Why was our traditional culture 100 years ago was neglected most lost a lot of the ancient pass

1, the end of the Qing Dynasty, when Cixi was in power, did not study traditional culture (before the court often invited the Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism of the great masters of the scriptures and teachings), preferring to ask the gods.

2. The invasion of Western powers and the war waged by Japan against China led to the disintegration of the extended family system, which had been able to maintain traditional culture, and the people left their homes to escape from the war, leaving them with little food and clothing, which indirectly affected the inheritance of traditional culture.

3. The forced entry of Western culture and cultural colonization, such as Taiwan, once during the Japanese colonial period, did not use the traditional Chinese culture, but copied the Japanese culture of aggression and Western ideas wholesale.

4. Based on the above points, people can't do it themselves anymore, and the roots of traditional culture are gone. Even the fathers and grandfathers don't know about the traditional culture anymore, let alone teaching it to the next generation.

I hope that we can have confidence in our own traditional culture, here are some excerpts from some of the world's most famous people on our traditional culture:

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (is a famous British philosopher of history) - "Outlook on the 21st Century"

China's history has been a constant succession of dynasties. of changing dynasties. However, China has been more successful than the West in solving two major problems. For one thing, China has managed to maintain the unity of millions of people within its borders for centuries in a peaceful and disciplined, relatively stable environment. Furthermore, China has successfully integrated an alien ideology and culture, Buddhism, which has enriched the native Chinese civilization.

In history. China was divided for more than five hundred years (during the five hundred years of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, China was divided into many small vassal states), but in 221 B.C., the whole country was politically united. After that, China has always been politically united, never divided for a long time, and culturally, never lost its unity.

As early as the second century BC, Emperor Wu of Han understood that to maintain the political unity of China, it was necessary to train a group of professional and excellent government officials to maintain, and the qualification standard of the officials, he chose to be proficient in Confucian philosophy to assess the degree of depth.

Humanity in the twentieth century is very much in the same frame of mind as the Chinese in the third century BC (the Warring States period). We have become prisoners of the ancient habit of political division, and of the race and war between nations that results from it. This habit is so y rooted in us that we are reluctant to free ourselves from its prison. However, we have now realized that without global political unity, this devastating alienation will lead to the destruction of all life.

Dare we hope that China will fulfill the world's urgent needs? Since the dissolution of the Roman Empire, Western politics has not worked to re-establish unity, but has destructively attempted to prevent it. The West has deliberately disqualified itself from politically unifying the world. China's past achievements and historical experience have qualified it to unify the world; this is what the West is conspicuously lacking. In the strength of this achievement, China, more than any other nation, can hope to lead humanity politically into a world of unity.

The only solution to the social problems of the twenty-first century is the Chinese doctrine of Confucius and Mencius and Mahayana Buddhism.

If there is an afterlife, I would like to be born in China.

Einstein (German-American scientist):

The religion of the future will be the religion of the universe. It should transcend personalized gods, avoid dogma and theology, and encompass both the natural and the spiritual. It should have its roots in a certain kind of religious consciousness that derives from the experience gained in experiencing all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful whole. Buddhism is exactly the kind of religion described above. --Einstein (from the book Albert?Einstein:?The?Human?Side, published by Princeton University Press in 1954)

Sun Yat-sen:

Buddhism is the benevolence that saves the world, Buddhism is the mother of philosophy, and the study of Buddhism can be used to support the bias of science.

Sun Yat-sen. The nation must not be without religious thought, because the religion has the merit of supporting the government and the government has the power of protecting the religion; the government governs the body and the religion governs the mind, which complement each other and do not go against each other.

Hsu Shou-tang:

Now China, although called the Republic of China, but the foreign invasion is more and more urgent, the people's morale is more and more weakened, the general national cowardice, flamboyance, obscenity, fraud and hypocrisy, depending on the end of the Qing Dynasty or even more. Since one side of the promotion of Buddhism, the courage and fearlessness of the cowardly heart, the head of the line to cure the flamboyant heart, to the only my unique treatment of obscene heart, to the power to prevent delusion to cure the fraudulent heart; one side of the respect for history, organizing the country's history, in order to raise the confidence of the nation. Otherwise, the road ahead is uncertain, how can there be help.

Mrs. Mantelson (Germany)

The Buddhist code of life leads to spiritual purification and peace, and to a full, beautiful and reasonable life. Buddhist thought leads to peace and makes mankind certain that unjust wars are barbaric acts. Buddhism does not force people to follow blindly, but leads them to think y and accept its teachings. Anyone who is wise enough to think y and carefully about the Buddhist teachings will reach enlightenment and feel the light in his heart.

The teachings of the Buddha are not only for Easterners, but also for all Westerners. Anyone who can study the Buddha's teachings will gain incredible wisdom and power of mind. Now the time has come for the East to make Mahayana Buddhism known to the West, and for the West to study it. The great contribution of the East to world civilization is Mahayana Buddhism.

Dr. Jayasuriya

All modern sciences believe that everything happens for a reason, and if we don't believe in cause and effect, neither Buddhism nor science can exist.