Chinese farmers are so kind that they don’t know what to do when facing the Japanese devils who invaded China. Many farmers in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were as numb and indifferent as the Chinese described by Mr. Lu Xun. They could not distinguish between good and bad, but they just knew that "the mother is the one who has milk." Most people like to fight in the nest and have no resentment towards the invaders. What is the historical reason for the general psychological development of this kind of psychology among the lower class people, and why do the people in our country look like this?
Contrast of ethnic education
As the saying goes, fifty-six ethnic groups and fifty-six flowers, fifty-six ethnic groups and is a family. Today's national consciousness of unity and unity among the Chinese nation has become increasingly strong. From top to bottom, they all have a strong national consciousness. They generally know that no matter what kind of national identity they are, they are all part of the Chinese nation's big family. These things that are accustomed to today are not the same as the times of the Anti-Japanese War. What happened between Chinese farmers and Japanese devils at that time is touching today, and many people even accuse the Chinese farmers of that year. So what was the historical background and the psychology of Chinese farmers at that time?
The existence of some tiny historical views allows us to see the history that was not sealed back then. The general characteristics of Chinese farmers in that era were: "selfishness and indifferent to national and social affairs." All of this was simply a kind of "national bad nature" for the awakened people at that time and those of us who received higher education later. In fact, many people have resolutely possessed the bad nature of Chinese farmers back then. The vast number of people simply do not understand the performance of Chinese farmers in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.
They do not understand why when the Japanese invaded China, the Chinese government and military made so many sacrifices to defend the country. The great rivers and mountains became devastated by the Japanese. However, there are still many Chinese people who only care about the food and clothing gains and losses of their small family. Few people will deal with the major national affairs of , and no one knows what the nation-state means, unless the war hits his doorstep, unless his own interests are truly damaged.
However, the traditional education of our Chinese nation has always been "only with a country can one have a family, loyalty can be served, and national justice should be the first priority." In the face of national justice, the interests of small families are simply insignificant. Even in the eyes of many decision makers, the interests of small families can be unconditionally sacrificed by as the cold number of . Under this principle, those who go against this behavior will be called traitors. Or those who do not support this practice will be said to be insensitive. However, few people popularized what the country represented back then, and few people told Chinese farmers what their obligations and powers were between the country and the small family.
The duty of farmers is not to kill people
The duty of farmers has long been clearly stated in the thousands of years of feudal emperor rule. Killing people to fight against invaders has never been the duty of farmers. If a farmer has put down the hoe that he has taken for decades and killing people with a big knife, everyone will feel guilty when facing a living life. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the proportion of urban population was less than 120%. When countless Chinese farmers knew that the Japanese invaded China, they even fantasized about living peacefully with these invaders. If later generations use this to criticize Chinese farmers, wouldn’t it be unreasonable? Do you not understand the historical environment and the mentality of the Chinese people at that time?
Chinese farmers are not a number, but a group. Because they have experienced too many dynasties, their thinking changes are too slow. A few people can keep up with the times, but most people are still the same.The evolution in human nature is extremely slow. The inherent things are really , and there are many things that need to be paid and lost to break the rules. And will the primitive point in human nature succumb to the laziness of enjoying a happy environment? Just like the thinking of modern Chinese people, "If struggle is not for lying down, is it for the tiring life to work hard for the rest of your life?" Is this considered a kind of enjoyment of surrender and peace?
In the five thousand years of Chinese history, ordinary farmers have become accustomed to the "changing king flag on the city wall". No matter how ordinary the dynasty changes, farmers facing the loess and facing the sky are not the same as "paying grain and paying taxes". The same thing is to work hard to make three meals a day and support your family. When peasants in ancient times encountered barbarians invading the Central Plains, the death and killing of the war that year were not inferior to the War of Resistance Against Japan. However, in history, the famous peasant uprisings rarely rose up to resist the invasion of barbarians. Why is this?
Because there was also a concept of a country in ancient China, but it was not a concept of a country in modern civilization. The concept of an ancient country was the private property of the "emperor". The so-called country is opened by his family, and it is all over the world. is the king's land , and the shore of the land is the king's minister. Isn’t what you said very accurate? or less than 1 day land does not belong to the emperor, and or less than 1 day is not a subordinate of the emperor. Since the country belongs to the emperor, what is the relationship between the rise and fall of the country established by the emperor, the unification and division, expansion or cede land, and the unpretentious Chinese farmers?
The biggest leader in ancient China was of course the emperor, and he was the head of the country. The second is those powerful and powerful aristocratic officials and well-educated scholars and scholars. When these people faced the destruction of the country and the destruction of their families, they could not resist one by one for their own country. In every move, they changed from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty , and in every move, they changed from Da Song to Dayuan . The real is the master of the family and the officials who are in charge of the family cannot do this. What qualifications do we have to condemn those lower-class farmers who have never left their hometowns for the rest of their lives and don’t even know what the world outside the county town is like?
The construction and imprint of the nation-state
In fact, this understanding is not clear that the Chinese farmers who harmed the Japanese invaders are not the worst. When the Second Family War broke out, many countries in the world suffered from Germany, Italy and Japan. There are also many people in China who surrendered, surrendered to the Japanese and did things for them. But does the appearance of these people indicate a regression in Chinese history? The author thinks it is not, because the Central Plains dynasty has been subverted several times in ancient history, and the entire nation has fallen into conquering half of the country or falling into the entire territory is worse than the War of Resistance. In comparison, there have been much fewer Chinese people who surrendered to the Japanese enemy since the 120th century.
Among them, most Chinese people resisted at different stages of time. Their consciousness of defending their own homes and defending the country began to awaken. From this point alone, we can know that China after the 120th century was completely different from the Qing Dynasty and even the China before the Qing Dynasty. China is changing, and Chinese farmers are changing, but this change is gradual and long. Because the complex situation of that era was not what we thought today could achieve overnight. In fact, it is not only the case with Chinese history, but also with the history of countries around the world.
The most direct use is that the existence of nations in ancient Chinese society is actually not a nation in the modern international society. They are just a large group of "similar blood ties, same customs, and similar appearances". Only after constant conflicts and collisions with other similar groups in this group can one form one's own national status, understand one's national attributes, and have an equal sense of participation in the exchanges between different countries in the international community.Since the Opium War traded and foreigners created Concession , although some Chinese people have come into contact with the outside world, read and read and read, and understand the international trend, thus leading China's modernization path, but after all, this group of people is a very small number of people, which cannot represent that the vast majority of Chinese people have followed their footsteps and "modernized".
Cities can be divided into large, medium and small, and the same is true for rural towns. Many people's soundstage and lifestyle are too far away from the public order of modern industry, modern technology, and even modern society. China has always lived in a traditional agricultural environment where "piercing the fields with oxen and farming with people". Even in today's society, which is extremely progressive in history, there are still hundreds of millions of such farmers in China. Most of them do not know words, have not received higher education, there is no Internet equipment in the village, and the farthest place many people have visited is the county town, and they know very little about the world outside the county town.
In such an environment, they cannot receive the influence and education of modern civilized society, nor can they make all Chinese farmers become "ideal, bloody, and enlightened" citizens according to the design of ideal people. We cannot criticize the people and things in the past and different environments at the present and in the same level as we are in, because the limitations of that era and under different environments can only produce such awareness and understanding. The Chinese people's bloodiness, courage, resistance and patriotism have actually always been contained in the hearts of the people, but it is difficult to form until they have to be inspired.
The choice of Chinese civilization in the face of challenges
As an agricultural country that has slowly crawled in traditional society since the Ying Zheng era, it has produced a historical process of tortuous development of in modern Chinese society, which is really necessary. In fact, when we observe history, we can find that every step of China's transformation from html toward an industrial society since the 117th century has had specific historical conditions. Most of these conditions come from the impact of the external environment and world trends. Under this influence, the state of highly synchronous Chinese society has changed. The coastal areas and the mainland, cities and rural areas, and elites and farmers... have caused chaos in the entire society due to the different degrees of development, and contradictions and incomprehension are becoming increasingly common.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China still lacks recognition of the nation-state among hundreds of millions of people. The arrival of the Japanese devils is the biggest crisis facing China since the 120th century. The devils also have East-West. The first was the Western devils who frightened the Qing government in the Opium War; then they developed through the Meiji Restoration , defeating China and obtaining Sino-Japanese War 2.2 billion 3 10 million t million t silver compensation. In the eyes of the people at that time, the Japanese came, of course, it was a bad thing. It destroyed China's peaceful environment and forced everyone's comfortable life to be broken. Both their own and their country suffered a devastating blow. Even after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, China still had to face the great problem of reconstruction of ruins. So why do you say that the Japanese came today have his positive effect?
When Mr. Sun Yat-sen designed a plan to save the country, he said: "Whoever follows the trend of the world will prosper and rebelle against it will perish." The arrival of the Japanese brought the Chinese a sense of crisis of national destruction, but in the end the Chinese were united in everything, the elites and peasants became one, everyone had a common enemy, and the past differences had to concessions to the national and national interests. Therefore, the victory of China's War of Resistance directly made China among the modern nation and nation, defended the security of East Asia, and made great contributions to world peace and great cause. Just imagine, without the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, how could China become one of the five permanent members of the United Nations?
Opium War 840 to the present, in the past two hundred years, some Chinese intellectuals advocated conservatism for how to save China, that is, to achieve revival on the basis of the original Chinese culture; some advocated the Westernization of , abandoning the past, like Japan Meiji Restoration ; some advocated the combination of Chinese and Western.But after all, these are the local emergency responses caused by ancient China's entry into modern society. In the 21st century, some people may still want to return to the ancient pastoral and rural life, but modernization is not only the trend of the world, but also the only way out for China. All ancient countries and ancient people in the world are heading on this path.
Conclusion
Last question: "What exactly is modernization? Is Westernization a modernization?" Can Chinese traditional civilization bring new opportunities in the future, and can Chinese become a guide for modernization? After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the problem of the crisis of China's national and nationality was solved, but China's future problems are still plagued. Of course, modernization is needed, but how to carry out modernization and what kind of modernization will bring vitality to Chinese traditional civilization?
