Chinese virtue

Chapter 12 Confusion
Confused thinking is not unique to Chinese people, nor does it mean that every Chinese has this characteristic, it is just one of the characteristics of Chinese people.Compared with other nations, the Chinese have no problems with their intelligence, and they are fully able to stand out among the nations of the world.But education is not universal in China. There are many people who have not received education or have received incomplete education. They like the structure of Chinese very much, but this liking is like an accomplice to a crime in the eyes of lawyers, which will only help.

It clouded their thinking, and they should probably be ashamed of it.

Most people know that nouns in Chinese have no changes, and there is no distinction between "nature" and "gender".

Verbs are not subject to any tense, mood, voice, person, and singular or plural restrictions, and adjectives have no comparative degrees.There is almost no difference between nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and all Chinese characters can be used wherever they can be used without any problems.Chinese can express human thoughts clearly, but the structure of Chinese makes people feel confused, just like the hot summer makes people feel groggy.

It is difficult for us to figure out what an uneducated Chinese person means when he says something.

What he said was hanging in the air like the legendary hanging coffin of Muhammad, making people puzzled.

For the speaker, the nominative can be omitted because he knows what he is talking about.

But for obedient people, the nominative case is a very important part. Once it is omitted, most people will not be able to understand what he is talking about.Of course, for the Chinese, it is enough to add the subject-predicate. The rich experience has made the Chinese fully adapted to this context.

There is always such a situation: a complete sentence, do not know which key word in the sentence is omitted.Generally speaking, the subject of the speaker has not changed significantly, but the listener finds that the speaker is already talking about his grandfather in the Daoguang period, instead of talking about himself like a few minutes ago.We wondered how his words jumped from here to there, and this kind of example can be encountered almost every day.For the Chinese, this kind of topic jumping is like seeing the bugs on the glass window and seeing the cattle not far away by the way, it is very common.

When Chinese people speak, they never explain the change of time and place, because Chinese verbs have no tense.They are often in a state of confusion.So in this case, if foreigners want to find out what happened, they have to ask a series of questions, for example, who is the person you mentioned just now?Where is he?when did it happen?What is he doing?why?What happened?Faced with such a series of questions, the Chinese will look at you helplessly with a confused expression, as if your five sense organs are not working.For us, only by asking in this way can we understand what he means.

For an uneducated Chinese, any idea surprised him, because he was not prepared.His mind is like a rusty gun barrel, adjusted for a long time, but it is still a dud in the end.He didn't understand, and didn't try to figure it out.If you ask him: "How old are you?" He will stare at you for a while, and then ask: "Ask me?" After getting your affirmation, he will ask again: "How old are you?" , He will also ask: "How old am I?" After you repeatedly affirm, he will clearly answer your question.Finally, his mind was functioning normally.

Another example of confused thinking is that the Chinese always use the things themselves to explain things.

When you ask a cook, "Why is there no salt in our bread?" his answer is, "We don't put salt in our bread." If you ask, "Why don't you keep something for the winter?" would answer: "That's right, we don't keep food for the winter." If any poet who said "Happy is he who can know the reason of things" was in China, he would have changed the sentence to "Try to He who knows the reason of things is unhappy."

A person who is always conveying distorted words to others is another characteristic of disordered thinking.In China, the most stupid behavior is to ask A to tell B, and let C restrain his behavior.

The result of this is that either the information is distorted when it is transmitted to C, or the information is not conveyed at all, because all parties do not understand that this is important information, and finally the information is beyond recognition.It is unrealistic to expect to coordinate the fit of the three gears in such a sophisticated machine.For a person with a strong understanding, it is also very difficult to convey ideas without distortion, just like inserting a stick in the water. From the outside, the stick must be crooked.

Foreigners can always encounter some strange phenomena.For some abnormal behavior, you may ask in puzzlement: "Why did he do it?" The answer is very concise: "Yes." There are "several" that express affirmation, and "how many" that express doubt.If you ask, "How long have you been here?" the answer is, "Yes, I've been here for a long time." This kind of unbelievable answer is not uncommon.The most ambiguous word in Chinese is the personal pronoun "ta", which can refer to a man, a woman, or an animal.Sometimes the speaker just vaguely points in the direction of the person he is talking about, or at a residence. "ta" is considered more of a designated adjective, or relative pronoun, designated pronoun.Chinese dialogue in this case is like the testimony of a witness in court: "He held a stick, and he held a stick, and he hit him, and he hit him, and if he was like him If you beat him hard, then it's not that he killed him, but that he killed him." The testimony of this kind of fight will definitely confuse the listeners.

You suddenly ask a lazy servant: "I called you just now, why didn't you come?" He will answer you directly: "No reason."Chefs always try to use up the seasoning when cooking.When he makes his next meal, he will use less condiments.If you ask him, he will reply that there are no more. If you ask further: "Why don't you get some more?" He will simply explain: "I didn't get some."

When settling accounts, after you settle the accounts, you open the safe, pay him the change, and chat a lot of miscellaneous things, and then he says that there is still a shortfall to settle the accounts.If you ask: "Why didn't you just say that? I can settle it at once." You will get this answer: "Because these two accounts have nothing to do with each other." There is also a doctor who spends a lot of time seeing patients. But after a while, the patient came back.The doctor said that his illness has been seen, and the patient will simply say: "I have other illnesses to see."

It is the stupidest thing for us to delay the treatment of a disease, and in China, this phenomenon is very common, because the patient is too busy or has no money.They feel that it is much cheaper to suffer from the pain than to pay for medicine.In fact, there are many diseases that deteriorate to the point where they cannot be cured due to delay in treatment.

There was a Chinese whose home was very close to the hospital. When he went out, he got an eye disease. After returning home, he endured it for more than two weeks before going to the hospital for treatment.As a result, the eye disease worsened into a corneal ulcer because it was delayed for too long, and he lost one eye; there was another patient who went to the hospital every day to treat his neck ulcer. On the 18th day, he said that his leg hurt so much that he Unable to sleep, the doctor found that he also had an ulcer on his leg, which had deteriorated to the size of a teacup.The doctor asked him why he didn't speak sooner, and he replied: "I want to heal the neck first, and then the legs."

These phenomena are not uncommon in the lives of Chinese people, as the British novelist Charles Reed wrote in his novel: "Man is not lacking in wisdom, but a little ignorant."

Chinese education makes it difficult for people to understand and master a subject, let alone its practical application.

According to some Western missionaries, some Chinese scholars took "smallpox" as their topic, but they didn't mention any word "smallpox" when they said it.Chinese dogs never hunt wolves. When a dog encounters a wolf, it either runs in the opposite direction or at right angles.When discussing, the Chinese often choose to avoid the topic they want to talk about, and in the end they are very tired. Not only did they not finish talking, but they went further and further away.

There is a huge gap between the rich and the poor in China, and the division between the wise and the foolish is also obvious. They live together in a mixed manner.These poor and ignorant people, their eyesight is like a frog at the bottom of a well, and they can only see a little light through the narrow mouth of the well, which is also doomed to their thoughts.These people have hardly seen what it looks like ten miles away from their homes. They don't know how outsiders live, and they can't even see human instinctive curiosity in them.Maybe some people know a foreigner who lives a mile away. Who is this foreigner?from where?what to doIt never occurred to them to inquire about it.They know nothing but their subsistence instincts.

They do not know whether man has three souls or none.In their eyes, anything other than food prices is meaningless.They believe that bad people will turn into dogs and worms after death, and they also believe that after death, the body will turn into dust and the soul will dissipate in the air.

Just like what Westerners call "pragmatic people", stomachs and wallets make up their simple and practical lives.

They can't understand what they haven't seen or heard, and they are true pragmatists.For them, life is a combination of a series of things that don't go well, other than that, he chooses not to believe and becomes a complete atheist.

As long as a little respect and food can be satisfied, this nature is closely related to the environment in which they live.For them, the physical body has nothing to do with the spirit and psychology, and is an independent existence.Such a person is like sleeping in the night.To awaken them, it is necessary to instill a new thought, to show them the truth spoken by the founder of ancient Christianity: "Man is spiritual." Only then, "God, will give them wisdom."

(End of this chapter)