What the ears hear may not be true, but what the eyes see may be just appearances. Only by touching, touching and feeling with your heart can you get closer to and distinguish the origin and essence of things! So Rousseau said, "I can only walk, and I can't think without walking."
He is not the only one who insists on this belief, and Yu is also convinced! His attitude towards culture and civilization is only one: he only believes in field trips, cultural sites, ruins and ruins, and only believes in visiting the site!
As a result, a cultural person resolutely gives up his high official position, packs his bags, returns to the road of civilization that once flourished and now declines, and touches the ruins of human civilization that almost disappeared, just to re-verify, study and sort out the context of world civilization and restore a real civilized body! I admire this feat of seeking truth and being pragmatic, and the piety and awe of culture!
Under the background that the contemporary cultural circles are filled with smoke and intellectuals are weak and hard to find, I am sure of such intellectuals! Personally, it is no wonder that so-called cultural masters and scholars are like this!
If we can't be independent, adhere to the correct viewpoint and call for justice, we will only follow the trend, follow the trend, bow and scrape, and speak insincerely for the sake of worldly petty profits, and will only tarnish the lofty title of cultural people. If you only play word games, talk on paper, be irresponsible and fail to fulfill your mission, it will only mislead all beings and distort the process of civilization development. If we can't stand on the top of the mountain with tolerance and see the overall situation of civilization clearly, we will only come to a single, narrow and one-sided conclusion! If we can't let the world know our true wishes and let future generations understand the cause and effect of civilization and the reasons for its success or failure, mankind will not be able to embark on a new journey or even go backwards.
A crossing, a hiking, for ordinary people, is just a physical and mental indulgence, at most a spiritual baptism. But for a cultural person, it is a kind of verification, a kind of examination, a kind of pursuit, a kind of face-to-face communication, and the object is civilization. I saw a long picture of civilization in his simple prose, which was almost trivial like a running account, but it hit the nail on the head and pointed to the bone marrow. This makes me a pseudo-cultural person who knows little about past lives, a world civilization, suddenly enlightened, and gives some subversive blows to some once stubborn concepts of civilization.
Prosperity will decline and civilization will commit iniquity.
From the banks of the Jordan River to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and then from the Iranian plateau to Pakistan and Afghanistan in South Asia, the most brilliant civilizations of mankind once gathered here. Babylonian civilization, Persian civilization, Indian civilization, Arab civilization ... However, at this time, the conflict between extremism and terrorism has been raging and chaotic, which has become the greatest threat to human civilization and survival. Here, people should not only look up to the lost "king" male soul, but also bow their heads to face a series of unprovoked disasters and bloody! It turns out that everything will flourish and decline, and civilization will also commit crimes!
Creating a civilized atmosphere is as light as a friend of a gentleman!
It has been suggested that several civilizations have been devastated by bad luck, but why is China's culture in the same strain still intact? There was a fierce battle between several ancient civilizations. As early as Shang Dynasty, Egypt had already made an expedition to West Asia. In Confucius' time, Persia made expeditions to Babylon and Egypt. In Qu Yuan's time, Alexander of Greece made an expedition to Babylon. Persia and Greece also arrived in India. At that time, China was far away and a small country with few people. Like a friend of a gentleman, shallow and light, tepid and not easy to break; Not kissing, not easily disappointed; Friendship is not deep, no grudges, naturally good! From this perspective, creating a civilized atmosphere and preserving the context of civilization is just a friendship between gentlemen as light as water!
Sometimes words cannot restore the truth!
Many times, human understanding of civilization and history only depends on written records. Splicing a few drops of ink on paper to restore a broken historical vase is obviously inappropriate! In the face of complex cognition, in order to satisfy the direct, clear and simple desire of human beings, people often skip many unclear and ambiguous deep complex factors and frame and underline some phenomena in order to achieve the purpose of cutting the foot and fitting the foot. Just like Yu along the way, there are always many beautiful buildings that I don't know about in my previous life and can't trace back; There are always many kingdoms that were once brilliant, but now they are declining, but they don't know who the rulers are! From this point of view, what we know is extremely limited. History is longer than written records, living methods are more than known, and encounters and glories are more than seen.
The ultimate direction of human civilization is to return to nature!
I have seen Nepalese paintings by Bi Shumin and Yu. They are sincere, simple, slow-paced, sparsely populated, with simple houses and clear drinking water. People come here not to visit historic sites, but to feel the pure nature! Man was originally created to get rid of ignorant nature. But when people become more and more arrogant to their peers and rude to nature, everything will be reversed!
After the excessive accumulation of civilization, there will be cruel competition, distorted mind, ineffective over-construction, excessive emission and consumption, endless plunder and toss. Richness and order are not the ultimate desires of human beings, what we want is beauty and peace! And only by deleting the complex and simplifying it, Su Zhen is the ultimate reference! Is the real way of civilization!
This was foreseen by Zhuangzi thousands of years ago. He smiled, leaving only a figure riding a cow far away! "Man, earth, heaven, heaven and Taoism are natural!" That's right, let future generations chew on it, endless!