Chinese virtue

Chapter 47
When traveling in China, those foreign tourists usually initially have such a perception that China is vast.In fact, China is indeed very big, and so is the whole of Asia, and it is precisely because of this that she has been criticized.She has vast plateaus, tall and straight mountains, flowing rivers, dense population, and widespread famine. Everything about China is very applicable to Professor De Morgan's thesis about Germany: there are too many books about her, and there are too many sentences in the books. There are too many words in it, too many letters in the syllables, too many strokes in the letters, and too much ink in the strokes.Similarly, China has too many regions, regions have too many provinces, provinces have too many counties, counties have too many counties, counties have too many villages, villages have too many families, families have too many China's population is always in the tens of millions.No matter where it is, if it rains too much, the river will overflow, and the mountains and water will become one, but usually it will not become a vast ocean.Faced with such a disaster, as long as there are mountains, there will be millions of refugees gathering there. On the narrow roads and steep mountains, there are dense crowds everywhere. From a distance, they look like a group of people. The worm crawled on the apple.It's just because they are too used to these things, so they don't engrave these scenes in their minds. This may be due to the gentleness in their characters, or not simply gentleness, but extreme gentleness.

Why on earth do they not want to compare with others, but just focus on mutual restraint luxury?We think that Maddox's analysis is very reasonable. The instinctive needs of the Chinese people have been suppressed by the moral forces in the mainstream Chinese culture.People will never forget the family fight in Guangdong, which made Guangdong's notoriety known to everyone.During the fight, the two sides often started a positional struggle, and hundreds of people were killed in the fight.The country's legal system has nothing to do in the face of these social struggles.The officials are very aware of this, and they are unwilling to get involved in this kind of struggle at all, so they can only adopt a stance of watching the fire from the other side. When the forces of the two sides reach a balance and are still in a stalemate, the officials will come forward to maintain In the banner of order, mediate this matter.We can see from such struggles that both Cantonese and Fujianese attach great importance to familiality, always like to unite with the outside world, and love to fight.It is also worth noting that such struggles usually only occur near Guangdong.

If you look at it as a whole, the Chinese don't like fighting so much, and their character is very gentle.They also sometimes have some activities such as cricket fighting or cockfighting, but there is no such violent sport as bullfighting or dogfighting.

I think few people have seen such a scene: two Chinese are glaring at each other, the war is about to break out, and the people watching are also very excited, shouting excitedly: "Down with him! Beat him up!" And It is also difficult to see people clamoring for a "fair" way to solve problems. The so-called "fair" way here is force. Whoever is more powerful is justified, and it is generally believed that a fat man who is as strong as a cow more powerful.Just because we haven't seen it, doesn't mean others haven't either.Such a large population, coupled with conflicts of interest between localities, can easily lead to various violent incidents.But in general, only a small part of the problem is solved through violence, and only a small part of it has serious consequences.Most of the fights between Chinese people are limited to insults.The insults are usually nasty, but the vocabulary is rich.In Chinese fights, usually the weaker side is more likely to be seriously injured, which is not the case with insults, unless the voice is hoarse from too much force.There was a Chinese who was involved in a struggle that surprised us because his pockets were full of eggs.

Mediators often come out to mediate these fights, which is what we want to see, and we see often.Often they would be two, sometimes four, and each would hold a client in the heat of the moment to calm him down.When the client sees that he is being controlled by the mediator, he will usually become angrier than before, deliberately making himself more out of control until other people come to mediate.And after a while, he will burst out again, but don't worry, it won't have any effect at all.Even in a state of extreme anger, the Chinese are unwilling to get rid of reason, because such behavior will win the respect of others no matter in imagination or in reality.In fact, the most critical point is that no matter what state the parties are in, he will not drive away the mediator.Although it is somewhat difficult to understand, it has to be admitted that even in the case of extreme anger, the Chinese still have the desire for reconciliation.If the party concerned thinks from his own point of view, he will think that under such circumstances, the possibility of reconciliation is very small.But the mediators don't think so, and their methods are also very special, most of them drag the parties away from the scene, and then get the final peace.And even if the person involved is dragged away, he will continue to yell and scold all the way, and it will gradually become agitated, so as to fully express his contempt for the other party.

The mildness of the Chinese character gives them unique value in society. Even when the law is not of much value, they still respect the law and social order.Comparing all the ethnic groups in Asia, it can be found that the Chinese are perhaps the easiest ethnic group to manage, and the management methods that suit them usually play a huge role.In a society with a large population like China, it is easy to be disjointed or even distorted in reality, but what is certain is that there is no pressure to make it collapse.The whole society is like the human body, it has some lubricant hidden inside it, as we have seen, when it needs it most, the lubricant will appear in time, even if only a drop, it can repair the damaged body very well. Body.In this world, there are many civilizations that can surpass Chinese civilization in many fields, but very few civilizations can persist for so long under a heavy burden like Chinese civilization.And compared with other civilizations, the Chinese civilization is more able to receive the gift of God simply because of the characteristics of the mediator.

(End of this chapter)