I have to say that during the more than 200 years of Manchu rule in China, it was really a tireless destruction of books, in order to castrate the traditional Han culture, and even did not hesitate to use all kinds of literary prisons or something, and even openly and secretly began to collect all kinds of books, and then destroyed them with the help of the so-called Siku Quanshu and other reasons. In the end, they let a large number of Han culture be annihilated in history, and then there has been little that can be recovered. They destroy a lot of the real good, but they praise a lot of the so-called dross.

"At that time, in order to attack our Han culture, the Manchu court destroyed all the essence, and then promoted some dross. And they even openly and secretly encourage the so-called women to bind their feet, and we all admit that this is the dregs of our Han culture. But how did the Manchus deal with us dross, they were completely double standards. In the face of their own banner people, they ordered that women should not be allowed to wrap their feet, but openly and secretly encouraged us women to wrap their feet, so this is enough to show that in order to suppress our national spirit, they erased the real essence, and then promoted some of the dross in Han culture, hoping to better enslave and rule our Han people. In order to achieve the interests of their Manchu royal family, they did not hesitate to destroy the essence of our Han culture again, leaving some dross, so that our Han culture suffered a catastrophe. Shi Maozhou said.

These words made Wang Guorui nod his head, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty had indeed destroyed a lot of the essence of Han culture for more than two hundred years, but it vigorously preached those dross. Some parts of the essence are either destroyed or refrigerated. On the contrary, the little foot thing developed vigorously, and then reached its peak after the early years of the Qing Dynasty, which would have been impossible without the Manchu Qing Dynasty behind it.

Any culture is also a part of its essence and a part of its dross. Wang Guorui also admits that Han culture is not absolutely perfect, and some brag that Han culture is perfect. This Wang Guorui doesn't think so. Because the inheritors of a culture are self-contained and think that their knowledge and civilization are perfect, and that is very close to decline.

Any kind of attitude toward civilization is just to take the essence and remove the dross, and then gradually improve it. Back then, Confucius said that there must be a teacher for threesomes, and there is also the so-called spirit of not being ashamed to ask. However, later generations of Confucians were rigid step by step. Reluctant to learn from others, or even stubbornly believing that they are truly top-notch. In fact, any civilization also has its advantages, there is no absolutely perfect civilization, every civilization has a side worth learning, but it definitely has its dross side. When it comes to the progress of civilization, there is only the better, not the best.

But in this case, it depends on how you treat the best side of the civilization and the bad side of it. Normal people use it to extract the essence. Attitude to go to its dross. However, in the case of the Manchu rulers, it was the other way around, he took the dross and then destroyed the essence, so as to achieve their goal of enslaving the vast majority of the people with a small number of people.

Of course, there are reasons for the Confucian scholars of the past dynasties, but the Manchu Qing claimed to have inherited the Chinese civilization, but they adopted this attitude towards the progress of civilization, so it is very obvious what their intentions were.

"Your Majesty, you have just ascended the throne, that is, you have abolished some of the stereotypes and bad habits of the feudal era. Especially the stereotype of tying your feet. This should be abolished as soon as possible. Because the small feet are the traditional feudal dross, they want to prevent women from gaining sufficient status. He did not hesitate to use this kind of mutilation of women's bodies to maintain the so-called feudal etiquette. And this is the destruction of human nature, this is the dregs of Han culture that must be removed. ”

"But what is the essence and what is the dross, the standard for measuring this thing cannot be thoroughly measured. Westerners also have a saying, that is, there are a thousand people and a thousand Hamlets. And we were in the period of Manchu rule. There is also a famous novel "Dream of Red Mansions", which is also in a similar situation. Different people have different opinions when they see this Dream of Red Mansions, so it is enough to show that the same is true in terms of culture. Some corrupt people cling to their inadequacies and stubbornly believe that everything should be inherited. “

"However, many traditional cultures can no longer keep up with this era, and any culture must be changed according to the times. Then remove the things that can't keep up with the times, and leave the things that can keep up with the times. To judge whether a cultural content is dross or essence, we should actually see whether it can keep up with the needs of the times. If it fails to keep up with the needs of the times and destroys the human body and mind, it is absolutely uncompromising. ”

And Wang Guorui immediately nodded and said, "Yes, that's right, that's it." It is believed that neither culture nor tradition can be harmed at the cost of harming the human body and mind, and that if this is violated, it is absolutely dross. For example, what used to bind small feet or something, this not only hurt women's bodies, but also hurt women's hearts at the same time. And some people still call it traditional culture, is our Chinese men's culture built on the mutilation of women's bodies and minds? ”

"Could it be that we Chinese men can't toss outsiders, so we take our own women to vent our anger? In order to satisfy some perverted hobbies, did he also kill his wife and daughter for this? And then it has to be passed down from generation to generation? Therefore, this so-called custom and culture, which harms our human body and mind, must be abolished. ”

"Of course, some things that are not harmful to our bodies and minds can also be kept at our discretion. Of course, we all have to look at it with a critical attitude. Maybe it doesn't hurt people now, but time has passed, and maybe it will be the same in the future, so it will definitely be phased out. ”

Wang Guorui actually has a very simple and easy-to-understand standard for whether the so-called culture is the essence or the dross. Any damage to the human body and mind is absolutely dross. If a so-called traditional practice is based on the premise of harming the human body and mind, it is absolutely a dregs. For example, what women bind their feet, and what kind of eunuch system in the court, these are also built at the cost of mutilating the human body and even the mind, and it must be abolished.

In the era of Manchu rule, those essential things were either destroyed or treated coldly, and they were not actively mentioned. And for those dross, they take out all the dross as an explanation in their favor, and even as a standard.

This must have caused a lot of distortions in China's cultural values, which is also very fatal.

However, although Han culture has dross, it is not without essence. For example, he taught people to value "righteousness" and not to talk too much about "profit". Valuing righteousness over profit is the traditional Confucian teaching for ordinary people, which can even lead to many things that are good for social morality. For example, judicial officials abide by their duties and are not tempted by some bribe-givers. Confusion has always adhered to the heart of justice, which is to emphasize righteousness over profit.

And there are some other people who persuade others to be good, this is the essence, and it must be encouraged. These are also the essence, no matter what era they are, they must be preserved, and they can be conducive to the establishment of the correct values of the nation. And in the Manchu era, those were all distorted, and those guys completely developed a style of bullying the soft and fearing the hard. If you don't have the strength to fight against foreign enemies, you will form a kind of eunuch mentality, you can't bully outsiders, and then you will bully your subordinates.

The emperor was angry with the foreigners, and then went to high-ranking officials to vent. The high-ranking officials were angry with the emperor's colleagues who were alive and equal, and they all went to their subordinates, and the subordinates scolded them layer by layer, and finally got angry but they were not ordinary people? And what should ordinary people do when they are angry? They also choose to toss their own women, and then they rely on the so-called husband as wife to toss their own women. What kind of thing is this, I am incompetent but I am angry with someone with a lower status.

And in the end, let the woman bear the consequences, what kind of is this! This kind of bullying is soft and afraid of hard, and if you can't fight it, you will find a soft persimmon to pinch. If it's on the battlefield, then you're fine, but it's for yourself! Men can't fight men, so they find women to be angry, which is also the so-called cultural dross.

For example, don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself, this is actually a very good saying, but there are not many people who really do it. On the contrary, in ancient times, in order to prevent their women from cheating, it was already a kind of sick psychology, what deliberately wrapped their little feet, what made women not go out of the door, and what women were not talented and virtuous? In fact, these are not all brought by those cultural dross, a man who is suspicious all day long, and if he can't deal with others, he will take women to be angry.

Although it is undeniable that some women do cheat, this is definitely a very minority. Since ancient times, men have actually cheated more, and women have cheated a minority. As a result, because of a very small number of things that happened, I became suspicious for this thing, and then I didn't hesitate to use this method of tossing women to protect my face. This is the so-called Chinese man, and as a result, he can't bully outsiders and bully his own woman, which is of course an out-and-out cultural dross.

These things must be abolished, and they must be abolished as soon as possible to avoid more bad effects. (To be continued.) )