John
Chang
Many people ask me what is the Chinese
civilization, and what are its representatives?
Such as some of the Western religions that exist in China have been
spread in China for thousands of years, and some have been integrated into the
Chinese civilization, and some are in absolute dominance in China. Do these Western religions and dogmas belong
to Chinese civilization?
I said no, they cannot represent
Chinese civilization. Even though they have been completely assimilated by
Chinese civilization, they still cannot represent Chinese civilization. Take
Buddhism for example, they have built a large number of clay sculpture in
China, worshipped idols and made money. They have been assimilated by Chinese
civilization, but they do not belong to Chinese civilization.
So what can represent Chinese
civilization? Broadly speaking, Chinese civilization was born in this land of
China, and it was created and carried forward by the Chinese. Maybe this
Chinese went abroad for different reasons, but his background is Chinese
civilization, writing in Chinese, not the dogma and civilization created by
Westerners and spread to China.
What is the difference between Western
religion and Eastern religion? Western religion accumulates wealth and power,
worships idols and kills more than Eastern religion. As we can see from
history, countless world wars have come from the West, such as Europe and the
Middle East, and there are almost no world wars extending from the East. There
is an exception for the Mongols fighter from the East to the West, but the
Mongols have no civilization. They are a nomadic steppe people. They have no
fixed homeland and cannot be counted as Eastern civilization.
But the West is not. They have ancient
Greek and Roman civilizations, but they are still like to kill. Thousands of
years of war have made them believe in weapons even more, believing that
weapons can unify the world. Therefore, the chief scientists of all countries
in the Western world are now weapons experts, and they are also the largest
industry supported by the government.
Someone asked whether Confucianism represent
Chinese civilization? I said no. Confucianism is only a part of Chinese civilization
and cannot represent Chinese civilization. Although the ruling classes in the
past have vigorously praised Confucianism, and some have even spent a lot of
money to promote it to the world, but Confucianism only helps the ruler to rule
and the ignorant people, and it is of little importance in Chinese civilization.
We will now show what Chinese civilization
includes. Simply put, Chinese civilization has existed in China for more than
5,000 years, starting from the mythologies emperor Yan and Huang period.
1)
Chinese
characters: According to legend, they were mainly created by Mr. Cang jie
and Emperor Huang (The mythologies
emperor Yan and Huang period), but the most likely fact is that there were
some characters before, but Mr. Cang jie and Emperor Huang combined the Chinese
characters into a whole system and created
many new texts have been added.
2)
Mathematical theory: 《He Tu》 and 《Luo
Shu》
(Xia and Shang Dynasties), according
to legend, are Mr. Fu xi gossip and Hong Fan nine categories, and there is
"Mr. Fu xi king the world, the dragon and horse go out of the river, and
then the text draws gossip, and call 《He Tu》", "The book came out from
Luo, and was called 《Luo Shu》and carried by the turtle, listed on the back, there are number
to nine, Mr. Yu put it as ranked, with
nine categories, often Tao is in order" legend. Due to the uncertain time,
we tentatively they create and develop the number and image theory and works in
the Xia and Shang dynasties.
3)
The theory of hexagrams: 《The
Book of Changes》 (Zhou Dynasty),
according to legend, was formed by King Wen of the Zhou Dynasty, with creation
of 64 hexagrams. This book uses a set of symbol systems to describe the
simplicity, change, and difficulty of the state. It expresses the philosophy of
Chinese classical culture on cosmology. Its central idea is to interpret the
inherent characteristics and laws of natural operation, interpret the
alternation of Yin and Yang, and describe everything in the world. 《The
Book of Changes》 was originally used for divination, and later influenced
philosophy, religion, politics, economy, medicine, astronomy, arithmetic,
literature, music, art, military, and martial arts etc. throughout China.
4)
Moral theory: 《Tao De Jing》 (Spring and Autumn period), a
philosophical work of Mr. Lao Tzu (Li Er), is an important source of Taoist
philosophy. It takes the philosophical "morality" as the keynote,
discusses the ways of self-cultivation, governance, military use, and health
preservation, and also discusses politics etc. It has profound cultural
meanings and is acclaimed as the king of the ten thousand scriptures.
5)
Confucian theory: 《The Great Learning》, 《Doctrine of the Mean》, 《Mencius》 (Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period).
The authors were Confucius and Mencius. Confucianism is also known as Confucius
and Mencius thoughts. The Zhou Dynasty ritual and music tradition, with benevolence,
forgiveness, sincerity, filial piety, etc. as the core values, emphasizes the
moral cultivation of gentlemen, emphasizes the complementarity of benevolence
and etiquette, emphasizes the five ethics and family ethics, advocates
civilization and benevolent governance, despise punish, criticizes tyranny, and
strives rebuild the order of etiquette and music, change customs, protect the
country and the people, and be to fit in with the world and the spirit of
humanism.
A large part of Confucianism is a
practical part of sociology, so the rulers prefer and strongly admire it. After
the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Period, Chinese philosophy almost
stopped moving, only revising these Confucianism until the advent of Western
philosophy, which was related to the suppression and abolition of other Chinese
academic thoughts and the cult of Confucianism by the Chinese rulers.
6)
Historiography:
《Historical Records》 and 《Three Kingdoms》(Han and Jin Dynasties). The peak and
masterpieces of historiography are from the Han Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty. The
representative figures are Mr. Sima Qian and Mr. Chen Shou. Although there have
been some historians in the past dynasties, none of the works can surpass Mr.
Sima Qian in the Han Dynasty. Mr. Sima Qian was study of heaven and people
relationship, through the changes of the past and the present, and become own doctrine,
had a profound impact on the development of later historiography and
literature.
The method of narrating history in the
chronology style pioneered by 《Historical Records》 was passed down
by the "Official History" of the subsequent dynasties. 《Historical
Records》was
also an excellent literary work, and Mr. Lu Xun called it "the swan song
of the historian, the《 li Sao》 without rhyme".
7)
Poem: 《Tang
Poems》
(Tang Dynasty), the main authors, Mr.
Li Bai, Mr. Du Fu, Mr. Bai Juyi, etc. Since the 《Book of Songs》, 《Chu Ci》, 《Han Fu》, and 《Yue fu》,
China has always had the tradition of verse. The 《Book of Songs》
mostly uses four characters as a sentence, and the number of characters 《Yue fu》in the
Han Dynasty has changed. The development of the Wei and Jin Dynasty, Southern
and Northern Dynasties has an unfixed number of characters, and there are also
five, six or seven characters, but the number of sentences is not limited. In
addition to inheriting the genre of ancient poem, Sui and Tang Dynasties also
developed modern poetry with a neat and beautiful melody, which had more
stringent requirements for rhyming, flatness and other metrical rhythms. Tang poem
developed a variety of themes, expressed personal emotions, reflected social
reality, and had a profound artistic conception, reaching a very high level of
art. After the Tang Dynasty, no one can surpass 《Tang Poems》,
including the so-called great poets of the subsequent dynasties.
8)
Poetry: 《Song Poetry》 (Song Dynasty), the main author, Mr. Su Shi,
Mr. Xin Qiji, Mrs. Li Qingzhao, etc. Song Poetry was a new style of poetry
relative to ancient style poetry. The sentences are long and short, which is
easy to sing. Because it is the lyrics with music, it is also called “Music Poetry”,
the song movement, long and short sentences, poems with music, etc., marking
the highest achievement of Song Dynasty literature. Song Poetry began in the
Liang Dynasty, formed in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty.
In ancient Chinese literature, there is a fragrant and gorgeous artistic
conception, which competes with Tang poem and lays the foundation for the
formation of Opera in Yuan Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, no one surpassed 《Song Poetry》.
9) Opera: 《Dou
E's Injustice》 (Yuan Dynasty), the
main author, Mr. Guan Hanqing. Opera in Yuan Dynasty, also known as long and
short sentences, is a form of literature and art that prevailed in the Yuan
Dynasty, including medley play and scattered music. The medley play in Song
dynasty is a kind of performance characterized by comical humour, and it
developed into opera form in Yuan dynasty. Each screenplay was mainly divided
in quarters, with additional wedges at the beginning or between the quarters.
It was the popular in the metropolis (now Beijing) area. There were also medley
play in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but each screenplay was not limited in
four parts. The scattered music was popular in the Yuan, Ming and Qing
dynasties. Its content was mainly lyric, and there were two types: Small plays
and pantomime. Opera in Yuan Dynasty should be the source of all modern operas,
such as Peking opera.
10)
Novels: 《Romance of Three
Kingdoms》, 《Water Margin》, 《Dream
of Red Mansions》, 《Journey to the West》 (Ming and Qing Dynasties), the main
authors are Mr. Luo Guanzhong, Mr. Shi Naian, Mr. Cao Xueqin, Mr. Wu Chengen,
etc. They are at the same level as Western novelists, such as Mr. Shakespeare.
Compared with other literary styles, novels have a large capacity, can show the
characters' personalities and fate in detail, show intricate contradictions and
conflicts, and can also provide an overall and broad social life environment in
which the characters live.
11)
Prose: Masterpiece 《Republic of China Prose》 (Republic
of China), such as articles like "Remember Mr. Liu Hezhen" (Mr. Lu
Xun); "My Mother" (Mr. Hu Shi); "One on the Way" (Mr. Yu
Dafu), etc. The prose material is very wide and free, not restricted by time
and space, and expressive methods are eclectic. It can narrate the development
of events, describe the image of characters, express emotions, and make
comments. The author can also freely adjust and change according to the content
needs. But from the perspective of the prose, no matter how extensive the
content and how flexible the expression method is, the theme of the expression
must be clear and concentrated.
The above 11 items are the development
and inheritance of Chinese civilization, and each dynasty and every generation
has independent innovation and transcendence.
Talking about the present, after the
Republic of China, that was, from 1949 to the present, almost nothing has been
created to surpass the previous ones. Poetry is not better than Tang and Song
dynasties, novels are not better than Ming and Qing dynasties, and prose is not
better than the Republic of China. Looking at these things published today, the
literature strongly supported by the state and the government at the financial
level is mainly inherited from the former Soviet Union’s peasant revolution
novels, but the content and quality are far inferior to the former Soviet
Union’s novels 《And Quiet Flows the Don》（Russian：Тихий Дон） and
《How
The Steel Was Tempered》（Russian：Как закалялась сталь）and so on, just say that they
copied the form of Soviet peasant novels.
Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels are
a breakthrough. Although he also inherited the framework of the novels of 《Three
Swordsman and Five Righteousness》 in
the Ming and Qing Dynasties, he was the only author who surpassed the series of
martial arts novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Except for Mr. Jin Yong's
martial arts series of novels, no one in other themes can surpass the Ming and
Qing dynasties. No matter how these contemporary so-called masters write, no one
in fantasy novels surpasses 《Journey to the West》; no one in historical romance novels surpasses 《Romance
of Three Kingdoms》 (although there are also
a large number of messy historical romances, emperor biography, etc.); no
historical novels about peasant revolutions surpassed 《Water Margin》; in terms of feudal families, no one
surpassed 《Dream of Red Mansions》.
Although
the purses of these so-called writer masters are bulging, what are they writing
about? Are they all blushing! Most of them are chicken soup for the soul, kneeling
and licking with tears, not to mention novels without depth and breadth, but
like short stories or prose, and how many people can beyond the period of the
Republic of China.
Look at the awards given to Chinese
writers by the Western societies. Whether they are literary awards or film awards,
they are all peasants' "Hillbilly awards". In their eyes, the Chinese civilization is at
this level, and the state supports so-called "excellent works" are
just sorghum consciousness and ignorance, inability to innovate, and worship
power and money.
Could it be that Chinese civilization
is such a negative energy, low level and junk goods? In fact, it is not. There
are many reasons for this. It's mainly about publishing control at the national
level. You can't write about other aspects. Only peasant themes and war dramas
do not affect the rule before you can be approved the publication. There are
also authors，who write
only those low-level and praised things can make money and even become
officials.
The ancients unlike today, they don’t
use these works for food, and they don’t need your approval to publish. Among
the 11 innovations of the ancients listed above, none of them were approved and
funded by the government, and none of them praised the emperor and the
government. They were the author’s natural innovation. Almost all were
oppressed and controlled by the imperial court at the beginning，and then become a part of
Chinese civilization which can not be surpassed today.
As for the scholars of the imperial
Academy supported by the imperial court, such as the Champion, runner up and
third place etc., their works did not know what they have, and they were
probably all bad products, and they have not made any contribution to Chinese
civilization!
In addition, if Chinese civilization is just
these 11 things listed above, and can you say that they can unify the world? Of
course can not. Why do Western prophets say that Chinese civilization will
unify the world? Don't they know that there are only these culture and
civilization in Chinese history?
Westerners are so self-confident that
they look down on Eastern civilization at all and deliberately suppress it,
calling it non-mainstream culture and peasant culture. They already have strong
science and technology. They can declare to the outside world that Western
civilization will unify the world. Why on the contrary say that Chinese
civilization will unify the world?
This is the innate will of heaven,
and there is something that appears in all Chinese and foreign prophets, that
is, "Chinese civilization will unify the world" and the theoretical
system that must be "the deterrence and convince"!
"Deterrence" means something
that makes them fearful and frightens them. "Convince" means to be
convinced by mouth or sincerely admire. This is something that the first-class
scholars in the West can't achieve! In addition, there is no other way to the
bad religions they have created, and they often have religious wars and dead people,
which is also a headache!
12) Unified theory: the seven colourful golden book that appeared in
the 21st century, a rainbow, that is, the light of wisdom, to be precise, it is
the culture of Chinese civilization, the universal law, and the civilization of
the galaxy. Around year 2012, the star civilization was ended and the galaxy
civilization was established.
The titles of the seven rainbow golden books
are 《Crop
Circle》, 《Golden Classic》, 《Universal Law》, 《Great
Ultimate Theory》, 《Chinese Systems
Philosophy》, 《Oriental Systems
Literature》and《World Systems Science》, writing began on September 11, 2001, the 9.11
religious massacre, and finally between Passover and Easter in 2018. The entire
theoretical system unifies all Eastern and Western civilizations, including all
Eastern and Western religions, philosophies and science.
The previous Eastern civilization only
involved the sociology part, and these seven rainbow golden books almost
covered the natural sciences, social sciences and life sciences, and combined
them into a unified whole. It unifies all Western and Eastern civilization
without using weapons and wars. This corresponds to the entry of foreign, the
expansion of Chinese civilization to the world, and the civilization defeats
barbarism and ignorance in this way (the civilization is thought and knowledge,
the barbarism is weapons and slaughter), if you dare to enter the circle of
Chinese civilization, we dare to eat and assimilate you, and expand the circle
of civilization to the extreme.
The Chinese civilization established
in these 12 parts are complete, and they are all written under hardships, such
as the King Wen of the Zhou Dynasty, who was imprisoned in Mai li to write 《The Book of Changes》; Mr. Lao Zi was seclusion for
《Tao Te Ching》; Confucius was trapped in Chen and Cai to make《Chun Qiu》; Mr. Sima Qian was castrated to write 《Historical Records》; the writers of 《Tang poem》 and 《Song
poetry》 were displaced; the official
career and family of the writers of novels in Ming and Qing Dynasty were
broken. It is such individual who supports the entire Chinese civilization,
which shows the perseverance of the Chinese nation.
The 12 parts also correspond to the
12 “Earthly Branches” of the Chinese 《The Book of Changes》, (the “Heavenly Stems”
are a number from 1 to 10), which constitutes the centre of Chinese
civilization, and corresponds to the predictions of Chinese and foreign
prophets from ancient times to the present. The Chinese civilization will unify
the world was completed basically.
Western civilization wants to surpass
the above 12 items of Chinese civilization. I am afraid that it cannot be
accomplished by a single country or a nation. Even if all countries and nations
in the world unite, whether they can surpass this spiritually transmitted
culture, the universal laws and the galaxy civilization are all question? We
can wait and see.
Note.
1）The mythologies emperor Yan and Huang period：3000 B.C - 2100 B.C
2）Xia and Shang dynasties：2100 B.C - 1100 B.C
3）Zhou Dynasty：1100 B.C - 256 B.C
4）Spring and Autumn period：770 B.C - 476 B.C
5） Warring States Period：475 B.C - 221 B.C
6）Han and Jin Dynasties：202 B.C - 420 A.D
7）Tang Dynasty：618 A.D - 907 A.D
8) Song
Dynasty：960 A.D - 1279 A.D
9) Yuan
Dynasty：1271 A.D - 1368 A.D
10) Ming and Qing Dynasties：1368
A.D - 1911 A.D
11) Republic of China：1912 A.D - 1949 A.D
( First
Edited on Nov.23, 2018, Original article title: “Chi Xian Festival = Hua Xia Festival = Shen zhou
Festival = Chinese civilization festival”)
