When discussing the topic of civilization, we often ask ourselves a question - what is civilization? I think everybody has given their own answer to this question, but everybody is not satisfied with their answer. Now, I'm going to give you my answer to this question, and my goal in doing so is not to test how many readers agree with or disagree with my answers, but to better expand the narrative in this article with these answers.

I believe that civilization is the concrete expression of the values, morals and aesthetics of a person or a group of people, and is a general term for human rational thinking and behavior. That is to say, human beings live according to thought, that is, rational thinking, and animals that live completely according to animal nature and instinct cannot be called human beings. The core of thought, that is, rational thinking, is human values, morality and aesthetics.

Values are the views and importance that human beings attach to the values of life, survival, safety, security, family, friendship, honor, freedom and spirituality. Morality is the attitude, behavior and norms of human beings in the pursuit and realization of the value of life, in short, what can be done? What can't be done? What can even be thought? What can't you think about? all have to be regulated; Aesthetics is the expression of human feelings and emotions about the value of life, such as beauty, ugliness, monotony, novelty, boredom, excitement, attachment, boredom and other life feelings and emotional catharsis.

Different values, morals, and aesthetics have long been different human civilizations, and now our three typical human beings, namely the good man, the evil man, and the mortal man, illustrate this problem.

The general characteristics of good people are that in terms of values, good people attach great importance to the pursuit of high-level life values such as family, friendship, honor, freedom and spirit, and very much look down on personal life, survival, safety and security, but attach great importance to the basic life values such as life, survival, safety and security of others and groups; In terms of morality, good people rarely think about personal food, clothing, safety and happiness, but they are very concerned about the food, clothing, safety and happiness of others and others, they are keen on public welfare, and they like to think about the common well-being of everyone; In terms of aesthetics, the aesthetics of natural and spiritual ways oppose aesthetics that rely on material and rigid ways, emphasizing the pursuit of spiritual satisfaction rather than the pursuit of material satisfaction.

The general characteristics of the wicked are that in terms of values, the wicked attach great importance to the life, survival, safety, and security of the individual, and they look down on the value of life such as family, friendship, honor, freedom, and spirituality, and in their minds they only have themselves, without others and groups, and they only live for themselves; In terms of morality, the wicked only do things that are beneficial to themselves, and can do anything as long as they are beneficial to themselves, in fact, the behavior norms of the wicked are extremely selfish, unscrupulous for personal gain, and ignore public interests and public rights; In terms of aesthetics, the wicked pursue material luxury and wealth, pursue material and physiological feelings, and do not hesitate to spend materials and wealth in order to satisfy personal aesthetics.

Mortal values, morality and aesthetics are between the good and the evil, mortals admire the detachment, open-mindedness, benevolence and public welfare of the good, and at the same time they also envy the jackal habits of the wicked, for personal interests without taboos, decisive killing, mortals for the material enjoyment of the successful wicked. Mortals are very envious of the wealth they possess, but mortals often lament that their fate is not good, or they think that they cannot break through the moral bottom line in their hearts, and they think that the wicked have no moral bottom line. In fact, wicked people also have a moral bottom line, and their moral bottom line is to do everything for selfish gain.

In the real world, there are no absolute good people, and there are no absolute evil people, everyone is mortal, but some people are very selfish and bad, and some people are very benevolent and good; Some are likable, some are annoying; There are people who are obscure, they are like air, they don't care if they exist or don't exist.

In fact, human civilization also has good and evil, and civilization gives everyone different feelings, because the core of civilization is different values, morality and aesthetics, so the degree of good and evil of various civilizations is different, and the life feelings of various nations are also different.

Therefore, people who have the values, morals and aesthetics of Oriental civilization are Orientals, and they have Oriental standards of good and evil, aesthetic standards and life feelings. People with Western values, morals, and aesthetics, they are Westerners, and they will unconsciously love chaotic killings, street fights, and disasters, and despicable acts of robbery, theft, deception, and intrigue.

Of course, many people think that Easterners live very hypocritically and tiredly, and Westerners live very real and easy, according to these people's views, those jackals, tigers and leopards who are struggling in no man's land live the most real and refreshing life, and those who envy evil are willing to go to no man's land and live with jackals, tigers and leopards? The price of civilized life is that we must give up evil and extreme selfishness, otherwise, we are not worthy of living in a civilized society, and this truth should become the most basic moral bottom line and moral cultivation of civilized people.

The southern part of the East Asian continent, the Indochina Peninsula, the islands of Southeast Asia, and the South Asian subcontinent are the birthplaces of human civilization and the earliest and oldest homeland of modern mankind. Since these areas are located in tropical and subtropical regions, they are rich in vegetation, with a wide variety of flora and fauna, and a pleasant climate during both the ice and warm ages, which are very suitable for long-term human settlement and development.

Abundant natural resources, a comfortable life, and moderate competition can easily lead to satisfaction, which leads to laziness, conservatism, and emptiness. During the Ice Age, Southeast Asia and the Asian subcontinent were the most abundant natural resources on the planet, so after the great migration of human beings to the rest of the world, the human beings who stayed here to live and develop were still very large, and these left-behind humans were generally satisfied, conservative and stable.

According to anthropologists' research, many ancient peoples living in Southeast Asia and the South Asian subcontinent today still retain their pre-migration lifestyles, and some of them still prefer to live naked, tattooed, and burrowing, and live a life of gathering and hunting, and living in primitive matriarchal clan societies such as group marriages, lang marriages, and polyandry. They live in improvised huts or caves. Some of these farmers and herdsmen still retain the ancient slash-and-burn farming method in agriculture, and in animal husbandry, they raise cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and other livestock and poultry in captivity. Farmers and herdsmen often live in villages, where there are many families, and the village owner and the village class manage the affairs of the village, and each family is an independent production and living unit.

In Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Assam in India, Nepal, Tibet in China, Yunnan in China and other regions, the ancient ethnic groups still retain the social system and way of life of matrilineal clans, these ethnic groups still advocate "women are superior to men", women have the right to rule the tribe and the family, divine rights (defining God, communicating with God, interpreting God's will, divination and decision-making, fortune-telling and medical treatment, eliminating disasters and avoiding disasters, rituals and sacrifices, etc.), property inheritance rights (including tangible assets such as land, materials and money, as well as secret skills such as production technology, cultural and religious texts and ideas, etc.), men are only subordinate to women.

The older the development of civilization, the more likely it is for a society to be conservative and solidified, and geographically, various ethnic groups have formed civilized societies and countries with their own national characteristics according to their own modes of production and the natural resources and territories they occupy. In the middle and late stages of the last ice age, the ancient Tai countries such as Siam (present-day Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam) and Shan (present-day western Thailand) were basically formed on the Indochina Peninsula. Khmer countries such as Champa (now southern Vietnam), Chenla (now Camboja, Cambodia), Pi (now central and western Myanmar) and other ancient countries, the main body of the ancient Thai people is the farming people, the main body of the Khmer people is the maritime people, the Khmer people in the process of development gradually integrated into the gathering people, farming peoples and nomadic peoples, these peoples inherited the early civilization of mankind, and developed the human civilization with Southeast Asian characteristics.

The South Asian subcontinent is the region with the most complex human racial composition, and according to anthropologists, brown people mainly live in the southern and central regions of the South Asian subcontinent, where they live by gathering, fishing and hunting; The yellow race mainly lived in the eastern and northern parts of the South Asian subcontinent and developed agriculture and animal husbandry in the Ganges River valley; Caucasians live mainly in the northwestern part of the subcontinent and in the Indus Valley region.

During the last ice age migration, the Caucasian people living in the South Asian subcontinent moved westward into Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, and northward into Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Europe, where they lived mainly by gathering and hunting.

When the time of the last ice age great migration came, the farming and nomadic peoples living in the Indochina Peninsula migrated westward to the northeast of the South Asian subcontinent, where agricultural areas and livestock areas were developed, and the local indigenous people merged into the Tamil people, who were deeply influenced by the Old Thai language, which retains many Old Thai words and cultural concepts. Subsequently, in order to avoid conflict with the whites, the farming and pastoral peoples who arrived in the northeast of the South Asian subcontinent stopped continuing their westward journey and went north into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and other uninhabited areas to develop agriculture and animal husbandry, and then entered the Indus Valley and the Middle East through the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the western foothills of the Pamir Plateau.

Before the Aryans invaded the South Asian subcontinent, the South Asian subcontinent belonged to the same cultural circle as Southeast Asia, and belonged to the same model in terms of race, ethnicity, mode of production, social form, culture and religion.

The Aryans were a predominantly white nomadic people formed in the Middle East and Southern Europe, who had blood and cultural ties with the Altai people in Central Asia, and perhaps they learned animal husbandry and nomadic techniques from the Altai people through intermarriage and labor, so they were able to smoothly switch from gathering and hunting to animal husbandry and nomadic production.

Between 4300 and 4100 years ago, there was a severe ice age on Earth, and this Xiaoice period destroyed the economy of the Aryans living in high latitudes, so the Aryans living in the Caucasus and Europe first retreated and invaded south. After occupying Central Asia and Iran, they invaded the resource-rich South Asian subcontinent.

After the Aryans invaded the Ganges valley region, they fought a war with the Tamil and ancient Tai ethnic groups. In order to avoid the edge of the Aryan war, the yellow farmers and herdsmen withdrew from the Indus Valley area and the upper and middle reaches of the Ganges River, and they retreated to the homeland of the ancient Thai peoples such as present-day Bangladesh, Assam in India, and Nepal, and even some of them retreated to the homeland of the Indochina Peninsula.

Eventually, the Aryans felt that they could not defeat the Gutai people, so the Aryans withdrew from the region and established themselves in the upper reaches of the Ganges River and the Punjab region, and lived peacefully with the ancient Tai people of the South Asian subcontinent.

After the end of the Aryan invasion, the ethnic distribution pattern of the South Asian subcontinent was basically formed, and this pattern has formed the ethnic geographical pattern and social pattern of today's South Asian subcontinent after the baptism of time.

Southeast Asia and the South Asian subcontinent are the only regions that have preserved the ancient culture of humans during the last ice age, and human civilization in this region has developed for more than tens of thousands of years, so the culture of this region is mysterious and unfathomable. Before entering the subcontinent, the Aryans had little cultural heritage, and in order to rule the people of the subcontinent, they had to borrow the ancient culture of Southeast Asia to establish their own cultural system. After the Aryans came to dominate the subcontinent, they used the region's intellectual and religious elites to help them establish a culture and religion centered on Aryan culture, so that they could rule the people of the subcontinent for a long time. As a result, a set of myths, religious classics, and historical stories with Aryan culture and values as the core were created in a complete and systematic manner, and Brahmanism gradually became the core of Indian thought, and the Brahmin social hierarchy began to become the behavioral norms and moral standards of Indians.

In this Aryan-led cultural reform, many Southeast Asian cultural connotations became Brahmin cultural connotations, such as Shiva Shipo god worship became the exclusive god of Brahmin, Shiva shipo and Xibo xibo are close to each other, both of which are male roots (specifically referring to male genitalia) and immortals

It is a female root (specifically referring to female genitalia), in the cultural system of Southeast Asia and East Asia, Xibo is a pair of gods representing yin and yang, in the matriarchal society, the fairy temple is the ancestral temple, the Xibo temple is a matching temple, and the responsibility of the Xibo god is to please the fairy god and serve the fairy god. Angkor Wat is the temple of the god Hibo that has been preserved in ancient times, but contemporary people do not know the origin of Angkor Wat and mistakenly believe that Angkor Wat was built by Indians. In ancient times, one part of the Khitan people called themselves the Xibe Xibo tribe, which shows that there was a widespread worship of the god Xibo, that is, the worship of Shiva, in the ancient East Asian continent.

The Brahmin hierarchy is a modification of the ancient hierarchies of Southeast Asia, which is explained as follows:

The first class "Brahmin", to be able to become a Brahmin must be Aryans, who are born a priestly class. In a matrilineal clan society, the priesthood has the power to appoint the supreme ruler of the clan and the state, and has the power to legislate and interpret the law. "Brahmin" originally meant priest. In the ancient Yue language, Brahmin means, "Po" means elder, uncle, father, etc.; "Luo" means to know, to know, to be a teacher, to be a wise man, and so on; "Gate" means heaven, god, etc.; Brahmin means "God-given priest" or "God-given teacher".

The second class "Kshatriya", this class refers to the local kings, tribal leaders, landowners, royal families, nobles, scholars, intellectuals and other classes that submit to the Aryans, they are also called "royal race", they are engaged in military and political people, according to the Brahmin scriptures, Kshatriya's main duty is to protect the Brahmins from generation to generation. Buddha Shakyamuni was born in the Kshatriya class, so the founder of Buddhism should be a yellow race. In the ancient Yue language, Kshatriya means "Sha" means to know, to know, to know, to be wise, to be a god, to be an oracle, etc.; "Didi" means land, lineage, etc.; "Lili" means good, kind, obedient, etc.; Kshatriya means "obedient and authentic divine teacher".

The third class "Vaishya" is the old translation of "Vaishya, Vaishya, Vaishya, Vaishya", because the original pronunciation of these sounds is too different, so the new translation of "Vaishya" is "Waiya", which specifically refers to laypeople, Tian family, and merchants. They were the common class engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry, handicrafts, commerce, and other productive undertakings, and consisted of local obedient people and ordinary Aryans. In the ancient Yue language, "waixia" means that "wai" is close to "wei wei", and "wei wei" means male, paternal, paternal, etc.; "Xia xia" is close to "Yaya", and "Yaya" means female, matrilineal, matriarchal, etc.; "Waixia" means "male member of the maternal clan" or "derivative paternal clan of the maternal clan", and is therefore a free people who are not subject to the clan, system, and religious restrictions of the matrilineal clan society.

The fourth class "Shudra", the people of this class can only work as high-ranking servants and craftsmen who serve meals and cooks, they basically belong to the captives and people who were conquered by the Aryans, most of them are reduced to slavery, lose property and freedom, they can only accept the slavery, oppression and exploitation of the rulers. From ancient times to the present day, this class of people has been the foundation of the Indian revolution, and they have never given up their right to freedom, equality and dignity. In the ancient Yue language, "Shudra" means, and "Shoushou" means dim, ignorant, stupid, etc.; "Tuotou" means school, discipline and instructor, etc.; "Luo luo" means to know, to know, to be a teacher, to be a wise man, and to be wise; "Shudra" means "a foolish person who needs to be disciplined by a priest."

The Brahmin doctrine and system, which was the confirmation and legalization of the Aryan position as rulers of India, played a certain role in balancing the interests of all parties, eliminating wars, and stabilizing society, but it also led to a greater social crisis. The system and theocracy of the matrilineal clan society had seriously jeopardized human freedom, equality and justice, and since the advent of the Brahmanical system, the majority of the people in the region have been plunged into greater suffering and endless disasters because of the complete loss of freedom, equality and justice. Thus, Indian society was destined from the beginning to be a turbulent society full of suffering, despair, conflict, and war.

It was not until 623 B.C. that a world-class great saint Shakyamuni was born in the Kapila Guardian Kingdom of Nepal (near present-day Tirolakot in southern Nepal), who was the crown prince of the King of the Kapila Guardian Kingdom, who belonged to the "Kshatriya" caste, and he deeply understood the suffering and suffering of life, as well as social imprisonment, inequality and injustice, so he founded Buddhism on the basis of shamanism, Jainism and other native religions, Buddhism believes that the suffering and emptiness of life are caused by essential factors, In order to get rid of and eliminate the suffering of life, people must cut off their lust and pursuit through moral practice, and return to the natural state of having no desires and desires. Emptiness and emptiness are the essence and destination of all things in the world, and only by maintaining a pure and empty mental state can life and soul be sublimated and immortalized. At the same time, Buddhism advocates that all people are equal, all things are equal, and everything with a soul in the world can become a Buddha. Implement strict rules and precepts, do good deeds and accumulate virtues, abandon evil and promote good, emphasize moral values such as "good will be rewarded, and evil will end up", and comprehensively purify the social atmosphere. As a result, Buddhism was widely supported by the middle and lower classes of people in ancient India, and Buddhism became a vigorous force for reform in ancient Indian society. But at this time, ancient India had already experienced the long reign of Brahmin for about 1600 years, and it can be seen that any awakening of human beings will have to go through quite a long life of suffering and ideological struggle!

Buddhism is called bojim/bogim in India, and in the ancient Vietnamese language, bo is a male elder, venerable; jim/gim is the meaning of asking God, asking for God, divination, etc., which is equivalent to the meaning of "zhen" and "true" in Chinese

The word "Zhen" means "the god said" or "the god said" in the divination; Hence bojim means "Prophetic Venerable". Early Buddhism referred to practitioners of this religion as "samun".

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"Very close pronunciation, different readings of the same word, and the Buddha practiced some morality in Nobita, the head of Jainism, and Jainism emphasizes that their religion originated from jim, which is shamanism, because jim is the main secular act of shamanism. Therefore, shamanism is an important foundation of Buddhism. Because of this, after Buddhism was introduced to China and other Asian countries, it was quickly integrated into the local culture and folk customs. "Salmon

In the ancient Yue language, it means "shasa" means to know, knowledge, teacher, etc.; "Door me

"It means heaven, god, etc.; Hence the "Salmon."

It means "Heavenly Master" and "Divine Master".

The most important and fundamental scripture of Brahmanism and modern Hinduism, the Vedas, is Veda, so this scripture is also translated as the Veda Sutra, the Veda Sutra, the Veda Sutra, and so on. Perhaps the Vedas had two names from the very beginning, "Vetuo" and "Veda", then the meaning of the Vedas translated into ancient Vietnamese is that ve means painting, writing, scriptures, scriptures, etc.; "Dada" means river, smooth, etc.; "Tuotuo" means school, teacher, priest, teaching, etc. Thus, the two meanings of "Vedas" are "the scriptures that flow naturally" or "the scriptures taught by the priests". When the Aryans invaded India, they should not have been proficient in writing and writing, and the Vedas should have been created by local Shaman intellectuals who were proficient in the ancient Vietnamese language, according to the needs and narratives of the Aryans. Therefore, in the Vedas, there are many ancient ethnic languages and meanings of Southeast Asia and the South Asian subcontinent.

It can be seen that modern human beings are not only of the same origin in race, but also in language, culture, religion and customs, and if anyone has to look at human history and culture with an isolated and narrow eye, they are the frogs at the bottom of the well, and they will not be able to understand the history and civilization of mankind, let alone the past, present and future of mankind!