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There's nothing new under the sun, but there's a stubble of new people

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As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. Yes, so tens of thousands of years of human society under the sun, what has not happened?

Wang Chong of the Han Dynasty said that heavenly deeds are constant, not for Yao, not for the sake of death (not because there is a holy king like Yao can guarantee eternal survival, nor because there is such a fucking ruler as Jie to perish). 365 days or 12 months a year, or 24 solar terms. Everything grows in rhythm. This has not been the case since there was human civilization and history, and it is still the case with human civilization and history.

When humans did not appear, everything under the heavens evolved according to the law of the jungle and the logic of the food chain. When humans came into this world with the help of tools, in addition to human beings to nature, and human beings to human beings themselves, the law of the jungle food chain logic still exists roughly.

Indeed, all kinds of things, rare things, good things, bad things, vicious things, good things that are not good or bad, ordinary things, have precedents in thousands of years of history. History repeats itself again and again. It's not wrong to say there's nothing new under the sun.

But why do people repeat some things, especially bad things, in human society, that people don't remember for a long time?

That's because things are still old-fashioned, but there are always new people under the sun, and in 20-30 years, there will be a new person. Newcomers are always likely to wear new shoes and go the way. No wonder some people say that historical events generally occur twice. The first was tragedy, the second was farce. What if it was the third time? Counting the acrobatics of smashing?

The bullish saying of China's good man is 18 years old, "eighteen years later, it is a good man again". In fact, 18 years will only come to a stunned youth, ignorant of rebellion and stubbornness, enough fighting, far from wisdom.

According to Confucius, thirty stands, forty is not confused, and fifty knows the Mandate of Heaven. That's pretty much a generation of people in 30 to 40 years. Because people are forty, they have seen all kinds of good things and bad things in this life, and they have almost all seen them, so they can not be confused and make fewer mistakes (they cannot completely avoid making mistakes).

But I think now it's almost 45 or 50. The ancients married early, married around the age of 15 is not less, and married to 20 is considered late marriage. In "The Peacock Flies Southeast", Liu Lanzhi describes herself as "seventeen as a monarch's wife". At that time, Jiao Zhongqing may have exceeded seventeen or less than seventeen. Chinese people often use imaginary age, it is very likely that Liu Lanzhi's seventeen, according to the current age system is only sixteen.

In ancient times, to forty, the basic experience of life was gone. And now, it's late to mature. In addition, the century-old Nanjing Road and the Bund in Shanghai were empty and grassy due to the new crown, and it is estimated that the living centenarians in Shanghai also saw it for the first time. Modern society is far more complex than ancient society.

In the current marriage law, a man can marry at least 22 years of age and a woman who has reached the age of 20. But this is only the rural area with a small average school year. In cities, more men marry after 25 or 30 years of age.

From the age of 7, 6 years of elementary school, 3 years of junior high school is 16 years old. In ancient times, the age of marriage was first 12 years old, and now it is only the upper grade of primary school. The 15/16-year-old is now just the early love of the middle and high school students. A small number of rural children and a considerable number of urban children still need 3 years of high school. That's 18/19.

If you enter the society and start earning money to save your wife, it usually takes three or five years, almost to 25. If you go to a college, you generally don't enter the society until 22-23. I also had to work for four or five years to save my wife, so I ran to three.

The ancients married from the age of 15 to 20, and when they reached 40, they were almost grandparents, completing a long cycle of life: from babies to grandparents to the year of confusion.

In ancient times, babies took less than 20 years to get married. Now it will take almost 25 years to get married at the age of 25. Bumping into a 50-year-old is not confused. It is not excluded that some precocious varieties or ghosts and ghosts have insight into the rules of human society in advance.

That basically means that there is nothing new under the sun, but every forty or fifty years under the sun, there is a new person, and it is not uncommon for the new person to stumble and bump by himself, and it is not uncommon to repeat the bumps of the predecessors. It is said that the German philosopher Hegel said, "The only lesson that man can learn from history is that mankind never draws a lesson from history." ”

Under the eternal sun, every 40 or 50 years, the family changes a group of family members; every 60-70 years there is a round of living people. The great dynasties of the Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and other large dynasties and scattered small dynasties during the intermingling period were almost cyclical on the plane: rising, ZTE, Weidun, and overturning. Historical experiences, as well as lessons, are likely to be repeated every time we go to the next round.

To paraphrase Japanese-American Francis Fukuyama, is the endless cycle the end of history?

By the way, this sentence of Francis Bacon, it is estimated that Europe and the United States will be liquidated by white left, black, left, yellow and left: what is patriarchal? History is now going to use herstory instead. In addition, why use men (men) to represent all mankind. Use people instead. So Bacon nodded and bent down to confess his guilt, rewriting it as Herstories make people wise.

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Due to the trouble encountered after the launch of this article, there are now channels that can be allowed to be re-modified and postponed.

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