After thousands of years of cultural accumulation, the Chinese nation has given birth to a glorious ancient civilization and accumulated profound wisdom on the state system and national governance. It has the tradition of "six contract winds, one family from all over the world". Among them, the traditional concept of "great unification" is deeply rooted in our national genes.
The term "great unification" can be seen in the "Legend of the Ram in the Spring and Autumn Period", which contains: "What is the meaning of Wang Zhengyue? Dong Zhongshu, a scholar of the Han Dynasty, also said: "The unifier of the Spring and Autumn Period is the common scripture of heaven and earth, and the friendship between ancient and modern." Tang Yan Shigu commented: "Those who are unified, the unity of all things is one." ”
The concept of "great unification" is a profound exposition of the ancient people's governance order. As early as the pre-Qin period, the mainland formed a national cohesion with Yanhuang Huaxia as the core, and formed a blended pattern of "the people of the five directions" jointly governing the country. In 221 B.C., Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, established a great cause, and formally established the tradition of the great unification of the Chinese nation.
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Editor: General Pi
有好事者，话出己口，问到如果秦始皇穿越到2000年前的欧洲，他能统一欧洲吗？让我们想象一下，如果秦始皇真的到达2000年前的欧洲，他能实现统一吗？再加上一点，秦皇家祖先18代搬到欧洲，能实现欧洲的统一吗？
When many people talk about unification, the first thing that comes to mind is a unified text, a unified weights and measures, a unified rut, a unified ethics, and a unified historical narrative direction. Are these the basis for unity? Putting aside the controversy, let's talk about my views first.
What is the premise of great unification? In this system, we must first explain how China's reunification was born. All Chinese have heard that China is a system of home, country and world. So how was the family, the country, and the world established and emerged? Why are they called the family, the country, and the world? Are they the private property of a family? This is not the case. Let's simulate the birth of the home, the country, and the world system.
A simple model simulates that the real history, although the process is more complex than this, is in principle the same.
Before the family, the country, and the world, there was a matrilineal clan social system, that is, the old grandmother was in charge of everything, why? Because he gave birth to many sons with big waists and many brothers with big waists and round waists in his life. As a result, their family is very strong and second to none among the nearby tribes. Whether it's hunting or gathering, they do it most beautifully. So, they live a good life.
Let's see where the father has more advantages, when a woman works hard all her life and is healthy, it is difficult to have a dozen children, but how many children can a man have? Suppose there is such an old grandfather, who was strong in his youth, and he was a good hand at working in the neighborhood, and his charm attracted many tribal girls in the neighborhood, so the old grandfather invited them to live in his own territory to make sure that these girls gave birth to their own children.
If you calculate that a person has basic fertility from the age of 15 and then assumes that he has 20 wives and each wife has 12 children in his lifetime, how many children does he have? Every child can get a certain number of partners at the age of 15, and then go on to have children, and count again, and then this group of children, until the age of 15, he continues to have children, and at this stage, how old is the old grandfather? Yes, he is not yet 50 years old.
Suppose this young and strong man lived for a long time, and he lived to be 80 years old, how many people are in this family? Some men may have 20 wives, and more, the super fathers who have appeared in our history may have 100 wives, and this is also possible, so the family on the day of this 80-year-old grandfather, it is likely that it already has a population of thousands, in a primitive society, a tribe with a population of tens of thousands, he has become a country, so, the first expansion from home to country is formed, this is of course a perfect situation, the reality is more cruel than that, but does this possibility exist? Yes, that's why we can trace it back today to those super fathers who went back tens of thousands of years.
Then the expansion began. When his grandfather died, he left his belongings to his eldest son, and at this time, the eldest son realized that his brothers were a threat to him, but they were all brothers, so they couldn't kill them, but the old father was no longer there, and they were likely to seize power, so what should we do at this time? The ancients were also very smart, he knew how to make the cake bigger, how to make it, the eldest son suggested to the other brothers, you go to the next village in the next mountain, and I will stay at home and keep the old house. When a tribe expands to one or two hundred thousand, it has essentially become a small country, in which case his children are stronger, and then he needs to go out and build another mountain, which is called a feud.
To be honest, this is really the case, and within the scope of our historical records, the Western Zhou Dynasty's feudal system is like this. He divided the child surnamed Ji, that is, the person who was the same clan as the king of Zhou, and gave priority to the right to divide the feud. But this sub-seal does not mean that I already have a piece of ripe field for you to plant, basically I have seen it? There is a piece of land in the mountains and seas in the distance, which belongs to you. Go ahead, it's called the sub-sealing system.
In fact, this kind of feudal system implies another sentence, that is, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are all kings' ministers.
At this point, we have completed the high-level expansion from home to country to world. In the Zhou Dynasty, we have always faced a difficulty, that is, the southern state of Chu has always refused to accept the management of Zhou. In the book "Eight Hundred Years of the Chu State," it is also particularly emphasized that "the Chu people refuse to accept Zhou," so why don't they accept Zhou? Because the ancestors of the Chu people fought the world together with Zhou Tianzi, but he was not his own brother, he was a brother who worshiped his son. So when Zhou Tianzi divided the seal, he thought about it for a while, and finally gave the king of Chu a post to burn firewood outside, can the king of Chu be happy? I fought the world with you and made such a great contribution, and you asked me to squat at the door to burn firewood, and he could obey you? He was 100 reluctant and unconvinced, so he called him disobedient Zhou, because the division you gave me did not match my contribution, which made me unhappy, so I didn't want to listen to the orders of the Zhou Dynasty.
When the descendants of Chu were oppressed more and more miserably, he shouted: "I am a barbarian. 我是蛮夷，和你们不是一家人”！于是便有了楚王问“那个鼎到底是多少斤”的故事，后人称之为“问鼎中原”！楚王此时的心思可以说“司马昭之心 路人皆知”了。
He has a strong sense of ambition, but also wants to participate in the construction of this system, time flows, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and later countries continue to intermarry with each other, although the Chu people often say that the Zhou people and we are not the same ancestor, and he is not surnamed Ji, but in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, because the intermarriage has been a long time, although there is no blood relationship, but in essence it has become an in-law relationship, therefore, the Chu State has always been one of the very important forces in the process of competing for the world, recognize us! So far it has entered the entire Chinese system. At this stage, we have formed a very complete national cognition, called Zhuxia, which is the descendant of the Xia people. You see, we know whose descendants are by knowing the name of a people, which means that we have a common ancestor!
Therefore, what are the prerequisites for our unity in our conception of our family, our country, and our world? We all have the same ancestor, and this is a very fundamental reason. As for the unified text, unified weights and measures, etc., it is actually for the convenience of management, and when our social technology advances to a certain extent, we can really stake the land and enter the county system!
The management of the county system requires more complex high-tech management methods, and this part was done by Qin Shi Huang in a big way, and he is certainly a well-deserved emperor of the ages, but at this stage, the first emperor of the ages uses this way to integrate the system!
So he came to Europe 2,000 years ago, and was he able to do this? I'm sorry, but Europe didn't have our long process of national expansion before. In our land, it is the same type of tribe, and the same type of people continue to expand and grow, forming a three-dimensional comprehensive system. In Europe, the situation is completely different. Although Europeans did not record history in the past, later they liked to make up history, which led to the mass eradication of their true history. We don't really know what they've done before, but molecular biology can explain small aspects of a dimension to us, at least molecular biology is particularly good at explaining kinship. In China, we do genetic sequencing, and we will find that most Chinese have the ancestry of their ancestors tens of thousands of years ago, that is, we all bred from the same branch, and 500 years ago it was really one!
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In European gene sequencing, a very interesting phenomenon was soon discovered, our fathers were highly homologous and our mothers were different. But in Europe, on the contrary, mothers are highly homologous and fathers are different! Don't be too shocked that there are even the most distant fathers from East Asia, this result fully confirms one thing, there has always been such a new wave of people in European soil, killing the previous wave of natives, the women who occupy their territory, and then another wave of people killing the previous wave of people. The women who took possession of his house came another wave of people, and killed another wave of people, and took possession of the women of his house. Therefore, it can be said that the European model is India, where there is no caste segregation.
It is a national characteristic that arose from the constant aggression and conquest of our ancestors. We can also see a little clue in their own chain of internal discrimination. As you can see in their literary books and some film and television works, you will find that there is some hair color discrimination, red hair is of low grade, blonde hair is stupid, black hair is beautiful, and noble blood is noble. Why? In fact, what does the color of the hair color pupil mean when it is genetically transmitted. That is to say, when we know the white system internally, they are actually divided into specific threes, sixes, nines, and so on.
Although this 369 etc does not have a caste system, it has discrimination between castes. Until modern times, this chain of discrimination remains. So, in this social system, you can know that although they are most likely born to the same group of grandmothers, all civilized peoples identify with their fathers, but their father's origin is so complex that it is like a palette, which means that they do not have a common ancestral identity.
The problem arises, even if Qin Shi Huang and his ancestors came to this land, the most difficult problem he faced was actually that the people of this land did not identify with each other at all, and were not a family at all, so it was difficult for a group to be truly unified by technological unification alone. Today's Europe has made a huge effort in technology, but has it really done it? There is no way, because different peoples, different countries, different lands, the origin between them is not a group of people, so mix them together and become a political community, become the European Union today. However, if you want to engage in social building, you have to hold various meetings, which are measured in years and do not necessarily produce results. Why do we have to hold a meeting for every little thing? Because it's not a race, we can only talk about business, and we can talk about business slowly.
Europe today is worse than it was in the past. In the past, they still had different families or different ethnic groups in the same population. Today, they have become a truly colorful continent with different ethnicities. In this case, even if you make up a common ancestor for him on the spot, they will not believe it. So it is more difficult for Europe today to create a common understanding than it was in the past, and what was not achieved in the past is even less so today. Even if political unity is forcibly established, it will be like the United States, and everyone will get a piece of the cake during the upward period, which is the American dream. Once in a period of decline, one group of people and another group of people will begin to constantly conquer and consume each other.
Great unification, it must have some basic attributes, everyone can stick together, and preferably this basic attribute is immutable. Europe today and Europe in the past lack basic commonalities. So, you say that they can be unified? There is a certain unifying factor, that is, they have a common belief in God, but this is only one of the factors, and its infrastructure is inadequate. Whoever goes can't do it!