Guangming Li
"I would like to take this corner to earnestly call for the revival of the great Chinese culture and the awakening of the national spirit."
This is a sentence that jumped out of my heart after the organizers of the 8th auto china finally allowed our company to participate in the exhibition and presented a 60㎡ standard corner booth. On the fourth day after the launch, I hesitated and finally let the staff hang it in black and white above the booth.
Of course, I know the weight of the theme contained in this sentence, which seems to be far from the car. But anyway, this is my spiritual motivation for two years. "Building a car behind closed doors" has made many friends feel incredible, but my thoughts are always absent-minded, leaving my design studio and traveling through the vast history.
China's backwardness is only a recent thing. Western historians generally believe: "In all civilizations before modern times, no country's civilization is more developed and advanced than China." In the 1990s, Chinese and American scientists discovered the world's earliest century-old ape fossils with the characteristics of higher primates in Yuanqu, Shanxi. Therefore, it overthrew the assertion that human beings originated in Africa, and also advanced the appearance of apes by 6.5438+million years. Ancient China people took the lead in stepping out of the primitive gathering economy by virtue of the innate advantages of early wisdom, and created the splendid agricultural civilization in China. In the span of more than 1000 years, the Chinese nation and the country with him as the main body are stronger in the world than any other nation or country. No matter in any field of politics, economy, culture and art, its top position is enough to make any foreign country lag behind. When China's Xia Dynasty appeared in the Central Plains, Europe was still in a wild state. From the 5th century to 1 1 century, the development of Chinese civilization reached its peak, and Western European countries left few commendable achievements for future generations.
At that time, westerners' understanding of China was based on the good impression of "the country of oriental civilization". /kloc-After 0/3rd century, due to the spread of Kyle Polo's memoirs in Europe, China became an ideal country that Europeans yearned for, and took China's culture and etiquette as the object of imitation. /kloc-On the opening day of the 8th century, the French royal family held a ball, and all the participants dressed up as China people. 1756 during the vernal equinox, Louis XIV of France imitated Emperor Kangxi to plow the fields, which attracted the admiration of his subjects! /kloc-At the end of 0/8, the British diplomatic mission brought back Chinese paintings of landscapes and flowers from China, and the British people all appreciated them. From then on, China landscape flowers and birds were decorated in buildings, furniture and furnishings, which became fashionable in Europe.
China people are often proud of the Great Wall of Wan Li, but the Great Wall has never effectively prevented foreign invaders from coveting our prosperous fertile soil. But our Chinese culture has an invisible Great Wall of Wan Li! After all the fierce invaders in history entered the Central Plains, they were vassals of Nuo Nuo before the great Chinese culture. Genghis Khan and his descendants, who only knew how to shoot an eagle with a bow, led the army across the European continent and established a huge empire from the Pacific coast to the Danube. Its bravery, brutality, fierceness and stubbornness make the world fear, but it "attaches China law" and "governs the Han people with China" in China territory. At that time, the prototype of the Yuan Dynasty in Beijing was designed and customized with the China cultural classic "Zhou Li Baked Gong Ji". Some names are still in use today. Since the savage and vulgar nomadic people can't resist the high prestige of the Chinese culture, they can't help but be respectful, and it is inevitable that the later Manchu rulers will be assimilated by the Chinese culture. Empress Dowager Cixi is famous for her tyranny, but few people know the beauty of her calligraphy.
"As one of the cradles of ancient civilizations in the world, no nation or country can maintain roughly the same territory and the same culture for a long time like China. Five thousand years of history and culture began with Yan Huang. Although there have been dynasties, there has never been a cultural fault. "
But can we still say this sentence confidently today?
I came to Beijing 1997. When a friend surnamed Li drove me around Chang 'an Avenue that year, he told me a joke: "Zhongfu" made the Women's Federation big! I burst into tears with laughter. You don't know what that means, do you? Go to Jianguomen and Guo Mao and look up! Is this Beijing, which has a history of 800 years and the essence of most Chinese culture? Why do so many rubbish buildings stand so rudely around our magnificent Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven? After laughing wildly, I felt heavy sadness.
At the beginning of this century, Western-style buildings in Chang 'an West Street began to appear. Later, the main venue of the Olympic Games was occupied by the Western-style Bird's Nest, and the National Grand Theatre was set up by Frenchman Andrew Eggshell. At first glance, Shanghai and Guangzhou are full of "Andrew" landmarks. Once again, the streets are full of cars of foreign brands (no wonder auto china's overseas exhibitors look arrogant)! ! At present, in China, the water of Xijiang River comes from the sky ... Our "flowers and birds" have depreciated, music has become "Bandari", architecture has become "Andrew", cars have become "Giorgetto" and dancing has become "kicking". Movies have been given to Hollywood, and TV and advertisements have been occupied by cosmetic beauties in a small country ... What's more, we spent two thousand years in the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Lantern Festival, but we were left out in the cold, but we were deeply intoxicated by the flowers of Christmas and Valentine's Day. Does anyone know what Labor Day is about and what to celebrate? We China people don't know what to say every year, and the golden trip has become a national jubilation!
Cultural dating is in sight! ! Our Chinese nation has been subtly "invaded" by western culture! ! This is unprecedented in our country and nation! ! ! Modern land cession and the hasty loss of silver did not make us lose our integrity, but aroused the awakening and boiling of the national spirit that made the gods cry! Our ancestors marched wave after wave in the rain of blood, creating our great country today. However, now we spend a lot of dollars on cheap labor, but we simply get the nihility of the nation and the sorrow of cultural dignity!
It is said that in 1980s, a group of Western Nobel Prize winners jointly issued such an appeal: If human beings want to survive in 2 1 century, they must learn from Confucius 2,500 years ago! And we never seem to understand, in most of the history of human civilization, what is the core factor of our nation's dominant position!
We should wake up!
I grew up in the countryside in the south. At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, there is a kind of bird song in Shan Ye, which often makes me fall into endless emptiness and loneliness. For many years, I always felt that I was still the child who was deeply concerned about "empty mountains and birds" and "trees and grass are spring".
I hope the tired wheat harvester can hear my waiting footsteps and hear the sound at the bottom of this heart valley!