Since 1840, Chinese faced with the national conditions of poverty and weakness, and seeing that the Western powers are very powerful, they have seriously studied the West. At that time, there was nothing wrong with learning from the West in its entirety, and while learning from the strengths of the West, we also learned their shortcomings as advantages. At the same time, he also completely denied the traditional Chinese culture, feeling that everything in ancient China was backward and decaying and should be abandoned.
In fact, people who hold such a view are very naïve, and the ancient Chinese were wise and foolish, and they were regarded by many people as real fools.
Why?
1. Just look at the map. Ancient China's territory was incomparably vast, and the ancients occupied the best land in Eurasia and had reached the limit of land expansion. In terms of territorial expansion, the ancient Chinese did their best. Before modern times, China was the largest and most populous country in the world, and this ranking was maintained for nearly two thousand years.
As an individual, owning a lot of land and houses is a symbol of wealth. As a country, the same is true. Bismarck said that the mission of a nation, no matter how big or small, is to expand. Big countries are good, and small countries are bad.
In modern times, although the land area of Russia and Canada has exceeded that of China, the land quality of these two countries is much worse than that of China, and the livable area and arable land area are not as good as China.
Many people will say, you see the British, French, German and other powers, although the country is small, but the people have advanced science and technology, the people are rich, much better than China.
In fact, the great powers never felt that the small size of the country was a good thing, and each one of them had desperately expanded, and finally the expansion failed.
There is also a very simple truth, As a big country, China can learn all the advanced science and technology of the West, work hard to develop the economy, and become richer than Britain, France, and Germany, but Britain, France, and Germany cannot expand their territory.
The advantages of the European powers can be learned Chinese, but China's superior powers cannot be learned, so I ask you if you are angry?
2. Chinese culture captures the core needs of people, while Western culture uses people as tools.
Chinese culture teaches people etiquette, righteousness, honesty, shame, self-cultivation, family unity, governance, and peace in the world, teaching people to settle down and establish a life, establish a family, make some achievements, and leave their names in history.
Establishing a heart for heaven and earth, establishing a destiny for the people, continuing to learn for the saints, and opening up peace for all the worlds, it also reflects a person's responsibility and mission to the country and society.
Chinese culture takes into account the core needs of people and speaks to people's hearts. What are the core needs of people, and what are the just needs?
Ask yourself.
Is it a smartphone, a computer, a wireless network, is it for a mortgage, a car loan, working overtime all day?
No, what ordinary people really need is to have no worries about food and clothing, and to marry men and women. Chinese culture teaches etiquette, righteousness, and shame, three from four virtues, which is nothing more than for everyone to start a family and settle down.
The so-called Western culture and modern culture not only do not help people achieve basic needs, but set up various obstacles in people's realization of basic needs, want to get married, buy a house and buy a car to save money, and then work overtime to repay loans in the second half of their lives.
Western culture is actually a tool for capitalists to brainwash the people, never teaching the people any morality, letting the people know that etiquette, righteousness, shame, honor and disgrace, just blindly teaching the people that money is omnipotent, and they have to pay everything for money, and capitalists can do whatever they want if they have money.
From the perspective of modern people to see ancient times, many of the behaviors of the ancients are indeed very stupid, many of the cultural traditions of the ancients are indeed very backward, but do not forget, that is ancient, modern people look at the ancient, that is, adults look at the same as children, to see more of his advantages, more to see what he did, not what he did not do.
Summary: Compared with the ancestors of other countries, the ancient Chinese can be regarded as the most powerful and grasped the most important things: one is the expansion of territory and the unity and stability of the country, and the other is to educate people to understand etiquette, righteousness, honesty, and shame, to start a family, and to settle down.
In contrast, the ancestors of Westerners were oppressed in the bitter cold and humid zone of the northwest corner of Eurasia, a place unfit for human survival, which allowed the surviving Westerners to develop a culture of recognizing nothing but money, and people became disposable tools of the capitalists.
You can also say your own opinion.