Characteristics of Eastern and Western writing

I saw an answer to this question on the Internet not long ago, so I will repost it to you. In fact, I really appreciate that answer. Chinese square characters are hieroglyphs, Western alphabets are pinyin characters, Chinese characters are based on symbols, and alphabets are based on Phoenician alphabet, while Chinese pinyin only serves as a transition between the two.

Chinese writing is hieroglyphic, and the emphasis is on the connection between the external image and God. rather than a grammatical connection to God. This makes our writing very premature and develop into rigidity later on. Without the right to speak, ordinary people cannot appreciate the charm of classical Chinese. The problem that the Chinese people have developed so far is that they pay too much attention to text. If the text is too developed, it will be fake if it is too developed. The things spread are all false and imagined by literati. So the more beautiful the textual descriptions we accept, the darker life becomes in reality. This forms a vicious cycle: the outside world is dark, and we write articles for ourselves so that we can temporarily escape. The articles we write are beautiful, and others like to read them, which makes literati very popular. Compared with the world, the world of texts is really good. Later, it spread to all parts of the country. China's transportation is underdeveloped, which leads to people in this place thinking that this place is beautiful, and that place thinking this place is beautiful, but in fact it is all superficial. In reality, Chinese people are very reserved and hypocritical. They love fantasy and escape. They treat others like hell and dare not face reality. Everything is unspoken rules. The less beautiful the reality, the more we ran away from it, and the more we ran away, the less beautiful it became. Until later, the literary inquisition flourished, and real things could not be written, and one might be beheaded if one wrote. This is how Li Zhuowu followed Taoism, and so did Jin Shengtan. What wonderful people those are. The West is another situation, where Western writing is underdeveloped. Westerners have strong bodies and often fight with each other. They communicate interactively. Therefore, their religion is love, which is the infinity of the spirit - God; rather than the Chinese unity of man and nature, it is loneliness and elegance - the infinitesimal size of the spirit. Buddhism, which was born in India, is a very special religion. It is actually a way of maintaining health and nourishing the spirit. He was created for the transcendence of human spirituality in the process from zero to infinity. Lonely happiness is what the Chinese pursue - becoming an immortal and attaining the Tao. There are only a few people who can only envy mandarin ducks but not immortals, and the price is painful, like Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. But the early West was very rough spiritually because their writing was very underdeveloped. Therefore, those who can engage in literature and gain reputation in texts are extraordinary, and their Nobel Prize for Literature is also extraordinary. Their articles are on the table. And China’s articles were excellent from the beginning. I think the first person who could write good articles was Lao Tzu. When it comes to the Four Great Classics, it is at its peak, and it is impossible for future generations to surpass it. But in modern times, there are no truly good articles at all, they are all works of imagination. All things follow nature. No matter how ingenious you are, it is still better than the work of nature. Therefore, it is impossible to compare imaginary articles with real ones. Moreover, imaginary articles lead to two kinds of values ??in people, one comes from the text and the other comes from reality, and people tend to believe in the value of the text and escape from reality. So the Chinese began to write essays. Essays are about writing novels about life. Lu Xun is the most famous person in life novels. But he is still not as good as Li Ao. Because Lu Xun's novels only reveal some superficial political things, he cannot discover more essential things, and he cannot solve the metaphysical problems of the Chinese people. Li Ao did this, he is simply a self-exhibitionist - why. China’s problem lies in unspoken rules, not just in politics but also in life. It penetrates into everyone’s bones. The so-called opposition is the movement of Tao. If you want to rebel, you must rebel to the core. So you will see that Li Ao even posted nude photos of himself. This requires a lot of sacrifice in China---you must understand one thing: in China, scholars can be killed but not humiliated, which means that face is more important than death. So when Li Ao did these things, he simply put life and death aside and was ready to be martyred at any time. Nowadays, there are still people making sarcastic remarks, and there are still people comparing Li Ao to this and that. I saw an article comparing him to Li Zhuowu a few days ago. Later, he also commented that Li Ao was not as good as Li Zhuowu because Li Ao did not die after Zhuowu died. Oh my God, I almost puked. This is how these guys in China study people, and this is how they study history. They are always vigilant, always ready to find some means to apply in history. Can people compare like this? Can history be read this way? In the author's eyes, people are basically pigs.

Li Ao and Li Zhuowu were the typical examples of pigs and had to be singled out. He didn't care about other pigs and their life or death. Think about how the Chinese read the Three Kingdoms and you will know that a person's life or death is irrelevant, Guan Yunchang's sword is the same. What people pay attention to is the heroes and strategies inside. At best it's called a strategy, but at worst it's not a conspiracy. Therefore, Chinese people cannot win the Nobel Prize in Literature in modern times. It’s not because no one in foreign countries understands Chinese, but because the text is simply not good enough. The real thing from China is not in the text at all. When it came to Gao Xingjian, it was barely possible, because after all, it was the real thing, but it was only the truth of one person, not the truth of the Chinese people. China's truth lies in life, and how can foreigners understand the lives of Chinese people? Just like the movie "Gua Sha" expresses: If they don't misunderstand you, it's already good? Let’s talk about poetry. Poetry is a very special genre. It is the language of God—metaphysical language. Why is it said to be the language of God? Because everyone can see something from it, but you just can't figure out what the whole poem is about. In Nietzsche's words: it is written for everyone, and it is also incomprehensible to everyone. So usually what we get in front of poetry is aesthetic appreciation, not understanding. What is poetic philosophy? It means using God’s language to teach philosophy. That's morality. Therefore, Nietzsche's articles can be regarded as a collection of moral quotations and aphorisms. What is my entire article about? There is only one sentence: If you don’t believe the beautiful words, the Chinese people must get rid of the text and the history of the text and return to real life. Because both text and history are accumulations. Where is the accumulation? It accumulates in each of us and is reflected in our lives every moment.