 years ago, China people only believe in the laws of nature, but don't believe in divine power. All myths and foreign religions are assimilated by this belief, and the theory of cause and effect and samsara in Buddhism is actually regarded as the law of nature by China people. Therefore, there is no God who rules everything like God in Chinese religion, and the local gods in China, like people, must abide by the laws of nature. Taoism in China is actually the most "materialistic". The so-called "Tao" refers to natural things, not divine power. The western culture introduced into China, including architecture and diet, has also been assimilated by the profound China culture, becoming China culture with "China characteristics".