Chapter 996: Theory of Civilization
The detention and expulsion of the British and French envoys to Daming caused a stir among the envoys of other European countries and the students studying abroad. Heavenly Sounds "." 2
Daming's strength made the envoys and international students of various countries unexpected, and they did not dare to continue to do things that violated Daming's bottom line.
In about a year, European students began to gradually learn half-baked Chinese, were able to communicate with ordinary Ming people, and understood most of the Ming characters and books.
I have to say that the Ming Dynasty has precipitated thousands of years of civilization in the land of China, and its charm is amazing.
The rise of China in the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, through the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, especially the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period at the end of the Zhou Dynasty, after a hundred schools of thought contended, the world was unified in Qin. China began to enter a period of stable unification and the initial maturity of civilization.
Although in the process, the division and merger, countless times of glory have been broken, but the essence of it has always been maintained, and the civilization purification that has been precipitated for thousands of years is much stronger than that of Europe's 6.
The European Big 6 emerged during the Roman Empire, and then entered the competition between countries and each other. If you really want to calculate it carefully, the European big 6 is currently in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and is about to enter the Warring States Period, and Europe in this period is just like the Spring and Autumn Period of China and the Warring States Period, and it is also the same time that various countries are competing, and hundreds of schools of art are gradually beginning to be revealed.
Once Europe really enters the 'Warring States' period, it will also move in the direction of unification, and then the European Big 6 will enter the mature period of civilization and truly become a civilization of its own.
The Warring States of the Great 6 in Europe are actually the five major sea powers in later generations, the Napoleonic period, and the two world wars.
It's just that the 'Warring States' period of the European Big 6 is very unusual, and in the end, 'modernization' was born directly before the completion of the Warring States period, or because the European 'Warring States' pattern is too big, taking the whole world as the pattern and manipulating the resources of the whole world.
It is precisely with the support of the resources of the whole world that the big 6 in history were able to give birth to modernization in their special 'Warring States', and the wars became more and more fierce every time.
Of course, it is precisely because their pattern is too big that later generations of Europe have not been able to complete the unification until nationalism matures, even if their civilization has begun to enter a mature period after so many wars, but this civilization is still scattered, only presented as a plate of scattered sand.
However, their achievements are also obvious, although they have not been able to complete the reunification, but they have led the world into modernization, and in real terms, their achievements are also richer than the great unification of China and Qin.
In history, Europe and China, in their most important Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, when a hundred schools of thought contended, had two patterns and two achievements.
There are pros and cons to both outcomes.
In terms of China, it was only based on the land of China, which was slightly smaller, the resources mobilized were insufficient, and it was relatively primitive, so it was impossible to enter modernization at that time, but moved towards great unification, forming the idea of great unification.
The achievements of Europe are based on the pattern of the whole world, supported by the resources of the whole world, and the time is relatively late, a full 2,000 years late, in this process, it has been nourished by foreign civilizations, especially the primitive thermal weapons, gunpowder, cannons, etc., brought by the Mongols from the Chinese civilization, which directly made the European Warring States have entered the period of thermal weapons.
It is precisely because the pattern is too large that it has never been able to be unified, and it can even be said that it has almost completely lost the possibility of unification, but fortunately, they have finally become a mature civilization.
In other words, as of the maturity of the European Big 6 civilization, the world of later generations is only two mature civilizations.
It is precisely because there are only two mature civilizations that there will be a distinction between Eastern and Western cultures in the world in the future, and there will be two theories: Eastern civilization and Western civilization.
The big 6 in Europe is a civilization, and the land of China is also a civilization.
The remaining so-called Egyptian civilization, Arab civilization, Indian civilization, etc., are just some half-finished civilizations, and even Egyptian civilization is not even a half-finished product, not only collapsed early, but also ruled by the Arab civilization that only belongs to the half-finished civilization, which is really sad.
It seems that it is the world's many semi-civilizations and finished Chinese civilizations that made the wedding dress for the later generations of European big 6, so that Europe can directly give birth to modernization.
But in fact, in later generations, there is only one civilization that really profits, the Chinese civilization.
Although because of the birth of modern civilization, it impacted the Chinese civilization that was exhibited after the maturity period of great unification, and brought a tragic encounter to the land of China, but these are only some setbacks at the beginning, and they cannot affect the foundation of Chinese civilization, but allow Chinese civilization to follow into modernization.
It's not that there is no impact brought about by the modernization of the European 6 in history, and the Chinese civilization will eventually move in the direction of modernization, but it is just a turtle, from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, in fact, there have been some capitalist sprouts in the late Ming Dynasty, and half a foot began to step towards modernization, but it was interrupted by the Manchurians later.
But the interruption is only temporary, with the passage of time, the Qing Dynasty will also perish like the previous dynasties, and when the new dynasty changes, it will still continue to develop, maybe in a few hundred years, a thousand years, the Chinese civilization can also enter the modernization on its own.
The impact of the European big 6 taking the lead in modernization, just saved the time of the Ming Dynasty,
If you really want to calculate it, it is actually the big 6 civilizations in Europe that made the wedding dress for the Chinese civilization.
Because according to the exhibition of later generations, even if European civilization entered modernization earlier, because there was no unification, the entire six large and small countries were scattered, and the civilization exhibition almost came to a standstill.
On the other hand, the Chinese civilization is not only still in a state of great unification, but also has entered modernization, entering a period of high development of modernization, changing every year, and this is the real winner.
If we say, in history, the 'Spring and Autumn Warring States' of the European Big 6 is a big pattern with the whole world as the background. However, the Chinese civilization is only based on the pattern of one place in China, which is a small pattern. Then, after the modernization of later generations, there were many small countries, and the scattered European big 6 turned into a small pattern. On the other hand, the unified Chinese civilization has also changed from a small pattern to a large pattern.
In the modern world, the Chinese civilization has become the protagonist again, and the only one who can compete with the modern civilization in the Ming Dynasty is no longer the small pattern of the European Big 6, but the United States, which has seized the European Big 6 civilization.
However, it is a pity that although the United States has captured most of European civilization, it is not a single mature civilization, and it is only half-crippled.
Only the Chinese civilization is a complete and mature civilization, and this is the real protagonist of the times.
Of course, according to the historical exhibition, it is like this.
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Now history has changed, the Spring and Autumn hegemony in Europe was forcibly interrupted by the Ming Dynasty, and the Warring States have not yet been able to enter, and there is no time for modernization to be born. And there is no need for them to give birth to modernization, the Ming Dynasty has given birth to modernization by itself, electric lights, radios, steam engines, cement and steel buildings, etc., these are the germs of modernization, and have entered the period of vigorous growth, but the Ming Dynasty wants to bring the germ of modernization to the European 6, leading them into modernization.
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