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Internationally, the major events of these two days are tantamount to Russia's formal declaration of the independence of the pro-Russian regions of eastern Ukraine, the 'Donetsk People's Republic' and the 'Luhansk People's Republic'.
At the same time, Putin began a national speech, from "since ancient times", to the effect that there was no "Ukraine" country in history, and this speech is also considered to be a sword to Ukraine.
Russia has also moved quickly, sending out "peacekeeping forces" while establishing diplomatic relations with the two countries. On February 24, the Russian army pressed all over the line towards Ukraine, and war was on the verge of breaking out.
Let's first understand the historical and cultural ties between Russia and Ukraine.
Ukraine has close historical, cultural and religious ties with Russia, especially in the eastern part of Ukraine has always been immersed in Russian culture.
The first Russian state, Kievan Rus', was actually the eastern region of present-day Ukraine.
In 1654, Khmelnitz signed an agreement on behalf of Ukraine, which was incorporated into the Russian Empire.
In 1954, celebrating 300 years of Russian-Ukrainian unification, and in order to highlight the glory of the Soviet Union, Soviet leader Khrushchev gave ukraine the Crimean Peninsula, which had originally belonged to Russia.
In 1991, the member states withdrew from the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union disintegrated. Ukraine and Russia became two independent states.
In 2014, the Crimean Peninsula, which was originally Russian territory, launched a referendum to announce its re-incorporation into Russia. And this makes the Donbass region, which is already extremely inclined to Russia, also want to move.
As can be seen from the above, it is understandable that the Russian-speaking eastern region of Ukraine, which is mainly Russian- and even the birthplace of Russians, wants to return to Russia.
Here, I would like to say that the power of culture can transcend the existence of all political forces, and the unity of culture is above all else.
Looking back at our China, with its five-thousand-year history, no strong cultural bond is not enough to unite hundreds of millions of Chinese sons and daughters.
And this bond can start from the unification of the Six Kingdoms by the Qin State, starting with Qin Shi Huang.
After the unification of the Six Kingdoms by the Qin State, the same script, the same weights and measures, the abolition of the sub-feudal system, and the adoption of the county system are all important cultural and political foundations for the continuation and unification of the Chinese nation, just like now "speaking Mandarin well, convenient for you and me".
The Qin Empire abolished feudalism, set up counties, fell into the city of Guo, Tongchuan defense, shi bing ge, car on the same track, books and texts, and people with the same lun, on the surface is convenient for rule and management, but the deep-seated purpose is to gather all the people into a spiritual community.
The reason why the entire civilization system of the Chinese nation can continue like a great river is that the civilization tradition of strong survival created and laid down in the era of the Qin Empire has played a decisive role.
The Qin civilization has had a profound political and cultural impact on the course of Chinese history and the Chinese national spirit over the past 2,000 years.
In the hundred years of the Han Dynasty before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the ruling class was fully receptive to the political and social system of the Qin State, saying that "the world has suffered for a long time" just to be famous, but it is obvious that it is the Qin of the Hu Hai period that is suffering, and it is not completely negating the Qin before Hu Hai.
Sun Haohui believes that the best entry point to understand his novel is the history of civilization, saying in the preface: "The Great Qin Empire is the source of Chinese civilization."
Sun Haohui said: "The history of Chinese civilization in the history of world civilization is the significance and civilization value of this era; if the Qin Empire of the Spring and Autumn Warring States does not have the value and significance of creating the source of civilization for China, the Great Qin Empire will not be so important, and the spiritual value to today's China will not be so great." ”
For the Qin Empire, which completed the great cause of unification as early as 221 BC and carried out the great unification construction ahead of all countries in the world, it should fully affirm the progressive significance of achieving reunification.
Whether it is the greater, more modern, and more unified Han Dynasty, or the various great unified countries that have repeatedly risen and revived in the land of China for more than two thousand years, they have inherited the cultural foundation of Qin.
From the first year of the Zhou Yuan Dynasty to the 26th year of the Reign of the Qin Dynasty, a total of 255 years of warring states occurred between various princes and princes.
Without the emergence of a brilliant monarch and the forcible realization of unification by force, it is absolutely impossible for a society to automatically complete the great historical leap from the chaotic world to the Taiping era.
The book "The Origin of Political Order" writes: "Qin Xiaogong and Shang Martin in western China laid the foundation for the world's first truly modern state. The King of Qin conquered all his opponents, established a unified state, and pushed the system initiated by Qin to most of northern China, and the consolidation of the state was completed. ”
This point is beyond the scope of ancient and modern China and foreign countries.
Returning to the issue of national reunification, the cultural power of the same lineage and the same language cannot be underestimated. All separatist forces will have no chance of success.
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