In order to better analyze and define the development process of human civilization, the process of our human civilization includes the spiritual age, the divine age, the humanistic age, the scientific age, the eternal age, the free age and other stages of civilization from low to high. At present, human beings have It has experienced civilization stages such as the Age of Spiritual Law, the Age of Divine Law, and the Humanistic Age, and is currently experiencing the Age of Science. In the future, it will also experience advanced stages of civilization such as the Age of Eternal Life and the Age of Freedom.
Human beings began to enter the process of civilization only after their consciousness and thinking were improved. Before entering civilization, human beings should have gone through a very long stage of ignorance. After the comprehensive development of sound consciousness, thinking and perception, human beings began to generate thoughts and form the earliest world outlook, values, outlook on life and methods. The most valuable early thought of mankind is the understanding and thinking of spirituality and soul. The earliest awakened human prophets believed that spirit is the basis and foundation for the operation and change of everything in the world. The spirit is the spiritual essence that exists independently of the body and matter, and the soul is the existence form of this spiritual essence. The soul can be attached to the body and matter, making the body and matter function. At the same time, the soul can also exist without the body and matter. The body and matter will perish due to the loss of the soul, while the soul can remain immortal in a non-material state. Due to the immaterial nature of the soul, human sense organs and modern scientific instruments cannot perceive the soul. The soul is a spiritual substance and form that humans realize and understand through thinking and reasoning. On the basis of the understanding of spirit and soul, human beings have established the most primitive ideas, that is, the earliest world outlook, values, outlook on life and methods. This earliest idea is the idea of primitive shamanism. These ideas are the norms and norms of human thinking and behavior. Therefore, we call this period of human civilization the Age of Spiritual Law, that is, the era when shamanism rules human thoughts and behaviors. We believe that the Spiritual Age was formed before the Great Migration of mankind, that is, 45,000 years ago, and continued until the end of the Great Migration of mankind, when it began to settle and develop in various parts of the world, that is, 15,000 years ago.
Therefore, from 45,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago, humans all over the world experienced the age of spiritual magic.
With the stable life of human settlement and regional mobility, human beings began to create various professional gods and protector gods with supernatural abilities based on their soul thoughts, such as the God of Creation, the God of Fertility, the God of Agriculture, the God of Land, the God of Mountains, Forest God, Shepherd God, Fire God, Wind God, Rain God, Thunder God, Sky God, Sun God, as well as the God of Wisdom, Love, War, Plague, Death, the Undead, National Protector, City Protector, National Protector, etc.
The establishment of these gods enriched the spiritual world of mankind, cultivated mankind's understanding and awe of nature and everything in the world, and also enriched mankind's world view, values, outlook on life and methods, and established the earliest moral norms of mankind. and legal basis. This period of development of human civilization is the age of divine law. In this era, all human confusions and behaviors must be consulted by shamans, divine masters and priests, and only by obtaining divine will and decree can we solve confusions and take action. Human beings around the world are experiencing their own eras of divine law.
The severe Little Ice Age occurred between 4300 and 4100 years ago, causing farmers and herdsmen in cold areas to migrate to areas with warm climate and abundant water and grass. In the east, the Huaxia and other northern farming and pastoral peoples migrated across the Qinling Mountains and the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to various parts of Sichuan. Due to the conflicts and wars between the Huaxia and other northern ethnic groups and the senior aristocrats such as the matrilineal imperial family of the ancient Shu state, the ancient Shu state was destroyed, and the matrilineal imperial class that controlled the divine and royal power was completely outlawed. From then on, the divine right in the Eastern world was completely eliminated. Kingship and human rights in the Eastern world were free to form without the permission of the divine right. An era without divine right, an era that puts people first, respects life and human rights, is the era of humanism. Eastern civilization, with Chinese civilization as its core, ended the age of divine law and entered the age of humanity around 4,200 years ago.
In more than 1300 AD, Western civilization with Egyptian civilization and Mediterranean civilization as the core began to have scholars propose to break through the constraints of religious thought, liberate human thought, pay attention to people's suffering and living conditions, develop productivity, increase supply, meet the needs of the people and society, and respect Human rights emphasize that royal power and human rights are higher than divine rights. Royal rights and divine rights jointly rule the country and society. From then on, the Western world began to enter the humanistic era. Based on this calculation, the Eastern world entered the humanistic era more than 3,500 years earlier than the Western world. Therefore, the Eastern world does not have as many tall and strict stone churches as the Western world, nor does it have the kind of monotheistic religion that has reached its peak. The buildings of the Eastern world They are all built for people and the country, so Eastern buildings are very practical, using local materials and designing and constructing according to actual needs. Religions in the Eastern world only satisfy people's thinking and exploration of the soul and the afterlife. Easterners are not obsessed with fantasies about God. Easterners will not wait for God to save them, let alone wait for God to bring them to heaven of eternal bliss. Therefore, Westerners think Easterners are atheists, while Easterners think Westerners are superstitious and conservative.
Westerners respect and are superstitious about religion (religions based on Judaism and Christianity) and theocracy for geographical and historical reasons. We can imagine that the ancient human ancestors who had just migrated to the Middle East, the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, Egypt and other regions saw those tall and majestic pyramids, obelisks, temples and other extraordinary buildings standing high in the boundless desert. (according to scientific determination, these great buildings were erected in those places 35,000 years ago), what a huge spiritual shock they felt, how much confusion, horror and awe they felt! These spiritual shocks have prompted Westerners to firmly believe that there is heaven beyond the sky, that there are gods beyond humans, that gods create and control the world, and that the stories handed down from their ancestors about disasters such as the Great Flood (caused by the thawing of the Ice Age and rising sea levels) and the Great Escape authenticity, and firmly believe that all natural disasters are punishments from God to mankind. At the same time, ancient legends and mysterious thoughts that ancient humans believed that gods created humans and the world have laid a stubborn ideological foundation for the establishment of Western religions and theocratic systems.
In the Middle East and the Mediterranean, after tens of thousands of years of life and civilization development by ancient humans, the region formed unique thoughts and cultures based on primitive shamanism and ancient thoughts. These thoughts and cultures became the theoretical basis of Western religions and theocratic systems. , from which the characteristic religions and theocratic systems of the Middle East and the Mediterranean were born, followed by ancient Egypt and ancient Greece (modern archaeologists believe that ancient Greek civilization is suspected of fraud and exaggeration, modern archaeologists have discovered that the temple buildings of ancient Greece are Rebuilt on the basis of churches in the Ottoman Empire, ancient Greek statues such as the Statue of Venus, the Statue of David Throwing the Discus, etc. are all works of the European Renaissance, they are not the works of the ancient Greeks), ancient Rome and other Mediterranean Early civilized countries.
Primitive shamanism and ancient human thought are the basis of Western thought and religion. The ancient Egyptians took the shamanistic concept of "skeletons as souls" to the extreme. They made corpses into mummies. Their purpose was not only to preserve the bones of the deceased, but also to They also want to preserve the flesh and blood of the dead, which they believe will make the undead more perfect. However, the mummy burial method consumes a lot of financial resources, so Western society quickly returned to burial and secondary burial. Currently, many neatly stacked human skeletons can still be seen in ancient caves and tunnels in the Middle East and Europe. These are secondary burials of shamanism. remains.
In order to revitalize the national economy and prosper social culture, Zoroastrianism, or Zoroastrianism, emerged in Iran. This religion completely negated the religious theory of "skeletons sending spirits" of shamanism. This religion believed that the essence of the soul is spirit rather than matter, and the soul is not material. Relying on material existence, this religion opposes burial and advocates the destruction of corpses, using cremation, sky burial and water burial. Abolition of abstinence and asceticism, encouragement of childbearing, development of population and material production, improvement of social systems, and prosperity of social economy. These revolutionary religious and social reforms are conducive to saving national and private financial resources, ensuring the rational use of land, ensuring population development, and With the development of economic industries such as agriculture, animal husbandry, handicrafts and social services, the religion laid the ideological and material foundation for Iran to dominate the Middle East and the Mediterranean. At the same time, due to the powerful spiritual power of the religion, the religion has gained popularity among people all over the world, especially in Asia. Widely accepted, Zoroastrianism was deeply embedded in Chinese society during the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Fangla Peasant Uprising, the revolutionary thought of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the uprising troops were all related to Zoroastrianism.
After the emergence of Zoroastrianism, in order to resist the invasion of Western ideas and religions, Jainism and Buddhism emerged in the South Asian subcontinent. Buddhism downplayed the concept of God, and Buddhism focused on the cultivation and sublimation of the soul, clarifying the relationship between soul cultivation and the destination of the soul. Subsequently, the Middle East emerged Inspired by Judaism, the religion advocates monotheism and the "theory of national descent patented by God", prohibits believers from worshiping other gods, and prohibits those of foreign races and those with impure blood from entering the religion, in order to resist the invasion of other religious ideas. This religion has formed its religious thoughts and teachings based on the screening and integration of ancient religious ideas from the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, combined with the historical legends of the Middle East. Therefore, this religion has been launched and has become widely accepted by people in the Middle East and Mediterranean regions. Agree.
However, the religion’s provisions such as the “God-selected ethnic origin patent theory” restrict many religious believers from joining the religion. In order to satisfy the belief and acceptance of the religion by various ethnic groups in the Middle East, a saint founded Christianity on the basis of the religion. Later, the Arabs founded Islam on the basis of Christianity. At this point, the world's religious pattern has basically taken shape.
One of the differences between Westerners and Easterners is that Westerners dedicate their best things to God, and Westerners are more willing to die for the next life; Easterners dedicate their best things to themselves and their relatives, and Easterners are more willing to die for their dreams in this life. Death. Therefore, Westerners like to use expensive stones, gems, etc. to build temples and palaces, thus complimenting and glorifying the divine and royal power; Easterners believe that stones can only be used to build tombs, and residences for living people can only be built of wood, and buildings do not seek to be magnificent. , just want to be able to protect from wind and rain, so most of the materials used in Eastern buildings are local materials, mostly wood and fired bricks. The architectural style is simple and practical. The Eastern architectural concepts reduce construction costs and improve construction efficiency.
In daily life, Easterners pay attention to good food and health preservation, while Westerners believe that food has only one function - to fill the stomach and prevent hunger. Westerners do not want to live long, they only hope to die early and go to heaven; when it comes to work and wealth, Easterners People work hard and diligently, like to store property and take care of their families. Westerners pray and serve God, ignore their families and others, and regard rising to heaven as their only priority in this life. The thoughts and behaviors of Easterners are based on humanistic thoughts, while the thoughts and behaviors of Westerners are based on divine law thoughts. This has led to differences, estrangements and conflicts between Eastern and Western civilizations.
An ancient Western traveler once wrote in his diary: Friend! If you want to be loved by God, you must stay in the West. If you want to live a wonderful and happy life in this life, you must go to the East, where you will get everything you want in life!
The transition from the age of divine law to the age of humanity is not an inevitable historical process. From the perspective of regional culture, the entire Western world has not all entered the humanistic era. Only the European cultural circle in the Western world has entered the humanistic era, while the Middle East is still in the age of divine law until today. Southeast Asia, the South Asian subcontinent, the southern and western parts of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the oldest civilization areas of mankind, are still in the age of divine law to this day.
Chinese civilization entered the humanistic era from the age of divine law because the matriarchal theocracy in the age of divine law severely restricted the development of Chinese society. Therefore, the emerging patriarchal monarchy directly eliminated the matrilineal theocracy and its culture through war. Therefore, Eastern civilization, with Chinese civilization as its core, has done more thoroughly than Western civilization in denying theocratic rights and women's rights.
The development process of Western civilization is different from that of Eastern civilization. After the Great Migration, matrilineal nobles migrated from the East to the Middle East, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt and other regions. They not only mastered industrial technologies such as agriculture, animal husbandry, food processing and handicrafts, but also mastered The right to cultural development and education, the right to religion and the right to speak. Although the indigenous peoples of the Middle East, North Africa and Europe are still the majority of the population in these areas, they can only belong to the Eastern immigrant aristocratic group before they can integrate into the mainstream society of the new West. There are Semites and Hebrews successively. , Greeks, Romans, Aryans, etc. gradually integrated into mainstream Western civilization, and eventually evolved into important forces that dominate Western civilization, such as Egyptians, Jews, Greeks, Romans, Iranians and Arabs. Although the Jews did not make brilliant achievements in founding and defending the country, they were very successful in cultural construction and business. In terms of cultural construction, they founded Judaism and Christianity. In the end, their religion became the mainstream world view, values, moral standards and standards of Western society. On the basis of law, they established the actual controlling class of theocratic and cultural rights.
In Europe, except for the Greeks and Romans and other maritime peoples who once served as rulers of the Western world, other European nations have been marginalized by Western civilized society. They are the Germans (today's Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Anglo- The Saxons (English), Dutch, Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, and Icelanders are all Germanic people, among which the language of the Germans, Austrians, and Swiss is German.); Slavs (today's Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Sorbs, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Rusynians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Bosniaks, and Bulgarians are all Slavs. ); Celts (the present-day Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish people in England, and Brittany people in France all belong to the Celts, represented by the Irish, Scots, and Welsh people) .), namely the three major barbarian tribes in Europe.
In order for these barbarians to enter mainstream Western society and become legal residents of Western society, they must adhere to mainstream religions and become believers and divine people of these religions. Therefore, European Germanic people, Slavs and Celts soon became believers in Western religions. It is the highest goal in life to visit the Holy City of Jerusalem and actively participate in the Crusades to protect the Holy City.
The barbarian believers performed outstandingly quickly and received rewards such as canonization from the Pope and land gifts. They quickly established the Armenian state in the Transcaucasus and established Western countries such as the Rus Empire, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom in Europe. Therefore, the current mainstream countries in the Western world have benefited from the Western religious theocracy in the age of divine law. However, in the course of subsequent historical development, the Western world was repeatedly invaded, plundered, and enslaved by Eastern nomads such as the Huns, Khitans, Turks, and Mongols. The countries established by the Slavs, Germans, and Celts were always The biggest victim, thus forcing Europeans to think about their survival and future. Europeans' belief in religion is a typical speculative behavior. When they feel that religion is not omnipotent, they will definitely give up some theocratic dogmas and seek methods and ways to solve difficulties in the real world. This is the reason why European society entered the humanistic era and the early scientific era.
Now let us review the basic conditions of various human civilization eras. In the age of spiritual magic, human beings have understood the irresistible power of nature and the helplessness, fear and pain of life, old age, illness and death. At the same time, they have understood the soul, deduced the existence and movement form of the soul, and calculated the role of the soul on nature and life. Principles and mechanisms. Therefore, people in the spiritual age respected nature, resigned themselves to fate, and lived completely according to their own understanding of the soul, or the explanations and guidance of clergy such as shamans, divine masters, and priests.
In the age of divine law, the clerical elite has sublimated souls into gods. Although gods and souls exist in a non-material spiritual state, gods have completely independent consciousness and eternal individuals, and are omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipotent. The transcendent natural ability to do as one pleases is something that no soul can possibly possess. Because human beings have too many needs, various gods were created by the clergy elite. In order to provide believers with psychological relief, religious rituals such as praying to gods, worshiping gods, and practicing questioning have become more and more developed and costly. This leads to confusion in belief systems and religious rituals becoming increasingly difficult to operate.
In order to solve these spiritual problems, the Semites founded monotheistic religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam based on the primitive religions of the Middle East. From then on, the life pursuits of people who believed in monotheism became very simple. In addition to doing some necessary things to make a living, all they had to do was to please and obey God, to worship God in the human sanctuary, and to wait there for the end of this life, the sanctuary. They are waiting for God’s final judgment in the underworld, preparing to enter heaven and obtain eternal life and bliss. This is the life pursuit and biggest dream of believers.
The Iranians practiced Zoroastrianism on the basis of the Aryan primitive religion, which later evolved into Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and other religious forms. This religion proposed the concepts of good and evil, and promoted good and abandoned evil as a The basic content of religious practice. The religion spread very successfully in the East, and its teachings and rules were integrated into Hinduism in the South Asian subcontinent. Perhaps Hinduism respects cow customs, and burial forms such as sky burial, cremation, and water burial all came from Zoroastrianism.
In the area where the northern part of the South Asian subcontinent meets the southern foot of the Tibetan Plateau, clerical elites founded Buddhism on the basis of ancient religions such as Shamanism and Jainism. Buddhism has theological concepts such as souls and gods, this life and the next life, reincarnation, heaven and hell. The most profound and incisive description and explanation of the mechanism of Buddhism. At the same time, Buddhism also has the concept of good and evil, and clearly points out that the performance of good and evil in life determines the destination and treatment in the next life. Buddhism has no concept of God. Buddhism emphasizes practice. The highest state of practice is to become a Buddha. After becoming a Buddha, you can transcend the cycle of life and death and enter the eternal Western Paradise. Therefore, we can think of Buddha as the highest form of soul, which is actually God. Buddhism has many clear rules and precepts, among which the precepts such as not killing animals and not eating meat are difficult to accept by nomadic peoples and other carnivorous peoples. Therefore, those who believe in Buddhism are often vegetarian-based farming peoples. Since Hinduism (called JIM/GIM) and Buddhism (Hindu called BOJIM/BOGIM) both originated in the same cultural area, the two have a mutual influence.
The greatest role of religion is to relieve the helplessness, pain and despair of life, so that believers can find peace, satisfaction, joy and happiness in the world displayed by religion. Despite this, many people still choose to be sober and bravely and calmly face the real world and the pitiful and helpless life. This idea of human beings facing reality, thinking about problems and values in reality, and pursuing peace, satisfaction, joy and happiness in life has brought mankind into the humanistic era. People living in the humanistic era worked hard to obtain food; they tried their best to relieve their pain, and they endured even greater pain and tried all kinds of incredible treatments; in order to have a place to shelter from the wind and rain and have a peaceful sleep, They look for caves or build shacks on Gogo trees; in order to seize and protect their living areas, they form an army and fight to the death with the aliens; in order to interact with the aliens and obtain greater benefits, they will make themselves popular with the aliens. They knelt down to please the powerful and learned foreign languages, customs and lifestyles; in order to solve major practical and social problems, they formed huge organizations, city-states and countries with complete functions, complex structures and difficult operations... etc. Although their results are not satisfactory, they are always happier and freer than those who do nothing and wait for death.
Judging from the inevitable death of all things, everything in the world is running according to the inevitable law of "rebirth, growth, prosperity, decline, and destruction". This process does not have any value or significance. However, the greatness of mankind is that there are always a group of elites among mankind who believe that they can break this inevitable pattern of everything, and that they can allow life and soul to exist in a state of immortality and freedom without being affected by the material world. influences and constraints.
Of course, regardless of the big ideals and goals in life, human beings can still find a lot of value and meaning in life. Some people regard living and feeling the present as the value and meaning of life; some people regard loving and being loved, gratitude and dedication, and promoting the good and giving up. Evil is the value and meaning of life; some people regard exploring mysteries, pursuing truth, and creating miracles as the value and meaning of life...and so on. This courageous and indomitable fighting spirit of mankind has made mankind unconsciously move from the humanistic era into the scientific era.
The basic idea of the humanistic era is to put people first, work for the needs of life, strive for the beauty of life, and strive for longevity and the continuation of the human race. In the humanistic era, all work is carried out with the core of meeting people's needs. Basic human needs include survival, safety, security, enjoyment, comfort and freedom. But in order to fully meet these needs, social productivity must be greatly improved, and the social production sector must provide society with a rich variety of materials and services. The full release of human needs will inevitably lead to humans having to think about many practical problems, design strategies and means to solve these problems, and create more powerful technologies and tools. This process of human thinking and action ultimately drives humans living in the humanistic era toward the path of science, ushering in the scientific era of human civilization.
The mission of science is to pursue truth, discover, verify and apply truth, use truth to solve problems of human survival and destiny, and enable human beings to achieve a state of immortality, freedom, comfort and happiness. Therefore, science starts from studying things in real society and nature. At present, in the human science system, humans have established basic disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, materials science, manufacturing, and engineering, and established institutions involving agriculture, animal husbandry, mining, metallurgy, manufacturing, Scientific production and service sectors with a complete range of categories such as transportation industry and service industry.
In 1533 AD, Polish astronomer, mathematician, doctor of canon law, and priest Nicolaus Copernicus published his great work "On the Movement of the Celestial Sphere". The "heliocentric theory" in the work corrected the human world view, "On the Movement of the Celestial Sphere" Verification and universal acceptance by the scientific community marked the beginning of modern astronomy.
In 1776 AD, British inventor and entrepreneur James Watt built the first practical steam engine. This marks that mankind will completely get rid of the era of human and animal power and enter an industrial era where unlimited mechanical power can be obtained.
On October 17, 1831, the famous British scientist Michael Faraday discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction for the first time, and then obtained a method to generate alternating current; on October 28, 1831, Faraday invented the disc generator, which was the first invention created by mankind. dynamo. This marks the beginning of mankind's entry into the infinitely magical era of electricity and electromagnetism.
In 1863 AD, Nobel, a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, military equipment manufacturer and inventor of diatomaceous earth explosives, successfully developed modern explosives together with his father and brother, obtained the patent for nitro explosives, and established an explosives company. This marked the beginning of mankind's entry into the modern military era.
At this stage, European scientists continued to make major discoveries in physics and chemistry, and these scientific truths were also fruitful in practical applications.
The development of science and technology has greatly improved mankind's ability to transform nature and create new things. Whoever masters and applies science and technology first will be at the forefront of civilization development, and whoever can conquer and enslave nations with backward science and technology and culture. As this cultural renaissance and technological revolution took place and matured in Europe, the European powers conquered the world in just over 500 years.
The European powers first conquered the Americas through the Great Navigation Movement. The indigenous American Indians who migrated from the west coast of Asia and the Pacific 20,000 to 30,000 years ago were wiped out by the Europeans in confusion, panic and confusion.
Subsequently, Europeans conquered all of Africa by land and sea, and Africans became cheap slaves for Europeans. They were sold to America and other parts of the world to work as coolies.
Subsequently, Europeans conquered the entire Middle East, Central Asia, and much of Asia, including India.
Finally, Europeans conquered areas such as Southeast Asia and mainland China. Europeans completed their conquest of the world.
During this long war of conquest, Europeans must have never imagined that the world would be so vulnerable? So mean, vulgar and ugly? When the European foreign gun team, led by Chinese guides, invaded Beijing, the thousand-year-old imperial capital of the East, when they saw the Forbidden City, which they had imagined as a paradise, when they saw the disgraced princes, ministers, and common people. The people trembled in front of them. These Easterners, who they once regarded as gods, knelt down on both sides of the road in droves. When welcoming them into the city, they must have felt that their years of hard work in believing in God were rewarded, and they felt that they were indeed God sent messengers and divine people to the world, and those Easterners they once admired were just their slaves.
Of course, the elites of those conquered countries must have mixed feelings and pain in their hearts, because their fate is closely related to their country. But for a country like China that often changes dynasties, the most painful experience of national disaster is only for the ruling class such as the princes and nobles, while for the middle and lower class people such as the common people, their pain is limited to worries about their life and future outside. The common people never care about anyone. As an emperor, they only care about how the new emperor will treat them and what benefits or disadvantages it will bring to them?
In a world where the jungle prevails, the strong in society are devils with no moral bottom line, and robbers who rob families and homes. They are just trying to maximize their profits. The European powers were no exception. After occupying the Qing imperial capital, the Europeans signed an unequal treaty with the Qing court and received compensation from the Qing court for ceding land, as well as benefits such as trade. The direct harm to the Westerners was only at the national level, and Westerners and The common people of the Qing Dynasty, that is, the Chinese people, had no direct conflict of interest. Therefore, many Chinese people who had no national and national consciousness and were deeply oppressed in the Qing Dynasty also believed that the European powers were saving them from the rule and rule of the "Qing Demon" mutilate. The feudal patriarchal system determined that the Qing Dynasty belonged to the Manchu aristocracy, and the people of the Qing Dynasty were only the objects of rule and slavery by the Manchu aristocracy. Why should slaves help slave owners in distress? Therefore, the demise of the Qing Dynasty was attributed to the collapse of the wall and was not attributed to the Western powers alone.
History is ruthless, so we cannot always hope that the world will always be full of kindness and beauty. We need to face reality, think calmly and adapt to changes, so that we can see the light in the darkness, survive the desperate situation, and turn disaster into good fortune. .
There are two main lines of development in Chinese culture. One is the cultural development line led by successive dynasties. This line promotes benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and trust, emphasizes loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and emphasizes moral education. This line represents the country's orthodoxy, but it is only suitable for the official class in peacetime. . The second line of cultural development exists among the people. This line admires the Book of Changes, Taoism, Yin-Yang School, military strategists, etc., and emphasizes how to conduct yourself in the world, such as assessing the situation, tolerance, avoidance, surprise attack, and decisive killing. During the Three Kingdoms period of the Later Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang was the military advisor of the Shu Kingdom, and Sima Yi was the military advisor of the Wei Kingdom. The two of them vividly displayed the two main lines of Chinese culture. Zhuge Liang's "Execution Model" to Adou fully describes benevolence, righteousness and morality. He is a representative figure of the first cultural line. Sima Yi gave his son the last words of truth. In just a few words, he expressed the desolation of life and the strength of a man. Sima Yi said: If you are humiliated by others, you will not remain calm. Observe people's faults and don't praise them. When you realize people's deceit, you don't get angry at them. Hide the weapon in your body and wait for the time to move. If you want to be a goshawk, don't fight with birds.
In troubled times, Sima Yi's 40 words were better than Zhuge Liang's countless words of benevolence and morality. In the end, under the guidance of family training, Sima Zhao defeated Shu and Wu and established the Jin Dynasty, realizing the Sima family's imperial dream!
Why were Europeans able to quickly enter the scientific era after entering the humanistic era? We think it benefits from the following aspects.
After the First Turks established the Ottoman Empire, the Turks comprehensively collected, organized, renovated and translated ancient Egyptian, Chinese and other Eastern and Western cultural classics and books, so that these ancient classics and books covering a wide range of categories were systematically and completely preserved. and inheritance. From the 13th to 14th centuries, after Europe entered the Renaissance, scholars from various European countries translated these ancient classics and books retained by the Ottoman Empire into their own national forms. Therefore, Europeans quickly established their own scientific foundation;
Second, European countries are geographically connected to the territory of Eastern nomads. They are directly facing huge pressure to survive. Therefore, they urgently need to develop technology to improve their productivity and competitiveness. They developed modern astronomy to solve navigation problems; they developed modern guns and ammunition to resist aggression and compete for world domination; they developed internal combustion engines and electromagnetic equipment to solve the development bottleneck of the industrial sector, to meet the needs of mass production and low-cost operations. industrialization needs.
In the end, Europeans made great achievements in science and technology, so they conquered the entire earth and became the world's sole overlord, forcing all races in the world to rush into the scientific age. In the late Qing Dynasty, under the intimidation of European and American guns, China became a colony and satellite state of Western powers. Since then, the Chinese people have learned from the experience, emancipated their minds, endured humiliation, studied hard, and worked hard to catch up. Today, the Chinese have once again stood at the pinnacle of human civilization, possessing the ability and wisdom to comprehensively challenge Western powers.
Chinese society entered the humanistic era 3,500 years earlier than European society, but why couldn’t Chinese society naturally enter the scientific era?
We believe that, first, due to China’s wealthy, self-sufficient and relatively closed social environment, the Chinese elite has lost the motivation to think about the essential issues and truth of the world. Before the Qing Dynasty, among China's intelligentsia, that is, the scholar-bureaucrats, there were only literati who could recite poetry, paint, write orally, and be good at scheming and scheming. There were no technicians and engineers who could solve production problems or practical problems, let alone those who pursued the truth. Scientists; secondly, China's scientific and technological development basically relies on private power, which mainly relies on personal consciousness and wisdom. It is enough to create tools and equipment that can meet basic needs, and does not pursue perfection and extremes. For example, the ancients felt that human power was not as good as animal power, so they domesticated cattle, donkeys, horses, etc. Later, the ancients thought that more livestock would be sufficient. They would not think about forces other than animal power. Of course, they would use slaves as livestock. But this scientific method, It’s a management style.
Despite this, the Chinese still rely on their own ingenuity to create many technologies that have affected the progress of human civilization, such as mathematics, Yixue, astronomy and calendar technology, abacus, weights and measures technology, fire technology, metal smelting and casting technology, ceramic manufacturing technology, water Car and water mill technology, woodworking technology, construction technology, agricultural technology, animal husbandry technology, textile technology, food processing and storage technology, wine making technology, traditional Chinese medicine technology, printing, gunpowder, compass, papermaking and other various technologies that can meet the comprehensive needs of mankind Major inventions, these inventions are the important material and spiritual foundation for mankind to enter the scientific era.
The mission of science is to discover and verify truth, and use truth to solve mankind's ultimate problems. Currently, four disciplines including mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology are recognized as the basic disciplines of science.
Mathematics is the precise description of the movement and rest of research objects. At present, mathematics can effectively and accurately define numbers and be proficient in the operation of various algorithms of numbers. At the same time, modern mathematics can also define new number types and mathematical models according to practical needs, design complex and efficient algorithms, and pass the process and results of algorithm operations. , budgeting and deducing real-life things that are about to develop. The emergence of ultra-large-scale electronic computers enables perfect and rapid implementation of various mathematical models and algorithms. The high development of modern mathematics has enhanced human beings' ability to conduct scientific research and explore truth.
Physics is the science that studies the nature and characteristics of matter and the laws of motion of matter. There are many categories of physics, generally divided into general physics, astrophysics, geophysics, quantum physics, general mechanics, fluid mechanics, mechanical mechanics, material mechanics, electromagnetism, electricity, electronics, electronic engineering, etc.
Chemistry is a science that studies the laws of change of matter. At present, modern chemistry has developed to a very high level. Chemistry is the study of the conditions and laws for the decomposition and combination of substances at the atomic and molecular levels. Chemistry is the basic discipline of metallurgical, chemical engineering, and material science, and the chemical and material industry is the foundation of modern manufacturing. Therefore, the level of chemical research determines the height of modern manufacturing.
Biology is a science of the essence of life, exercise and changes, and maintaining life and health. Ordinary biology, anatomy, cytology, genetics, immunology, pathology, virus, medicine, surgery, etc. Biology is the basic subject of medicine, agriculture, and animal husbandry. The more the truths that humans have in biology, the longer the human beings will live longer, and they can even reach a state of eternal life.
Today's human worldview is getting closer to real situations. The natural environment of the earth, solar systems, galaxy, and universe that human beings are in human beings are all material, and the essence of human life is also material. At present, scientific research shows that all the substances in the universe are in a big explosion. The material diffusion and expansion process forms a variety of material forms, celestial bodies, galaxies, and cosmic space; Under the action of super gravity, the entire universe began to rotate and contracted to the center of the universe. In the end, the material of the entire universe entered the black hole and was completely deconstructed and destroyed in the black hole. After that, it may be the next Big Bang, and then repeat the same process.
The results of this scientific research are indeed a devastating blow for human pursuit of eternal life and freedom! But if we think about this problem, we will get new hope and dawn. Since material and universe have experienced countless destruction, if life is not naturally evolved (at present, the mainstream thought of human beings believes that life is not the result of natural evolution and the result of the creation of senior wisdom.) How can life come to this world? There is only one possibility, that is, there is a soul with an intangible form in each life. The soul can exist from the material. The soul body retains the information and functions of copying the material form of life, and the information and wisdom of life ideas and wisdom are retained. Supernatural information and functions such as function.
When the material and the universe are completely destroyed, the soul can still exist in the universe in an intangible form. When the material universe is formed again, in the suitable material environment, due to the role of the soul, the form of life material is immediately copied. Maybe this is the true source of life.
Therefore, the next major task of science is to study the mystery of the intangible world and study the mystery of the soul. This is the only way to realize the constraints and restraints of human beings, and to achieve eternal life and freedom. This is a very difficult research field, as difficult as letting fish learn to fly freely in the sky. Despite this, humans must start research in this unknown field. Of course, when humans start this study, human beings naturally enter the eternal era and the era of freedom.
The eternal life is the truth of human beings that has mastered the intangible world, and the truth of soul operation and eternal life. At this time, human beings can enter and exit the material world and the intangible world as needed.
After the freedom is that after the human beings enter the eternal life, they can travel in the material world and the intangible world after their own consciousness and dreams, and fulfill their ambitions.
Without the era of eternal life and freedom, then human, life, and soul must follow this universe and be destroyed by the terrible black holes!
