The Confucian scholars of China pursued the goal of establishing their hearts for heaven and earth, establishing their lives for the people, continuing their studies for the saints, and opening up peace for all generations! This is the avenue that Gu Hongming seeks.

In that year, in the First Sino-Japanese War, China was defeated. Ito Hirobumi of Dongying went to China to collect relevant information, presided over affairs, and had contact with Zhang Zhidong and Gu Hongming. Taking advantage of the power of victory in the naval battle, Ito Hirofumi ridiculed Gu Hongming and said: "I heard that you are proficient in Western academics, don't you know that the teachings of Confucius can be practiced more than 2,000 years ago, but not today in the 20th century?"

Gu Hongming said: "The method taught by Confucius is like the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of mathematicians. ”

Ito Hirobumi was directly slapped with blood on his face. On that day, the Qing court also comforted themselves with this paragraph - this Ito Hirofumi didn't know the power of my Chinese etiquette after all......

Although, this pursuit is somewhat illusory. But, in some ways, it was a success. Today, theories based on mathematics, statistics, sociology, and psychology in the Europa countries bear striking similarities with some of the basic concepts of Chinese Confucianism and Taoism.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory divides human needs into five levels from low to high, namely: physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs.

The Confucianism and Taoism context of China divides a person's needs and tasks into self-cultivation, family harmony, governing the country, and leveling the world......

There is a saying in the Book of Rites and Universities: "Those who want to be clear and virtuous in the world in ancient times should first rule their country, those who want to govern their country should first gather their families, those who want to gather their families should first cultivate their bodies, those who want to cultivate their bodies should first correct their hearts, those who want to correct their hearts should first be sincere in their intentions, and those who want to be sincere in their intentions should first know and know in Gewu." Character and then know, know and then sincerity, sincerity and then heart, heart and then body cultivation, body cultivation and then family Qi, family Qi and then national governance, national governance and then the world is peaceful. ”

Although the direction and angle of expression are different, the hierarchical distinction is very similar. Actually, there is no essential difference. Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory is popular all over the world today, and has even become the basic theoretical support pursued by many industries.

However, the basic division of human needs and tasks in the Chinese Confucian and Taoist context has been gradually forgotten. Although it is said that the basic division of human needs and tasks in the context of Chinese Confucianism and Taoism is indeed a bit too abstract.

However, the descendants of the Chinese people should not forget that this theory, which is similar to the foundation of modern psychology, is an academic achievement of the Chinese people thousands of years ago!

Although modern science and technology are advancing with each passing day, the research of sociology and psychology based on modern statistics, various surveys, various data, and various fragments of phenomena is still in its infancy.

There are many schools of psychology, and although the theories put forward by the masters of psychology such as Freud, Gestalt, and Maslow, there is no one with the same system, and the theories of these masters can be incorporated into them.

In other words, the system of psychology has not been established. Modern man's study of people, human relationships, and morality is only in its infancy. However, the Confucianism and Taoism of China have been studied for thousands of years!

The understanding of human nature is profoundly shocking. Some of these works can be called classics, such as "The Book of Humans", "Thick Black Studies", "Book Burning", "Book Collection" and so on.

When many people watch the stories of the Romance of the Past Dynasties, they feel that the Han and Tang dynasties in China, the two Song dynasties, and the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in China are too weak to the outside world. There are few military generals who are useful, and there are those who have been unjustly killed inexplicably. It is Wenchen, who often fights under the banner of peace, and makes a living secretly. Enjoy the riches. Occasionally, he will defect to the enemy.

It's really shameless, angry and angry!

However, get rid of those who are really as renegade as Qin Hui. What is said in the romance is actually not very credible. The Wenchen of ancient China was far from being weak to that extent.

Moreover, this edification is really not just a matter of Wenchen's words.

On that day, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xia, Di, and Qiang, who had been rampant in China, and the people who moved south in China, until the end, failed to counterattack and destroy these outsiders. But where are these people now?

In the two Song Dynasty that day, where are the Khitan, Western Xia, and Jin who were once strong?

Even Meng Yuan, who really became the master of Huaxia, was quickly educated in the decades he became the master of Huaxia. He has lost his flesh. Forced to retreat.

As for the later Qianqing, although it was aggressive when it entered the customs. But after 200 years, how many people still speak Manchu?

These people have all been educated by the Chinese Confucianism and Taoism and the work of education. Compared with the edification of Chinese Confucianism and Taoism, the Hollywood blockbuster of the Mayflower Federation is really just a drizzle. After all, it lacks such a deep accumulation in itself.

From this perspective, in the past few hundred years, China's civilization has not lagged behind, but has fallen into a huge bottleneck in the discussion of human aspects.

This bottleneck has been filled by the economic and technological approaches of the Europa countries.

On the other hand, although the people of the European countries are developing with each passing day, the discussion in this aspect is far less profound than the thousands of years of accumulation in China. And Huaxia is poor and white, and after a hundred years of decline, it can still be called the enemy of the Mayflower Federation, and it has fought against the civilization of Europa with its own strength, and it has been dominant until now, all because of these thousands of years of education.

And this Chinese Confucianism and Taoism context, these thousands of years of education, does not mean that it can be discarded. After Huaxia ascends to the world, he will come back sooner or later. When people have to turn to sociology, psychology, and look up classic articles, many examples, the brilliance of these things cannot be concealed sooner or later.

On that day, Gu Hongming was not liked by the literati in China. Think it's too old. When Gu Hongming gave a speech on "Spring and Autumn Righteousness" in English at the Liuguo Hotel in the embassy area of Dongjiaomin Lane, he sold tickets for two yuan. This price is even higher than Mei Lanfang, who has become the first of the "Four Famous Dans"!

In the meantime, Gu Hongming's academic attainments and statements are inherently influential, but the key is still the immortal Chinese Confucianism and Taoism. From this point of view, everyone in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, even if they were Lu, Guo, Mao, Ba, Lao, Cao and others, what they saw in their eyes and what they thought in their hearts were only decades and a hundred years.

Only Gu Hongming thinks that it can span hundreds of years......