Just when He Qi was wondering why Professor Gu focused on talking about "the Golden Mean", Professor Gu changed the subject and avoided talking about it again, saying: "If there is a house, below is the foundation, and above is the house. The foundation has been in the foundation for all dynasties.
It was repaired and rebuilt on the basis and lasted for more than 2,000 years.
Year, now this house is crumbling and weathered. Some people advocate repairing it, some people advocate tearing down the original house and rebuilding it. Some people advocate destroying the foundation and copying it from foreigners. I want to ask you, I am afraid of the foundation of China in 2000.
What is it?"
"Are they the princes and nobles of all dynasties?"
"Is it a family tree that goes down the same line?"
"Is it a written classic that has been passed down for thousands of years?"
Professor Gu asked several questions in a row, but shook his head and denied it. Then he looked at Mr. Yang Chengzhan who was listening below and said: "Mr. Chengzan once wrote an article titled "Gold and Iron Doctrine". Among them, he said: China has always been
Although there is no nation
The two-character noun actually has the title of so many nations. People today will definitely think of the oldest nation in China as the Han nation. In fact, Han is the name of the Liu family in the era of the emperor, not the name of its nation. China has had a culture since ancient times.
taller, person
A relatively large number of ethnic groups in their country call themselves China, and they call their nation Zhonghua. In order to achieve this meaning, a country is different from a country, and it is different from a region. In China, it is said that the regions are different from China and foreign countries.
Far and near. One nation
The distinction between a nation and a culture, as described by Zhonghua, means that the superiority of culture is distinguished by Huayi. In other words, the term "China" is not only the name of a country in a region, but also not the name of a species of blood.
It is the name of a cultural clan."
“I deeply believe that, so today’s question about the foundation of China is our Chinese civilization, a civilization that is completely different from Western civilization, an all-encompassing civilization, a civilization with a long history, a civilization that has gone through hardships and tended to perish several times but remains intact.
civilization."
"When I was studying in the West, I studied their history and discovered a very strange place. The land of Europe and our land of China are equally vast and rich in resources, but they were divided into dozens of countries, while we, China, only have one. If
If we study further, we will find that the cultures of the provinces in China are hugely different, and their languages and customs are also different. If it corresponds to Europe, then each province can become its own country."
"So, I opened the history books and found that before the pre-Qin period, China was quite similar to Europe. In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, more than a dozen countries were fighting each other, to the Seven Kingdoms fighting for supremacy, to the time when the King of Qin swept across Liuhe, and China was unified. The book has the same text.
, cars and cars moved on the same track, and Chinese civilization was gradually born."
"After the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, the Five Husties disrupted China, the Yiguan traveled south, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Northern Wei and the Southern Song Dynasties were separated, and until the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the concept of great unity was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the Chinese civilization integrated the civilizations of many northern nomadic peoples and was once again condensed."
"At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms, the mountains and rivers were shattered. By 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."
"Thus, the Western countries at the same time were divided, and they are still like this today. On the other hand, China is divided and united, and eventually it is unified."
"If we remove all the superficial embellishments of past dynasties and remove the house called country, what is buried underneath is clearly Chinese civilization."
"In other words, rather than saying that China is a country, it is better to say that China is a civilization cloaked in the guise of a country.
"But now, some people don't want it anymore. They copy foreign things, wear suits, eat Western food, and speak foreign languages. In their eyes, foreign things are elegant and ancestors' things are vulgar, so they should treat the ancestors' things
Everything that was left behind that could be thrown away was thrown away.”
"I think that these people are short-sighted and have shallow knowledge, causing harm to the country and the people, and are particularly despicable. Little do I know that oranges grow in Huainan, and oranges grow in Huainan, and oranges grow in Huaibei, and they grow zhi. If the things made by foreigners are really so good, then why are there still several countries in Europe?
I am still the only one in China."
"good!!"
"good!!!"
Professor Gu's highly inflammatory speech aroused unanimous applause from everyone. However, Qian Xuan fell into a misunderstanding because Professor Gu was put into his own thinking, and he was unable to refute it for a while.
At this moment, Brother Xun suddenly spoke and said: "Professor Gu said it very well, but I have a question. I would like to ask Professor Gu to clarify his confusion?"
"Please!" Professor Gu said.
Everyone stopped their applause, held their breath and listened quietly.
"As Professor Gu said, the separation of several countries in Europe is not as good as the unification of China, so why can a mere small country in Europe insult our unified country of China?"
"With reference to Mr. Praise's article "The Doctrine of Gold and Ironism", the so-called gold refers to money and the economy, in order to achieve prosperity for the people. Iron refers to black iron, iron cannons, and military affairs.
We want to use this to make the country stronger. Currently, our country, China, is weak economically and militarily, so foreign powers come to bully us." Professor Gu explained.
"So, we are going to demolish that dilapidated house and rebuild a new one. Do you agree with Professor Gu?" Brother Xun asked again.
"I agree to build a new house, but I don't agree to knock it down and rebuild it together with the foundation."
"However, this house has been built several times and it is still crumbling. Could it be that there is a problem with the foundation?"
"If a leg is sick, treat the leg. If you abandon it, it will be difficult to support a single tree."
"How to treat it?"
"People rule."
"Shhh" everyone was confused again.
"When I turned over 2000 years of history, I only saw two words: 'morality'. In all dynasties in their prosperous times, 'morality' prevailed. 'Tao' restrained the body and practiced it, and 'virtue' restrained the desires of the heart, which is called 'the golden mean'
, with 'the mean'
Taoism cures diseases by people. Why is this house still crumbling after being built several times? It is because the people who built it do not respect morality and use wrong methods. It does not matter whether it is a "Jun Xian" or a "Min Xian"
, all need to rely on 'rule by people'."
Professor Gu stood at this node, looked back on the past, and then concluded an empirical statement. Strictly speaking, it is true. This is one of the ways that our ancestors explored the future.
We later people stand on the shoulders of light and accuse those who were in the darkness a hundred years ago for not knowing the way and where the exit is. This is obviously unfair and unscrupulous. Without their blind groping, where would we have come from?
today?
In this debate, Qian Xuan and Brother Xun seemed to be at a disadvantage. This was due to the limitations of the times. He Qi felt that he had to say a few words. It was not an accusation, but 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" contains a sentence called "Natural Selection".
The only one who survives is the survival. On the African savannah, there are many social herbivores, including antelopes, wildebeests, bison, etc.
To find a piece of pasture, you must cross a river and migrate to the opposite pasture to look for food. In this river, there is a kind of predator called crocodile, waiting specifically to hunt and prey in the river they must pass through when migrating. If
We were also one of the animals that was about to migrate. When we came to the river, we saw the crocodile in the river with its mouth wide open and looked terrifying.
So we were scared, stopped, and stood hesitantly by the river. At the same time, other animals were already crossing the river. They lost some of their kind and finally set foot on the other side, where there were delicious and juicy tender animals.
There is an endless supply of delicious delicacies in the grass. But we not only missed the opportunity to cross the river with them, but we have not yet
After making a decision, they always stood by the river to discuss and argue. As the days passed, some of them finally became so hungry that they rushed down the river and soon died in the mouths of many crocodiles. The blood stained the surface of the river red, so some
People are so frightened that they have to step back and go back to the pasture that has been eaten away long ago, and try to find a way to regenerate the grass."
"I would like to ask, if we crossed the river with other animals, wouldn't we be able to share the crocodile attacks with each other and reduce the loss of the population?"
"As for those who are scared and want to retreat, they will probably starve to death by the time the grass grows again."
"Now, we are the only ones standing by the river. Should we pay the price of blood and cross the river immediately? Or should we continue to stand by the river to discuss and argue, watching the green grass on the other side being feasted on by other species. The more they eat
, we have less to eat, and as one goes and the other goes, their population becomes stronger and stronger, and ours becomes weaker and weaker.”
This is a fruitless debate. Professor Gu's "one room" cannot but be said to be unreasonable, while He Qi's "standing by the river and thinking" is refreshing. The parents of the two families are justified in talking about the public, and the mother-in-law is right.