Why is Yu Dan criticized by so many people?

Dr. X's original text: Why should we carry out our opposition to Dan and others to the end?

[Drafter's Note: We are convinced that if what we say is true, then one person's signature has the same effect as many people's signatures. The reason why we decided to do such a thing together is to show that even in the era when spiritual beliefs are generally lost, the voice of upholding cultural dignity is by no means weak and silent. Firstly, this paper collects signatures in an internal forum of a university. When some young scholars refused to sign on the grounds of "unwilling to offend Beijing Normal University", Yang Yang, a student of Beijing Normal University, resolutely signed his name. ]

The biggest disaster faced by China culture is not from the erosion of foreign culture, but from those ignorant people who are under the banner of revitalizing traditional culture. They are ignorant and don't respect traditional culture. All their actions often intentionally or unintentionally genetically modify the culture of China people-transforming human genes into mouse genes. The media's enthusiasm for such people is tantamount to using the toilet as a living room.

From February 7, 2007, a newspaper paid attention to Dan for seven consecutive days. The editor claimed, "Behind the' Yu Dan Phenomenon', we vaguely see the great power of China's traditional culture and China people's strong desire for easy-to-understand humanistic theory. We also clearly feel that the cultural popularization work of "interpreting classics in vernacular, wisdom in classics, life in wisdom and humanity in life" has broad prospects in China. At the same time, the editor said that the reason why we should pay attention to Dan is because "in today's China in the 2 1 century, when human beings are facing more and more material challenges and spiritual confusion, it is both necessary and urgent to explore the rich mine of China traditional culture and let it play its unique power of enlightening the soul and honing the spirit." However, we believe that giving such inappropriate "attention" to a highly educated illiterate who enjoys castrating China's traditional excellent culture with the great influence of powerful media will only lead to the further decline of China's traditional culture. Trying to criticize today's world, which is facing more and more material challenges and spiritual confusion, by paying attention to Dan is tantamount to seeking fish from a tree. As a representative of the mainstream media, this move of the newspaper is extremely inappropriate, and it is even more obvious that some editors and journalists lack the minimum cultural conscience and basic humanistic literacy. If the mainstream media all sing praises to the obscenity and obscenity of China culture, then without the invasion of foreign culture, China culture is doomed to perish.

China culture has reached the most critical juncture. Compared with the Opium War and the New Culture Movement, the situation faced by China culture is more severe and hidden. Because, this time, she is facing people who are under the banner of "mining China's traditional culture rich mines". They are eloquent and flattering, but they are actually digging graves for China culture. When Bai Xianyong casually daubed Kunqu Opera with the youth version of Peony Pavilion, people didn't know it was already on the kettle. When Ann Yiru used poetry to fantasize about the elegant life in ancient China, people didn't know that the water was boiling. When Yu Dan teased Confucius with such language as chicken soup for the soul, people were already cooked unconsciously. Among all kinds of grave robbers, besides smelling the stench of dead bodies, how can we smell the fragrance of traditional culture? If this is also a cultural genetic modification, it is equivalent to transforming human genes into mice. The walls of Beijing may be rebuilt after being demolished, but once people's last awe of traditional culture disappears, will the day of national subjugation be far behind?

This is by no means alarmist. In modern democratic society, there are often many imperfect phenomena in culture. Those who make great efforts and are full of knowledge will become poor, while the shallowest authors can get great wealth by selling their works at low prices. Of course, in the democratic era, this phenomenon is normal. Although the scholar has no money, the fun of learning itself is enough to compensate for everything; If there is a standard of social life, people like Yu Dan will be rich, but they have no social status. Because mainstream voices will tell the world that they are rich but not worthy of respect. However, this time, unscrupulous media people have joined the ranks of people like Yu Dan, and the standard of social life has been challenged as never before. Think about it. A doctor of film and television like Yu Dan, whose knowledge of ancient Chinese can't even reach the level of junior high school education, can win social honor just by speaking. Who cares about the power that guides our souls upward? Who wants to engage in arduous scientific and cultural research that really benefits the Chinese nation?

China's traditional culture is the most powerful weapon to condense the spirit of the Chinese nation, and it is also an important ideological resource for the future world to move towards great harmony. However, any attempt to understand traditional culture by eating fast food is absurd. There is no knowledge in the world that can be mastered without reading, thinking and practicing. We never oppose the popularization of humanistic theory, but popularization is by no means equal to vulgarity and kitsch. For example, Classic Quotations by Zhu Ziqing, Poems of Tang Dynasty by Liu Yisheng, Poems of Song Dynasty and Poems of Bai Hua by Shi Zhecun are really popular. The fundamental difference between popularity and vulgarity and kitsch is that popularity tells correct knowledge in an easy-to-understand way, while vulgarity and kitsch spread wrong and even harmful ideas according to the acceptance of ordinary ignorant people. Those who vulgarize and kitsch the humanistic theory have ulterior motives or are extremely ignorant. Yu Dan is the latter. When unscrupulous media people boast that Yu Dan's books have sold 2.5 million copies, they may forget that the distribution of sex CDs in Matsuo Okubo is far more than that.

For the sake of the fate of China culture, we should no longer keep silent about unscrupulous media people. As the saying goes: "Dancing in court is tolerable, but it is intolerable!" We hereby appeal to all media people with conscience to give correct public opinion guidance. We also hope that Lecture Room will immediately remove Yu Dan and publicly apologize to the people of the whole country. Only in this way can the people of China rebuild our spiritual homeland, China culture will be brilliant again in the new century, and our life will be more harmonious.

Stop joking about the toilet as the living room!

Drafted by:

Xu Jinru (Ph.D., Sun Yat-sen University)

* * * Sponsors (in order of signature confirmation):

Liu Genqin (Ph.D., Sun Yat-sen University)

Wang Xiaofeng (Ph.D. student in Tsinghua University)

Peter (Ph.D., HKUST University)

Zhou Tao (Ph.D., Jinan University)

Zhu Chongke (Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, Ph.D., National University of Singapore)

Yang Yang (Bachelor of Beijing Normal University)

Li Sen (Master's degree in Peking University)

Wang Jin (Ph.D., Sun Yat-sen University)

Attachment: Why should we spare no effort to carry out the opposition to Yu Dan and others to the end (text: Meng 'an Mock Panda)

Brother Jin Ru, who is also my teacher and friend, recently launched a signature campaign, calling on the media to stop over-hyping people like Dan. I am willing to follow the footsteps and participate in this signature. I don't want to be a spokesman, but I don't want our position to be misinterpreted because of the fierce wording, or to be used as a handle in the sense of a war of words. I just think I have something to say.

In 399 BC, Socrates deliberately angered 500 citizens present in an open court in Athens, which finally led to the death of a generation of great philosophers who drank pigeons, which proved the absurdity of Greek democracy-a society that advocated freedom of speech, and the public executed him for his anti-democratic remarks. This is a circuitous tactic designed by Socrates himself, ingenious and tragic. In the end, he won the trial and Athens lost. Today, this strategy does not apply to us. We can't expect a few years later, when Chinese civilization is scattered into pieces, nor can we expect historians to give us a sigh of appreciation. In other words, we can "win", but our tradition and culture have no way out.

Let's start with a simple example. For example, if a person goes to the hospital for medical treatment, I think the first thing the patient should consider is the doctor's academic qualifications, qualifications and medical skills, because the effectiveness of treatment cannot be separated from these factors. As for the doctor's eloquence, humor and wit, whether he can explain those difficult medical terms to you clearly can be ignored. Because from people's daily experience, treating a disease is a specialized knowledge, and a barefoot doctor can cure the disease with one mouth. If you want to talk about freedom of speech, I didn't study medicine, and I think the funny doctor said it well-I personally think this situation should be rare.

But this is not the case when the same thing is transferred to another field, such as Lecture Room, which is a popular cultural phenomenon in recent two years. People pay attention to it and pursue it, not because of how many insights this program has told, nor because the speakers invited by this program have much weight in academia, or how many academic inventions there are. The reason is simple, in a word: easy to understand.

Why on the one hand, our public would rather listen to a good doctor say some inexplicable technical terms with an inhuman expression, on the other hand, they say some easy-to-understand nonsense? Our culture, as a kind of specialized knowledge (of course, not just as a kind of specialized knowledge), should we treat it lightly?

I don't deny that I, we, are a group of people who have received professional training and are receiving professional training. We are qualified to speak on some professional issues, just as we are not qualified to discuss relativity with our physics students. This simple idea comes from the Republic, which is one of the excuses for Socrates' conviction. Wang Xiaobo once wrote an article, and later all his essays were named after it, called Silent Majority. Later, I wrote a short article called "The Silent Minority", which was recorded as follows:

Needless to say, writing down this topic itself is a tribute to Wang Xiaobo.

Wang Xiaobo is not a genius. His sincere speech, sly temperament and logical thinking made this unknown name an instant hit after his death. There is a well-known poem in North Island, "I just want to be a person in an era without heroes", and Wang Xiaobo is such a "person". I often wonder how embarrassed Wang Xiaobo would be if he saw so many self-proclaimed "Wang Xiaobo's lackeys" before his death.

So "most" gave up their silence-amid the noise, the plaque of Juyitang was quietly replaced by Zhongyitang, and the banner of "doing good for the sky" flew high.

So someone must choose silence, even a few. Silence, as a silent language, will be the most indestructible line of defense for us to wait for home.

We were silent when Liu fantasized about A Dream of Red Mansions, and we were silent when Yi Zhongtian cooked the Three Kingdoms. However, when someone reaches for the Analects of Confucius with the mentality of "a nun is bald, others can't touch me", we can only see Confucius' inculcation in our hearts: "The palace dance can be tolerated, but it can't be tolerated!" By the way, Confucius was never "gentle, courteous and frugal" on the issue of principle. I personally wouldn't be so angry if the lady changed her title to "A Wonderful Book" instead of "Lessons from The Analects of Confucius".

I have studied in the university for many years, and many things are not unheard of. It is almost an iron law that few people attend lectures with high professional level. So when someone asked us, "If you have the ability, you can also write down your opinions and compare them with Yu Dan", I was speechless. This kind of silence is not an argument, but similar to the "silence" often used when chatting about QQ. I'm ashamed. I've only read Zhu's Notes on the Four Books and Cheng Shude's Notes on the Analects of Confucius. I heard that Yu Dan is talking about Zhuangzi recently, so I have more say. I have read seven or eight books back and forth. Guo Xiang's Zhuangzi Note, Wang Fuzhi's Zhuangzi Note, Zhuangzi Note, Guo Qingfan's Zhuangzi Note and Liu's Shi Shuo Xin Yu Note all mentioned Zhi Daolin's Xie Zhuang as a reference. Gu's grandfather once taught him that "it is better to print books than to write books". Reading these books really feels like a great punch line, breaking the ground. The books I mentioned above can be found in the relatively large Xinhua Bookstore, but most of them are unsalable books. It can be seen that some people who shout "Revival of Traditional Culture" are just reincarnations of good Long Ye.

Another kind of heckling is: "You have the energy to talk so much here, why don't you make more efforts to revive traditional culture like Yu Dan?" When I face such words, I can't help feeling sad. Xu Jinru, the initiator of this signature activity, is proficient in poetry and Peking Opera. In order to pass on the great tradition from generation to generation, he has offered poetry creation, introduction to Peking Opera and other courses in many colleges and universities for many years. His Sun Yat-sen University is an hour's drive from Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies, but he insists on giving classes to students there every week in Guangwai, and his economic income is only a little poor class fee. At the end of 2006, the first poetry creation competition for college students in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao was initiated and organized. You know, Jin Ru is only a doctoral student now. He has his own studies and his own life burden. But for the sake of China culture, he was so devoted to these things that he suddenly fell into an empty array in the face of all kinds of resistance. He doesn't have a CCTV platform, and he doesn't have a dazzling utilitarian heart. I didn't know pearls and fish could be confused like this! On the other hand, the word "reviving traditional culture" sounds so attractive, and it is equally attractive to me. But in my opinion, Einstein's contribution to the progress of human civilization is different from that of a lame science popularization worker. Whenever I see those familiar figures in the ancient books department of the school library-professors and teachers who have been immersed in the library all the year round, my heart will be filled with endless respect, and I know to choose the good ones and follow them.

Today, Jin Ru sent his appeal to the world, and I saw a lot of fierce words in many replies. This reminds me of the emperor's new clothes. I remember I continued to write this story when I was in middle school. I said that the real end of a child who tells the truth is to be killed by all the people in the street, because the words of unscrupulous children expose everyone's ignorance, which is very similar to Socrates. Our present situation is nothing more than Rainbow Shuo's ridicule in Stubborn: I can't say what I want to say, but I will say it anyway. I once mentioned the concept of "cultural hatred of the rich" in an article-after decades of political and economic exile, intellectuals, like landlords in those days, have actually become a noun that should naturally be discriminated against. This is not a normal social state-although I seem to be deceiving myself, in any case, even if my horse is weak, we will never give up the courage to persist and guide my husband.

On one occasion, Mr. Lin Gang, a professor of literature and art at Sun Yat-sen University, attended the History of Chinese Aesthetics. He said: "Our civilization, like many ancient civilizations, is likely to have a glorious past in the future, but it will eventually be scattered into pieces, melted and absorbed by other nationalities, but it will not exist as a whole." Mr. Lin is a man of great understanding, and will not be as heartbroken as Liang Sicheng, but all the disciples present are heartbroken. Greek civilization gradually declined after the Baltic-Pennisi War, and its destruction was due to the war. Now, Yu Dan and many media openly demolish their Great Wall. We say it's tolerable!