War and Knights

What war cannot erase is human nature. The war www.biquge.info started by the evil side of human nature, but it does not erase the good side of human nature. The ancient Greek historian Thucydides believed that since human nature is always the same, history will continue to repeat itself. War, the extreme form of human violence, can destroy in an instant the good things that humanity has been creating for years, decades, centuries. But even so, war still cannot destroy mankind's yearning and persistence for beautiful things.

In the past two days, I watched the movies "War Horse" and "The Red Baron", which reflect the First World War, and talked about war and knights.

The first gentleman and chivalry of Western high society. It originated from ancient knights, and its components include war horses, equipment, and skills. From the point of view of the origin, the East and the West have similar roads in the use of war horses, and they are all developing trajectories from chariots to war horses. Most of China's knights are generals, and they are advocating to protect their families and defend the country, such as the flying general Li Guang and the national hero Yue Fei.

The origin of Western knighthood can be said to be the heroic age of ancient Greece, at the beginning of the birth of its culture. For example, the famous Achilles in Homer's epic poems. With the evolution of time, the content of knight culture has become richer and richer, and knights have become popular in the feudal era of Europe. For example, the Twelve Paladins of Charlemagne and the Knights of the Round Table of King Arthur. Knights have their own set of complete norms, and the chivalry of honor and loyalty, bravery, bravery, and martial arts is formally formed. In reality, many people pointed out the cruelty of knights as feudal lords, and during the Renaissance, Cervantes's Don Quixote began to clean up the remnants of knights. But even if the decline of knighthood did not eradicate chivalry, even if a knightly nobleman might have died at the hands of a farmer after the invention of the musket. This is what Alexandre Dumas's "Three Musketeers" reflects.

Advances in human weapons gradually drove out knights from the battlefield, especially after the invention of machine guns. Looking at the Cossack cavalry swept down by machine guns in the Russo-Japanese War, the British observer said: When machine guns are erected on the trenches, the only thing the cavalry can do is to cook for the infantry.

"War Horse" is a World War I film directed by Spielberg, from which we can see the gradual demise of knights, but it also shines the light of humanity in war from Joey. In the afterglow of the sun, we can still see it in the dressage of the Olympic Games in peacetime.

"The Red Baron" is the rise of the knights of the air when people see the knights on the ground withdraw from the stage of history. Similar equipment: fighters, weapons, skills, these keep the legend of chivalry immortal. Richthofen, a German pilot in World War I, won the respect of both sides of the war, and the video of his funeral after his death was seen on the Internet was held very ceremoniously by the French side.

War can't extinguish hope for a glittering side of humanity, as in the rescue of Joey entangled in barbed wire in "War Horse", and the friendly atmosphere shown by two hostile Anglo-German soldiers. This is not a miracle. On the real battlefield, Washington who was let go under the muzzle of the rifle is not an isolated witness, and it is lamentable that Hitler had the same experience in World War I.

The Air Knight continued to write legends in World War II. But advances in human weapons have driven out knights on the battlefield, and this phenomenon persists, especially after the invention of missiles after World War II. After the invention of the UAV, this trend became more pronounced, and the territory of pilots who were limited by human physiology and cost gradually shrank from the Predator to the X-47B.

From "Heroes of the Air" to "Top Gun", and perhaps "Star Wars", mankind's fantasy of knights continues, and even if war happens, it still can't erase the germination of human goodness, just like the pincer that saved Joey can be used to trim the garden after the war.

2016.4.27