The Spiritual Core of Chinese Civilization Yesterday, Jiefangjun Bao reported on the border clashes that occurred in June last year, revealing the news that four officers and soldiers on the Chinese side were killed and one regiment commander was seriously injured. This shocked me very much, because I had only heard of two officers and soldiers dying before, but I didn't expect that there were actually four. What shocked me even more was that at night I saw the scene of the conflict and saw the admirable courage and sacrifice shown by our officers and men in the face of the enemy. Especially our regimental commander, who spread his arms and rushed to the front, protecting the fighters behind. I couldn't help but feel a sense of reverence for them.
I think they are not only fulfilling their duties as soldiers and defending the country, but also defending the spiritual Great Wall of Chinese civilization. With their actions, they gave us ordinary people a vivid lesson and made us understand that when we are busy with life, busy making money, and busy with reunion, they only do one thing, which is to protect us. They have given us Chinese a powerful spiritual strength and made us believe that as long as they are there, the spiritual Great Wall of Chinese civilization will never fall.
We all know that the Chinese civilization is the only ancient civilization in the world that has not been interrupted, but we also all know that we have experienced countless wars, plagues, and famines in our history, but we have never been defeated, and we have always been able to survive, which is a miracle in the history of human civilization. Many foreigners also want to know what is the secret of Chinese civilization that can continue to the present
This is a historical question, but I also have a practical question, that is, we are now facing this era, on the one hand, we have been contained and suppressed by major powers, and on the other hand, we are facing the challenge of the epidemic
It wasn't until the second half of last year that I saw some glimmers of hope, the epidemic was effectively controlled, the economy gradually recovered, and people's confidence gradually increased, especially in December, when the economic data for November came out, whether it was the growth rate, or the first amount, whether it was a surplus, or an export volume, it has created a record high, and the people of the whole country feel jubilant, feeling that we have finally passed this hurdle in 2020.
Western countries have also begun to reflect on what is wrong with their system and culture, why there is such a contrast, and they are Xi to looking for reasons from a realistic perspective and from the things around them, but I think that if we take a further view, look back at the decades since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and even look back at the thousands of years of Chinese civilization, we will find that there is a more important factor, that is, each generation of us has a spiritual Great Wall to defend Chinese civilization.
If we didn't know much about what this spiritual Great Wall of Chinese civilization was before, then from yesterday's **, I think every Chinese can feel its existence. It is in our time, when we are all pursuing materialism, there are still some people who are inheriting this spirit and building this spiritual Great Wall with their own lives, so that when we see them, we can feel at ease and have confidence.
Because in thousands of years of history, there have always been such people, who have stepped up when the crisis came, and led the way when they were in a difficult situation, how did they do it?I think they all have a common spiritual core.
I think there are three aspects of this spiritual core:
The first is the feelings of family and country.
A few years ago, the United States launched a ** war against us, and at that time there was a famous economist who said that if there was a real fight, there would be no future for young people under the age of thirty. I was angry at the time, and later I wrote a lot of articles refuting his point of view, analyzing China's strengths and America's weaknesses. Although this matter is very small, there are still many people who praise me for being patriotic, and I feel a little embarrassedWe often say that the motherland is our mother, and loving the country is like loving one's own mother, which is a natural emotion.
I think it may be because in the past few decades, we have been influenced by Western thought, and Western countries have always been propagating that capital has no borders and nothing has borders, as if borders and countries are not important.
The youngest soldier who died this time is only 19 years old, they are much younger than middle-aged people like me, but their patriotic feelings, I am beyond my reach, because compared with them, I just lived a few more years, I still think about making money, thinking about life, will complain about this and that, in the eyes of people in society, they are too young and stupid, but there is a sacrificed soldier Chen Xiangrong who wrote something like this:
Clear love, only for China.
This is a kind of family and country feelings without any distractions, this is the driving force for our Chinese civilization to come out of the predicament again and again, this is a spirit of putting family and country feelings above personal interests, I don't envy those who live a delicate life, but I envy people like Chen Xiangrong, because I may be able to live a delicate life, but I know that I can't be as spiritual as them.