Telling Chinese stories well requires literature to carry the truth, but Zhang Yimou only knows the text and does not know

The way of existence of Chinese culture is "literature to carry the Tao". Words and articles are only a kind of "text", and the correct definition of the text is: the performance of people's taoist behavior, including the personal level and the social level. The act of the individual in accordance with the Tao is called courtesy, which is the text of a person, so it is called the quality of the text, the text is the external manifestation, and the quality is its internal virtue. The current courtesy is derived from this, but the courtesy is more superficial and superficial. At the social level, all customs, systems, and rules that conform to the Tao are texts.

Therefore, Chinese culture has two levels: the level of literature and the level of Taoism, and these two levels are also two categories. The dimension of China's classification and subdivision of culture and knowledge is not horizontal, but vertical, in addition to the dichotomy of "wen-Tao", there are also "righteousness-benefit", "heart-thing", "Tao-instrument", and "body-use". These statements essentially refer to the same thing, but the sides are different. "Wen-Tao" focuses on the expression of Chinese culture, "righteousness-profit" focuses on the judgment and trade-off of Chinese culture, "heart-object" focuses on the thinking essence of Chinese culture, and "body-use" focuses on the structure of Chinese culture.

Therefore, to correctly express Chinese culture, the key is not in the text, but in the Tao. Of course, it can also be said that the key is not in profit, but in righteousness, not in things, but in the mind, not in the instrument, but in the Tao, not in use, but in the body.

In the context of China's rise, as well as the sino-US conflict and the Sino-Western conflict, telling the Chinese story well has become an urgent problem to be solved. To tell the Chinese story well is how to correctly express and express Chinese culture. Many people understand telling the Chinese story well as a technical problem of expression, which is completely wrong, because in this way, the problem is limited to the level of "wen", but its substantive problem is at the level of "Tao".

Today's Chinese only know its chinese culture, but do not know its way, know the text but do not know. Further, modern Chinese have lost the basic way of thinking of the "Wen Dao" dichotomy, only superficial Wen style thinking, material thinking, instrumental thinking, and using thinking, and have lost the deep Taoist thinking, righteous thinking, and asana thinking.

In other words, the basic premise of telling the Chinese story well is to correctly and accurately recognize and understand Chinese culture, which is essentially impossible for many modern Chinese who have flaws in their way of thinking.

In recent days, everyone has been discussing the opening ceremony of director Zhang Yimou, saying how to tell the Chinese story well, how to express China's clouds, how to be culturally confident, and how to be confident in big countries. But I don't despise watching it, because I know deeply that as an actor and director, Zhang Yimou cannot really recognize and understand Chinese culture. It is just that if you have to find someone to direct this party now, Zhang Yimou is indeed the best candidate.

Zhang Yimou can direct one of the best evenings in modern times, but it cannot be said that this party can truly and accurately express Chinese culture.

Confucius said, "Clever words make color, and there is no benevolence." "Clever words" is the text, and "benevolence" is the Tao. "Clever words and colors" is the use of external expression techniques and techniques to blindly please people's expressions, so that expression is contrary to benevolence, deviation from the Tao, but also away from Chinese culture. The modern performance technology and techniques are "clever words and colors", and Zhang Yimou's performance is clever words and colors.

Why modern Chinese's cognition of Chinese culture is generally ignorant of the text, and there is no way in the way of thinking, which is rooted in the academic paradigm and education paradigm in China. At present, China's academic methods and educational paradigms are Westernized, and it has been more than 100 years since the establishment of the New Culture Movement of the Republic of China.

There is no way, there is no way, there is no way, there is no heart, there is no body, there is no body are the basic characteristics of Western civilization, and the same is true of modern Western scholarship and education based on Western civilization.

Therefore, in order for China to correctly understand Chinese culture and establish a correct way of thinking, it must break the current set of old, Western-style academic paradigms and educational paradigms, and establish a new set of dualistic academic paradigms with literature and morality. This requires an academic revolution, which is the opposite of the New Culture Movement of the Republic of China. The direction of the new cultural movement is Westernization, and the direction of this new academic revolution is to oppose Westernization, Sinicization, and traditionalization, and establish a new paradigm for Chinese and Western use.