According to authoritative media people's daily news, UNESCO statistics show that in the world sales ranking of world cultural masterpieces in 2016, China's "Tao Te Ching" surpassed the Western "Bible", from the previous second place to the world's first place.
In contemporary China, Baidu, Today's Toutiao, Douyin, Tencent, Alibaba and other self-media platforms with hundreds of millions of readers every day are the main reading platforms for Chinese. A large number of Authors of Sinology such as Confucianism and Buddhism have emerged on these platforms, and they continue to increase. So many Sinology writers widely publicize traditional Chinese culture in society, which is an unprecedented phenomenon in Chinese history. This indicates that China's traditional cultural classics will flourish on a scale never seen before in history.
Tao Te Ching
Historical development experience shows that if the classics fall, the country will be transported; if the classics are prosperous, the country will be prosperous.
The Renaissance movement after the Middle Ages in Europe was a movement of the revival of the classical culture of ancient Greece and Rome. The re-emergence of classical culture freed Europe from the decline of the Middle Ages and began a new period of prosperity.
The re-emergence of traditional Chinese cultural classics will also trigger a Chinese-style renaissance, which will completely free China from the decline of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and promote a new great and prosperous era in China.
Now the Tao Te Ching has surpassed the Bible and become the world's number one selling cultural classic. The sales of traditional classics such as China's "I Ching", "Sun Tzu's Art of War", and "Analects" are also among the top in the world. As the Chinese nation surpasses the West and takes off in the world in the future, China's traditional cultural classics will surely influence the whole world.
Renaissance painting
The Renaissance movement in the West was once greatly promoted by Chinese culture. The development of eastern countries such as Japan and the Asian Tigers in modern Times has also been developed on the basis of absorbing a large amount of Western culture and technology, and has also been greatly promoted from the West.
When the Chinese nation takes off again in the world, Chinese culture will surely become the driving force for the development of other parts of the world.
The famous British philosopher Russell lectured for one year at Peking University in China in 1920. He believes that the predatory culture of the West will cause the world to decline in the future, and only Chinese culture can make the world flourish again in the future. Russell believed that the modern West had an advantage in science and technology, but chinese philosophy studied the problem of life better than the West.
Russell
The famous German philosopher Hegel greatly admired Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. He once said: "The Tao Te Ching is the most revered classic in the world."
Some Western scholars believe that China's Tao Te Ching contains universal truths about the world. It is also of high value not only to China, but also to Western countries.
The famous Russian writer and thinker Lev Tolstoy said: "My thinking is greatly influenced by Confucius's Analects, and even more greatly influenced by the Tao Te Ching."
Confucius
Many chinese and foreign scholars have unanimously promoted the Chinese I Ching, the Indian Vedas, and the Western Bible as the three most intelligent books in the world.
Japan began to promote the I Ching 1,000 years ago. During the Meiji Restoration, Emperor Meiji stipulated that those who did not understand the I Ching were not allowed to enter the cabinet and become ministers.
Sun Tzu's Art of War is not just for directing combat. The United States and Japan have long used sun tzu's art of war in the political, economic, and military fields, and have achieved great success. Former US President Richard Nixon once made extensive use of the strategic thinking of Sun Tzu's Art of War to analyze and look forward to the situation in the world. Modern Japanese economic circles refer to Sun Tzu's Art of War as a "strategic practice manual" and are used to guide business operations.
Zhou Yi
Classical Chinese philosophical masterpieces such as the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching have won the praise of many famous philosophers or celebrities in the world. After China's great rejuvenation surpasses the West on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's traditional cultural classics will surely be widely recognized by the international community and will surely affect the whole world.