I've always wanted to write a few words for Chinese who died in battle in Korea more than sixty years ago.
More than half a century has passed, and reflecting on the gains and losses of that war is now more, saying anything and having all kinds of faces.
Many people don't realize that here, all the euphemisms and cover-ups are unnecessary.
How to look at the Chinese of those who charge on the cold ice and the fiery hills to block the enemy is, in a fundamental sense, the bottom line of modern Chinese.
Complex, here is simple.
This is certainly not to say that the academic discussions in question are not legitimate.
Were there any negative consequences of the Korean War?
There is no one-dimensional existence in the world.
For example, some people say that the Korean War was a war that "outweighed the losses": our economic efforts were incalculable, politically opposed to most countries in the world, the number of casualties was far greater than that of the United States, and even missed the best opportunity to recover Taiwan. At such a high price, China did not get a penny, a grain of rice, or an inch of land from North Korea;
For example, no matter how much we swear to Americans today that we are far from being strong, it is impossible to reassure them.
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After the Korean War, we have had to be burdened with fame and had to pay the price for America's stubborn concerns and containment. We can no longer be the paper tiger in MacArthur's eyes, and the illusion that TaoGuang's obscure schemes can be concealed.
You can also count many of these negative consequences, which are real from their own perspective.
But let's lift our feet a foot up and go up another floor.
Let the eyes take the nation, the country and the history of the five hundred years of rivers and rivers under the eyes...
What do we see?
After the Chinese book was opened to the world, every page of history proved that we were an inferior people among the inferior yellow race.
There is no need to go through the countless chapters of humiliation here, but the end result is that all the decay that the nation has experienced means in the eyes of the world a judgment of the qualities of every Chinese: in all aspects of intelligence, spirit, constitution, mind, etc., Chinese is inherently inferior, servile, timid, weak, selfish.
When every yellow-faced Chinese faces a Westerner, he bears this innate judgment that the fate of such a nation-state has cast on him, and all his efforts to separate himself from the nation are ridiculous.
Not only enemies, but also Western sympathizers and friends who Chinese, also have a negative evaluation of Chinese's mental state.
So, when MacArthur saw all of China's warnings at the time as bluff intimidation, he actually had a reason.
As Ridgway describes: "MacArthur suppressed his critics and denounced them for not 'understanding the thinking of the Orient'."
MacArthur understood the kind of Orientalist who had long existed in his eyes, and he had every argument based on contempt for the cowardly Chinese, for even if Red China were really stupid enough to send troops, it would only create an opportunity for them to return to the Stone Age.
Now we know:
The fact is that MacArthur "himself went completely astray in judging the enemy's intentions";
The truth is that MacArthur, who was regarded as a god by all, ended his military career with the greatest heel.
But how many people are aware of the turning historical significance of the late MacArthur, and the meaning of life for each of our Chinese?
For the first time in hundreds of years, it was the brave, courageous, and courageous volunteers who erased that black birthmark from each of our Chinese, who proved that MacArthur, who knew the Orientals, did not understand the Orientals.
Many Western history books specifically describe examples of them disguised as South Korean troops marching wildly toward the muzzle of American sentries and confusingly crossing the barrier to take down enemy battalions in one fell swoop.
Who are the weakest to withstand the heartbeat at gunpoint?
Who would have believed that a lifeless yellow man could perform such a magical drama?
So every self-respecting Chinese, and national unity, was reborn sixty years ago.
The Korean War is not only what people call China's "founding war", but also a redefinition battle for each of us who are willing to be Chinese Orientals.
This does not only refer to the position in the eyes of Westerners, in the Western value system, Chinese once did not believe that they had such a mental state and ability, and they agreed with the innate judgment of Chinese was not a minority.
Without the Korean War, the People's Republic of China would be widely regarded as a three-stream nation made up of fools, whose qualifications in the forest of the nations of the world are not proven.
Japan was fundamentally defeated by the United States and the Soviet Union, and the CCP's victory in 1949 was based only on the Kuomintang troops, which does not count among the Americans.
Only through the most severe test of the world and of our time, the armed forces of the Chinese— the concentrated embodiment of the spiritual strength of the Chinese man — can we be seated safely in the seats of the world.
As American General Clark, who signed the armistice after the Korean War, said, "I have gained an unenviable reputation: I am the first commander in American history to sign an armistice that has not won." ”
It has been said that it is impossible for any nation to rejuvenate without spiritual rejuvenation on the road to rejuvenation, and the Korean War provided such the most powerful spiritual support for the rejuvenation and strength of the Chinese nation.
In the article "The Centennial Leap of the Chinese Spirit," I write:
"I think of Chinese blood on the Korean battlefield. When today's mediocre people are entangled in every gain or loss, everything is actually the clearest thing. It was the first time Chinese had used the great powers 'the same way of speaking to earn their respect'. This time it was the American general who called Chinese a warrior. ”
"China is still standing like this today because Huang Jiguang is in front, because China was standing in Shangganling. We feel their dignity every moment today. That's why indians flying aircraft carriers that Americans can turn a blind eye to, Chinese is a nightmare in simulated warfare. Because the premise of military reasoning comes from Chosin Lake and Hanjiang Snow nearly sixty years ago: What if such soldiers mastered the same technical equipment as us? ”
Ridgway said: "If we hadn't had strong firepower, often received close air support, and firmly controlled the sea, Chinese might have crushed us long ago." ”
These are the Chinese who fought to the death in North Korea, they changed the position of China, they changed our faces, they were kind to each of our Chinese, they left us with infinite spiritual wealth, and what they gained was beyond all other judgments of gain and loss.
Those volunteer soldiers who died in the cold and fire were the most valuable Chinese in China's history.
Who of us is entitled to "pity" the loss of these heroes' lives?
What truly values their lives is the kind of spiritual wealth that persists in their dedication.
The people who excused himself on the pretext that the volunteers were seriously wounded did not actually have to hide their ugly souls.
Here, people's inner yin and yang are like watching the fire.
This is because the watershed formed by life and death is the yardstick of the value of the country and people, and the mirror of the human heart.
When you hear someone laughing at the volunteers, you can only feel disgust and pity for these cowards who do not have a basic sense of shame.
There are only three kinds of such people: either extreme ignorance, or extreme servility, or both.
There was once a man with the slogans of "loyalty to the country" and "democracy and freedom" who mocked in an article that the volunteers were not afraid of death as "ignorance."
You and I can only feel great regret that he is also a yellow person and can speak Chinese.
You have no choice but to sit with it.
In the long history of the Chinese nation and people, the Korean War was the flame of the phoenix's rebirth against the wind.
Chinese thanks to the volunteers who have burned to restore national and human dignity.