The sun rises and the weather starts to get hot. The people building the road sang chants, which floated in the breeze. Someone sang folk songs, accompanied by high-pitched trumpets, which gave the heavy work a somewhat graceful feel.
Wang Xiaolie suddenly had some enlightenment. What exactly is culture? The culture of a region is inseparable from the vast majority of its people. Chinese culture cannot be separated from these hard-working people. Only by going deep into the people can we truly feel Chinese culture.
New China has just been founded, and many things have taken on a new look. Many people were sent to work among the working people to summarize the people's cultural life. At that time, there were collections of folk songs, various studies of folk dances, and many cultural collections targeting working people. If society develops normally and these research activities are finally sublimated, the renaissance of Chinese culture will have a foundation.
Unfortunately, this event was quickly interrupted. Research activities fall into silence, no one is allowed to talk nonsense, no one is allowed to conduct random research, and the entire society must be uniform, and culture will not develop. Later, society was liberalized, but there were no more people who could immerse themselves among the people, understand their sufferings, and understand their cultural life. Some musicians even engage in ethnic music research but do not want to go among the people. Instead, we have to go deep into the mountains and forests, and among the ethnic minorities in remote areas.
Thinking of this, Wang Xiaolie couldn't help but think of Daolang, a famous singer in his previous life. He came out of nowhere, but was not accepted by the music circle. Some people insisted that it was not music. why? It's hard to say why. It can only be said that China has not had a music culture for a long time. After that, all kinds of popular things from foreigners came in, such as rock, jazz, folk songs, and even RAP became popular for a while.
People's entertainment cannot be called culture in most cases. Either it has a long history, or it has a long culture. To form a culture, it needs to be precipitated and someone needs to sublimate it. Without precipitation and sublimation, in most cases it cannot be called culture.
On this basis, combined with the politics, religion, ideology, etc. of one's own nation, a complete system can be formed, which can be called civilization.
Culture is not that low-level, and civilization is not that simple. A truly civilized society is not copied from other places, but grows out of one's own genes by learning from others' strengths.
From this perspective, officials say that because dog meat is not eaten in any civilized place, we cannot eat it either. It shows that these people don’t understand civilization at all, and they don’t understand the party’s policies, systems, etc., and they have no idea what they do.
In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, faced with internal and external troubles, a group of people stepped forward. They accuse the darkness of the old society and praise the civilization of the future. They called for Mr. De and Mr. Sai to come in and build a new society. A hundred years later, looking back, I have a different understanding. The biggest role of these people is to call for the destruction of the old society and civilization. To a certain extent, they are destroyers.
Destroyers cannot represent progress? of course not. When it is rotten to the core, only when it is broken can it be established. Breaking the old itself heralds the arrival of the new. It's just that it's easy to break, but it's too difficult to establish. This difficulty is beyond almost everyone's imagination.
The great man said that we are not only good at breaking an old world, but also good at building a new world. Looking back, just being good at breaking the old world and building a new world is still a long way off.
In my previous life, the two largest countries in the world were the United States and China. As the hegemon of the world, the United States has almost all the glory that all great civilizations in history have. Defeat Japan, cross the four oceans, seek defeat alone, attract all nations to come to Korea, and even become a beacon of civilization in the hearts of many people around the world. No matter how fast China develops, it will still face many difficulties when facing the suppression of this overlord.
But how? After dominating the world, the halo of the United States began to fade compared with China. People can sum up countless reasons for this problem, from politics, to military, to economics, everything. But the core thing is that there is something wrong with civilization. Becoming confused about the future of mankind, social development and other general directions. Academically, some people have become famous for proposing the end of history. In politics, freedom, equality, democracy, etc. have been turned into slogans, and politicians think it is normal for them to lie, cheat, and rob.
Civilization does not come by deception, nor by robbery. Relying on armed robbery, the most successful people in the world should be the Mongols. However, hundreds of years later, Mongolia only left its name in history. Where has it ever existed in the history of human civilization?
The rise of the West ushered in an era of science. With the technological revolution and the rapid development of productivity, the entire human society has become completely unimaginable in the past few hundred years. Thinking about human civilization, he believed that people should be free, equal, and liberated, which set off an unprecedented human revolution. This is a contribution to humanity that cannot be forgotten no matter what they become in the end.
Merits are merits and mistakes are mistakes. This is the attitude we should have towards history. The rise of the West has been accompanied by colonization, invasion, massacre, and even genocide. This should not be denied. However, the rise of Western civilization has indeed brought about the sublimation of human civilization.
The rise of the West has affected everyone in the world, including Chinese civilization. If a new Chinese civilization is born, it will inevitably bear the imprint of Western civilization. This is undeniable. However, if new civilizations emerge in various parts of the world, they should be different from Western civilization, and this is what they should be. Simply copy it, why should Western civilization be transferred to your hands?
The most typical ones are developed countries and regions in East Asia. Including Japan, South Korea, etc., it is obvious that even if they have entered developed societies, they are still completely different from the West. Of course, their development cannot yet support a new civilization.
Some people always say that China does not have a position commensurate with its strength in the world because of suppression by the United States, or even by Western society as a whole. Some people have a deep-rooted impression in their minds that Chinese people are inferior. It may make sense, but it only makes a little sense.
During the confrontation between China and the United States, if the United States suddenly collapses, there will be no one left to suppress China. China asks itself, will the world treat China the same way it treats the United States? What is your civilization? What is thought? What is politics? What is the economy? From a basic theoretical perspective, what can other countries learn from? Which ones do they look up to?
Criticism and self-criticism. It is easy to criticize, but difficult to criticize yourself. The founding of New China was fought by the people's army. It is not the new ideas or new theories that lead to ideological changes and the establishment of a new society.
There are always some people who don't think so. They think that the people's army is nothing special. It is either cheating here or playing tricks there. It is not sweeping the world in an upright and upright manner. There are always people who think that because they have learned a few sentences of this theory or a few sentences of that theory from foreigners, they should be superior. There are always some people who think that there is no need to study the Chinese people in depth. The Chinese people just need to listen to their preaching, enlightenment, and copy. There are also many people who believe that they have learned so much from foreigners, but their talents are always underappreciated in China.
Can you learn a few sentences from foreigners and become a master in China? If this is true, there will be no hope for Chinese civilization. The great rejuvenation of Chinese civilization is even more distant. What we learn from foreigners must be used and integrated into Chinese civilization. Instead of making China look like foreigners, it will be civilized and modernized.
Wang Xiaolie remembered that with the development of technology and the advancement of the Internet, some new phenomena have emerged in society.
For example, in music, most of the singers and celebrities who are highly praised by fans and professional circles are sold to fans. Some widely circulated songs have been criticized as peasant music and vulgar music. They are just saliva songs and cannot be considered elegant music.
Music is the note of civilization and one of the signs that civilization has developed to an advanced stage. Objectively speaking, music does include secular music and elegant music, and there are music used for different occasions. However, it is also secular music, so don’t pretend to be elegant music.
For a period of time, ancient styles were popular in society, liked by many people, and were widely sung. Some people say that these new ancient words have empty meanings and say nothing. The melodies are often copied, which represents the degeneration of the music industry. At this time, there is a saying that is right. The people like it, but who do you think you are if they don't like it? These forms of entertainment that became popular among the vast majority of the people were indeed of a relatively low level at the beginning and had many shortcomings. This time requires the precipitation of time and the sublimation of cultural people. When sublimation is completed, progress is achieved.
For another example, ancient costumes are popular for a period of time. Some people talk about the wrong format. Han style and Tang style are not ancient costumes but fairy clothes. In fact, it has nothing to do with elegance. But some people are different, saying that China's feudal culture is resurgent. And their ancient costumes should have Western names and use some Chinese elements to embellish the Western costumes.
With the development of the times, although cultural people have failed in their duties, some new phenomena have emerged. In addition to ancient costumes, there are also wealthy daughters as celebrities. In the past, people were proud to attend foreign schools and attend foreign gatherings. Being able to recognize domestic development is always a good start. Even if many people ridicule him, he is still much better than before.
In the final analysis, there are some people who have a little bit of foreign ink and feel that they are China's mentors, that they are better than the Chinese, and that their own things represent civilization. Little do they know that what they represent is only Western culture and has nothing to do with civilization.
What should the new Chinese civilization look like? Of course not going back to the past. Rather, it should be compatible with ancient and modern times, containing both the accumulation of Chinese history and the advanced elements of Western civilization. The most important thing is to point out the future of mankind and the direction of the development of human society. Humanity has a future, human society has a direction for development, and civilization will be established. Only then can the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation be realized.
How? Western civilization has proposed that human equality and freedom cannot be missing, political democracy cannot be missing, and economic development, reform and innovation cannot be missing. On this basis, we go one step further by combining Chinese history, thought, etc.
How to move forward? We should work hard on the word "people". What is the people? Who are the people? How can the people be the masters of the country? With the people as the core, we develop theoretical doctrines, political systems, and ideological systems. If we leave the people, we will also leave the achievements of New China.
If we want to take a step forward, how can we still be restricted by Western theoretical systems? Their civilizational achievements can be borrowed and learned from, but they cannot be copied. What needs to be understood more is some words of great men. Seek truth from facts, integrate theory with practice, make the people the masters of the country, come from the masses to the masses, serve the people, and so on. Even including ****, it is better than parroting some rotten Western theories.
