What do you think is the Tao in life? Is it a path that belongs to everyone? Or is it a way of thinking? Based on the tangible Tao or the invisible Tao, it has brought us a lot that can be ** and described, as written by Yang NianqunAsk: A New History of Chinese ThoughtIn summarizing more than a dozen core issues, with a kind of glasses of intellectual history and the historical context of social and historical development, we can see the influence of culture and daily life on people's thoughts and actions.
1. Interesting and informative unique thinking brings a kind of cultural curiosity
Do you find people in your life who are extremely interested in what makes you curious? If most of us have a lofty sense of loftiness about culture and history, and dare not approach it easily, then the author is to break this sense of alienation and reconstruct a curious perspective to explore the existence of cultural and ideological concepts, for example, for the word Huaxia, do you want to exist for it? From what perspective? How has it evolved?
Following the author's description, we will find that the original existence of a simple word has become vivid and dynamic, and the name "Huaxia" from ancient times is based on the fact that the Zhou people believed that they originated from "China" and were the heirs of the "Xia" dynasty, so they put "Hua" in front of "Xia". On the topic of telling the story of their sake and how the Zhou rites laid the spiritual background of China, we have a deeper understanding of the existence of the feudal system and the rites. As well as the core idea of "Zhou Li" by the people of Yidi and the princes, it not only allows us to understand the value and evolution of the word Li, but also has a sense of perspective in the historical context.
Second, the exploration of the coexistence of readability and thinking has entered a realm of inquiry
The title of the book is a synthesis of the question and the Tao, in which the importance of the question is self-evident, in any kind of learning, it is based on a kind of question, with the answer to this question to explore, it has become our thinking process, and it has also formed everyone's unique journey of asking, and the formation of the Tao in the process of exploration and discussion gradually clear, the book is composed of one interesting question after another, so when we understand the question, we have a sense of novelty to the answer given by the author.
Because in many history books, we can find that there are many different perspectives, when the construction of different perspectives is integrated into our thinking space, with a clear logical context and multiple linked perspectives, it becomes particularly eye-catching, because you can see which parts of the content the author is connected in, which is very beneficial for us to understand thematic reading. The reason why thematic reading is also respected is that it makes our reading no longer a single embellishment, but a series of flows, which makes it more interesting and gratifying.
For example, in the book, it explains why ancient monarchs needed to prove how pure and noble they were, and there will be various stories to fit this purity and nobility, such as the story of "Gaozu slaying the white snake", which is an example. In terms of the way history is written, the author describes the difference between looking forward and looking backward, based on the impression that the ancient Chinese looked backward because they had the impression that history is as old as possible, and in contrast to the evolutionary linear formula such as evolutionary theory: source (starting point) - cause and effect (intermediary) - future (end).
There are many such explorations, and if you go into the author's perspective, you will find a very fluid science perspective, and more importantly, because it has a very detailed theme construction, which is very interesting in terms of readability.
Ask: A New History of Chinese ThoughtGive us a unique perspective to explore culture and history, and we can see the links to some key concepts, which can give us a lot of interesting discoveries, after all, whether it is learning or reading, it is the internal drive that allows us to be curious and explore in order to enter the ocean of knowledge more persistently.