The biggest disaster facing Chinese culture does not come from the erosion of foreign culture, but from those ignorant people who use the banner of revitalizing traditional culture. They are ignorant and ignorant, and have no respect for traditional culture. All their actions are often intentional or unintentional cultural genetic transformation of the Chinese people - transforming human genes into mouse genes. The media's fanatical praise of this kind of people is equivalent to treating the toilet as a living room.
Starting from February 7, 2007, a certain newspaper devoted half a page of "attention" to Dan for seven consecutive days. The editor claimed, "Behind the 'Yu Dan phenomenon', we vaguely see the great power of Chinese traditional culture and the strong desire for easy-to-understand humanistic theories deep in the hearts of today's Chinese people. We also clearly feel that 'in vernacular' The cultural popularization work of interpreting classics, interpreting wisdom with classics, interpreting life with wisdom, and interpreting human nature with life has such broad prospects in China.” At the same time, the editor said that the reason for paying attention to Yu Dan is, “In the 21st century. In today's China, where mankind is facing more and more material challenges and spiritual confusions, it is both very necessary and urgent to tap into the rich mine of Chinese traditional culture and let it exert its unique power to enlighten the mind and sharpen the spirit." However, we believe that paying such inappropriate "attention" to a highly educated illiterate who enjoys castrating excellent traditional Chinese culture with the huge influence of powerful media will only lead to the further decline of traditional Chinese culture. Trying to criticize today's world, which is facing more and more material challenges and spiritual confusions, by focusing on elixirs is tantamount to seeking fish from a tree. As a representative of the mainstream media, this newspaper's move is extremely inappropriate. Some editors and reporters lack basic cultural conscience and basic humanistic qualities, which is fully revealed here. If the mainstream media sings the praises of obscene and obscene behaviors in Chinese culture, then Chinese culture is destined to collapse without the invasion of foreign cultures.
Chinese culture has reached its most critical juncture. Compared with the Opium War period and the New Culture Movement period, the situation faced by Chinese culture is more severe and more hidden. Because this time she was facing those people who claimed to be "exploring the rich mine of traditional Chinese culture". They used clever words and flattery, but in fact they secretly dug a grave for Chinese culture. When Bai Xianyong used the youthful version of "The Peony Pavilion" to smear Kun Opera arbitrarily, people didn't know it was on the cauldron; when An Yiru used poetry to conjure up those elegant lives in ancient China, people didn't know the water had boiled; when Dan Yu When using language like "Chicken Soup for the Soul" to insult Confucius, people have already been cooked unknowingly. Among these various gravediggers, apart from smelling the stench of dead bodies, how can we get a hint of the fragrance of traditional culture? If this can be considered a form of cultural genetic modification, then it is equivalent to modifying human genes into mice. The city walls of Beijing may be rebuilt after they are demolished, but once people lose even the last trace of reverence for traditional culture, will the day of subjugation of the country and the world be far behind?
This is by no means alarmist. In modern democratic societies, many culturally imperfect phenomena often occur. Those who have exerted great efforts and learned a lot can become very poor, while the most superficial author can make great wealth by selling his work cheaply. Of course, in a democratic era, this phenomenon is normal. Although scholars have no money, the pleasure of learning itself is enough to compensate for everything; if they live in a place where social life is relatively standard, Yu Dan and his like will be rich, but have no social status. Because mainstream voices will tell the world that they are rich but not worthy of respect. However, this time, unscrupulous media people have joined the ranks of fueling Yu Dan and others, and the standards of social life have been challenged as never before. Think about it, a "Ph.D. in film and television" like Yu Dan, whose knowledge of ancient Chinese does not even reach the level of junior high school education, can gain social honor just by talking nonsense. Who would care about the forces that guide our souls upward? Who is still willing to engage in those arduous scientific and cultural researches that are truly beneficial to the Chinese nation?
Chinese traditional culture is the most powerful weapon to unite the spirit of the Chinese nation, and is also an important ideological resource for the world to move toward great unity in the future. However, any attempt to understand traditional culture through eating fast food is absurd. There is no knowledge in the world that can be mastered without your own reading, thinking and practice. We have never objected to the popularization of humanistic theories, but popularization does not mean vulgarity and kitsch. For example, Mr. Zhu Ziqing's "Classics", Mr. Liu Yisheng's "Tang Poems", "Song Poems", and Mr. Shi Zhecun's "Hundred Words on Tang Poems" are truly popular. The fundamental difference between popular, vulgar and kitsch is that popular is to tell correct knowledge in a way that is easy for people to understand, while vulgar and kitsch spread wrong or even harmful ideas based on the acceptance of ordinary ignorant people. Those who vulgarize and kitsch humanistic theories do so either because of ulterior motives or because of extreme ignorance. Yu Dan is the latter. When unscrupulous media people brag that Yu Dan's book has sold 2.5 million copies, they may have forgotten that the circulation of Ai Iijima's sex CD is far more than this number.
For the sake of the fate of Chinese culture, we should no longer remain silent towards unscrupulous media people.
As the saying goes: "Eight people dancing in the court is tolerable, but who can't be tolerated!" We hereby appeal to all media people with conscience to correctly guide public opinion. We also hope that "Hundred Schools Forum" should Immediately dismiss Yu Dan from get out of class and publicly apologize to the people across the country. Only in this way can Chinese people rebuild our spiritual home, Chinese culture can re-create its glory in the new century, and our lives can be more harmonious.
No more jokes about using the toilet as a living room!
Drafter:
Xu Jinru (Ph.D. student at Sun Yat-sen University)
***Same sponsor (in order of signature confirmation):
Liu Genqin (Ph.D. student of Sun Yat-sen University)
Wang Xiaofeng (Ph.D. student of Tsinghua University)
Zhang Hui (Ph.D. of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Zhou Tao (Jinan University PhD student)
Zhu Chongke (Associate Professor of Sun Yat-sen University, PhD of National University of Singapore)
Yang Yang (Bachelor of Beijing Normal University)
Li Sen (Master of Peking University student)
Wang Jin (Ph.D. student at Sun Yat-sen University)
Attachment: Why should we spare no effort to oppose Yu Dan and others to the end (Text: Meng'an Muke Panda) Interactive Portal for College Students /p;wj1l;V[ oxW
Brother Jin Ru, who is both a teacher and a friend to me, recently launched a signature campaign to call on the media to stop over-hyping Dan and his ilk. I willingly participated in this signing. I have no intention of being a spokesperson, but I also don’t want our communist position to be misinterpreted due to the fierceness of the words, or to become a handle in a war of words. I just feel that I have something to say.
In 399 BC, Socrates deliberately angered the 500 citizens on the jury with his contemptuous attitude in the public court of Athens, and ultimately caused a generation of great philosophers to drink doves and die, proving with his death that The absurdity of Greek democracy - a society that claims freedom of speech, the public executed him for anti-democratic speech. This is a roundabout tactic designed by Socrates himself. It is very clever and tragic. In the end, he "won" the trial and Athens lost. Today, this tactic does not apply to us. We cannot expect historians to give us sighing appreciation a few years later, when Chinese civilization has been scattered into pieces. In other words, we can "win", but our tradition and our culture have no retreat from losing.
Let’s start with a simple example. For example, if a person is sick and goes to the hospital to see a doctor, I think the first thing the patient should consider when choosing an outpatient doctor is the doctor's education, qualifications, and medical skills, because the effectiveness of treatment is inseparable from these factors. As for how eloquent the doctor is, whether he is humorous, and whether he can explain those difficult-to-understand medical terms to you, these can be ignored. Because judging from people's daily experience, treating diseases is a kind of specialized knowledge, and a barefoot doctor with only one mouth can cure the problem. If you want to talk about freedom of speech, I have never studied medicine, and I think the funny doctor said it well - I personally think that this situation should be a small number of cases.
But the same thing is completely different when it is transferred to another field. For example, the "Hundred Schools Forum" has become a cultural phenomenon that has become popular in the past two years. People pay attention to it and pursue it, not because of how many insights this program tells, nor because of how important the speakers invited by this program are in the academic world or how many academic inventions they have. The reason is very simple, in a nutshell: Easy to understand.
Why would our public, on the one hand, rather listen to a good doctor speaking incomprehensible professional terms with an inhuman expression, but on the other hand, enjoy talking about easy-to-understand nonsense? Does our culture, as a kind of specialized knowledge (and certainly not just as a specialized knowledge), deserve to be treated lightly?
I do not deny that I, we, are a group of people who have received professional training and are receiving professional training. We are qualified to speak on some professional issues just as we are not qualified to discuss the theory of relativity with classmates in the physics department. This simple idea comes from "The Republic" and is also one of the excuses for Socrates' sin. Wang Xiaobo once wrote an article, and later his collection of essays was named after him, called "The Silent Majority". Later, I wrote a short article called "The Silent Minority". It is not long, so I will record it below:
To be honest, writing this title itself has the meaning of paying tribute to Wang Xiaobo.
Wang Xiaobo was not a genius. His sincere speech, cunning temperament and logical thinking made this name unknown during his lifetime but well-known after his death. There is a popular poem by Bei Dao, "In an era when there are no heroes, I just want to be a person." Wang Xiaobo is such a "person". I often think that if Wang Xiaobo was not dead yet, how embarrassed he would feel when he saw so many self-proclaimed "Wang Xiaobo's lackeys".
So the "majority" gave up their silence - in the hustle and bustle, the plaque of Juyi Hall was quietly replaced by Zhongyi Hall, and the banner of "Practice for Heaven" was flying high.
So someone must choose to remain silent, even if it is a minority. Silence, as silent speech, will be the most impregnable line of defense for us to guard our homeland.
We were silent when Liu Xinwu lusted after "A Dream of Red Mansions", and we were silent when Yi Zhongtian boiled "Three Kingdoms"; but when someone holds the saying "I can't touch a nun's bald head" Mentality, when we reach out to the "Analects of Confucius", we can only think of Confucius's earnest teachings: "Eight hundred people dancing in the court are tolerable, but who can't be tolerated!" By the way, Confucius's views on issues of principle I have never been "gentle, courteous and humble". If Ms. Yu Dan had changed the title of her book to "Tales from the Heavenly Book" instead of "Experiences from the Analects of Confucius", I personally would not be so angry.
After studying in college for many years, I have seen many things. The more professional the lectures, the fewer people will attend. This has almost become an iron law. So when someone asks us, "If you are capable, write down your opinions and compare them with Yu Dan's", I am speechless. This "speechless" is not a matter of reason, but similar to the "speechless" often used when chatting on QQ. I am very ashamed. I have only read Zhu Xi's "Collected Commentary on the Four Books" and Mr. Cheng Shude's "Collected Commentary on the Analects" of "The Analects of Confucius". I heard that Yu Dan was talking about "Zhuangzi" recently. There are seven or eight books, such as Guo Xiang's "Annotations on Zhuangzi", Wang Fuzhi's "Annotation of Zhuangzi", Wang Xianqian's "Annotation of Zhuangzi", Guo Qingfan's "Annotation of Zhuangzi", Liu Xiaobiao's annotation in Shishuo Xinyu mentions "Zhuangzi". Daolin Jiezhuang also referred to... Gu Yanwu's grandfather once taught him: "Writing books is not as good as banknotes." Reading these books, I really feel that this is a ground-breaking and wise saying. Several of the books I mentioned above can be found in the larger Xinhua Bookstore, but unfortunately most of them are slow-selling books. It can be seen that some of the so-called people who shout "revival of traditional culture" are just the descendants of the good dragon Ye Gong from another generation.
Another kind of questioning is: "You have the energy to say so much here, why don't you make more efforts to revive traditional culture like Yu Dan?" When I face this kind of rhetoric, I can't help but feel sad. Come. Xu Jinru, the initiator of this signature event, is proficient in poetry and Peking Opera. In order to pass on the great tradition from generation to generation, he has been offering courses such as poetry creation and introduction to Peking Opera in many colleges and universities for many years. His Sun Yat-sen University is an hour's drive away from Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies, but he insists on going to Guangzhou University every week to give classes to the students there, and the financial gain is only a pitiful tuition fee. At the end of 2006, he initiated and organized the first poetry competition for college students in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao. You know, Jin Ru is just a doctoral student now. He has his own studies and his own burdens in life. But for the sake of the survival of Chinese culture, he devotes himself to doing these things, facing all kinds of resistance. Falling into the desert. He doesn’t have the platform of CCTV, and he doesn’t have the utilitarian ambition to dazzle the public with his articles. I didn’t know that beads and fish eyes could be confused like this! On the other hand, the phrase "revival of traditional culture" sounds so tempting, and it has the same temptation for me. But in my opinion, Einstein’s contribution to the progress of human civilization is different from that of a poor science popularizer. Whenever I see those familiar figures in the ancient books department of the school library-several professors and teachers who have been immersed in the library all year round, I will have endless respect in my heart. I know that I will choose the good ones and follow them. .
Today Jinru sent the petition to Tianya, and I saw many fierce words in the many replies. This reminds me of "The Emperor's New Clothes". I remember I continued writing this story when I was in middle school. I said that the child who told the truth ended up being beaten to death by people on the street because Wuji's Children's words reveal the ignorance of everyone, which is very similar to Socrates. Our current situation is just like Wang Shuo joked in "The Stubborn Lord": I want to say that I can't say it, but I still want to say it. I once mentioned the concept of "cultural hatred of the rich" in an article - after decades of political and economic exile, intellectuals, like the landlords of the past, have actually become those who should naturally be discriminated against. a noun. This is not a normal social state - although it seems a bit self-deceptive for me to say this, but no matter what, even if my horse is defeated, we will never give up the persistence and courage to lead the way for my guide.
Once I listened to the "History of Chinese Aesthetics" by Mr. Lin Gang (Professor of Literature and Art at Sun Yat-sen University), he said this: "Our civilization is very likely to be like many ancient civilizations in the future. A glorious past, but in the end it was scattered into fragments, melted and absorbed into other nations, but it lived up to its existence as a whole. "Mr. Lin is a person with a very understanding temperament and will not behave like Liang Sicheng, but the disciples here are. All sad. Greek civilization declined after the Peloponnesian War and was shattered by the war. Now, Yu Dan and many media are blatantly demolishing their own Great Wall. We say, this is intolerable, but who can’t be tolerated!
(Yu'er said: Those who practice internal strength behind closed doors and those who sell Dali Pills at street stalls do not offend the river and live in peace and harmony. However, if Dali Pills are openly sold to Tiananmen Square and help revitalize China, The banner of traditional martial arts is a bit strange.
Yu'er is a science and engineering student. I haven't watched a complete episode of Baijia Lecture, and I haven't studied Confucius and Mencius in detail, but I always feel that Baijia Lecture is like practicing. There is always a difference between storytelling and storytelling.
As for the self-destruction of the Great Wall, I remember that for the Spring Festival Gala one year, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao got a shirt with the leader intact and the rest in tatters, and wrote "Great Wall". The actual Great Wall and so-called traditional culture are nothing more than this. , cheongsam has become hotel work clothes, Peking opera, martial arts, history, poetry, classical Chinese, Red Mansions, Masters, how many of our national quintessences have not been dismembered, packaged, and auctioned? The idea of ??targeting Confucius and Mencius is equivalent to sending bricks of the Great Wall to Shanhaiguan. I support the author of this post, but of course it is ineffective.
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