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When Chinese mention their ancestors, they often say, "We are the descendants of Yanhuang!" ”
Chinese sings in his song, "Fifty-six nationalities, fifty-six flowers, fifty-six brothers and sisters are one family."
It can be seen that in the eyes of our Chinese, the power of unity is infinite.
However, Western countries do not think so, Western countries attach great importance to blood, and most of them feel superior to their own blood. In the face of China's ever-changing development, it is difficult to hide the jealousy and hatred of some Western countries, and they do not hesitate to make some ridiculous remarks.
American expert: "The rise of China is not terrible, but the scary thing is that they never mention their bloodline"
The West valued aristocratic blood
In the 21st century, the whole world is in the trend of development, and we can learn information from the world in various ways.
For example, in the UK, we often hear "British Royal Band", "British Royal Restaurant" and so on with titles of aristocratic rank.
In 1066, William established the Norman dynasty, and since then, William I has officially begun. William was a Normandy, but because the Normans lived in France for a long time, it was ironic that the Normandy dynasty was actually a dynasty established by the French.
It is precisely because of this that Britain and France are so similar in terms of politics, economy and culture.
After this, the British royal family began to be enthusiastic about marriage, France, Scotland, Spain, Germany, Italy and most of Europe were integrated and became relatives.
Since William I's conquest of England, democracy was abolished and a feudal monarchy was established, which has remained constitutional monarchy to this day.
Among the British people today, the "blood dilution theory" has always been advocated, the so-called "blood dilution wheel" is to say that some of their own strength, and rights, but as long as they are royal blood, it will produce a noble status, making people feel unattainable.
Interests and bloodlines are inseparable and have remained the same from the beginning to the present.
At first, in the UK, women could not have inheritance rights, and it was not until 2013 that it was changed to the right to inherit firstborn children.
It was not until Elizabeth II that she had a lot of rights, and her 70-year tenure gave the British people a stable and happy life. Elizabeth II became the "pillar" in the hearts of the British
In 2022, with the death of Elizabeth II, causing all the British people to reluctance to her, she has experienced fifteen changes in her life and experienced many ups and downs, and the British people have great respect for Elizabeth II.
As the tide of change in the minds of the British changed, they wanted to abolish the British royal family, thereby eliminating the special power they brought because of the royal family. This idea is widely heard among the British people.
For example, in the ancient Roman period, the status of the nobility was quite high, under the feudal system, the nobles enjoyed all the privileges given to them by society, and the hierarchy and slavery prevailed, and in such a society, the level of privileges enjoyed by the ancient Roman nobility was very high. Even in ancient Rome, if you wanted to be an emperor, you had to be of noble blood.
In the thirteenth century, if a person claiming to be from the nobility did not have a noble genealogy, then it was impossible to be socially recognized, and the requirements for the aristocracy became stricter and more privileged.
In France, noble surnames are related to territories, so the French nobility also owns a large amount of territory, and the size of the territory is used to determine the hierarchical highlands. Even today, many French people also have territorial information in their surnames.
Why do Western countries have such a preference for blood?
This may be inextricably linked to their unique national conditions. Throughout European history, aristocratic royalty was keen on marriage in order to ensure the inheritance of noble blood.
So all of Europe could be said to be relatives of each other before. This is a war, isn't it your own family fighting your own family.
In addition to the marriage of various royal families, in fact, the ultimate goal is to consolidate the political relations between the state and the state, and marriage is only their means and tools.
Looking back at the 5,000-year-old history and civilization of our China, we also attached more importance to bloodline earlier, but then why did we no longer respect it?
The origin and decline of Chinese ancestry
Looking at the turbulent history of the continent, we can find that in the early days of Confucius's Analects, there was an aristocratic system.
The book says that each person's identity symbolizes that each has its own way, and what is each has its own "way" actually represents blood.
In the Analects, it is stated that if you want to be an official, then your father must be an official. If you are a common man and you want to be an official, you are a big disobedient. This aristocratic etiquette is essentially the same as that of the Western aristocracy.
After this, the Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn dynasties were dynasties that paid more attention to bloodline on the mainland.
In the Zhou Dynasty, the feudal system of primogeniture was implemented, in addition to the system of divided seals, which was the same between all European royal families.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, as long as there was a noble bloodline, they could have fiefdoms and pass them on from generation to generation. Even the princes had to pay tribute to valuables, the common people were not allowed to go to battle, and it was also nobles who sent them to death. This exaggerated feudal system can really be compared to the racial system of Western countries.
The Western Zhou Dynasty is the period in the history of the mainland that attaches the most importance to learning bloodline.
Until 221 AD, after Qin Shi Huang unified the world and the emperor system began, the noble blood gradually weakened, but the commoners still had no surnames. But even so, the Qin Dynasty was already significantly different in lineage from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Changes in China's perception of "blood" began as early as the Qin Dynasty. In the Qin Dynasty, the mainland had a different view of blood compared to Western countries.
A sentence in the "History", "The prince will have a kind of peace!" "It's still ringing today.
At this point, the feudal aristocracy system in China, which lasted for more than 2,000 years, underwent some changes, and the so-called aristocracy can no longer be stably passed down from generation to generation.
In the Han Dynasty, the founding emperor Liu Bang was the first person to break the Chinese feudal aristocratic system, and although he came from a humble background, Liu Bang was the first commoner emperor in Chinese history. Since then, the phenomenon of aristocratic dominance gradually disappeared.
But this does not mean that the mainland blood has collapsed, and the noble ranks have also been divided into high and low, and as the major nobles gradually declined, the major surnames began to circulate among the people.
With the prevalence of the imperial examination system that began in the Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, the concept of aristocratic blood had no place to stand, and from then on, ordinary people from humble backgrounds could also pass the imperial examination and become officials. In feudal dynasties, the imperial examination system was the only way to achieve crossing the bloodline.
Between the changes of dynasties, at that time, only the emperor was bound by blood.
Until the beginning of World War II, after the Opium War, China began to gradually fall, and after the Sino-Japanese War, under the corrupt rule of the Qing government, many of our countrymen did not have the opportunity to communicate with foreign countries.
The term "Chinese nation" is derived from Liang Qichao, who first came into contact with the term during that period when Liang Qichao was studying advanced Western ideas in Japan.
In 1899, Liang Qichao introduced the term "Chinese nation" into his works, and since then the "Chinese nation" has been widely known and used.
With the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution, the feudal imperial system that had been overthrown for more than two thousand years, and the doctrine of blood was completely dismantled.
At the time of the survival of the country, the Chinese revolutionaries began to spread the advanced ideas of Marxism to the people of the whole country, and when the Chinese nation reached the time of the survival of the country, all nationalities must unite and jointly resist foreign enemies. During this period, China had no ancestry at all.
All nationalities united and participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the "Republic of Five Nationalities" was the way to national salvation.
Great ethnic integration
So far, China has ushered in a complete national integration. However, in the long history of the mainland, our Chinese nation has had many integrations.
The first integration of the Chinese nation was during the period when Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms. The county system was successfully replaced by feudalism, ending the state of chaos between countries. Later, the Shang Martingale Law made great contributions to unification and established a centralized system.
The establishment of centralized power also avoided the risk that the Qin state would face division again.
However, in the second Qin dynasty, because of the tyranny of power, the peasants revolted, and the Chinese nation once again fell into the flames of war.
This situation continued until the Western Han Dynasty, and it was not until the Western Han border was pacified by the heroes of the times that Qin and the Western Han Dynasty ushered in another great Chinese integration
The second integration was during the Wei and Jin dynasties, when the struggle for hegemony of the Three Kingdoms led to a sharp decline in population, a large number of ethnic minorities entered the Central Plains, and Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei promoted marriage with ethnic minorities during his reforms.
There is division, there is integration, and each change of dynasty represents a great national integration. In order to consolidate the border, the Tang Dynasty set up a domain town in the border defense and sent Jiedu to guard the border, but as the Jiedu made the power and ambition increase, it began to launch a rebellion, wanting to occupy the Central Plains.
Finally, the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out, and during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Chinese nation was divided again. Later, after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms arrived in the Song Dynasty, they integrated into Han culture, and Han culture was inherited and promoted. This is the third great national integration.
Xixia, Jinguo, etc., have also carried out Han cultural integration, and the integration of culture is also the integration between ethnic groups.
The fourth great integration of the Chinese nation was in the Yuan Dynasty, and after nearly a hundred years of cultural ownership disputes, it finally came to an end because Mongolian culture was also integrated into Han culture.
In the process of changing dynasties, it is not difficult to see that there is great cohesion between various ethnic groups, so that they can be integrated again and again.
The great integration of nationalities has narrowed the distance between various ethnic groups, and the integration of various ethnic cultures has produced a positive response before the nation.
It is in this seemingly divided and miraculous fusion that the Chinese nation will become so united, unity is strength, and the power of blood is really not worth mentioning under the power of national unity.
However, in the international community, there are also processes of continuous division and integration like the mainland, but they are fundamentally different from the mainland.
For example, all are Slavic peoples of Russia with Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic, these countries. These countries have a long history of ethnic grievances, and they have been divided and integrated for a long time, until there is another split, the land is completely divided, and there have been constant wars.
Because of this, we should not be surprised by the statements of American experts, because China has always been different from other countries.
All our nationalities are one family, regardless of you and me, we have a common goal, and our country is becoming more and more prosperous.
Cognitive differences between East and West
In the change of social systems around the world, it is not difficult to find different perceptions of blood between Western countries and continents.
Looking back at the history of the mainland, the origin of emperors is also constantly changing, from the hereditary system at the beginning, to commoners from humble origins can also sit on the throne of the emperor, such as Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang of the Han Dynasty
But in the eyes of Western countries, origin is everything, whether you are honorable or not is decided at the moment of your birth, and it will never change, no matter how talented you are, civilians are always civilians. It will always belong to the reckless, and the bloodline belongs to the lowly.
But that doesn't mean their own blood is pure.
China and the West also have different perceptions of mythology and storytelling in terms of lineage. In Western mythology, God is supremely honorable and human beings are inferior, and the relationship between the two cannot be equal.
All the gods depicted in Western mythology have their own different bloodlines, and these gods have the right to control human life and death. Mankind is to endure God's arbitrary punishment and cannot resist. Under the influence of these myths and stories, the Western people did not dare to blaspheme God or go against God's will.
People in the West gradually began to worship these gods, and their idea was that whether they were lustful or greedy, as long as they were strong enough, they were worthy of worship.
The nobles at that time divided the people into hierarchies, flaunting that only the nobles were messengers of God, so that the commoners were brainless to pursue, but did not feel that they were being lowered.
In this situation, the Western people pay more attention to the statement of blood. In order to ensure the purity of blood, the royal family promoted consanguineous marriages to consolidate the purity of noble bloodlines.
And our Chinese mythology does not have a set of rules or systems, and the starting point for creating myths and stories is different.
The images of gods in Chinese mythology and stories are always great and selfless, such as: "Nuwa makes up the sky", "praises the father and chases the sun", "Shennong tastes a hundred herbs" and so on.
These myths and stories are familiar to us, and their images always have the noble character of sacrificing the ego for the sake of life and forging ahead.
The characters in Chinese mythology are never distinguished from the commoners, and they are often portrayed as human beings fighting.
Such myths and stories have a positive effect on society and all mankind.
brief summary
Today, Western countries are still the most serious places for racial discrimination, among which the most serious racial discrimination is in the United States, which was the most serious in the fifties of the last century.
After hundreds of years of slavery and oppression, blacks gradually became a minority, and gradually they began to learn to resist, but there are still many injustices in the political system, media culture, education, and economy.
The problem of racial discrimination in the United States is very difficult to completely eliminate, and many historical problems have accumulated for a long time and gradually become uncontrollable.
However, the Chinese nation has never encountered such a problem; the mainland has a vast territory and there are many ethnic groups in this vast land, and for this reason the state has also specially implemented the system of regional ethnic autonomy in the places where ethnic minorities gather.
All ethnic groups on the mainland, a hundred flowers blooming, a hundred schools of thought contending, unite together, and forge ahead courageously towards the great goal of socialism with Chinese characteristics!
With such a strong cohesion, it is not difficult to understand that it is terrifying to be said by American experts. Because they can't do it!