The Russian Communist Party wondered why China lamented the disintegration of the Soviet Union
Hello everyone, I'm Lantai. Today I want to talk to you about the historical outlook of Russians and Chinese. In fact, the Chinese are one of the most important nations in the world that values the lessons of history.
Mr. Liu Yizheng, a pioneer of modern Chinese historiography, once said: "The Chinese's view of history transcends any nation or country." ”
Why do Chinese attach so much importance to history? Lantai believes that this is related to a popular idea of "the view of the world" in ancient China. This "world view" holds that there is no distinction between countries in the world, and even that countries themselves do not exist.
In the "Tianxia View", the world is made up of circles, the core of which is the area where the Son of Heaven lives, which is called "Jinnai". In this concept, the Son of Heaven is not an overlord, but a model of morality, and is regarded as the descending of a saint, so "Kinai" is also known as the "first good district".
The largest circle in the "view of the world" is the "outer land", that is, the place where the barbarians who have not yet received the moral influence of the Son of Heaven live.
In the "view of the world", barbarians are not conquered by force, but through moral influence. If the barbarians refuse to accept the moral influence of the Son of Heaven and choose to be a "foreigner", then this should be the loss of the barbarians, not the loss of the Son of Heaven.
The Son of Heaven advocated moralization, so he paid more attention to recording his words and deeds and the details of his life, which is "history", or the earliest history. The original "historian" was the ** responsible for recording the words and deeds of the Son of Heaven.
Shuo Wen Jie Zi explains: "History, the chronicler also, from and in the middle. In other words, the original meaning of "history" is the official in charge of keeping records in ancient times, that is, the historian.
In the "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period: Foreknowledge", there is a record that Xia Ji was absurd and unreasonable, and Taishi Ling Zhonggu came up with a diagram to advise, but it was unsuccessful, and finally abandoned the official and defected to the Shang Dynasty.
This shows that history itself has an aspect of learning and lessons. However, the Russians have a very different approach to history and the Chinese approach history, and they do not attach importance to learning from history.
They have a resolute attitude towards the past or history, "this matter is irreparable, so we should not keep thinking about it".
Russians always seem to have trouble relieving the gloom of the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to a 2014 China News Network, young Russians know little about World War II history and are not interested, while another poll shows that Russians read relatively few history books.
This may be because they are always stuck in the mentality of "why regret what is gone in the past", and it is difficult to learn lessons and enlightenment from history.