talk about the spirit of chinese
There is seldom a person,who is so proud of the spirit of the civilization in his country so deeply in his heart and soul,who admire the civilization of his country with the most gorgeous rhetoric, even sometimes it seems exaggerate and ridiculous, who spend his whole life protecting and spreading the Chinese civilization to the whole world,even there is never a supporters. He is GuHongMing,who is such a person with the spirit of Chinese he mention in his book.He is gentle to the ironic,sympathy for the victim.Even the theory he hold maybe defective,but the spirit he shows is so valuable.
In his book,Gu shows the different between the religion of European and the Confucianism,in order to make the European better understanding the spirit of chineseman.
In the opinion of Gu,the spirit of Confucianism are most suitable for describing the real spirit of Chinaman.While the religion in Europe suppose that civil is the nature of human , the Confuciusbelieve that the nature of human should be kind.Therefore fight and conflict are not consider to be ordinary and reasonable in Chinese mind.And they will not consider violence to be the first choiceto solve the problem.On the other hands,they will solve in peace. This altitude today is tought as a good manner today,and can better explain the impression made from European to Chinese.This impression Gu mentioned in his book are gentleness,sympathyand the want ofexactness.
The gentleness,sympathy in Chinese people make European confused but moved,because it is so different from the spirit og the European.Nowadays,more and more European are attracted to learn Chinese civilization and religion because of this beautiful manner.But there is one thing they find hard to understand,that is the tight relationshipbrtween Chinese family social and nation,which in Gu’s words is ‘ming gen ming yi ‘.Four simple Chinese words mans the Great Principle of Honour and Duty or Code of Honour.
Let us firs talk about the great Pinciple and the sense of honour. The people live in the morden age can not understand and accept the absolutely, blind loyal in the ancient time.At that time, the wife is bound to be absolutely loyal to her husband and the people of china are bound to be absolutely loyal to the emperor. And such relationship became an acceptable religion existed in the history of China for hundreds of thousands of years.The Europeans can not understand it too,but the gentleness, sympathy and the want of exactness in Chinese give us the best explain. We must admit that it is the family religion as well as the state religion, that make our ancester kind and gentle ,it is the religion that gave birth to the closest relationship in the world-family. And it is the religion that make us so different from the European.
So in the opinion of Gu,he wants to show the European the spirit og chineseman,so that they will not trying to destroy them,show Chinese the tight relationship so that they can hold each other tightly.
Even we are no agree with some of the words in GuHongMing’s book,we want to thank m=him for letting us remember the power of the spirit of chineseman.
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