Zhou brought about a cultural revolution in China, bidding farewell to the religious culture of superstitious ghosts and gods in the Xia and Shang dynasties, and laying the foundation for a secular materialist culture based on human ethics and morality. The whole world is religious and cultural, Europe and the United States are the first religion, the Arab world is Islam, India is Hinduism, but the Chinese people do not believe in religion, and the religious people are a minority. The Chinese nation is the first nation in the world to become enlightened, so China has led the world for thousands of years. China's backwardness began in modern times, because the Confucian culture emphasized literature over reason, and the imperial examination system induced literati to pursue fame, so that China missed the first industrial revolution of mechanization.
Qin made a political revolution in China, Qin Shi Huang abolished feudalism, established counties, implemented centralization, concentrated forces to do major things, and built water conservancy, which was actually a kind of agricultural socialism. Because China is bordered by the endless Pacific Ocean in the southeast, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the roof of the world, in the southwest, and the cold Mongolian Plateau in the north, the closed geographical environment is suitable for the development of agriculture. Agriculture requires collective cooperation, and socialism was first born in China during the Qin Dynasty, not in modern Europe. European civilization originated in the Mediterranean, socialism collapsed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and flourished in China, because China has a tradition of agrarian socialism.
Marxism has two basic points, one is materialism and the other is socialism, but it has not stood in Europe. Because the traditional culture of Europe is idealistic, the economic basis of Europe is capitalism. The Zhou culture of China's secular materialism and the Qin culture of agrarian socialism are the cultural foundation for the development of Marxism in China. The combination of the Zhou culture of secular materialism and Marx's scientific materialism, and the combination of the Qin culture of agricultural socialism and Marx's scientific socialism, have modernized and modernized traditional Chinese culture and Sinicized Marxism.
There are many civilizations in the world, but the two major civilizations that have had the greatest impact on the world are the ones that have influenced the world. The American and Western civilization originated in the Mediterranean, mainly industrial and commercial civilization and city-state, containing the genes of capitalism, and now developed into modern capitalism. Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow River Valley, mainly agricultural civilization and agricultural cooperation, with a tradition of agricultural socialism, and now developed into socialism with Chinese characteristics. Socialism and capitalism will exist for a long time, and neither will eat the other. China should hold high the banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, base itself on the fourth industrial revolution of digitalization and intelligence, and support the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.