In the previous text of this chapter, "Football is like a play", the author once said that "football is a reinterpretation of the culture and history of a cultural circle, a country, a nation or a region".

Football is like a play, drama, always composed of one scene after another, maybe the first scene is a tragedy of people bullying people, the next scene is a drama of catching up, and the next scene is a drama of seeing who bullies whom. The 'big drama' of Chinese football, which has been played until now, is still in the first act of being bullied, and no matter how tragic the scene is, it will always come to an end, and the scene of Chinese football being bullied by others will always come to an end, just like the scene of China's bullying in modern history, and finally ended in front of the 'new Great Wall forged by our flesh and blood'.

In the final analysis, it is due to the miserable comprehensive strength of China in modern times, the national inferiority complex and lack of national self-confidence are also caused by the strength being too weak, and to change the situation of Chinese football degenerate, the most fundamental solution is only one, that is, to make our comprehensive strength stronger and stronger, strong to a certain extent, the situation of Chinese football degeneration will inevitably be changed, which is 'quantitative change leads to qualitative change'.

In the process of quantitative change leading to qualitative change, there are always several key time nodes, just like the War of Resistance Against Japan, which is the turning point for China to change from repeated defeats and bullying to being based on the forest of the world's nations, and it is also the general turning point for China from hundreds of years of decline to national rejuvenation, and where is the general turning point of Chinese football? The author believes that as recently as 2020, although at the time of writing this work, the year was not over.

The major events that happened in 2020, the author will not say more, after all, this book is about football. Football is affected by a country's comprehensive strength and national state, this influence process is hidden, intangible, invisible and intangible, but this influence is real, the relationship between comprehensive strength and national state, and football strength, just like gravity, although invisible and intangible, but plays a vital role.

Before 2020, although our country has been making rapid progress, but never before like this year, our country's advantages in many aspects can be vividly displayed, everything that happened in 2020, for China's international prestige and national self-confidence, is also a leap forward, and to solve the problem of Chinese football, the first thing to solve is the problem of China's national self-confidence, only to solve the problem of national self-confidence, Chinese dare to believe that China can compete with the entire Europe and the United States in football ( Unless Europe and the United States increase their population), then China will be able to formulate the right football policy and increase the number of professional football teams and the demand for professional players to a level that matches the number and overall strength of the Chinese population.

Football is like a play, it has two meanings: the first meaning, the history of football is originally a play; The second meaning, football can be like a drama to interpret the culture and history of a country or nation, in the chapter "Football is like a play 1", the author mainly expounds the relationship between European football and European culture and history, before the end of World War II, the European people fought and killed for thousands of years, and at the same time looked forward to the stars and the moon for thousands of years, and when peace really came to the European people, the European people had a huge psychological gap, fighting and killing for thousands of years, and suddenly one day there was permanent peace, now look at itUnless it is an alien invasion, Europe, like most parts of the world, will find it difficult to fall into the whirlpool of war, so how can we miss the war years in peacetime? Soccer has become the best choice, after all, soccer is the most war-like game.

World War II is actually the East Asian theater and the European theater, the Pacific theater is equivalent to the extension of the East Asian theater, and the North African theater and the Atlantic theater are equal to the extension of the European theater.

Like European history, the history of East Asia, especially the history of China, is also a struggle for thousands of years, thousands of years of fighting, thousands of years of fighting, thousands of years of fighting, and thousands of years of killing.

The first large-scale war in Chinese history was naturally the 'Yanhuangxuan War', that is, the war between Yandi, Huangdi and Xuanyou, this war laid the foundation of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization, from then until now, China's national composition has basically not changed, China's language and writing have basically not changed, what has changed is only form, not substance, which also makes countless Chinese proud.

After the end of the 'era of the three ancestors of China' of Emperor Yan, the Yellow Emperor and Chi You, disputes and conquests continued to be staged again and again in the land of China, although Confucianism for the purpose of educating the world, described the three generations of antiquity as an era that was more civilized and more perfect than modern times, but in fact, the three generations of antiquity were also full of the struggle of human evil. The statement that Yao Shunyu is vying for power and profit with each other is more acceptable to modern people than the statement that Yao Shunyu is sinking in Junming; Shang replaced Xia and Zhou replaced Shang, and they were not as benevolent and moral as the classics, but also full of bloody battles full of human evil.

After the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Chinese history entered the splendid Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and now, there are still many people who believe that the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are the most tolerant and civilized and open-minded era in Chinese history, although this is a misreading, but the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period did contribute to Chinese history Many great thinkers and university scholars, and all disciplines in later generations can be related to the ancestors of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In this regard, the same is true of Western civilization, and all modern and modern disciplines in the West have to try to relate to Aristotle and other ancient Greek sages.

The outcome of more than 500 years of strife in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was the unification of the world by the Great Qin Empire and the establishment of a unified system that can be called the greatest feat in world history.

Although the Great Qin Empire was great, but it was short-lived, just fifteen years later, the Great Qin Empire collapsed in the storm of peasant uprisings, and Chinese history began to enter a new chapter of continuous reappearance - the great chaos of the world and the unification of the world, the Chu-Han War at the end of Qin, was the first time in Chinese history that there was a situation of 'troubled times', and in later history, this situation was constantly staged and repeated.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Chu-Han War ended quickly, and next, it was the Western Han Empire that had been stable and unified for two hundred years. This is the second turbulent era in Chinese history, and later generations use the "general trend of the world, divided for a long time must be combined and divided for a long time" to describe this historical situation.

Later, the era of unification also included the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty, and the troubled era of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Anshi Rebellion, the chaos of the Five Dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the shame of Jingkang, the confrontation between the Song and Jin Dynasties, the Mongol Conquest War, the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the White Lotus Rebellion, and the chaos of the Republic of China at the end of the Qing Dynasty...... And so on and so forth.

In every troubled era, there are many talents, and they are all star-studded; Every troubled era is also bloody and tragic. The chaotic era of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China for more than 100 years can be called the 'biggest troubled era' in Chinese history, and the chaotic era of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China involved every inch of China's land, but also involved every person in China, and has affected the current situation of China.

As for the "division of a long time must be combined and a long time must be divided" that has been staged again and again in Chinese history, many people have come to an erroneous conclusion that Chinese history has stopped moving forward as if it were standing still, and even the great German philosopher Hegel held this view, which was of course due to their failure to understand Chinese history.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" begins with the opening sentence - "Speaking of the general trend of the world, it will be combined for a long time and it will be divided for a long time", in fact, this is only the general trend of Chinese history, and only in Chinese history can there be an incomparably long era of great unification, so only in Chinese history can there be a historical context of "the general trend of the world, and the division will be combined for a long time".

Let's look at other famous great empires in world history, the Persian Empire, Alexander's Empire, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Arab Empire, the Frankish Empire, the Hun Empire, the Turkic Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Timurid Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish Empire, the British Empire, the Russian Empire...... These once extremely powerful empires, in their decline period, they also encountered a long-term period of division and turmoil, but all these great empires, only 'long-term', but not 'must be together', these all the great empires, once they declined, they can never return to the glory of the peak era, they can only leave a brilliant for future generations to hang and admire, and only our Chinese empire can be from the decline and decline of the phoenix nirvana again and again, again and again ushered in a newer, more powerful and prosperous period.

We Chinese have the strongest resilience in the world, no matter how difficult we face, we will never be defeated, we can always get up from where we fell, so 'divide for a long time must be combined for a long time must be divided', for other great empires and powerful civilizations in world history, it is not the normal state, 'long time must be nothing', is the normal state of world history, only we China, can get rid of ' Therefore, I have always been extremely firm in believing that our Chinese culture is the greatest culture in the world.

The founding of New China, the successful development of nuclear weapons, and the establishment of the balance of terror are tantamount to putting an end to the situation in which China's thousands of years of history have alternated between chaotic times and ruling the world, and the Chinese people, like the European people, have finally looked forward to the peace and stability that they have been waiting for for thousands of years after fighting and killing for thousands of years.

Since, after ending thousands of years of history, the European people have found such a thing as football, perfectly combining football with European culture and history, and also perfectly combining the yearning for peace and the memory of war, then why can't the Chinese people use football to interpret Chinese culture and history like the European people?