How to save the world with China's traditional culture

"If one day, China becomes the most powerful country in the world again, it must rely on our culture instead of anything else."

I think it must be our own culture that can save China in the end. From the Revolution of 1911 to the founding of 1949, our damage to culture was only a period, not all. Before and after: the first injury was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the second injury was the Revolution of 1911, and the third injury was the end. The Cultural Revolution lasted for 1 10 years.

For more than a century, this has been a long period of intense strangulation of our own culture. But it can't be strangled, and it doesn't strangle culture anyway. On the contrary, imported goods must be neither fish nor fowl in China.

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Culture is the first creativity and the first productivity. Simply put, what you convey is that all institutions are caused by culture. China people communicate in Chinese, how can they rely on other people's culture? This is too inappropriate for the national conditions. So I must say a word at the end of my recent speech-if one day China becomes the most powerful country in the world again, we must rely on our own culture, not anything else.

There is no denying that there are dross in our traditional culture. Then we can take the essence and discard the dross. Modern science also has a lot of dross. Is it a kind of dross that science invented the atomic bomb?

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We are a history in which various cultures are in power alternately, so the Chinese nation has a natural sense of destruction to the existence of culture. In the past, we said it was divided into land culture and marine culture. In fact, land culture itself is divided into farming culture and nomadic culture, and nomadic culture is divided into nomadic culture and fishing and hunting culture.

There are differences between cultures, that is, they live on different things. For example, the farming culture is mainly based on farming, and it is necessary to grow food in the field and raise chickens and pigs, so there is a sense of small farmers. In case it doesn't rain and the food won't grow, I'll keep some. Nomads, on the other hand, have no sense of reserve. Therefore, the formation of cultures is based on their initial state of existence.

China's traditional culture has survived so many times, only because our cultural gene is particularly powerful, and (this gene) is words. The characters created by China people have hardly changed in the past five thousand years. We all know many Oracle characters, and the continuity is particularly good. And many ancient Chinese characters, such as cuneiform in ancient Egypt, have long been broken.

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Our writing is a vague culture. Our culture is very vague and ambiguous in language expression. For example, the word "line", which we generally say now, often means "can", but the original meaning of "line" is walking. "Walking" means running. The fuzziness of this writing, coupled with the fuzziness of China's cultural expression, is the strength of our culture and also our weakness.

You see, when science reaches a limit, it is fuzzy. For example, reaching the limit of mathematics is fuzzy mathematics, but the requirements of mathematics are not fuzzy. Many times, our culture does not emphasize very clear expression and does not use the language of the rule of law to express it.

So you see, what is the most rigorous? Latin is the most rigorous, and medicine prescribes medicine. Latin is the universal language in the world, and the names of botany are all Latin. Chinese is ambiguous. Our words are ambiguous, sometimes a word has more than 70 meanings. Coupled with our perennial cultural accumulation, the history of writing has been 5000 years, and many things have not changed in the past 5000 years.

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A sinologist I know once told me that you people in China are so happy that any educated person can probably read the literature 2,000 years ago, which is impossible in English-speaking countries.

Nowadays, people in many English-speaking countries can't understand Shakespeare. Why? Because they are memorizing the sound, the sound will change constantly, and once it changes, they will not understand it, while our words are memorizing the meaning, and we can know it after a little teaching.

I have been saying that I am a preacher, constantly promoting China culture and letting everyone know the beauty of our China culture. At present, the public has not fully understood the beauty of China culture. This requires a long absorption process.

I think there should be some aesthetic education in this society in the future. I once particularly wanted to talk about the aesthetics of China people, that is, the aesthetic education of China people. Our aesthetic education is very poor, and we don't have a strong sense of beauty.