It is a time of famine, and every household is worried about how to find some food to survive for a few more days. Visiting from door to door is no longer the way it used to be. This sentence comes from a group of people who do not believe in God but only believe in themselves. Read " "The Evolution of Chinese National Character".

A brief description of the content of "The Evolution of Chinese National Character":

National character is not static. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Tang and Song Dynasties, and then to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the character of the Chinese people is like a waterfall. , flying down, getting worse and worse. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Chinese people were simple and honest; in the Tang Dynasty, people were vigorous and sunny, with a martial spirit; after entering the Ming and Qing Dynasties, hooliganism became more and more serious. This change is closely related to the development of autocracy.

Through the observation of Chinese national character from a world perspective and the analysis of the evolution of Chinese national character from a historical perspective, the author believes that it is the backward system that has caused the bad character of the Chinese people. Since modern times, everyone from Liang Qichao and Lu Xun to Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong have made arduous efforts to transform the national character, but with little success. The root cause is that the system construction and the transformation of the national character are not synchronized. There are no "filtering germs" on the Chinese people. To transform the national character, we must work hard from the institutional perspective.

Introduction to Zhang Hongjie:

Zhang Hongjie Zhang, Hong, jie, is a researcher at the School of History at Renmin University of China. His main research directions are non-fiction historical writing and the dissemination of public history. Born in Liaoning in April 1972, he graduated from the Historical Geography Research Center of Fudan University, received a PhD in history, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department of Tsinghua University. He has published more than ten monographs, including "Seven Faces of the Ming Dynasty", "A Brief Reading of Chinese History", "A Brief Reading of Japanese History", and "The Front and Side of Zeng Guofan".

Many works have been published in Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas. He has won the National Minority Literary Creation "Jianma Award", "Liaoning Literature Award", etc., and was nominated for the "Essayist of the Year Award" at the "Chinese Literature Media Awards" in 2006. Chief writer of the large-scale documentary "Eight Hundred Years of Chu" (simultaneously broadcast on CCTV1, 9 and Hubei TV in March 2013).

In June 2013, he lectured on the series "Success and Failure of Qianlong" on CCTV's "Hundred Forum", and the ratings reached the highest level in the year. He has given many academic lectures at the National Library of China, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China and other places. In April 2018, Zhang Hongjie was invited to attend the Boao Forum for Asia held in Boao, Hainan, and delivered a speech on the theme of "Noble Spirit".