Spirit 决赛作品

丁沛琦 E16
Li Dazhao said that Mr. Gu Hongming was enough to exhale his eyebrows in the world of the twentieth century. 《the spirit of the Chinese people》came from Mr. Gu Hongming. Mr. Gu Hongming was born in Nanyang, studied in the Western Ocean, married in the Oriental Ocean, married in the North Ocean, proficient in nine languages, such as English, French, German, Latin and so on. He received 13 doctorates in his lifetime, spanning the liberal arts. The West once spread a saying, "to China can not look at the three halls, must not look at Gu Hongming."
I got to know Gu Hongming for the first time in a book called《the Republic of China》, but now many people don't know Gu Hongming. We didn't publicize him very much, because he was an yilao, and he defended the feudal system. But if you put your husband into the great times, we can understand that Gu Hongming is defending Chinese culture in an extreme way. Since the late Qing Dynasty, the image of China has been seriously distorted, and GuHongming, the "old monster", has approached with his unique wisdom and behavior to safeguard the dignity of Chinese culture, as evidenced by《the Spirit of the Chinese people》.
 Talk about what I'm interested in. In his book, Mr. Gu Hongming refers to an interesting conclusion: "Why is there no systematic and widespread religious worship in China?" Because the Chinese have Confucianism, like Western religion, establishes a set of moral norms for this society and inherits them in the form of etiquette. In other words, Confucianism was ultimately a thought, not a religion, but a substitute for religion.
How can Confucianism be relied upon? It's a sense of honor. Gu Hongming believes that Confucian cohesion of China's fundamental strength, in fact, is a sense of honor, a force from inside to outside restraint of human behavior. This kind of power makes Chinese society very easy to govern, and it emphasizes "self-restraint", and makes people to get along with each other even more tacitly. Based on these, Mr. Koo believes that Confucianism is a "good people religion."
Above is Mr. Gu Hongming's interpretation of Confucianism, below, may be my inexplicable antipathy to this book.
First, loyalty. Mr. Gu Hongming believes that loyalty is the starting point for all the honors of the Chinese people. 
So here's the question. Does loyalty and honor really have anything to do with it? That may not be true. If so, what is the difference between Confucian culture and Western religion?. That is what needs to be maintained by an almost unfettered external force. In my opinion, the real honor comes from the leisurely mouth of the people of the world. The name behind one's life depends not on the influence of those in power, but on the conclusion of the coffin of posterity.
One more thing, it's women. This part is an independent chapter about the culture of concubinage in China. In fact, this part should not be called a Chinese woman, but a Chinese wife, because in the book, Mr. Koo clearly distinguishes what a wife is and what a cocubine is, and a wife is a hostess, but a concubine, just a plaything. This chapter is called a Chinese woman, but in fact, only a wife is a woman, and a concubine is not even a human. This cognition, let me be surprised even resentful.
This book is too difficult to evaluate, and the above is my superficial understanding.