Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 144 What should civilization do?
The sun came up and it started to get hot.The people who built the road sang chant, which drifted with the breeze.Some people sang folk songs, accompanied by loud chants, which made the heavy work feel graceful.

Wang Xiaolie suddenly realized something.What exactly is culture?The culture of a region is inseparable from the majority of the people.Chinese culture is inseparable from these hard-working people.Only by going deep into the people can one truly experience Chinese culture.

New China has just been founded, and many things have taken on a new look.Many people were sent among the working people to sum up the cultural life of the people.At that time, there were collections of folk songs, research on various folk dances, and many cultural collections aimed at working people.If the society develops normally, these research activities will finally be sublimated, and the revival of Chinese culture will be considered as a foundation.

Unfortunately, this event was quickly interrupted.Research activities are silenced, people are not allowed to talk nonsense, and people are not allowed to conduct random research. The whole society must be uniform, and culture will not develop.After that, the society was liberalized, but there were no people who immersed themselves in the people, understood their sufferings, and understood their cultural life.Even some musicians are unwilling to go among the people when they engage in research on folk music.Instead, go to the deep mountains and old forests, and go to the ethnic minorities in those remote areas.

Thinking of this, Wang Xiaolie couldn't help but think of a famous singer Dao Lang in his previous life.He was born in the sky, but he was not accepted by the music circle. Some people insisted that his work was not called music.why?It's hard to say why.It can only be said that China has no music culture for a long time.After that, all kinds of popular things from foreigners came in, such as rock, jazz, folk songs, and even RAP can be popular for a while.

People's entertainment cannot be called culture in most cases.Either it has a long history or a long culture.The formation of culture requires precipitation and sublimation.Without precipitation and sublimation, most cases cannot be called culture.

On this basis, it is combined with its own nation's politics, religion, ideology, etc. to form a complete system, which can be called civilization.

Culture is not that low, and civilization is not that simple.A truly civilized society does not copy from other places, but learns extensively from others and grows from its own genes.

From this point of view, the official said that because any civilized place does not eat dog meat, we cannot eat it either.It shows that these people don't understand civilization at all, and they don't understand the party's policies, systems, etc., and they don't know what they do.

In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, in the face of internal and external troubles, a group of people stepped forward.They complained about the darkness of the old society and eulogized the civilization of the future.They called for Mr. De and Mr. Sai to come in and build a new society.A hundred years later, when I look back, I have a different understanding.The biggest role of these people is to call for the destruction of the old society and old civilization, and to some extent they are some destroyers.

Disruptors can't represent progress?of course not.Decay to the bone, only to be greatly broken.Breaking down the old itself heralds the arrival of the new.It's just that it's easy to make a big break, but it's too difficult to make a big stand. This difficulty is beyond the imagination of almost everyone.

The great man said that we are not only good at breaking an old world, but also good at building a new world.Looking back, it is still far away to build a new world just by being good at breaking the old world.

In the previous life, the two largest countries in the world were the United States and China.As the hegemon of the world, the United States has almost all the glory of all the great civilizations in history.Defeat the Communist Party, cross the four oceans, seek defeat alone, and all nations come to court, and even become a beacon of civilization in the hearts of many people around the world.No matter how fast China develops, it will still face many difficulties in the face of the suppression of this hegemon.

But how?After dominating the world, compared with China, the aura of the United States began to fade.People can sum up countless reasons to explain this problem, from politics, to military, to economy, all aspects.But at the core, there is still something wrong with civilization.Become confused about the future of mankind, social development and other general directions.Academically, someone has made a name for himself by proposing the end of history.In politics, freedom, equality, democracy, etc. are turned into slogans, while politicians think it is normal for them to lie, cheat, and rob.

Civilization does not come by deceit, nor by robbery.Robbery by force, the most successful people in the world should be the Mongols.However, hundreds of years later, Mongolia has only left its name in history. Has there ever been a Mongolian in the history of human civilization?
The rise of the West ushered in an era of science.With the technological revolution and the rapid changes in productivity, the entire human society has become completely unimaginable in hundreds of years.Thinking about human civilization, believing that people should be free, equal, and liberated, set off an unprecedented human revolution.This is a contribution to humanity, no matter what they become in the end, it cannot be forgotten.

Merit is merit, fault is fault, this is the attitude we should have towards history.It should not be denied that the rise of the West was accompanied by colonization, aggression, massacres, and even genocide.However, the rise of Western civilization has indeed brought about the sublimation of human civilization.

The rise of the West has affected everyone in the world, including Chinese civilization.If a new Chinese civilization is born, it will inevitably bear the imprint of Western civilization, which cannot be denied.However, if a new civilization emerges around the world, it should be different from Western civilization, and it should be.Simply copy it, why should Western civilization be transferred to your hands?
The most typical ones are the developed countries and regions in East Asia.Including Japan, South Korea, etc. Obviously, even if they have entered a developed society, they are still completely different from the West.Of course, their development cannot support a new civilization.

Some people always say that China does not have a status commensurate with its strength in the world because of the suppression by the United States, or even the entire Western society.There is a deep-rooted impression in some people's minds that Chinese people are inferior.There may be truth, but only a little truth.

During the confrontation between China and the United States, if the United States suddenly collapses, there will be nothing that can suppress China.China asks itself, will the world treat China the same way it treats the United States?What is your civilization?What is thought?What is politics?What is the economy?In terms of basic theories, what can other countries learn from?What are they looking up to?

Criticism and self-criticism.Criticism is easy, self-criticism is hard.The founding of new China was fought by the people's army.It is not some kind of new ideas or new theories that lead to ideological changes and the establishment of a new society.

There are always people who don't think so.They think that the people's army is nothing special. It's either stealing here or playing tricks there, and it's not sweeping the world with dignity.Some people always think that if they have learned a few sentences of this theory or a few sentences of that theory from foreigners, they should be superior.There are always people who think that there is no need to study the Chinese people in depth, and that the Chinese people just need to listen to them honestly, enlighten them, and copy them.There are also many people who think that they have learned so much from foreigners, but they are always underappreciated in China.

If you learn a few sentences from foreigners, you can become a master in China?If this is the case, there will be even less hope for Chinese civilization.The great rejuvenation of Chinese civilization is even more distant.The things learned from foreigners must be used and integrated into Chinese civilization.Instead of turning China into the appearance of foreigners, it will be civilized and modernized.

Wang Xiaolie remembers that with the development of technology and the advancement of the Internet, some new phenomena have emerged in society.

For example, in music, most of the singers and stars who are highly praised by fans and professional circles are sold to fans.Some widely circulated songs have been criticized as peasant music and vulgar music, but they are just saliva songs and unrefined music.

Music is the note of civilization and one of the symbols of civilization's development to an advanced stage.Objectively speaking, music does have vulgar music and elegant music, and there is music for different occasions.However, it is also vulgar music, so don't pretend to be elegant music.

For a period of time, the ancient style was popular in society, loved by many people, and widely sung.Some people say that these new ancient words have empty meanings and mean nothing.And the melody is often plagiarized, which represents the degeneration of the music circle.At this time, there is a saying that is very correct.The people like it, but if you don't like it, who are you?These forms of entertainment, which have become popular among the vast majority of the people, were indeed relatively low in the beginning and had many shortcomings.At this time, the precipitation of time is needed, and the sublimation of cultural people is needed.When the sublimation is completed, progress is realized.

For another example, ancient costumes were popular for a while.Some people say that the format is wrong. Han style and Tang style are not ancient costumes but fairy clothes, which is actually irrelevant.But some people are different, saying that it is the resurgence of Chinese feudal culture.As for their ancient costumes, they should have a Western name and use some Chinese elements to embellish the Western costumes.

With the development of the times, although the cultural people have neglected their duties, some new phenomena have emerged.In addition to ancient styles and ancient costumes, there are also wealthy daughters who are stars.In the past, they all went to foreign schools and were proud to attend foreign gatherings.Being able to recognize domestic development is always a good start.Even if many people ridicule and ridicule, it is still much better than before.

In the final analysis, it is some people with some foreign ink, who feel that they are the mentors of China, that they are better than the Chinese, and that their own things represent civilization.What they don't know is that what they represent is only Western culture and has nothing to do with civilization.

What should the new Chinese civilization look like?Of course not going back in time.Instead, it should be compatible with the past and the present, with both the precipitation of Chinese history and the advanced elements of Western civilization. The most important thing is to point out the future of mankind and the direction of the development of human society.Humanity has a future, human society has a direction for development, and civilization will be established.Only when the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation can be realized.

How to do it?What Western civilization proposes, human equality and freedom, political democracy and economic development, reform and innovation are indispensable.On this basis, combined with Chinese history, thought, etc., go further.

How to move forward?We should work hard on the word people.What are the people?Who are the people?How can the people be the masters of the country?With the people as the core, theories, political systems, and ideological systems have been developed.If you leave the people, you will also leave the achievements of New China.

If we want to take a step forward, how can we still be confined under the theoretical system of Westerners?The achievements of their civilization can be used for reference and learned, but they cannot be copied.What needs to be understood are some words of the great man.Seek truth from facts, integrate theory with practice, the people are the masters of the country, come from the masses to the masses, serve the people, and so on.Even including **** is better than parroting some Western theories with rotten teeth.

(End of this chapter)