Faith
"The spirit of the Chinese", published in the second year of the first world war, when Europe is presented since modern never decline phenomenon, according to Mr Koo save Europe and even the human can only resort to "moral force", he calls this "moral force" in a "new religion" in the "good citizen religion", and this kind of new religion in China - in Chinese civilization.
Under the historical condition in which gu hongming almost totally repudiated Oriental culture, a real balance could be achieved only by resisting one extreme trend of thought with the other extreme.
Unfortunately, the little old man fighting alone in the face of the surging waves of the new culture, no doubt reflects a kind of helpless. But when we began to reflect on the "May 4th" movement to the traditional culture caused by the kind of destructive force that continues to the present, the western powers respected by the Confucian scholar did reflect his pedantic under that has "real Chinese" like the pure.
According to gu, "a real Chinese person is one who has the heart of a child and the wisdom of an adult... To understand the real Chinese and Chinese civilization, that person must be deep, broad and simple, because the Chinese character and the three characteristics of Chinese civilization, is deep, broad and simple, in addition to sensitive.
After reading this book, I deeply appreciate Mr. Gu's "faith". His belief is not god-power, not compulsion, not to love because of his faith, but spontaneous passion, the pursuit of honor and the loyalty to love burst out from his heart. This passion has nothing to do with utility, and is the inner demand of "people at the beginning and nature is good".
As gu once said, "the typical Chinese -- the real Chinese -- are dying out and being replaced by a new type of Chinese -- the advanced or modern Chinese." But if we want China to return to the era of "stupid loyalty", "obedience", "three concord and four virtues", I think it is better to let those so-called real Chinese die out completely.
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