The Olympic Games is more than just a sport. In the final analysis, it is a symbol of western culture. Moreover, since the 20th century, this symbol is not only the local knowledge of the West, but also the world. The whole world agrees with this spirit, and the Olympic spirit has become a symbol of the world spirit. If a nation rejects this world spirit, it will be ruthlessly eliminated from the world nation.
The 2008 Olympic Games held in China is an important moment in the modern history of China. In my opinion, it means a victory of China people's physical awakening since 1840. In fact, the body is a symbol, not only the body in the sense of movement, but also the part that a nation "owns". Economic activities, science and technology, national defense, sports and education all belong to the body. The decline of Qing Dynasty made China realize the importance of body again. The revolution of nearly a hundred years is actually the liberation and reconstruction of China's body.
In China, if the world is explained by the thought of Yin and Yang, then Yin can be understood as a metaphysical spiritual realm. The expression of nothingness is culture, and culture is Chinese religion. In the words of Braudel, a historian of French Annales School, this is a non-economic level, or a level of national mind, soul and spirit, which is useless. Yang Can is regarded as "existence", and existence is the body, which belongs to the economic and material society. In many cases, it can be quantified and directly converted into monetary units.
The Tang Dynasty was the most harmonious and mature era of China's material world and spiritual world. Both Li Bai and Du Fu are geniuses with great spirit and action ability. They have the physique and action ability of the Greeks, and they also hold the mystery of the spirit of the universe.
After Song Dynasty, under the influence of Neo-Confucianism, China's body was gradually covered. With the development of elegance, the culture of harmony between man and nature in the spiritual life and material world of the Tang Dynasty gradually declined. Maintain justice and destroy human desires. It has become a historical trend to respect literature over life. In the meantime, the national culture of northern grassland advocating physical strength has injected vitality into elegant China for many times, but shielding the body has become a major cultural trend. The tradition of harmony between man and nature was out of balance, and by the end of Qing Dynasty, China was already vulnerable. Foot-binding is actually the most vivid symbol of China's physical condition. The success of the Western invasion of China was related to China's weak health. Especially during the Opium War, China's body was gentle, and "quality is better than literature". He lost his creative vitality, wildness and reproduction, so the West was called "the sick man of East Asia".
In my opinion, everything in China in the last century was the liberation of the body. Its inherent historical trend is to rebuild the vitality of China's body, and revolution is a great motive force.
The convening of the 2008 Olympic Games in China, to a certain extent, means the liberation of China's body, which makes China enter the modern era and become independent from all ethnic groups in the world.
The Olympic Games is not only sports, but also national strength and physique in a broad sense. The Olympic Games means that China will once again become a physical giant.
However, China's spirit is in a state of chaos. As a manifestation of nothingness, Wen was in a state of aphasia for a century. The liberation of the body lacks the guidance of literature. The Cultural Revolution since the May 4th Movement reduced Wen's position in China to the lowest point, which certainly opened the way for the liberation of the body. In China, literature plays a role in the spiritual field and literature plays a role in the religious field. The publicity of body makes China strong, but the decline and backwardness of national culture is also obvious, especially after the Cultural Revolution.
China has always been puzzled about how to have both body and mind. After all, the Olympics originated from the Greek body, not the body of China. For China, the Olympic Games is a gift. It was the Greeks who made the rules of the game. If you join this game, you must abide by its rules. For Greece, the Olympics is not only the body, but also its cultural spirit. China's traditional prose is inevitably in a state of aphasia in the face of this culture, because China's tradition is gentle.
Wen shoulders the heavy responsibility of establishing a heart for heaven and earth. Without Wen, China would be an empty China. If all values are measured only by usefulness, then China's material life and spiritual life will be reversed and unbalanced again. China was invaded by foreigners under the cover of his body, and the decline of literature also left China spiritually empty. This sign has been strongly realized today that if culture is only a vassal of the market, it is actually just a beggar culture.
In ancient China, culture led life. In the twentieth century, ideology took the place of culture, but we gradually found that ideology can't actually dominate life. It can lead politics, but not life. As one of the greatest emperors in China, Kangxi prospered because he was not only a politician, but also a scholar.
In fact, the pursuit of the Olympic Games is not poetry, but "possession", strength, achievements, height and so on. Of course it's important. We have had enough of the big loss of blindly pursuing "elegance". What worries me is that the Olympic spirit has been applied to every aspect of life in China. Worship the body without spiritual weight. In some ways, we need to show our competitiveness on the world stage. But in some ways, competition is not the direction. For example, there has never been a problem of literary quality, and the cultures of all ethnic groups have their own unique charm, which cannot be competitive or quantified. How does Shakespeare compete with Tang Xianzu, and how does Chinese painting compete with oil painting? The influence of culture does not depend on competition, which means the same standard. Culture has never had the same standard, and the culture of each nation has only its own internal standards formed in history and time.
Faster, higher and stronger is the slogan of sports. In fact, I found that every aspect of life in China seems to be measured by this slogan more and more. For example, education is an endless Olympic score contest, and nihilistic aspects such as thoughts and souls have been abandoned by the education authorities. The importance of China's history in the past 100 years to culture lacks necessary estimation.
The Olympic spirit is good, but it is not everything. I mean, we should respect those aspects that can't compete, can't be higher and stronger, and can't be counted as achievements, such as poetry. Since the first poem of mankind came out, it has been standing still and walking with God, and God has never made progress. Metaphor and symbol are the oldest functions of language. The first poet created language in this way, and later people created language in the same way as me. Faster, higher and stronger is not the meaning of life, but a means of life. Ruling the top of the Olympic Games is actually not a trophy, but an invisible part of god and poetry. In fact, the West has never forgotten that the Olympic Games are held regularly to worship Zeus, one of the twelve gods of Olympus in Greece.