Chapter 254: The Misinterpreted Traditional Culture

If the ancestors have knowledge, they may not blame their descendants, because the ancestors have the most quintessential cultural literacy of the Chinese nation. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is not the Dragon Kingdom that has made the most achievements in Chinese culture, but the Western powers such as the United States and France, and their research on Chinese culture makes people shudder.

Maybe one day, when some Chinese descendants wake up and want to find the true roots of Chinese culture, they may need to travel across the ocean to the libraries of Western countries to consult materials.

How ridiculous.

The Great Wall is enough to stop the invaders' iron horses, but it can't stop the invasion and brainwashing of this dregs of Western culture.

Culture is a process of quantitative change to qualitative change from precipitation, but the premise is to think, and the dross brought by Western culture is the 'post-truth culture'.

The original meaning of post-truth is to appeal to emotions and personal beliefs, and to influence the minds of others with more objective facts.

It's the truth that comes back and makes people see what they want to see, and then ignores the importance of the 'truth' and makes the truth unimportant.

A more representative example is the use of out of context in media hype, which is the counter-effect of the dregs of Western capital.

This method was popular in the West in the early eighties, mostly used for elections, and then banned for some reason, and then turned to public opinion entertainment, such as revealing the privacy of celebrities in exchange for heat, because they knew that the enthusiasm of the masses was only a few minutes, and that few minutes were enough to achieve their goals.

But this 'post-truth' culture in the West has slowly been abandoned under the influence of democracy and the strong desire of the Western people to explore.

But after coming to the Dragon Kingdom, before the people's wisdom was opened, the people who became tigers were indeed like fish in water, and this culture was imperceptibly influencing a generation.

The media will pass on this kind of 'after-sincerity' fragmented information, so that the people think that this is the 'truth', because the media and public figures represent the 'truth' in the eyes of the simple people, because the people's wisdom has not been opened.

To be influenced by this kind of culture at a time when the people's minds are still open will be a regression of the ideological consciousness of at least two generations, and if one person loses the desire to learn the truth, it will be a fatal blow to the entire society and culture.

The second is the impact of completely different values between the East and the West.

Westerners advocate individualism, while the Chinese tradition is accustomed to collectivism.

For the relationship between people in the East and the West, the relationship between Westerners is early and indifferent, although the demeanor is polite, but there is rarely this kind of friendship, so their 'contract culture' is the main reason for the relationship between people.

The traditional Chinese culture in the 'rites', contains a kind of self-discipline of personal requirements, so that the trust between people does not have to be built on a pale piece of paper, words must be done this Chinese virtue, compared to the paper contract, which is more important can only be the flower falls into their own eyes.

However, this kind of 'contract culture' obliterates the friendship between people, and it should be disadvantageous from the perspective of human nature and sociality, but from the perspective of legal theory, it is also desirable.

But why should the Chinese people learn from the West in the 'etiquette' that they have used for thousands of years? Do they think that they are inferior to others?

The idea of individual heroism extended by Western individualism emphasizes competition and comparison, and there is no goal of harmonious coexistence, which is also a serious impact on the Chinese tradition.

Huaxia pays attention to the spirit of sacrifice and dedication, sacrificing personal interests in the face of great right and wrong to achieve the great righteousness, this dedication is throughout the entire Chinese context, Qu Yuan passed down the "Lisao" with his death, Confucius traveled around the world to study, Sima Qian commissioned Qu Qiu to cast the "Historical Records" from ancient times to the present The dedication of countless sages has created a brilliant Chinese civilization.

The West emphasizes freedom, democracy and fraternity, ignoring the relationship between ethical and order, and this kind of freedom and equality is good, but the Chinese Three Platforms and Five Constants are not bad, but the cultural movement promoted for the so-called "innovation" made everyone label the Three Platforms and Five Constants as feudal dross, and then carried out brainless resistance, and no one really understands what the Three Platforms and Five Constants are about.

In the Chinese tradition, the most fundamental is yin and yang, that is to say, everything in the world, whether it is a person or a thing, is relative, so it is divided into yin and yang.

"I Ching": One yin and one yang is the Tao.

If the yin and yang are out of balance, the solitary yin will not grow, and the only yang will not be born.

The real explanation of 'the monarch is the minister', is that the son said: the king makes the minister courteous, and the minister is loyal.

"Shangshu" cloud: Keming is on the top, and Kezhong is on the bottom.

This mentions a courtesy, a loyalty, these two are the premise, the king envoy courtesy means that the king only does the norms required by the courtiers, and treats the country with due diligence and courtesy, so the courtiers will serve the king with loyalty.

If the king is rude, the minister naturally does not need to be 'loyal to the king'.

The two are not a servile relationship, but a relationship of mutual supervision, and most people may only know the sentence of the minister and the king, but do not know that there is another sentence in front of it, and the two add up to the real explanation of the 'king is the minister' in the three outlines.

Commenting on it after only half of it is either ignorant or out of some kind of ulterior motive of 'post-truth', and its heart can be condemned.

'Father is Son' in the Three Programs

"Shangshu" cloud: Zifu only obeyed his father's affairs, and he was greatly hurt by his heart; The father can't say (love) to the son.

The explanation for this is that children should treat their parents with respect, but if they fail to love and nurture their children, they are also guilty, and all 'the father is not the father, and the son is not the son'.

In addition, the traditional interpretation of filial piety is not a theory of unequal servitude that exterminates human nature.

Mencius said: There are three unfilial people in Yu Li, the matter is that Ah Yi is obedient, trapped in the relatives and unjust, one is not filial, the family is poor and the elderly, not for Lu Shi, the other is not filial, not married and childless, the ancestors are worshipped, and the third is not filial. None of the three is the greatest.

This means that blindly obeying one's parents and failing to persuade them when they see that they are at fault, causing them to fall into injustice, is the first type of unfilial piety; the second type of unfilial piety is the second type of unfilial piety; not marrying a wife and having children, and cutting off offspring, this is the third type of unfilial piety.

The 'Husband as Wife' in the Three Programs

"The Book of Rites" cloud: The Son of Heaven listens to the male teaching, and then listens to the female shun; the Son of Heaven is the Yang Dao, and then the Yin is governed; the Son of Heaven listens to the external governance, and then listens to the internal position. Teaching obedience to customs, harmony between the outside and the inside, and the governance of the country, this is called Shengde.

Therefore, if the male religion is not cultivated, the yang thing is not allowed, it is suitable for the sky, and the sun is eaten. Women are obedient and do not cultivate, yin things are not allowed, suitable for the sky, and the moon is eaten for it.

Therefore, the solar eclipse is the son of heaven who cultivates the position of the six officials in plain clothes, and the yang affairs of the world, and the lunar eclipse is the post of the six palaces after the vegetarian clothes, and the yin affairs of the world.

It means that the Son of Heaven and the queen are both Ming media and are marrying, the Son of Heaven controls the world's male teachings as yang, and the queen controls the world's female shun, yang and yin virtues, and can only prosper if the country is governed internally and externally.

Even the Son of Heaven and the Queen are in charge of the division of labor, and the common people and their husbands and wives are naturally combined with yin and yang, and neither of them is indispensable in order to be happy together.

The large number of poems describing the feelings between men and women in the "Book of Songs", led by "Guan Ju", also shows that there is never really a meaning of demeaning and oppressing women in the Chinese tradition, and the inferiority of men and women is only a negative influence derived from some other reasons, and cannot be attributed to traditional culture.

There is a chapter of Qi in "The Book of Poetry and National Style", which will welcome relatives, and men must go to their mother's house to greet their wives in person, even if the emperor is no exception, it is enough to see that men and women are equal in the marriage relationship, rather than blindly respecting men, and women obey unconditionally.

Therefore, the real Three Principles is not a dominant power relationship, but a community in which each performs its own duties and helps each other, not a unilateral and brainless responsibility and obligation.

The golden mean is one of the essences of the Chinese nation, so any remarks about the doctrine of power and enslavement must not be the original intention of traditional culture, but a distortion of later generations for some purposes to achieve their own certain goals.

This is also the most awkward relationship between politics and culture.

However, the traditional culture itself will not appear in the inhumane concept of feudal dross put forward by some people, but only the distortion of later generations.

And the people who misinterpreted and proposed these things at the beginning, some of their intentions were forced to do it, and some of them were necessary, so whether it was right or wrong, it can only be said that this is a kind of helplessness brought about by reality, or a choice.

At the beginning, some people used the "Book of Changes" in the "Heaven and Earth are humble, and the universe is fixed." The humble is Chen, and the noble and lowly are in the position. ’

The first impression that many people see is that the sky is noble and the emperor is humble, but in fact, the dignity here is not the meaning of dignity and humility in understanding.

The original meaning of Zun is a wine vessel, in fact, it is an adjective, translated from the oracle bone inscription is a person holding a wine glass to toast, and after being extended, it has slowly become the meaning of respect and respect.

In fact, the original meaning of respect is a kind of respect for the other person.

Humble, this word is also a kind of wine vessel, the same as Zun, to describe the meaning of bending down when taking the wine glass to express humility, and later because of meanness, despicable, this common word was preconceived into a humble and humble adjective.

Especially when the dignity and humility are put together, so that the descendants of Huaxia who are now educated in 'incomplete' Chinese characters have no understanding of the meaning of these two words, Huaxia Chinese characters are one of the greatest words in the world, and its correct view is to first look at the original meaning of the word, and then combine the phrase with the understanding of the artistic conception and translation.

If you use phrases to explain words, it is a wrong way to read and understand.

So what this sentence means is that when we face the sky, we should have respect, and when we face the earth, we should also be humble, and we should be in awe of the vastness of the heavens and the earth.