Some people say that time does not turn back, is this really the case? Definitely. So it's impossible for people to go back to the past, right? Of course it is, but it's not necessarily true.
We can't turn back time or go back in time, but history can. History not only allows us to go back to the past, but it also allows us to stay in the past and examine the present and the future. It's so magical, like a clock hanging on a wall, always going in the opposite direction, going to the past, but serving the present and the future.
"Warring States Policy Zhao Ce I" Yun: "The past does not forget, the teacher of the future." Now, people have adopted this as an idiom, a metaphor for remembering the lessons of the past as a reference for future actions. Although the common people love to say that it is "eating a grain of long wisdom", which is more superficial and straightforward, it is also the wisdom we draw from history.
Why won't China disintegrate like the Soviet Union? In fact, this question has been answered as early as the Republic of China.
Dai Jitao, many people today may not know him, so I will make a brief introduction here: 1891-1949, male, initially named Liangbi, later named Chuanxian, the word Jitao, pen name Tianqiu. Born in Guanghan, Sichuan, wuxing (present-day Huzhou, Zhejiang), he was an elder of the Chinese Kuomintang and a modern Chinese thinker, theoretician and politician.
At the most beautiful time of his life, Dai Jitao was known as Chiang Kai-shek's "national teacher" and was Chiang Kai-shek's loyal "think tank." He was also one of the earliest researchers of Chinese Marxism, serving as the first president of the examination institute for 20 years during the training period. His major works include "On Japan", "The Road of Youth", "The Record of Academic Etiquette", "Oriental Nationalities and Oriental Culture", "The Status and Value of Chinese Culture in the World" and so on.
Dai Jitao famously said: "The reason why China can unite as one is because the people believe in themselves as an ancestor." He said this in 1929, when Gu Jiegang published a book at the Commercial Press called "Textbooks for The History of The Nation in Secondary Schools", in which he believed that "the real deeds of [the Yellow Emperor] are still ambiguous and difficult to understand... Perhaps it is an ancient emperor who was conjectured by later people to establish the country." Dai Jitao was very angry when he saw this, and said: "Now to say (referring to scholars like Gu Jiegang) that there are no three emperors and five emperors is to dissolve the demand for the unity of the people of the whole country. He also said: "The national issue is a big issue, scholars are allowed to discuss it at will, as for bookstores publishing textbooks and distributing them in large quantities, that is a crime and should be dealt with strictly!" ”
As a result, it is conceivable that "Middle Schools Use National History Textbooks" was investigated and sealed, and Gu Jiegang wrote these words of Dai Jitao into another article, "The Commercial Press and My Historical Research". At that time, the "Middle School Uses National History Textbooks" did not mention "Pangu", simplified the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" that had been respected by the past, or briefly described the matter, and added the word "so-called", "hinting" to Gu Jiegang's view that the figures who have had a tall image for thousands of years are actually unreliable.
The first person to express dissatisfaction with Gu Jiegang's statement was Wang Hongyi, 1874-1930, known as Chao jun, the character Hongyi. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, he was a native of Liu Lou Village (in present-day Zhangzhimen Township, Juancheng County) in Puzhou. Reformers and educators during the period of the democratic revolution. At the age of 12, he finished reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and at the age of 18, he entered Xiucai. He was the director of the Shandong Education Department and the speaker of the Shandong Provincial Assembly. In response to the so-called Three Emperors and Five Emperors, Wang Hongyi proposed a motion to impeach the Commercial Press, advocating that the government ban it. After that, with Dai Jitao's anger, the State Council of the Republic of China printed a total of 1.6 million copies of the "Secondary Schools Use National History Textbooks" and issued a fine of 1.6 million yuan to the Commercial Press.
When this happened, there was such a historical background, that is, since the 1920s, some scholars proposed to unite people's hearts through nationalism, advocating nationalism to save the country, and the Yellow Emperor gradually became the "common ancestor of the country", and with the passage of time and the popularization of indoctrination, the status became more stable and unshakable in the hearts of the Chinese people. In this context, Gu Jiegang "doubted" the Yellow Emperor, who shared the ancestors of the national family, which seemed very out of place.
Although the Commercial Press could not come up with so much money, and eventually ended the case by entrusting people to move around and being exempted from fines to prohibit the issuance of the case, the concept of "Yanhuang descendants" derived from the common ancestors of the state was officially protected and became a foregone conclusion. Today, it is a common cognition rooted in the hearts of the Chinese people and flowing in the blood of the Chinese people.
What we want to say is that this kind of cognition is based on the equal unity of the Chinese nation at home, the same hatred and hatred for the outside world, and the practical test of defeating the invasion of other ethnic groups and building a beautiful new China, which is not only a fait accompli of history, but also an eternal pattern of pluralism and integration of reality and future development. Therefore, China will not disintegrate like the Soviet Union.
Finally, let's tell a story of the Tang Dynasty. The protagonist is called Tang Dynasty Northwestern Ethnic Group. According to the historical records, their appearance was "all grown up, red hair, face analysis, and green pupils" (New Book of Tang Dynasty, Uighur Transmission of The Yellow Eagles), in today's words, may be the image of some foreigners. It is these "foreigners" who, in the records of the history books, are: "Those with black pupils will be known as the Lingmiao descendants." This means that if they have black eyes, then they must be descendants of the Han general Li Ling.
When Emperor Taizong of Tang was Li Shimin, Tang Jiasi came to Chang'an to "recognize his relatives" and was warmly received by Li Shimin. In 708, Tang Taizong had already passed away, but Tang Zhongzong sent people to Chang'an to find his roots and ask his ancestors, and Tang Zhongzong said to them: "Erguo is the same as me, not it is compared." "It means that we are a family, and we cannot compare with others, and we have touched the messenger of the Sis to the head. The fact is that the Tang Dynasty has always regarded itself as a state related to the Tang Dynasty, and has repeatedly sent troops to participate in the Tang Dynasty's military operations against the Post-Turks.
This is the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, two ethnic groups in China who look completely different can say that we are one ancestor, and more than 1,000 years later, who can say that a certain ethnic group is not a Chinese or a Chinese nation because of the different appearances in China? The fact is also that the Chinese nation has always believed that all ethnic groups have one ancestor, especially some ethnic groups that have often harassed the Central Plains and even made enemies of the Central Plains in the past, and also believe that they have a common ancestor with the people of the Central Plains, from the Xiongnu to the Xianbei, to the Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols without exception. Therefore, the so-called scholars who want to make a fuss about this have been ineffective in this regard, and eventually failed.
It's also magical history, no longer a clock hanging on the wall, always going in the opposite direction, but going to a certain place to tell people what the past was, what the present or might be in the future. Therefore, since ancient times, Chinese has attached great importance to history, and even no other people in the world has recorded history, written history, and respected history like Chinese, and Chinese particularly value history, not because we always want to go back to the past, but to discover the present and predict the future while recognizing the past.
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