Since the ancient literati are a family, this is not false at all, especially when you look at the relationship chart of the literati in modern times, without further ado, let's first look at this picture:
After reading it, it always feels too complicated, as if they live in a courtyard, in the span of three generations, these famous literati and scholars in modern times have more or less a certain natural connection with each other, and at the same time they can't help but think about whether this connection is accidental, whether it is really as they say that the cultural circle is very small, then the author tries to analyze it from the following perspectives, what is the cause of this phenomenon.
1. Cultural foundation, national salvation is the tone of modern China, when China has not yet industrialized, the commodity economy is also very backward, the turmoil of the country can not provide a stable internal environment for them to slowly build, on the contrary, in the face of desperate situations, the movement of ideology and culture is relatively easy for China with thousands of years of history, because only a pen is needed, so the cultural movement that flocks to it is inevitable, everyone really feels that the world rises and falls, and the responsibility of the puppeteer, especially the educated Chinese. This trend has been further promoted.
2. Means of dissemination, in order to find the truth of saving the country, a large number of educated rich children have studied abroad, they have seen Western science and thought, and can't wait to come back and tell Chinese: We want that kind of thing too. A large number of foreign new things poured into the moldy land of old China in a short period of time, there was no harm without comparison, and criticism and praise followed, but the means were extremely limited, in that era when there was no vibrato, no television, no video telephony, only newspapers, the spread of culture almost always happened in family education and school education.
3. The open and chaotic social environment, like the muddy swamp of muddy waters, no one tells you the direction and ideas, let alone no one tells you right or wrong, as long as you tell some truth, there is probably still an audience. In the face of the collision of new and old things, people's thinking has become diverse, some people advocate scientific democracy, naturally some people advocate a return to tradition and spirit, scholars are very excited to use Western methods to summarize traditional Chinese culture, and formed a perfect system, it can be said that for cultural people, it is a chaotic era, but also a new era. Such an environment will give rise to the problem of how to maintain and disseminate their own ideas and systems, most of them are carried out through the publication of articles or lectures, and even debates, which leads to a great increase in the frequency of exchanges at the ideological level. For example, in the beginning of the people, they debated a topic about love, whether it is a parental arranged marriage or a marriage of free love, almost all the characters who can participate are involved, put in today, I am afraid that before the debate, some people say that you are feudal and old, and in two days no one will pay attention to you. An open and chaotic social environment is crucial, and the collision of these ideas may initially be an afternoon tea with relatives and classmates, an exchange letter, an accidental class, because there are too many debates and too many places for people to reflect.
4. Class stratification, we see that most of these literati and scholars come from rich families, and one obvious reason is that the children of rich families have received a better education, and they do not have to worry too much about the problem of not having enough to eat, just like Lu Xun and Yan Tu, birth determines whether you will consider saving the country or saving yourself in the future. In that poor era, only a small part of the Chinese rich accounted for, careful people also found that most of these achievements came from the south that was both rich and attached importance to education and the earliest civilization, of which Jiangsu and Zhejiang were the majority, so the circle was even smaller, and even the grandfathers of the large landlords had interests between them, further, when a person became famous, then the probability of him seeing another celebrity was absolutely greater than that of ordinary people, and all of this together determined the unique phenomenon in the cultural circle of the Republic of China.
Finally, a few questions that we must ponder are, is it not true that the more materially scarce the era, the more abundant the thought? And whether this idea is lagging behind or ahead of its time, and who is leading whom? Is there a way to avoid this? I think the most important thing is that someone thinks, and it's not just one person's thinking.