When He Qi wondered why Professor Gu focused on "moderation", Professor Gu changed his words and avoided talking about it, saying: "If there is a house, the foundation below, and the house above, all dynasties have repaired and rebuilt on the basis of the foundation, and this has lasted for more than 2,000 years. What is the foundation of 2000 Huaxia? ”

"Is it the princes and nobles of all dynasties?"

"Is it a genealogy of the same lineage?"

"Is it a written book that has been handed down for thousands of years?"

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Professor Gu asked several questions in a row, but shook his head again, denied it, and then looked at Mr. Yang Chengzan, who was listening below, and said, "Mr. Chengzan once had an article called "The Theory of Jin Tie Doctrine". Among them, it is said: Although China has never had the name of the word nation, it is actually the title of such a nation. Today's people must see that China loves the oldest nation, called the Han nation, in fact, the Han is the name of the dynasty of the Liu family's Tianzi era, not the inherent name of its nation. Since ancient times, China has had a nation with a relatively high level of education and a relatively large number of people in its country, calling itself China as its own country and calling itself China as its own nation. That is to say, the difference between a country and a country is different from the region, and the Chinese cloud is based on the distance between China and foreign regions. The difference between a nation and a nation is different from culture, and the Chinese cloud is different from the culture of Huayi. In other words, the term Chinese is not only not the name of a region, nor the name of a bloodline, but the name of a culture. ”

"The old man thinks so, so the foundation of today's question about China is my Chinese civilization, a civilization that is completely different from Western civilization, an all-encompassing civilization, a civilization with a long history, and a civilization that has gone through hardships and tended to perish several times but is intact."

"When the old man was studying in the West, he studied their history and found a very strange place, the land of Europa and the land of China are equally vast and rich, but they are divided into dozens of countries, and there is only one in China. If you study it in detail, the cultural differences between the provinces of China are huge, and the language and customs are not the same, if it corresponds to Europa, then each province can become a country of its own. ”

"So, the old man opened the history book and found that my Huaxia was quite similar to Europa before the pre-Qin period, the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, more than a dozen countries fought, to the Seven Kingdoms to compete for power, to the King of Qin swept Liuhe, the unification of China, the same book and the same track, and gradually gave birth to the Chinese civilization."

"After the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, the five chaotic China, the southern crossing of clothes, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms, the separation of the Northern Wei and Southern Song Dynasty, and the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the concept of great unification was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the Chinese civilization integrated many northern nomadic civilizations and was condensed again."

"At the end of the Tang Dynasty, five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the mountains and rivers were broken, to the Zhao and Song dynasties, and then through the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, Chinese civilization has been deeply rooted in the bones of every Chinese person."

"Therefore, the Western countries at the same time were in a state of division, and they are still like this today.

"If we remove all the superficial decorations of the past dynasties and take away a house called the country, what is buried underneath is the Chinese civilization."

In other words, it is not so much that China is a country, but that China is a civilization in the garb of a country.

"But now, some people don't want it, they copy the things of foreigners, wear suits, eat Western food, and speak foreign languages, in their eyes, the things of foreigners are elegant, and the things of the ancestors are vulgar, so they must abandon everything that the ancestors left behind."

"The old man thinks that this kind of person is short-sighted, shallow in knowledge, and brings disaster to the country and the people, especially lowly, but I don't know that orange is born in Huainan is orange, and orange is born in Huaibei, if the foreigner's things are really so good, then why Europa is still juxtaposed in several countries, and I am still the only one in China."

"Good!!"

"Good !!"

Professor Gu's very incendiary speech aroused unanimous applause from everyone, but Qian Xuan fell into a misunderstanding because he was substituted by Professor Gu into his thinking, and he couldn't refute it for a while.

At this moment, Brother Xun suddenly spoke and said, "What Professor Gu said is very good, but I have a question, I want to ask Professor Gu to explain his doubts?" ”

"Please!" Professor Koo said.

Everyone put away their applause, held their breath, and listened.

"As Professor Gu said, the division of several countries in the land of Europa is not as good as the unification of China, so why can a small country in Europa bully our unified country of China?"

"By praising Mr. Praise's article "The Theory of Gold and Ironism", the so-called gold, gold, that is, money, that is, the economy, wants to seek the people's life to be prosperous. The iron man, that is, the black iron, that is, the iron cannon, that is, the military, wants to seek the strength of the country in this way. At present, China's economy and military are weak, so the great powers have come to the door. Professor Koo explained.

"So, we're going to push that dilapidated house and build a new one, does Professor Koo agree?" Brother Xun asked again.

"The old man agreed to build a new house, but the old man did not agree to tear down and rebuild it along with the foundation."

"However, this house has been built several times, and it is still crumbling, isn't there a problem with the foundation?"

"If one leg is sick, cure it, and if you want to abandon it, you can't stand it alone."

"How?"

"Rule by man."

"Shh......h

"Turning the 2,000-year history upside down, the old man only saw two words: 'morality'. In all prosperous dynasties, 'morality' prevails, 'Tao' binds the body's practice, 'morality' binds the desire of the heart, which is called 'moderation', and the 'golden mean' cures the disease, which is the rule of man. The reason why this house has been built several times and is still crumbling is because the people who built it were not 'moral' and used the wrong methods. Whether it is the 'monarch's constitution' or the 'people's constitution', they all need to rely on the 'rule of man'. ”

Professor Koo stands at this juncture, looks back on the past, and then sums up an experience, strictly speaking, it is valid, which is one of the ways for our ancestors to explore the future.

It is obviously unfair and unconscionable for us to stand on the shoulders of light and accuse those who were in the darkness a hundred years ago of not knowing the road and not knowing where the exit is.

In this debate, Qian Xuan and Brother Xun seemed to fall behind, which was caused by the limitations of the times, He Qi felt that he had to say a few words, not enough to accuse, more like an exchange.

He Qi did not face Professor Gu's question directly, but tactfully gave an example, called "standing by the river and thinking", and said: "Mr. Yan Fu's "Theory of Heavenly Evolution", there is a sentence in it called natural selection, survival of the fittest. In the African savannah, there are many social herbivores, such as antelope, wildebeest, bison, etc., they have eaten a pasture, they must cross a river, migrate to the opposite pasture to feed, and this river lives a predator called crocodile, waiting to hunt and prey in the river they must cross. If we were one of the migratory animals, we would come to the river and see the crocodiles in the river with their bloody mouths wide open, and they looked terrible. So we got scared, stopped, and stood by the river and hesitated. In the meantime, the other animals had already crossed the river, having lost some of their kind, and had finally set foot on the opposite bank, where there was a juicy grass and a steady stream of delicious delicacies. As for us, not only did we miss the opportunity to cross the river with them, but we did not make a decision, but always stood by the river to discuss and argue, and as the days went by, at last some of us were so hungry that we could not bear it anymore, and rushed down the river, and soon died in the mouths of many crocodiles, and the blood stained the river red, so that some of us were so frightened that we had to step back, and to return to the pasture that had already been eaten clean, and find a way to regenerate the grass. ”

"If we had crossed the river with other animals, wouldn't we have been able to share the crocodile attacks with each other and reduce the loss of the population?"

"As for those who are so frightened that they want to retreat, when the grass is reborn, I am afraid they will starve to death."

"Now, we are the only ones standing by the river, and we have to cross the river immediately at the cost of blood? Or continue to stand by the river to discuss and argue, watching the grass on the other side of the river being feasted on by other populations. The more they eat, the less we can eat, and the more they grow, the weaker our population becomes. ”

This is a fruitless debate, Professor Gu's "one room" cannot but be said to be unreasonable, and He Qi's "standing by the river and thinking" is refreshing, the two families say that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable.

Everyone couldn't help but fall into thought.......