In the face of the sudden outbreak of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus at the end of 2019, which first broke out in China and then swept the world, Chinese controlled the spread of the epidemic with the fastest speed and the most effective method.
Although the virus has not yet been completely eradicated, China has basically established a normalized epidemic control system, and large-scale transmission and death will not occur again.
In contrast, in other countries in the world, including developed countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States, the results of epidemic prevention and control are obviously not very optimistic, and the gradually rising number of infections and deaths fully reflects the country's weak control in the face of major epidemics.
When the world is facing the same problem, China has contributed China's treatment plan free of charge and faced the epidemic together with the people of the world, which has made the people of the world see China's great power responsibility and style.
When the people of the world look at China with a new eye, a sentence by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once again aroused people's recognition, and he had said before:
"There is a reason why China can be a national peace and security, they are disguised as the civilization of the country."
Chairman Mao changed the lyrics
Kissinger, a graduate of Harvard University and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is known as an old friend of the Chinese and knows China's culture and national conditions very well.
Speaking of civilization, this is what all Chinese are proud of, and China is currently the only country in the world that has experienced more than 5,000 years without interruption of civilization.
Ancient Babylon, ancient India, ancient Egypt, and China, these four countries that once created brilliant civilizations in human history are called the "four ancient civilizations", and only China still retains the cultural connotation and spiritual core of that year.
China has also experienced the rise and fall of feudal dynasties, such as the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and almost everyone knows the order of Chinese historical dynasties, China has gone through many dynasties, but the only constant is that these dynasties have a common name - China.
The rise of each dynasty is a new starting point for the process of civilization, not the subversion and destruction of previous civilizations, which is the most terrible thing about China.
The song "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" is a well-known song, and the original lyrics of the song are "Without the Communist Party, there would be no China", but Chairman Mao added a "new" word to the lyrics after hearing it. Chairman Mao therefore raised this issue specifically at the meeting of the Central Committee, saying: "Without the Communist Party, China already existed, so it should be changed to that without the Communist Party, there would be no New China."
Chairman Mao, as the great thinker, revolutionary and military man of China, cared very much about this lyric, and stressed this issue at the meeting of the Central Committee because he was aware of the same problem as Kissinger.
China is a civilization, and it is an enduring civilization that has lasted for more than 5,000 years.
The People's Republic of China is a new China, not a new country from scratch.
China is the essence of civilization
In stark contrast to China, there are Western empires, and in the history of western development, there have also been empires that have flourished, such as the Roman Empire, Alexander's Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire.
But once these empires decline, they will soon be divided and occupied, and everything that was once empires will be replaced, even the cultural aspects will be destroyed, which is why these empires have not made a comeback.
This also answers why Kissinger said that China is a civilization disguised as a state, because China itself is a civilization. China, like the Chinese civilization, has never been interrupted, the rise and fall of the country in China's history is only a different starting point for the development of civilization, and the purpose of any dynasty is to carry forward and expand on the basis of inheriting the achievements of the civilization of the predecessors and create glory again, so China has never been completely subverted and replaced.
Throughout China's 5,000-year history of development, although the language spoken and written Chinese characters Chinese have differences in expression, the core of civilization carried by characters and languages has not changed.
Language can change from mandarin to vernacular, and writing can change from traditional to simplified, but it is inseparable from its origin.
There is almost no essential difference between the way of thinking of modern people and the way of thinking of ancient people.
Chinese are also accustomed to saying that they are descendants of Yanhuang and sons and daughters of Huaxia, and these titles transcend the boundaries of nationalities and dynasties, and every Chinese has a strong sense of national identity and identity.
At the critical moment of the life and death of the country and the nation, there are countless Chinese who are willing to stand up to defend their families and defend the country, and do not hesitate to sacrifice their lives. This also fully demonstrates that China can be defeated, but it will never be defeated!
The great revival of the nation
Kissinger saw through China's long history of development that China is essentially a civilization, and he said that this sentence not only explains why China can be peaceful and peaceful, but also indicates that China's future rise is unstoppable.
In the nearly 200 years since the late Qing dynasty, China's development has indeed lagged behind that of Western countries, and there has been a brief darkest moment, but this is only a moment in the history of China's development, and China will return to its proper position after accumulation and development as before.
In fact, as Kissinger said, Chinese people went through a fourteen-year War of Resistance Against Japan, and later after the War of Liberation, they founded New China, and on the basis of the fact that they were already obviously lagging behind the footsteps of the developed countries in the West, China rose rapidly, allowing the people of the world to see China's speed. China has shown such a speed of development, in the final analysis, China's cultural foundation has not changed.
With the sustained and rapid development of China's economy, China's strength and status have already undergone fundamental changes, and Chinese people are striding on the road of great national rejuvenation.
China is constantly exploring the future direction of development, but also profoundly affecting the changes in the world pattern, which is an unstoppable trend, because no country can resist a civilization, not to mention that Chinese civilization has gone through more than 5,000 years without decay.
The sea is full of rivers, there is tolerance is large, the wall is standing thousands of people, the desireless is rigid, and the Chinese civilization has endured and is moving towards glory because of its inclusiveness. Whenever the Chinese civilization collides with other civilizations, the Chinese civilization is not to abandon and replace other civilizations, but to continuously integrate, and the civilizations of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Jurchen and other tribes have been integrated into the Chinese civilization, so such a civilization is destined to have eternal vitality.
brief summary:
Today's China is no longer the China of the past, China is on the road to great national rejuvenation, even if China has repeatedly stated in public the road of peaceful rise without hegemony, some countries still can't resist the heart of hindering China's development.
But China's strength and rise is unstoppable, and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that there is a reason why China can be safe and secure, they are a civilization disguised as a country, a civilization that has gone through more than 5,000 years without interruption, which cannot be surpassed by any other country in the world.