Author: Li guangman source: Li guangman Bing Dian news review wechat official account ID: ligm-479210127 has been authorized to reprint
A recent important event was Gorbachev’s death, which triggered everyone’s evaluation of Gorbachev and discussion of the reasons for the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It is generally believed that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was not broken by the United States and NATO from the outside through military means, but by the Soviet Union itself. It was not just because Gorbachev became a traitor to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the socialist cause of the Soviet Union and the international communist movement, but because the whole party, country and nation were plunged into a crisis of political belief, As a result, the disintegration of the Soviet Union became a feast for the whole capitalist world to seize huge wealth. Behind the disintegration of the country and the landing of the red flag was a full-scale collapse of the cultural war and the ideological war.
The lessons of Gorbachev and the Soviet Union also have important lessons for China. Just when the China Writers Association said that Jia Qianqian would not be included in the list of new members, it was reported on the Internet that Liu Chuanzhi was selected as the first grade textbook of primary and secondary school textbooks. Is this a cultural trend: capitalists are becoming the protagonists of our primary and secondary school textbooks, and capitalists are becoming models for all of us to learn? This makes us ask, who is occupying our educational position? Who is occupying our cultural front?
Culture is the root of a country and a nation. If the cultural root of a country and a nation is cut off, the country and a nation will eventually disappear in the great vision of history.
Recently, a series of cultural, educational and historical events have led to one storm after another of public opinion, from Mo Yan’s “literature is to expose the darkness, to criticize, not to eulogize” to Jia Qianqian’s shit, urine and fart poems, from the toxic teaching material incident to the removal of some children’s comic books by Yi Zhongtian and other writers, and then to the selection of capitalist Liu Chuanzhi into the first grade textbooks of primary and secondary school students, From the memorial tablets of Class-A war criminals of the Japanese invaders in Nanjing Xuanzang temple to the summer festivals all over the country, as well as the recently hyped issue of “closing the country to the outside world” and Gorbachev’s death have aroused heated discussions among the Chinese people, involving culture, education and history, which always gives people a deep worry.
If we say that “literature is to expose the darkness, to criticize, not to eulogize”, then we have to ask that those beautiful poems in the book of songs, the source of ancient Chinese poetry, can not be called literature if they are neither exposing the darkness nor criticizing society? Cao Cao’s “view of the sea”, “tortoise’s life” and “short song line” are not literature? Is Tao Yuanming’s return to the fields and garden residence not literature? So many Tang and Song poems are not literature anymore? What remains of the history of Chinese literature if we abandon these? Is Mo Yan, after he won the Nobel Prize for literature, claiming to be a superior cultural hegemon, asking all writers to expose and criticize his own country and nation because his works are all about exposing and criticizing his own country and nation? Think his works represent Chinese literature? Is it all about Chinese literature? There are so many Chinese writers. Why does the Nobel literature prize selection committee award this award to Mo Yan, a writer who deliberately vilifies Chinese society and national character in a magical way?
Looking through the whole history of Chinese literature, have you ever seen such disgusting poems as Jia Qianqian’s? If there is, if this is also called a literary work, it can only be found in Jia Pingwa’s long story “waste city”, which is almost a kind of similarity and coincidence of blood inheritance. In fact, my concern for Jia Qianqian is not in the shit urine fart poems written by Jia Qianqian, but in the fact that her poems have been sought after by many peers and critics in the Chinese poetry circle. Even if I put aside Jia Qianqian’s controversial shit urine fart poems, only those poems highly appraised by some cultural elites are compared with the poems of some poets around me. Jia Qianqian’s poems are also very poor, neither artistic conception nor aesthetic feeling, However, her works have been rated as excellent works by some poets and poetry critics, which makes us see the ugly and degenerate side of the current Chinese literary and cultural circles. When did Chinese literature become so shallow, ugly and dirty? Is this the degeneration of literature or the whole culture? In fact, although today’s Chinese literary world has long ceased to have ideals, passion, nationality and people’s nature, and has become a tool for some political ruffians and cultural ruffians to earn fame and money, there are still a large number of writers around me and among my friends who adhere to the correct political ideas of literature and still pursue a literary concept of serving the people and the nation. If Jia Qianqian’s poems are allowed to be handed down to future generations as a model of today’s poetry, will people in the future think that this is the whole of Chinese poetry? Did the poetic flavor of Chinese poetry evolve into this urine smell in the 1920s?
Let’s take another look at the toxic teaching materials, the children’s comic works of Yi Zhongtian and other writers, and the primary school textbooks selected by capitalist Liu Chuanzhi. In fact, the problems in our teaching materials and our education are far more than these. These are only the skin, and there are more self negation in content. From the teaching materials (teaching aids), we can know how deeply our education has fallen in recent years by replacing Lei Feng, who crossed the road on her back, with Japanese soldiers who invaded China. Why is it unimaginable to replace Lei Feng with Japanese soldiers in our teaching materials? Why did riots occur in Hong Kong two years ago? On the one hand, I think it is because the sense of colonialism has not been completely eliminated, and on the other hand, there are problems with education and teaching materials. In those years, topics such as patriotism, the Chinese nation, Chinese history and the motherland were almost banned from the teaching materials of primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. How can a society that even patriotism, the Chinese nation and even Chinese history be eliminated from the teaching materials cultivate patriotic youth? Why are Taiwan’s young people now moving farther and farther away from the mainland and their motherland, emotionally and psychologically? Because the Taiwan authorities have been engaged in “de Sinicization” in recent years, and the core of “de Sinicization” is the “de Sinicization” of textbooks, Japan’s revision of the history of the war of aggression against China also began with textbooks. When Chinese primary and secondary school textbooks become so ugly and distorted, does it mean that our educational position has been lost?
Is the summer festival in Nanjing really just a commercial activity that we see on the surface that young people like animation? From the Japanese style streets all over the country, the summer festivals all over the country and the Japanese schools opened in some big cities, to the statues of Japanese invaders who invaded China in the name of the pioneering group and the reclamation group on Chinese soil, and the memorial tablets of Japanese war criminals in Chinese temples, are these still small matters when viewed together? This is obviously not a trivial matter. This is a kind of cultural invasion that has begun, and one highland after another of a cultural war.
Recently, a paper written by the Chinese Academy of history, “a new exploration of the issue of” closing the country to the outside world “in the Ming and Qing Dynasties”, suddenly triggered discussions. Some people said that the Chinese Academy of history wrote this paper to reverse the long-standing conclusion of “closing the country to the outside world”. I think that the issue of “closing the door to the outside world” which has a far-reaching impact on China’s modern history should not only be studied in depth, but also has great reference significance for reality.
The Chinese Academy of history believes that there is no “isolation” in China’s modern history, only “self-determination” and “self-determination” has slowed down the bloody eastward expansion of Western colonialism to a certain extent. I think this view is very meaningful. The colonization of the whole world by Western colonialism was quite bloody, even the bloodiest conquest in human history. In the past, the whole of North and South America was slaughtered, occupied, enslaved and plundered by western colonists. Western colonists had a criminal history of slave trade between Africa, Europe and the Americas, and western colonists engaged in opium drug trade with China. Once China banned the opium drug trade, these colonists launched the Opium war and opened China’s door with gunboats. They did not open China’s door to convey science and civilization to China, Instead, they want to dump commodities and opium on China. In this regard, we really need to “limit ourselves”, otherwise Lin Zexu’s Humen destructed opium will lose its legitimacy, and China’s resistance to Western powers and anti colonialism struggle will lose its legitimacy.
At present, some people in our historical circles believe that China’s decline is caused by “closing the country to the outside world”, while few people realize that if China does not engage in “self-determination and self-restraint”, it is entirely possible that it will become a colony of western colonists in the face of the iron blood of western colonists, just like India, the Philippines, Latin America and Africa. “Independent customs clearance” still has important practical significance for today’s China. If we blindly emphasize unlimited opening up, not limited opening up, independent customs clearance, and protect state-owned industry and agriculture, if we will only passively be beaten in the face of trade wars and scientific and technological wars launched by the United States, and follow its will to open up indefinitely, then our economic and financial sovereignty may be completely lost, It will become an economic and financial colony of the United States. Many of us do not realize that what the United States launched against China was actually a new and equally bloody colonial war.
What are the above public opinion events in the fields of education, literature and history warning us? How can we draw lessons from it?
First, what is the most important rise of a country? It is the rise of culture, the self-confidence of culture, and the leading power to seize the right of cultural discourse. Is it true that the Nobel Prize for literature is only a judgment of the quality of literary works? Absolutely not. The Nobel Prize for literature is actually the high ground of discourse power occupied by western culture in the field of literature, and it is their cultural hegemony in setting cultural and literary standards. Mo Yan was able to win the Nobel Prize for literature because his works meet the needs of the western culture war and the standards of Western political values. It does not mean that he is the most powerful writer among Chinese writers, nor does it mean that his works are the best among Chinese writers.
When all of US writers pursue and converge on this paradigm and this standard to create, what we lose is not only a writer’s style, but a nation’s cultural self-confidence and a writer’s conscience. I do not object to Mo Yan’s works, but I will never advocate Mo Yan’s works. Although China was once poor and backward, and the Chinese people were once humble and ordinary, they were never ugly and cheap. The Chinese people have always been kind, resolute and simple. I think that Chinese writers want to eulogize this kind of kindness, perseverance and simplicity, not deliberately exaggerate the poverty and backwardness of the Chinese people and deliberately expose the ugliness of the Chinese people for some purpose. Literature is ultimately a study of people and a reflection of the writer’s heart. Mo Yan’s literary view can exist, but it is not a socialist literary view or a literary view for the people. If we abandon the literary view with Chinese ethos and pursue Mo Yan’s literary view, the Chinese people will become the most humble, ugly and worthless people in the world.
Second, Jia Qianqian’s poems are not all about excrement and urine, nor are they all about cucumbers and lotus flowers. But since she has selected and publicly published those excrement and urine poems, as well as some obscure descriptive poems, these poems may be circulated, and will inevitably be evaluated by society. People who laugh at and despise her and her poems should not be criticized for being boring. As we have said before, literature is a study of human beings, and words are born of the heart. In particular, poetry expresses ambition. Jia Qianqian’s public publication of these poems is obviously a very self-appreciation, an expression of her true nature, and also an expression and reflection of her literary and even values. The reason why Jia Qianqian’s poems are considered vulgar and ugly by everyone is that on the one hand, the people who wrote these poems are extremely self-centered, taking ugliness as beauty and the lower body as poetry. Just as an artistic style of taking ugliness as beauty is also popular in our art world, literature has also fallen into the same cesspit. How many of today’s poets, writers and artists really go deep into life and integrate with the people at the bottom in life and emotion? From lamb body to excrement and urine body, it is a kind of psychological abnormality and emotional degeneration after some intellectuals become refined egoists, which is the alienation of society and the expression of literary degeneration.
Third, how should we treat history? Recently, I read an article entitled “getting rid of hate education and historical sadness has become an important topic that can not be bypassed” by Gong Fangbin, a professor of the National Defense University, published on official account “worldview”. From the history of European aggression, “In these countries and nations with heavy suffering, few people can’t extricate themselves from historical hatred. They look more at the present and the future, that is, they have created love, hate and hatred in the real interests. In this sense, they have pardoned the former aggressors. Or, when people in the victimizing and victimizing countries talk about history, they only regard the past tragedy as a” historical event “rather than an eternal tragedy, And around it. “
Gong Fangbin believes that, “Today, when China has entered the world to participate in the formulation of rules, how to treat the history of being invaded has become a major topic that can not be bypassed. For a long time, we have carried out hate education, because ‘class hatred and national hatred’ can stimulate spiritual strength most directly, vividly and effectively, and it is highly consistent with the ’cause and effect’ in national culture. Every nation has its own way of thinking and value system, which is formed National orientation, value orientation and behavior mode. The question is whether the values and ways of thinking we uphold are conducive to the advancement of the nation. ” “A country and a nation cannot extricate themselves from historical tragedies. What they create must be a low realm, a narrow mind, a small pattern, and even a direct distortion of thinking and value judgment. Because of historical tragedies, every disturbance in the victimizing country, even the behavior of civilians, and the nonsense of a politician touch the sensitive nerves of the victimized country. At this time, if the netizens of the victimized country lack rationality, they will respond with hostile postings. China, which has become strong China must be alert to this situation, otherwise the world will doubt that China will take the iron and blood road of revenge, which is obviously not conducive to realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. “
He believes that, “To jump out of historical sadness, it is very important to have a clear understanding of the process and laws of the evolution of world history. It is a difficult process for human beings to move from the ‘iron and blood road’ to civilization. Before self transcendence is realized, violent conflicts are inevitable. Just like the killing of barbarian nations in the process of moving towards civilization, it must go through a process of consciousness. Let alone 2000 B.C., even if we choose a more recent 1000 years, it is difficult to find one There are no people killed or killed. In this historical stage, almost all countries and nations have been victimizers and victims. In other words, if you harm others today, you will be harmed tomorrow. The difference between the two periods lies in which killing appears more in memory. ” “We should be soberly aware that keeping history in mind is to avoid repeating it. We should not be trapped in it, nor should we be alienated into national hatred that will never be resolved. For a long time, we have inspired spiritual strength through revenge. In the future, we can only create a civilized moral sense and take on spiritual strength. This is a new proposition for us and a road that must be changed.”
This article by the professor of the National Defense University surprised me. Obviously, the purpose of this article is to ask us to give up our hatred for Japan, which once waged an aggressive war against China and brought great disasters to the Chinese people. Because according to Gong Fangbin, there are few countries in the world that have not waged war. You have invaded me, and I have also invaded me. Everyone is both an aggressor and a victim. Don’t think about revenge and killing any more, Don’t take the road of iron and blood.
If ordinary professors put forward this view, I might not be so surprised. The key is that Gong Fangbin is a professor of the National Defense University. The professor of the national defense university wants us to give up our hatred for the Japanese invaders, to forget the sins of the Japanese invaders, to put down our guns, and to cast swords into ploughshares for the invaders. What does this mean? The key lies in that the Japanese government has never apologized to the Chinese people for launching the war of aggression against China and causing serious disasters to the Chinese people. It has never reflected on the war of aggression. Moreover, at present, Japan is revising the peace constitution, rearming its military forces, and returning to the path of militarism. It is clamoring that what happens to Taiwan is what happens to Japan. It is working with the United States to comprehensively contain, strangle, and encircle China, Moreover, Taiwan, China of China is still isolated overseas, and the country is still not unified. For such a country, at this time, a professor of the National Defense University asked us to put aside our hatred and not to follow the iron and blood road. How many meanings does this mean?
The reason why I am talking about this issue here is that how should we deal with the issue of history, and then return to the debate of “closing the door to the outside world”. Is it really just a historical paper? I think it’s not that simple. What we’re arguing about is how we should deal with reality. In today’s increasingly complex and grim international environment, in the process of China’s comprehensive opening up, should we open up indefinitely, the bigger the door, the better, or should we “independently limit the door”, open what is beneficial to me and not what is unfavorable to me? The door of the country is a gate, and opening is also to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests. On the one hand, we are the covetous new western powers, and on the other hand, we are the major interests of the country and the people. We must be cautious about opening up. For example, we can’t open compradors like didi who go to the United States to list regardless of national security. We have to close the door of the country tightly or restrict the opening up.
On the other hand, we must not turn swords into plowshares against the enemy because of the so-called Bodhisattva’s kindness. Instead, we should prepare good wine, polish our shotguns, do a good job in development, and prepare for war at the same time. We must be prepared to respond with “iron and blood” to those hostile countries and forces that do not repent and continue to do evil. Kindness to the enemy is a crime against the people, A country and nation that easily forgets hatred will only be despised and destroyed by its enemies in the end.
Fourth, for a nation and a country, the loss of culture is the most complete loss. You should still remember that our middle school textbooks once learned a novel “the last lesson” by French writer dude. This novel tells the story of a rural primary school that was forcibly ceded by Prussia in the Franco Prussian War. At the last lesson of saying goodbye to its mother tongue, it shows the humiliation of the whole occupied area and its deep yearning for its own homeland through the eyes of a child. Yes, the first thing the conqueror did after he set foot on the conquered land was to kill those rebels. The second thing he had to do was to change the language used by the conquered. What was the most thorough thing the western colonists did after they set foot in Latin America? It is to eliminate the languages used by the indigenous people in Latin America. Now the languages most used by Latin Americans are the colonists’ Portuguese, Spanish, English and French. This is the most complete cultural conquest. After Japan occupied Northeast China, it also promoted Japanese. Japanese must be used in schools instead of Chinese. This kind of conquest of language and culture is the most complete conquest.
The decline of China’s education is not only shown in the illustrations in the textbooks, but more importantly, almost all the teachers on the podium of our university have returned from studying in the United States and the West. Our university’s education system is all established according to the western system. Our economics textbooks are all western economics. We can’t see any economics textbooks studying China’s problems. Our laws are also following the western law, It seems that the legal provisions are all encompassing. In fact, they are breeding a legal profit-making class, a legal party, a costly legal system that the people can not afford, and a western legal system that does not serve the people. Yes, a large part of our university teachers are trained in the United States and the west at our own expense. Most of these teachers have been brainwashed by the education of the United States and the West. Some of them have become spokesmen for the values and interests of the United States and the west, and it is these people who are educating our next generation.
The all-round westernization of economy, finance, law, culture and art is a sign of the fall of the whole culture and a process of the complete conquest of the whole nation. Some people once advocated that China should be conquered by the West for 500 years, so that the so-called western civilization can completely transform China, completely colonize China, and completely destroy Chinese civilization and culture. If our culture does not save itself, it is really facing the danger of extinction.
Fifthly, why is the feminine Niang Pao culture prevalent in our country these years? Why has our country become more and more addicted to entertainment in recent years? What cultural products are on our screens? What recreational games do our children indulge in? How far are our children chasing stars? To what extent have our own history, heroes, culture and leaders been distorted and vilified? When capitalists like Liu Chuanzhi entered the textbooks of primary and secondary schools, when our local leaders asked our party and government organs to speak out to serve the capitalists rather than the people, China began to deviate from socialism and began to become a cultural and spiritual colony of the West. Yes, what we are facing at present is an extremely severe and complex struggle situation. There are containment, strangulation, encirclement and suppression by the new western powers from the outside, and attacks from our internal enemies. This is not only a culture war, but also a war of survival.
What we need to take back is not only the sovereignty of textbooks, but also the sovereignty of education and culture. What we want to take back is the right to interpret history, the right to formulate standards for literary works and the right to cultural aesthetics, and the right to decide and choose what road we want to take. Western literature, western culture and Western history are all written by Westerners. They embody the Western cultural sovereignty consciousness, Western values, western aesthetic needs and Western countries and national interests, not the cultural sovereignty and cultural values of China, the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.
We stress that the Chinese nation’s cultural sovereignty, cultural awareness and cultural aesthetics are not meant to be so-called “closed door”, but to break away from the shackles of Western discourse consciousness, Western values and Western positions, restore the Chinese nation’s cultural self-confidence and pride in civilization, establish the cultural system of the Chinese nation in the new era, and form the cultural cohesion, combat power and integration of the new era.
Sixth, when did Chinese culture begin to sink? We can’t forget the violent upheaval that took place in Chinese society in the 1980s. A TV Political film that completely denied the Yellow River civilization, the Chinese dragon, the Great Wall, the yellow skin, the yellow people and the Chinese nation and hoped that China would fully embrace the blue civilization of Europe was all the rage. China also came to the most dangerous brink of collapse in this most thorough wave of cultural negation.
Yes, this is a scene that happens immediately after Gorbachev’s new thinking. China is almost going to have the same scene as the Soviet Union. The reason for that scene is that some intellectual and political elites at that time wanted to completely abandon Chinese culture and the Chinese road and embrace western culture and take the western road. Fortunately, China braked in time at the last minute and defended the last position. As a result, the Soviet Union collapsed and china survived.
Although China has not embarked on that extremely dangerous road, the undercurrent of comprehensively negating Chinese civilization, Chinese culture, skin color and race has not disappeared. To this day, the idea of looking up to and kneeling down on Western civilization and belittling and negating Chinese civilization is still engraved in the bones of some of us, especially some intellectual elites. It is like a steel seal on their minds. Yes, an ideological steel seal, Thirty years have passed, and some of our intellectual elites have not abandoned their blind obedience and prostration to Western civilization. Our country and nation still have not built up their own civilization and cultural self-confidence, and the West has never forgotten to bring down China, destroy China, split China and destroy China as it did the Soviet Union.
Once a person, a country and a nation are stamped with an ideological steel seal by other nations and cultures, it is difficult to remove the influence and constraint of that ideological steel seal on us. When the new eight power coalition forces launch a new round of civilization war and culture war against China, it is still difficult for us to break away from the influence of that ideological steel seal, break away from the bondage of the western culture that we once knelt down, and rebuild our relationship with our country, our nation Pride and confidence in one’s own civilization and culture.
Today, we want to revive the Chinese nation, civilization and culture. What is lacking most? What is most lacking is the adherence, confidence and innovation to the civilization of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. What is still lacking is the adherence, confidence and innovation to the 5000 year old Chinese culture.
These are my thoughts on some current educational, historical and cultural news events, as well as some of my worries. At present, China is facing an extremely harsh and austere environment. I think that compared with the tiger wolf bandits outside the country, we should be more worried about the cultural collapse and loss of cultural self-confidence at home. They are a group of cultural slaves and traitors at home. Without cultural self-confidence, civilization pride and cultural sovereignty, we can not win this war even with more advanced weapons and equipment and a powerful army. The cultural battlefield is more critical and urgent than the military battlefield.
What we are facing is actually the Shangganling battle in a cultural war. Can we win this cultural war? I think what we need this time is the awakening and participation of the public, not just the intellectual elite.