Where there are cynics, there is hope.
What newspaper sells best in China now? By the way, what is the best-selling newspaper in America? America today. Reference news basically only does international news, while USA-Today basically does domestic news.
Americans didn't care much about the world for a long time. They think America is the world. This is an "uncle" mentality. The favorite news order of Americans is state-country-world. USA-Today is in this order, but China is not. I think that in the 1990s, when I was a college student in Hunan, everyone would buy two steamed buns every morning before going to class in the classroom (the steamed buns at that time were really big! Now it makes my mouth water. I crowded in front of the newspaper column to read the latest reference news.
A nation that attaches importance to the international situation is a promising nation and a cynical and prolific nation. It is a good thing that angry young people appear. At least some people frown because of the dark social crisis, and at least some people weep because of the suffering of the uneven country.
There is no shortage of cynics in China since ancient times. There is a saying in the Han Dynasty, "Why stay at home when the Huns are still alive?" Huo Qubing and Ban Chao joined the army and led 36 people to give orders to countries in the western regions. If there is a list of angry youth words now, then Chen Tang's "People who make me strong, though far away, will be punished" can definitely rank first. When there are many angry young people, it is the time when the spirit of the Chinese nation flourishes. Fenqing represents the future of a country and the pillar of society. They are sunrise. If any country has such a huge group, then this country has hope.
Perhaps the Tang Dynasty was a dynasty with little cynicism. This is very similar to the United States now. There is no room for life in Chang 'an, which is full of flowers. Without rigid anger, the powder gas floats. When Emperor Chengzu of the Tang Dynasty put on costumes and talked nonsense in the court, a prosperous era began to decline. Later, in Tang Xianzong's time, there appeared a cynic, namely Han Yu. He didn't like it, so he growled at the top of his lungs and satirized the emperor in "Persuading Buddha's Bone". In a rage, Han Yu was driven out of the court. Fenqing can't talk, and this society is similar.
In the Song Dynasty, when the strong enemy looked around, a large number of angry youths emerged, but the sadness of the Song Dynasty was that the angry youths could not influence the temple, let alone take charge of it, so their anger turned into sadness and loneliness. That is, from the Song Dynasty, the strong physique of the Han people in China changed, and the vitality of China in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties was worse than that of the previous generation.
Youth Crisis in Northern Song Dynasty
China now lives in an era similar to the ancient Northern Song Dynasty: exquisite culture and prosperous economy, but frequent foreign invasions. How lively the literary world was in the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, "a father, son and three poets, the article has been divided into four schools through the ages." Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Zhe were even more popular than the super boys and girls now. Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty is equivalent to Manhattan in the United States and the Champs Elysé es in France. The ancestors sang every night and enjoyed themselves. In contrast, Britain had not even conquered William at that time, and the separatist regime in England was no worse than that in 16. France has just been established; Russia has just accepted the Orthodox Church. As the saying goes, "the scenery is unique here."
But beyond this prosperity, there is another scene. Since Qin Shihuang, the Han regime has been in fierce competition with nomadic culture, especially in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the north, there was a powerful Liao regime established by the Qidan nationality, the Xixia regime established by the Tangut in the northwest, the Tubo regime in the southwest, and later the Jin established by the female Jin people in the north.
In this international situation, the land of Central Plains has been living in harmony with fire. During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, after accumulating his strength through personal administration, suddenly attacked on a large scale and finally fought his way out, thus achieving the glory of great men, while the Northern Song Dynasty was just insatiable and aggressive. Why is this?
First, because of political vision; The second is institutional choice. At first, Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, was ambitious. He went to the north to cultivate a fertile land. However, after the battle of Youzhou, Zhao and Song began to adjust their strategic goals, which eventually led to the Northern Song Dynasty stopping in the land of Youyan. Throughout the Song Dynasty, its strategic goal was very narrow and lacked the overall view. Although there are many cynics, including Kou Zhun and Yang Ye, their anger is just the anger of ordinary people, and the emperor's old son is not good at it, so it is doomed to be a dynasty that survives.
The policy of valuing literature over martial arts in the Northern Song Dynasty uprooted the martial spirit of the Han nationality, and from then on, martial arts were divided into the whole world, so that talented people competed to abandon martial arts, and as a result, they lost all their money, and there was no more cynicism like Wei Qing and Huo Qubing in the Han Dynasty.
For human groups, the history of war is endless, fighting and even conquering for land, resources, water, wealth and population in order to survive. Looking back at history, we really need to conform to the law of the jungle and speak with strength.
If a country is not strong, it is not far from the road to extinction. In the second year of Jingkang (1 127), more than 3,000 people, including Song Qinzong and Song Huizong, queens, princes and princesses, were captured, and * * *** 1.5 million people, including maids, officials and women, were transported to Daikin. This is a true portrayal of a failed country.
Of course, now we are far away from the poverty and weakness in the Northern Song Dynasty, but we are facing a situation of strong neighbors, which is no better than that in the Northern Song Dynasty. During the Northern Song Dynasty, China's farming economy could develop itself in a small place, but now China is going to the ocean after industrialization, and we have not mastered these roads to the ocean. Malacca is controlled by the United States, Suez Canal is basically controlled by the United States, and Xiangyang in the East China Sea is controlled by the United States and Japan.
China is still alive and well. First, it may be "attributed" to the "9. 1 1" initiated by bin Laden, which directly led to the sudden turn of the US policy of containing China; The second is to thank the greedy people on Wall Street, who have consumed the vitality of the United States itself. These opportunities are China's great fortune, but since luck can come, we can also go. It's like a casino in Macau. Just because you win a few games doesn't mean you always win. If you must win all the time, the only way is to become a casino owner.
Circumstances force cynics.
Angry young people seem to be very unpopular with the elite. The reason is that pink love likes to express naked feelings, boldness and blood. The elite has benefited from it. Some of them hide in the attic to play petty bourgeoisie, some only care about empty tickets, some get vest green cards, and some are still fighting for power with dignity. In their view, China is safe with flowers everywhere. If you want to eat or drink, you can go for a walk in the country. If you have no money in your pocket, you can go for a stroll in the street. If your vision narrows, you can go to the United States. They hate angry young people because they interfere with their emotional appeal, just like being knocked on the door of Gentle Village when they are sleepy.
So the elites say that China people are very emotional, and they always resist this and that. But are people still individuals without feelings? We don't resist being beaten by others, and we don't say anything when scolded by others. Is this called rationality? Some elites are deeply poisoned by the United States and always lament why China, a big country, can't be as peaceful and calm as Canada and Australia and be good neighbors.
Which country doesn't want peace forever? Which nation wants a bonfire every day? China has chosen East Asia, a war-torn land in history, and will inevitably choose its own way to adapt to this environment. For thousands of years, the confrontation and competition between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization have forged the character and expression of China people. A land has always been rolling back and forth in blood and fire, but you ask people on this land to calm down and listen to western hymns patiently? This is as absurd as letting Iraqis sit in the Confucius Institute and learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China tried to achieve its rise by peaceful means, but it was sandwiched between the United States and the Soviet Union. Both of them were wary of the development of China and intervened in China to varying degrees. All these make the peaceful rise of China impossible. It can be said that China's anger was driven out by the United States (sometimes including Russian and Japanese).
China is different from the United States. The United States grew up in a lonely land, and no powerful country around it stared at it. Can forge ahead in the world, retreat to the ancestral business, so its "isolationism" and "Monroe doctrine" can be carried out alternately; China is not like Europe. They have been fighting for 1000 years, and everyone knows that no one can destroy them if they want to. So in the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, winning or losing didn't hurt much. China, on the other hand, has been struggling with other nationalities for thousands of years. First nomads, then foreigners, either bleed or amputate, or even perish, so China can't slack off. The Northern Song Dynasty once slacked off, and finally fled south in a panic, becoming a small court in a peaceful corner. It is a historical lesson that "the adherents shed tears and look to Julian Waghann in the north for another year".