To destroy a country, we must first destroy its history, its race and its culture. It means that to destroy a country, we must first destroy its history. To destroy a nation, we must first destroy its culture.

This sentence was said by Gong Zizhen.

All history through the ages tells us that economic strength is not the decisive factor of the rise and fall of a country or a nation, but the ideology formed by the history and culture of this country and this nation.

It mainly reflects the importance of ideological and cultural influence to a country and a nation. If a country wants to perish, it must have no historical and cultural support. If you want to destroy a nation, the most important thing is to make it have no cultural thoughts. The strong point of a country and a nation is not money and rights, but their history and culture.

Extended data creation background:

Gong Zizhen used to be cabinet secretary, director of Zongrenyuan and director of etiquette department. He advocated abolishing graft and resisting foreign aggression, and once fully supported Lin Zexu to ban opium. He resigned at the age of 48 and returned to the south. The following year, he died in Yunyang College, Danyang, Jiangsu.

His poems advocated "changing the law" and "changing the painting", exposed the corruption of the Qing rulers, and were full of patriotic enthusiasm. They were praised by Liu Yazi as "the first class in three hundred years". He is the author of Ding 'an Anthology, with more than 300 articles and nearly 800 poems. Today's collection is the complete works of Gong Zizhen. There are 350 famous articles and Ji Hai's miscellaneous poems. Many works of praise and allegory.

Gong Zizhen passed the sixth exam and was finally admitted to Jinshi. In "Countermeasures for Imperial Examination", he imitated Wang Anshi's "Ren Zong Yan Shu" and wrote "Trying to Determine the Border Areas and Recovering the Sparse", discussed the aftermath of the Zhungeer Rebellion in Xinjiang, and put forward the reform ideas from the aspects of governance, personnel, water control and border management.

"For current affairs, with thousands of words, said Chen without hiding, marking all frightened. Cao Zhenyong, a college student who presided over the imperial examination, was a famous "tumbler who kowtowed more and talked less" in the Three Dynasties. He ranked Gong Zizhen 19th among the top three, and was not allowed to enter the Imperial Academy, so he stayed in the cabinet book.