It is for this reason that the Ming Dynasty over there did not develop science and technology, and it is almost the same as us now! "
Liao Yong touched his head and said.
She didn't understand at all why she didn't have contact with the modern Ming Dynasty. In his opinion, the Ming Dynasty across the street was very good. He had the same culture, the same species and strong strength. He was a country that he could interact with, and he was also a good ally.
Why don't we date? It's such a pity.
Zhuo Qun looked at Liao Yong's face and knew what he was thinking.
"Are you sorry that we don't communicate with Ming Dynasty?"
Zhuo Qun asked, looking at the tea in the teacup.
"Haha, yes, I think it's a pity. We should be able to communicate."
Liao Yong was not embarrassed by what Zhuo Qun said, so he smiled and admitted it.
"What do you think of that Daming?"
Zhuo Qun asked as he added some tea to Liao Yong's tea cup.
"The Ming Dynasty is a very good, very good and strong country."
Liao Yong didn't understand what Zhuo Qun meant by asking, but he still told the truth, and he really felt that Ming Dynasty was a very good country.
Zhuo Qun sighed. This was what he was worried about, the sense of identity from the same culture.
There are some pits in the world that are impossible to climb out of if you fall into them, or are difficult to climb out of.
One is religion. This kind of trap can brainwash people, and it is the kind of group brainwashing. Fortunately, it is rare for a country or nation to fall into this trap, but some people still fall into it. Then Tianzhu and Camel are typical examples of falling into a pit, especially White Elephant. They fell into Brahman's pit and were completely unable to get out. Moreover, they should have specially put a lid on themselves to avoid climbing out on their own.
The other is the pit of culture. It’s hard to get into this pit, but once you get in, it’s hard to get out.
This pit is usually entered by oneself. Those weak nations will take the initiative to learn from those powerful cultures in order to become stronger. In the past thousands of years, Zhu Xia has been the digger of the pit. After his own force was sealed by himself, In the end, relying on the cultural pit, one ethnic group after another was trapped, and they were all chewed up and eaten. This was true for each grassland ethnic group, and the same was true for those ethnic groups in the southwest. Even after being invaded by foreign tribes, they would eat them all. Foreign assimilation.
It relies on its own cultural strength.
This strength lasted until the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. Although they didn't want to admit it, even the Manchu and Qing Dynasties actually assimilated the culture of Zhu Xia.
While assimilating to the Manchus, Zhuxia's culture also became fragmented, leaving only broken branches and leaves and the knowledge of how to be enslaved and how to identify with others.
But they have lost the identity of their own culture. This lack of culture comes from the religious Confucianism, or the holy religion.
The Holy Religion is what the Confucians call themselves. They have gradually transformed themselves from a classical school that governs the country into a super religion, the Holy Religion, that suppresses the world with its size.
The first brick of this holy religion came from Dong Zhongshu's decision to depose hundreds of schools of thought and only respect Confucianism. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty knocked it down with his own hands, but his second brick was thrown away by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty through the induction of heaven and man.
Afterwards, generations of emperors and Confucians added bricks to it, including loyalty, filial piety, etiquette, justice, integrity and shame, and the three cardinal principles and five constant principles.
Moreover, even the second brick that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty threw away with his own hands, he took it back in his later years and gave the most important brick to Confucianism. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the cornerstone, the Sinner's Edict.
The emergence of the Sinji Edict signifies one thing, that is, the emperor is inherently guilty, and by analogy, if the emperor is guilty, then the royal family is guilty, the nobles are guilty, and so on until the common people are guilty.
However, there are still those who are without sin. The saints are sinless, and the disciples of the saints and those gentlemen are also sinless.
If you don’t believe me, look at it. If the teaching is not strict and the teacher is lazy, this is just laziness, not a crime.
When Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty came up with the imperial examination system, Confucianism found a channel to connect with the lower classes. Those who wanted to become officials took the imperial examination and wanted to learn Confucianism through the imperial examination.
In the Song Dynasty, the aristocratic families disappeared completely, and Confucianism rushed towards Confucianism. In order to completely connect officials and Confucianism, they tried their best to suppress the military generals, forming a system in which culture dominated military affairs for hundreds of years. source.
With the emergence of Neo-Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty, the hall of Confucianism took shape.
Kings, ministers, fathers and sons, these things have become Confucian murals, things that make kings linger in the Confucian hall.
When Zhu Yuanzhang, the beggar emperor, appeared, the real heyday of Confucianism came, and the eight-part essay was the stepping stone for Confucianism.
Starting from the Northern Song Dynasty, Confucianism became a more terrifying religion than the Holy See in the Dark Middle Ages. They could even kill emperors.
Finally, in the Qing Dynasty, Confucianism still existed, and its life was more nourishing, because they completely controlled everything in Zhuxia.
If this development continues, there will be two paths. One is to change dynasties without restrictions, and the other is that Confucianism will be overthrown one day. This is also very possible. After all, the existence of hundreds of schools of thought is originally People who cheat in the real world, needless to say, Wang Yangming almost overthrew Confucianism. If Zhengde hadn't fallen into the water and fell ill, and was put under house arrest by his teacher and died, this big boss who cheated and lived in the real world, He really single-handedly brought Confucianism back to its origins and turned it into a school of thought again.
But in the end Confucianism was overthrown. The problem is that the people who overthrew Confucianism were not our own people, but foreign cultures.
Now things get serious. Confucianism has been overthrown by foreign culture. What does it mean?
What this person represents is that the strongest cultural system for thousands of years has fallen behind, is no longer good, and will be eliminated.
In these great changes that have not happened in thousands of years, Confucianism was defeated as soon as it came on the scene. The problem is that our culture has become integrated with Confucianism and cannot be separated.
When Confucianism was knocked down, it meant that the culture was knocked down. From that moment on, the moon outside was rounder than our own, and then slowly became the truth, and it became a fact that foreign cultures were better than ours.
Even Zhu Xia's cultural self-confidence reached its lowest point in a short period of time, and Zhu Xia jumped from the pit of Confucianism to the pit of Western culture.
In modern times, it took Zhu Xia decades to climb out of the trap of Western culture, and there are still many people who don't want to climb out.
Zhuo Qun asked Liao Yong what he thought of the Ming Dynasty over there. Liao Yong's answer was very good, which showed that he had been subconsciously attracted to the culture there.
This is a big trouble. Now Zhuxia has filled some foundations with the culture of the Song Dynasty, but the cultural self-confidence has still not been completely restored.
At this time, they encountered a powerful culture with the same origin as the modern Ming Dynasty. The trouble was really big. Zhuo Qun didn't know how to deal with them at all.
