There are still many disturbing discussions, there are too many things to be screened, and there are many places related to culture, and if you are not careful, it will lead to bad results.

Although the old and new factions have reached a consensus in many aspects, in some places they are extremely intense. The intellectuals of the new school who had returned from studying abroad could not stand the "Zhihu Zhiye" method of reading, and they strongly advocated that this method be corrected, and they demanded the introduction of vernacular Chinese.

The old school cares a lot about this, because this is the way Confucius left a way of reading, which has been used for more than 2,000 years, and they think that it is very good and should leave this tradition.

The two factions fought fiercely in this regard, and in a teahouse near Peking University, Gu Hongming, who was still wearing braids, faced off with a cadre of students and teachers from Peking University.

Gu Hongming is now a central figure in the old school, and he has always advocated polygamy, and he insisted on the pre-Qing culture such as foot binding, robes, horse coats, braids, and concubines for life. After the establishment of the empire, he remained loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and his braids on his head were not cut, and he was particularly disgusted by the opposition of the new school to Confucius, because he was still a person who took Confucianism as his philosophy of life.

"You blame the suffering suffered by the Chinese people in modern times on the Confucian doctrine, let me ask, what is the crime of Confucius 2,000 years ago to the people of today?" Gu Hongming asked angrily.

A few teachers and students suddenly saw someone standing up and asked them to take a second look, and when they saw the braid, they all laughed, they didn't think that there were still people with braids, and now it was the Chinese Empire and not the Manchu Dynasty.

Gu Hongming stroked his braids with his cane and said calmly: "The braids on my head are tangible, but the braids in your hearts are intangible, and you haven't answered my question yet." ”

Gu Hongming's words silenced the teachers and students present, yes, the braids in his heart are invisible, but that is all in the past, and now it is the era of the empire.

One student asked, "Sir, are you blind to the fact that the teachings of Confucius are rarely applied today?" Now is the era of empire, the new birth of China, if it wants to rise, it must abolish the study of Confucius. ”

"The method taught by Confucius is like the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of mathematicians, thousands of years ago, the method was three three to get nine, and now in the twentieth century, the method is still three three to get nine, not three three to get eight. It makes no sense to miscalculate the topic and blame the inventor for not being proficient. If this is also a new culture, it is nonsense. After Gu Hongming finished speaking, he knocked the floor a few times with his cane.

The students who asked the questions were dumbfounded, and the students present were also in a commotion, and some of them even whispered to each other.

"Culture always has to be innovated, because the times are developing, the world can never be the same, it is an indisputable fact that the culture of the West is more advanced than China's culture, and the introduction of new culture is irreversible.

The difficulty of understanding and learning classical Chinese hindered the development of imperial culture, and the vernacular was concise and easy to understand, which is more suitable for our current situation. We often say that the imperial examination is mistaken in the Bagu Wen, and no matter how well the Bagu Wen is done, if you don't learn the new school, you will not be able to be pragmatic, you will not be able to do things, and you will only take the exam. What the empire needs is practical talents, and the current imperial government is doing a good job, but we should cultivate more practical talents, so that we can strengthen the national strength. Lu Xun said very calmly.

Lu Xun was recruited by Cai Yuanpei to serve in the Ministry of Education, because Peking University lacked teachers and let him serve as a teacher at Peking University, which made him enter Peking University as a teacher in advance.

At this moment, the guests sitting next to them also began to slowly approach them and listen to their arguments, and one of the onlookers asked, "Isn't classical Chinese more concise than vernacular?" Don't you think powerless is more concise than the vernacular? ”

Lu Xun shook his head and said: "Powerlessness is nothing to do in the vernacular, and others can also be described in more concise words." ”

"Good"

"Good"

The students and onlookers applauded involuntarily, which was really incisive and easy to understand.

After listening to the applause, Lu Xun continued: "In order to revitalize the empire and enlighten the people's wisdom, it is necessary to abolish the old culture and popularize the new culture, so that the empire can be reborn. Now to implement a new culture, it is necessary to first judge the Confucian doctrine of Confucius, as the Imperial Daily said, the good ones can be left, and the useless ones must be abolished, and classical Chinese is the first to bear the brunt. ”

"Joke, looking at the world, the ruling ideology of that country is not the ideology that was nurtured by its own country and culture, our cultural ideology is Confucianism that has been passed down for more than 2,000 years. Of course, Confucianism has its own badness, but it cannot be denied that it also has its own charm and strengths, classical Chinese is a cultural tradition in China, which should not be abolished, it helps to cultivate students' literary talent and heritage. Gu Hongming touched his beard and said.

"Looking at the human world, how can it be ridiculous, in Europe, they absorb the world's culture but form their own culture, our four major inventions have become a weapon to expand the territory and strengthen the country in the hands of others, and what are we using it for? Making firecrackers and measuring feng shui, why didn't they think of those?

This is the shackles of Confucianism, Confucianism has been the mainstream for thousands of years, other doctrines have been suppressed so that there is no chance to rise, all people are studying Confucianism and ignoring the development of science, etc., and Confucianism has a huge responsibility to guide the current situation that lags behind the West. Lu Xun retorted.

Due to the establishment of the empire, Lu Xun did not come into contact with Western Marxist-Leninist thought, but simply believed that the ideas of European and American countries such as France and the United States were more advanced than those of China, and were not as radical as the May Fourth Movement in later generations.

"Hundreds of years ago, China was still ahead of the West, as for why it is so unbearable now, one has the responsibility of the Qing Dynasty, and also has the responsibility of Confucianism to abide by the rules, but these have nothing to do with classical Chinese and so on. As the Imperial Daily said, the excellent national essence culture must be retained, and the culture such as classical Chinese must be retained, and the culture of the empire must not be disconnected. Gu Hongming said with certainty.

“……”

The two of them continued to debate, and the newspaper reporter who heard the news soon came, and they used their amazing speed to send down the words of the two, and as for the previous conversation, they also asked for it back from the students and onlookers, so that the conversation between the two was basically complete.

The publication of the newspaper made many people know that there was such a powerful talent in Beijing - Lu Xun, who was a member of the imperial Ministry of Education, and Lu Xun was quickly known to the people, and the braid of the other and the witty phrase of the visible and invisible braid were also remembered.

The discussion between the old and the new factions intensified before the discussion between the classical and vernacular texts, and the two sides were bitterly bitter, and the Imperial Daily had not published any more articles on them since it had published the opinions of the officials.

Qin Yu has his own ideas about the controversy between folk classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese, and he will not abolish classical Chinese, because this is a culture that has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, but he will not use classical Chinese comprehensively. Vernacular Chinese will become a common literary style throughout the country, and as for classical Chinese, it will be treated more as a culture, which will be used on grand festivals or some literary jiàns, and some will be recorded in the form of classical Chinese when major events in the empire are recorded, etc.

When it comes to classical Chinese, we have to say that calligraphy is the essence of Chinese culture, classical Chinese and calligraphy can basically be said to be interdependent, and calligraphy should also be well developed.

The fierce debate between the two factions made the cultural world full of war, and many ordinary people were illiterate, and it was a kind of torture to let the elderly people learn classical Chinese, so ordinary people also began to be dissatisfied with classical Chinese, and this atmosphere made the old school very nervous.

Both factions knew that now they didn't count what they said, and they began to put forward their own proposals to the government in the newspapers, and the main thing was to put pressure on the government to make the government do its best.

In addition, people from both factions have kept submitting their opinions to the government, asking the government to agree with their opinions. The new school directly demanded the abolition of old literature such as classical Chinese, while the old school tightly defended Confucian doctrines such as classical Chinese.

Letters of co-signature were sent to governments everywhere, and then to Beijing, and the government officials who made them were tired and half dead, because they wanted to read them, and if there were any articles insulting the empire, they would be finished, and they had to be cautious.

Chen Fu was stunned when he saw those proposals, isn't this too much, it can't be loaded with a car, this is still a joint initiative, otherwise there will be more than that, and there will definitely be later.

Chen Fu asked someone to sort out these proposals, so he drafted a decision on classical Chinese and vernacular writing that night, and after discussing it with Yigan's subordinates the next day, he went to Qin Yu for approval.

Qin Yu didn't have any big opinions after seeing Chen Fu's article, but he also added a lot of content on it, and the cultural dispute that had been going on for a month should be stopped, and there would be no point in arguing any longer.

Soon the Imperial Government announced that the whole country would not abolish classical Chinese, and that vernacular would become mainstream. Classical Chinese and calligraphy are essential courses for primary and secondary school students, and they are only used in class, and they are usually written in the vernacular. After university, you can choose whether to study or not according to your personal preferences, classical Chinese will be used for solemn festivals, monuments to the empire and the like must use classical Chinese, and formal Chinese must be used in classical Chinese, etc.

The imperial government said that classical Chinese is a kind of cultural inheritance, the crystallization of thousands of years of wisdom of the Chinese nation, which cannot be abolished and needs to be passed on.

The empire will promote the vernacular language throughout the country, and it is up to the people to choose whether to learn it or not, but everyone in the empire usually uses a concise and clear vernacular language.

In addition, the empire set up a department dedicated to the study of Western Chinese culture, which would soon recruit a variety of knowledgeable people to study the cultures of the two cultures and even the world, and then the empire would reform the culture of the empire based on the results of the cultural research institute.

The attitude of the empire surprised the two factions, although there was dissatisfaction in their hearts, but now that the empire was satisfied with both sides, it was difficult for them to argue about this issue. The establishment of the Institute of Culture attracted the attention of both factions, both of whom were closely focused on this department, both thinking that entering the institute would be their next battlefield, and their attention shifted to the competition for this department.

ps: I borrowed some things from the great cause of the founding of the party, and I feel very good about everyone to watch this movie.