From a certain point of view, there are many people in China who are not confident in our own culture, and they think that everything that is local is backward and "earthy", which is far less in line with the trend of the times than Western culture.
This has historical factors, because at the end of the Qing Dynasty, China's strength was declining day by day, and the Western powers invaded and carved up us, and at that time, the advanced ideas of science and democracy from the West also began to be introduced into China.
This made many progressives at that time think that China's traditional culture has become decadent and backward, and we must rearm ourselves with advanced culture.
But in addition to historical factors, the West's long-term "cultural invasion" of us and the long-term falsification of our history are also a very important reason.
In fact, we must be more vigilant against the West's falsification of China's history, otherwise Chinese culture will lose its roots and vitality.
In fact, it has been a long time since the New Culture Movement, and now our country is also vigorously advocating cultural self-confidence, and we pay attention to "taking the essence of traditional culture and removing its dross", so as to make China's traditional culture more suitable for the development of the times.
However, improving cultural self-confidence is not something that can be done overnight, and what is worse is that the West has never stopped tampering with China's history, and trying to use their falsified history Chinese to "make Chinese people blindly admire Western culture and deny traditional culture altogether."
A very typical example is. The West has been trying to "prove" that Chinese "originated in Africa" and that Chinese culture "originated in Egypt".
In the last 5,000 years of China's history, it is one of the four ancient civilizations, and it is also the only country whose civilization has not been broken to this day.
However, the West does not recognize this, and in Western historical circles, many people insist that the Xia Dynasty recorded in China's history does not have any "reliable evidence" to corroborate, and belongs to the "mythological era" that "does not exist".
There are even scholars who deny the existence of the Shang Dynasty, in short, for many Westerners, China's history is only 3,700 years, which is the shortest of the four ancient civilizations.
There are also Western scholars who believe that Egyptian civilization has a history of more than 6,000 years, and the Xia Dynasty people recorded in China's history are actually Egyptians, and some people even believe that because the bronze components in the Shang Dynasty ruins are very similar to the bronze components of Egypt, the Chinese civilization originated in Egypt.
Although the Erlitou site has proved the existence of the Xia Dynasty, Western scholars insist that there is no "literal evidence" evidence for the Xia Dynasty, and the Xia Dynasty recorded in China's history is not credible.
Westerners believe that the history recorded in China's "Shangshu" and "Historical Records" is full of various "supernatural phenomena", and the Zhou Dynasty fabricated the Xia Dynasty in order to find evidence for the "legitimacy" of the existence of the Shang Dynasty.
Moreover, when China's archaeological experts were preparing to go to Los Angeles to hold the "International Symposium on Xia Culture" with evidence unearthed from the Erlitou site, the conference suddenly changed the theme of the conference to "whether the Xia Dynasty existed".Western experts on the scene denied the existence of the Xia Dynasty one after another, and only the Japanese representative was "noncommittal".
When China used carbon-14 and other scientific methods to complete the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, Western experts falsely claimed that China was "fabricating evidence in order to prove the existence of the Xia Dynasty".
In addition, modern scientific means and archaeological evidence have long proved that our country belongs to the race, but in the West, there are still many people who insist that the Chinese originated in Africa, which is actually to deny our culture and civilization.
In addition to tampering with our history, the West has also been denying the advanced nature of our civilization and trying to belittle and attack our traditional culture.
It is undeniable that China has lagged behind the world in modern times due to various reasons such as closing the country to the outside world, but our civilization has lasted for thousands of years, and for a long time, it has been an advanced culture that has led the world trend, and we have also created many advanced technologies, and China's "four major inventions" are quite typical examples.
But the West ignores these facts and takes all the credit for itself.
In 2000, the authoritative American magazine Science conducted an election and selected "the 96 most important achievements in recorded human history", and these 96 "important achievements" were all from the West, without mentioning China at all.
For example, Science magazine argues that "the German Gutenberg made a great contribution to human civilization by inventing the printing press".
But in fact, in 1041, more than 400 years before Gutenberg, Bi Sheng of the Northern Song Dynasty had already invented movable type printing.
Although Gutenberg's movable type printing has many improvements and improvements compared with Bi Sheng's invention, and has also played a great role in the spread of European civilization, this does not change the fact that China was the first country to invent movable type printing, and movable type printing was also introduced to the West from China.
The West has not only completely denied the creativity of our civilization, but has also been trying to demonize our country in order to distort the image of our civilization and culture.
For example, the Chinese are hardworking, brave and peace-loving, and in Gu Hongming's discussion of the "spirit of the Chinese", China is "gentle", but the West deliberately scandalizes the Chinese, which not only seriously distorts the impression of ordinary people in the West on the Chinese, but also seriously stigmatizes China's culture.
How popular is it in the West to vilify the image of the Chinese? You can see one or two from a small point:In the "Ten Commandments of Reasoning" listed by Westerners, it specifically mentions that "Chinese must not appear."
To this day, the West has not stopped slandering us.
They resolutely do not believe that the Chinese can achieve such great achievements on their own, so when the BBC and its ilk report on our country, they always add a layer of "underworld filter" to make China always look "gloomy and terrifying".
Why do Western countries want to falsify the history of our country and belittle our culture? Because they must use this to prove their advanced nature, and to prove that their culture, thoughts, and behaviors can lead the world trend, so that they can always be a "vested interest" and get a share of the world's largest cake.
Therefore, Western scholars "do everything possible" to deny the existence of the Xia Dynasty and falsify our history, not based on the results of academic research at all, but for political purposes.
After all, even the Vedic era, which is written only in mythological tales in India, is considered by Westerners to be the true history of "ancient Indian civilization", and they turn a blind eye to the evidence of the existence of the Xia Dynasty, which simply does not make sense from a purely academic point of view.
Of course, what really deserves our vigilance is that the West's behavior of tampering with China's history and denying China's cultural advancement has produced considerable results, and many people now blindly worship the West and are convinced of everything that praises the West, and this is a very profound impact.
In 2023, there is a very famous "fishing post" on the Internet, in which a blogger claims that the "Darian Shipyard" in the "Leoning State" of the United States is building 5 advanced destroyers at the same time, and also said that "only the other half of the United States Navy can defeat half of the United States Navy in the world", and the article was accompanied by a shipyard's **.
In the comment section, many people are extremely praising the United States and doing their best to disparage China.
But what is embarrassing is that if you have a little geographical knowledge, or are willing to check the Internet, you can know that the United States does not have the so-called "Leoning State" at all, and even if you open it and take a closer look, you can find that the gantry crane of the shipyard clearly says "Dalian Shipyard".
In fact, the so-called "Leoning Prefecture" and "Darian Shipyard" are just written in the English pronunciation method of pinyin of Liaoning and Dalian.
There are countless believers in such an easy-to-see and absurd "rumor", which is enough to see how many people believe that Western civilization is advanced from the bottom of their hearts.
The blind worship of Western culture has also affected our Xi and understanding of traditional culture, and many people have made jokes because of it.
For example, one translator once translated the phrase "There is only one sun under the whole world and only one emperor above the people", and the translation is particularly famous for the phrase "the philosopher Mencius".
It seems that this is a Western proverb, but in fact, this sentence is actually "translated" by foreigners from China, the original text is from "Mencius Wanzhang", which is what Confucius said, "There are no two heavens and no two kings", and the so-called mencius is what Westerners call Mencius.
In fact, similar translation errors include the translation of Chiang Kai-shek as "Chang Kaishen", and these all reflect that some people's understanding and understanding of China's culture are far from enough.
Allowing the West to tamper with China's history in this way will only have a more negative impact on China's cultural inheritance, further hinder China's cultural prosperity, and hinder the improvement of our cultural self-confidence.
To put it more seriously, the West's act of tampering with China's history will not only affect the international community's impression of China, but also affect the emotional identity of our people and the stability of the entire society, and may even affect our realization of national rise and national rejuvenation.
Therefore, we must heighten our vigilance, strengthen our convictions, resolutely defend our country's history and culture, fight against these erroneous ideas spread by the West, and let the whole world have a truly correct understanding of us.