As we all know, China's history has a long history, with the inheritance of five thousand years of civilization, in the past hundred years or even a thousand years ago, china has always been the most powerful country in the world, but the same is too strong has also bred a very arrogant mood, so that in the history of modern development gradually lagged behind, and was bullied by the great powers, even today, we China has built a new country on the ruins, but it is still not recognized by the West.
The West denies Chinese history, from the root cause, the West denies that China has a history of five thousand years, thinking that there are only three thousand years, and they believe that the development of Chinese history is actually stagnant, and this theory of long-term stagnation has always influenced the vast number of historians and philosophers in the West, and the famous German philosopher Hegel said solemnly in the middle of the "Philosophy of History": Chinese history is essentially historyless.
Hegel believes that Chinese history must begin with the Chinese Empire, but he believes that the development of Chinese history cannot be changed due to the lack of some kind of confrontation, and a fixed thing that has been so fixed since ancient times has replaced a real historical thing. ”
Hegel's view is not absolute, and Adam Smith also believes in "The Wealth of Nations" that the development of Chinese history has stagnated, and in the eyes of Western society, the development of Chinese history has always been in a state of stagnation, a society in eternal tranquility. This view gradually began to spread in the late Qing Dynasty, and to this day, it is recognized by Western historians, who believe that Chinese history is like a mummy, lifeless, lifeless, but a backwater history, which does not have any value to study.
This view doesn't seem very easy to understand, and I can understand it better than an example.
China's table tennis has always been the world's leading, in the world rankings, Zhang Yining has always been a strong opponent, but in the table tennis player rankings there is no Zhang Yining name, according to the world table tennis points ranking there is a convention, that is, there must be wins and losses, if a person has been winning, there will be no ranking.
In this way, do you understand that because China was so powerful in ancient times, so that the difference between the East and the West was huge, so that the ancient history of China was not recognized by the West, in other words, they could not understand the civilization that was stronger than them, and what the trajectory of their history was developing.
In view of this thesis of Chinese history, some Asian historians have long refuted this view, including Some historians of Japanese, Chinese and Chinese descent have long put forward their own views, in fact, China's contribution in the world cannot be ignored, starting from the four major inventions, until the highly developed society in the Tang and Song dynasties, Chinese culture has actually unconsciously gone to the world, and affected the development of their civilization, but it is ridiculous that they themselves do not know it.