Wang Defeng said that his books were all mixed titles, and professional scholars were all bent over five buckets of rice

Wang Defeng, a professor of Internet celebrity philosophy at Fudan University, said that don't read his own books, they are all for appraisal titles, mixed meals, and there is no meaning. The last person to say such a thing was Nan Huaijin, an old Internet celebrity guoxue master, who said that so many of his books were written to earn money, and advised everyone not to read them. For these two people, the real and only thing worthy of respect is this honesty, the honesty of later life.

In fact, the last thing that should be professionalized is a scholar. Scholars can be professionalized, but not professionalized, because once professionalized, it means that scholars who join professional groups become wage earners, have owners, and must obey the ideology and rules of this professional group. Another popular point is that taking people's money is short, and eating people's rice is soft.

A professional scholar has a boss, and he must first obey his boss, otherwise he will lose his livelihood.

In this sense, the professional academic mechanism will only produce pseudo-scholars, how can it produce masters. But unfortunately, too many such slave pseudo-scholars have been dubbed masters.

With this as a criterion, all scholars in the West are pseudo-scholars, because since ancient times, the Western academic system has been professional. After the Republic of China, China also introduced this professional academic system with universities as the core into China. Since then this system has only pseudo-scholars, pseudo-masters.

After Confucius and before the Republic of China, China's academic system was unprofessional, and scholars were never an independent profession. Confucius said very clearly, "A gentleman who worries about the way does not worry about food, and does not seek food when he seeks the way."

Therefore, China has the saying of "cultivating and reading heirlooms", reading is reading, reading itself should not be a livelihood to earn money, so what do readers eat, and what is its economic basis? Farming. In today's parlance, it is "peasant scholar."

Mencius also discussed the question of the economic resources of a true scholar, if you are not a peasant scholar and go to the land, you need to find an errand, but the basic principle of finding a job is that the salary should be as small as possible, and the work should be as small as possible. Hug off the bat".

Zhuangzi refused to be an official for the freedom of personality and thought, and was willing to be poor, and Tao Yuanming sang the ancient sentence of "do not bend your waist for five buckets of rice". They all refused to join a professional group.

But in the modern, Western-style professional academic system, bending the waist for five buckets of rice has become the basic premise for a scholar to become a scholar, he has to get a diploma, a doctoral diploma, or even a doctoral diploma from abroad in the United States, and then go to find a job, in order to join a professional group, join a university, and then as Wang Defeng said, he must work for the evaluation of titles and apply for projects, and produce papers and write books. How can there be true learning in doing so.

By the standards of Chinese culture, the professionalized academic system of the West is itself a deformed perversion in human civilization. There are two reasons, one is that from the root cause, the West is not the original place of the elements of civilization, and their elements of civilization are all foreign, because the elements of civilization must be based on history, practice, and the people, and are the crystallization of the people's practice for a long time, rather than from the research of a small number of scholars. The initial appearance of professional chemists was not to invent knowledge, but to spread new knowledge from outside. But for the Western world, these professional scholars become the source of knowledge.

Second, the religious traditions of the West. In religion, it is always believed that knowledge was created by God and originated from God, and then people are all believers in learning from God and obtain knowledge. In fact, this theological view of knowledge itself also shows that the West is not the place of origin of knowledge, but foreign.

In China, on the contrary, it is believed that knowledge did not come from the upper scholars, but from the practice of the people of history. The so-called scholars are nothing more than a summary and refinement of history. That's why Confucius said, "Say without doing." The Chinese view of knowledge is bottom-up, while the Western view of pseudo-knowledge is top-down.

Historical, practical, and people's are the three core characteristics of Chinese-style scholarship, and such scholarship is true scholarship; no history, no practice, and no people are precisely the three characteristics of Western-style professionalized scholarship, and this kind of three-no-scholarship is pseudo-scholarship.