China people are gentle. What are Europeans?

most of the respondents here missed the point.

The gentleness of China people in the original "The Spirit of China People" is an easy-to-rule character under the macro narrative of World War I in Europe. The original text is summarized as follows.

Chapter I: Introduction

The author first leads to the causes of the war from the current World War I in Europe.

Civilization comes from the conquest of nature, but the passion in human heart is more terrible than the natural forces. Early human society had to conquer the passion in human hearts with the material power of nature; Later, people used moral power (European Christianity) to control it; And then to the material forces in World War I to maintain civil order, and material forces led to militarism.

In fact, the reason why Europe relies on militarism today is that there is no effective moral force. But militarism leads to war, and war means destruction and waste. Therefore, Europeans are in a dilemma. If they stay away from militarism, anarchy will destroy their civilization. However, if they continue to pursue militarism, their civilization will be destroyed and disintegrated because of the waste of war.

But it seems to me that when Prussian militarism is wiped out, there will be another militarism-British militarism. And he had to repeat the same mistakes, which seemed to be caught in a vicious circle and there was nothing he could do.

From this, the author points out that force will lead to another kind of force, and only the law of love and justice can achieve complete revolution. Now Christianity, as a moral force, has failed. The question facing Europeans is, how to find this new effective moral force to destroy militarism? —— It leads to the belief of the people of China.

Original text: In Chinese civilization, this moral force that can always make militarism redundant is the belief of good people. However, people will tell me that there is a war in China, which is a fact. But from the time of Confucius in 25, we in China have never had the militarism built in Europe today. In China, war is an accident, but in Europe, war has become a necessity. We in China are likely to have a war, but we will not live in constant expectation of war.

In short, what I want to call the attention of Europeans and Americans is that when their civilization seems to be threatened by collapse. In China, there is an energetic and unquestionable priceless civilization wealth. The wealth of this civilization is the people of China-the real people of China who stick to the faith of good citizens and have not changed. The real China people, I say, are priceless treasures of civilization, because he is a person who can obey the order without much social cost.

Finally, I want to say again that the highest obligation of a good citizen's belief is loyalty, not only in behavior, but also in spirit.

chapter ii China people's spirit

let's talk about China people's gentleness, that is, what foreigners should learn. Then talk about the reason why China has no religion relative to foreign countries-because Confucianism, a system of philosophy and moral norms, can take the place of religion.

Then analyze the reasons why people need religion: The real scientists in Europe have succeeded in their work for scientific progress because they feel the need to unveil the magic veil of the world we live in from the depths of their souls. For the public, they are different from philosophers, and the methods used by scientists are used to reduce all the painful and annoying burdens from the unknown in this world. They gain a sense of security and eternity through religion to reduce the burden.

Then he said that the religion in Europe is a narrow religion. Religion in a broad sense refers to a teaching system including rules of conduct, which is our Confucianism. Religion in Europe contains a supernatural origin and elements, while Confucianism does not. If you want to have faith, you must be a saint, a Buddha and an angel. Confucianism, on the other hand, says that if you live like a dutiful son and a good citizen, you will have a good faith. The whole philosophy and moral system taught by Confucius can be summed up as the law of a gentleman. That is, the code of honor, such as thieves also have a way (thieves also need to get a sense of psychological honor)

Europe's religion, because religion provides people with a kind of shelter, a refuge, through the belief in the omnipotent existence of God. They can find the eternal sense of their existence. And China's Confucianism. Then this kind of support is based on home and country.

On the one hand, the family has spawned ethnic groups. When a China person died, the top ten things he didn't feel were that he believed in an afterlife, but that he believed in her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. So these people closest to him will remember him, miss him and love him until they are in his imagination forever. Death, for a China person, is like a long journey. If there is no hope, there is at least a great possibility of reunion.

In this respect, the country is the sacred duty of loyalty to the emperor. In the minds of China people, it has established an absolute, supreme, outstanding and omnipotent right for the emperor. The belief in the emperor's absolute supreme, outstanding and omnipotent power was given to China people. According to China, all sentient beings have the same sense of security, just as in other countries, the belief in God and religion can give all sentient beings the same.

Therefore, the whole system of Confucianism really contains only two things, loyalty to the emperor and filial piety to parents. In Chinese, it means loyalty and filial piety. (Voltaire said that God was invented by religious founders and maintained by priests as a kind of deception or fraud. The author refutes this. He said that people with great wisdom believe in God like Spinoza, and believe in the sacred order of the universe. Confucius said that he knew his destiny at 5. "Confucius also said no know life, no thought a gentleman. )

But is it religion that makes people obey and obey the moral code of conduct? The author says no. The only authority that really makes people obey the moral law or the code of moral behavior is the moral sense in their hearts, which is the law of gentlemen in their hearts. The real function of the church is not to teach morality, but to inspire people to become moral people. This is also the value of all the great religions in the world. Confucius said, people can spread Taoism, not Taoism. The tool of Hongdao is the church in European countries, while in China it is composed of two parts: the school and the family. The school is just an appendage, and the real church is the family. And the source of inspiration, that is, the source of good nature, comes from the love for their parents. Confucius said that by cultivating respect for the dead and recalling the distant past, people's virtues will deepen.

The original text is "Be cautious in the end and pursue the future", and the people's morality is thick. Christian church religion will say that it fears God and obeys him, while Confucius and Confucianism teach people. Respect the emperor and smile at him. The Christian church says that if you are willing to be a giant God and obey him, you must love Christ first. Confucius said that if you want to respect the emperor and be loyal to him, you must love your parents. China people don't feel the need for religion because they have found something that can replace religion in Confucianism.

Finally, back to the purpose of the full text, the spirit of China people is not even what you call psychology, nor is it an active work of brain and spirit. The spirit of China people, I want to tell you, is a state of mind, a temperament of the soul. You can't learn to play like you learn shorthand or Esperanto. In short, it is a state of mind, and in the poet's language, it is a calm and blessed state of mind.

Part of the original text in Chapter II: I think that in ancient China, the first thing that touched you was that the real China people were never brutal, cruel or vicious. Borrowing an animal term, we can say that the real China people are domesticated animals. Take the people at the bottom of China as an example, you will find that compared with people of the same class in European society, there are too few animals, some animals are less savage, and some Germans are less, which is called rohheit. In fact, in my opinion, if one English word can sum up the impression that China is human nature, it is gentle. That is, meekness. When I say meek, I don't mean weak or submissive by nature. In fact, what I mean by meekness is not violent, harsh, rude or tyrannical, and there is nothing to stimulate you. It can be said that it has the characteristics of calmness, calmness and sophistication in real Chinese human nature. Even a real China person's physical or moral incompleteness, even if irreparable, will at least be compensated by its docile character. The real China people may be rough, but there is no vulgarity in roughness. The real China people may be ugly, but there is no ugliness in ugliness. The real China people may be vulgar, but there is no aggression and noise in vulgarity. The real China people may be stupid, but there is no absurdity in stupidity. The real China people may be cunning, but there is no malice in cunning. What I actually want to say is that even if the real China people have shortcomings in body, mind and character, they won't make you sick. You will find that the real China people are rarely disgusting, even at the lowest level. I said, the overall impression of Chinese humanity is that it is gentle and docile beyond words. When analyzing this indescribable meekness in real China people, you will find that it is a combination of two qualities. Namely compassion and wisdom.

The wisdom of domesticated animals comes not from reasoning, nor from instinct, but from compassion. From a feeling of love and attachment.

China people have this power of sympathy, which comes from their completely spiritual life. The whole life of China people is an emotional life. He doesn't come from the sense of body organs, nor from the passion of nervous system as you say. But emotion or human nature has feelings in the sense of love, which comes from the deepest part of our nature, spirit and soul. Even here I can say that the real China people live a life of affection or human kindness, a life of soul, so that they may sometimes excessively ignore what they should do, and even ignore the necessary requirements for people in this world composed of body and soul to maintain their sensory sensitivity. This truly explains China people's lack of dirty environment, material inconvenience and elegant manners. Why are you so indifferent?

China people live a spiritual life, so China people have good memories. They remember things with their hearts instead of their heads. China people also pay attention to etiquette (and the essence of etiquette is understanding of others' feelings. China people live a spiritual life, and they know their own feelings, which makes them understand the feelings of others. In fact, Japanese etiquette is like a flower without fragrance, while the etiquette of truly polite people in China has a fragrance.

China people are a nation that never grows old, not a nation that is opposed to development. In short, the most peculiar feature of China people as a race is that they have the secret of staying young forever.

I have explained to you that faith in God, which is not taught by religion, is really convincing. Obey moral standards or moral behavior. Religion can make people obey the code of moral behavior, mainly through a necessary organization called the church. Awaken and ignite the inspiration and strong feelings in people's hearts, and make them obey those laws. This organization, called the church in Europe, is a school in China. Schools in China play a role similar to the aims and intentions of the church. It is to make people discover their inner moral law. Instead of telling you how to make money and how to make a living.

as a school of Confucius' national religious church. It is not by stimulating and awakening the feelings and emotions of praise, love and fanaticism to Confucius that people can awaken and light up the necessary inspiration or strong emotions and make them abide by the moral code of conduct. But through poetry. The formation of self-cultivation and politeness, and the study of music. (Xing Yu Shi, Li Yu Li, Cheng Yu Le. )

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