An example of blindly following western culture and hurting China: The Opium War and the Sino-Japanese War broke the backbone of many China people! And inherit the next generation, pernicious offspring! Its most obvious feature is that it never goes back to the source to reflect on its own mistakes, but blindly emphasizes the modernization progress of the West and the East!
In a flock of sheep, a sheep leads in front and dozens of sheep follow behind. Even if you go to the slaughterhouse, no sheep will wander and find another way to live, and neither will ducks.
China did not inherit and learn from the western market economic system in all directions, but combined with the national conditions of China, a market economic system with public ownership as the main body and multiple ownership economies developing together. This fully shows that blind obedience is not feasible.
Deng Xiaoping realized the problems existing in the development of the Party and boldly put forward a new idea of "reform and opening up", instead of blindly following the previous principles and policies, and finally made China gradually embark on the road of prosperity.
At the beginning of the Long March, the Red Army of workers and peasants was passively beaten everywhere. At the critical moment of the Party and the army, Mao Zedong did not blindly follow the military thoughts of Bo Gu and Li De, but put forward the idea of "destroying the enemy in the movement". Under his influence, the Red Army of Workers and Peasants crossed Chishui four times and finally left the enemy soldiers behind.
Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", imitated others when he first learned calligraphy, but he didn't improve for decades. One night, he practiced calligraphy diligently and drew on his wife with his fingers. Her wife said impatiently, "You have your body and I have mine. Draw it yourself." This really woke up the dreamer, and Zheng Banqiao realized that blind obedience was fruitless. From then on, when Zheng Banqiao practiced calligraphy, he deliberately avoided the calligraphy of his predecessors, created his own style, and eventually became a great man.