The slight contact between the palms produces a fierce spark. Followed by a deeper integration of the two civilizations. "The more national it is, the more cosmopolitan it is." Western Europe is a great nation, and so is China. The two civilizations developed in the continuous integration of this nation.
Ideas? religion
China people's thoughts were originally extremely active. It is normal for a scholar to worship Confucius and Mencius and a Taoist to kneel to Li Er. We should be glad that China didn't form the so-called feudal "theology" too early, so that a hundred schools of thought could contend in the Warring States Period. This is the first big discussion on social life in China's history, and he has liberated China people's thoughts to an unprecedented height. Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, France, and soldiers ... have different positions, but they have never slandered and rejected each other. All factions expressed their opinions, and at one time a hundred flowers blossomed and achieved fruitful results.
then what As China entered the long feudal era, when the brilliant Qin Shihuang realized that this ideological "chaos" situation was about to threaten his rule, he urgently needed to support one of them to consolidate his dynasty. He chose Han Fei, and then Reese. Then he burned books to bury Confucianism. It is a historical regret that the elite of an era was burned.
Later, a young son of heaven named Liu Che was moved by a scholar named Dong Zhongshu. China's feudal "theology" was finally formed from the moment he issued the decree of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone". Since then, an invisible rope has bound the hands and feet of China people to explore, and the space for thinking has become narrower and narrower.
Compared with China, western religions are single. They seem to have no idols except God and Jesus, so their thoughts are more concentrated and fixed. It's like a dark and silent sky. Although there are occasional superstars like Aristotle and Socrates, it is hard to compare with the overall prosperity of China philosophers. Christianity was loose at first. The first article in the Bible, called Genesis, firmly acknowledged the greatness of this creation. However, in the middle and late Middle Ages, western feudal theology gradually went to the extreme of reaction, which seriously imprisoned people's thoughts. At this time, a Polish scholar stepped forward and sounded the death knell of the old times with his "Heliocentrism" view. Kepler calculated the elliptical trajectory of the planet in the prison of the church, Bruno stood in the blazing fire and told the infinity of the universe ... Several generations of Yingjie wave after wave, mercilessly tore the ignorant teachings to pieces, and new ideas were born on the ruins of the church, and the future became bright again.
In China, when western enlightenment thinkers spread human rights everywhere with their works, China could not form a universal atmosphere that was enough to innovate. Wang Yangming turned Confucianism, which had long been stale, into a theory of mind. At that time, China was lifeless under the guidance of such thoughts. The scholar-bureaucrat always called Confucius and Mencius, and Gong Zizhen, a talented person in armor, lamented helplessly that "ten thousand horses are together", which should appear in medieval Europe! But this actually exists in the land of Kyushu, China.
Undeniably, in the vast history, China has been ahead of the West for most of the time. It was not the Industrial Revolution that allowed the West to fly over China. In fact, earlier, when the poet wrote his divine comedy under the oil lamp, the west had already caught up. In ancient China, however, the pace of advanced civilization disappeared in endless court battles and intensified literary inquisition.
Military? diplomacy
When civilized China people have gradually realized the cruelty of human martyrdom and replaced it with clay figurines, why are there so many people witnessing the bloodshed in the Colosseum in ancient Rome? Why are the uprising soldiers in Badek still crucified alive on both sides of the road leading to the capital? In my subjective world, Chinese civilization has its unique gentleness.
Another thousand years have passed.
The alarm bells of western churches are constantly ringing, and western Europeans are constantly shouting "Yellow Disaster is coming". When they organized the Crusades, they were only greeted by bitter defeat. Just because they met Xiaoqi, the son of Genghis Khan from the Mongolian grassland in northern China. Just because they are used to make cold weapons, such as ironmaking, steel jujitsu, or gunpowder from a ware gun, they all come from China. Of course, China people have reason to use them more perfectly.
China's traditional culture is based on Confucianism, which determines the introversion of this civilization, and only the remote ethnic minorities in China will create such immortal wonders. Covering the whole of Siberia, from Rome to the east coast of China, it has a vast meta-territory.
See you later, Kyle? Polo came, and his trip stimulated westerners to look for Jin Meng in the East. Westerners use the compass handed down from China to expand their navigation crazily, but in China, the compass is used by alchemists to look at geomantic omen and choose a land of eternal happiness for the deceased.
With the rise of the west, China became backward, Matteo Ricci came, and a wind of "Western learning spreading to the east" was blown up. Later, Magalny came. Emperor Qianlong politely refused him, and China lost his final awakening without bloodshed.
Fanatical westerners are full of expansion and plunder in their minds. China people always pursue self-sufficiency. This is a historical contradiction and gradually becomes irreconcilable.
Nanjing, Liujiagang. Six hundred years ago, Zheng He's fleet anchored here. Unlike western navigators, he doesn't need gold or jewelry. He just wants the peace of the Ming Dynasty and the broadcasting of Tianwei. Without the stimulation of interest, his fleet was over. However, the maritime industry in the west is becoming more and more prosperous. Diaz knew about the Cape of Good Hope, Dharma came to India, and Magellan traveled all over the world. Westerners are very expansive. More than 400 years after Zheng He, the China dynasty has been weak. Still in Nanjing, in Jinghai Temple, the names of those who lost their rights were signed on the treaty of humiliating the country: Niu Jian, the old citizen and Ilib.
China people are ambitious after all, and the strong guns of westerners will not make us yield. Brave people are looking for a new way out. A scholar-bureaucrat whose ancestral home was Shaoyang, Hunan, took the lead in shouting "adjust the hatred of foreigners to attack them, and learn from foreigners to control them." Slogan, this is the theme of that era. China finally put down his arrogance and learned from his former students.
I don't need to understand why a great man like Napoleon chose to surrender after Waterloo. He should die for his French mother. Westerners value life, while China people value honesty more. The head can be broken, the blood can flow, and the soul of the nation cannot be lost. People who live for a breath are dead, and their backbones must be straight!
"Surrender for a life to make a comeback. If you don't feel ashamed, it's in your UK. I only have one death, and death is heavier than Mount Tai. The land of China is at my feet. As long as I am here, I will never allow the bandits' warships to wreak havoc here. Needless to say, if the navy lost, it would only hit the ship empty. "1895, the desperate governor of Beiyang navy, Ding, answered the surrender of his foreign officials.
As the famous saying goes, "The more national it is, the more cosmopolitan it is". It is impossible for a country or a nation to exist in isolation in this world. Progress needs learning, development needs communication, and we appreciate differences, but only by eclecticism can these differences show their other beauty.