East China University is located in the university town of Hangzhou. There are a total of six universities in the university town, which collects the most senior talents in China at present.

Xia Jun came to East China University this time to give a speech.

When the chairman heard that the chairman was going to give a speech, the college students from the six universities were moved and all gathered in the big square of the university town, waiting for the chairman to arrive.

In the eyes of everyone, Xia Jun's convoy came to the square.

When Xia Jun got out of the car, the audience shouted enthusiastically.

The warm atmosphere shows Xia Jun's position in the minds of these higher students, which is a kind of respect and worship from the bottom of their hearts.

Because of his ability, his achievements, his love for the people, his national thoughts, and even his simple daily life.

It was him who led the backward China to defeat Japan and allowed China to leave the ranks of semi-colonial countries. It was him who allowed the Chinese people to escape from the difficult life of hunger and cold, and to a prosperous and prosperous life. It was him who regained the lost territory and opened up the territory.

People can find many reasons to respect him from their own perspective.

Xia Jun walked to the podium and looked at the teachers and students with expectations on their faces below. He said to the microphone: "Dear students, teachers, good morning everyone."

There was warm applause again below, and Xia Jun continued: "I came here today to talk to you about our traditional culture."

Xia Jun said nothing, and directly entered the topic, saying: "Some people say that our Chinese culture is outdated, unable to keep up with the times, or even ignorant. Because they said, look at how powerful Westerners are and how rich Westerners live. Westerners can build the most powerful guns, warships, and China can create nothing. Moreover, we lost miserably when fighting with Westerners, because there are problems with our culture."

"But I can say that there is no problem with our culture. Our Chinese culture is much more mature than Westerners, because our Han people are a precocious nation. We have various schools of thought, and our culture is not only Confucianism, but even Confucianism has some advanced nature. So do you want to ask, since our culture has no problem, why is our nation so weak? "

"This issue is very complicated. First of all, we will lose to the Westerners, but Japan made the Meiji Restoration early. That's because the Qing Dynasty was a foreigner. They did not really start from China's interests, so we lost again and again. Maybe you will say that it's just an excuse. Since there is no problem with Chinese culture, why are they ruled by foreigner?"

"If you ask why we are ruled by foreign races, then we have to talk about our geographical problems. Northern China is a vast grassland, with many nomadic and hunting peoples. Nomadic people are backward in productivity and often lack food and daily necessities, so they will come to grab it. But China is an agricultural country with advanced agricultural technology and a complete medical system, so we have the largest population, the best craftsmen, the most material and financial resources. Therefore, nomadic people generally do not shake our Han people. But it is precisely because we have advanced agricultural technology to feed more people, and we have a complete traditional Chinese medicine system that can reduce the mortality rate. Therefore, the population of our China has been growing steadily in the past dynasties. When the population grows to a certain level, there is not enough land. In addition, land annexation is serious, so social conflicts arise, and peasant uprisings occur."

"When the peasant uprising occurred, a dynasty entered the weakest period, and often at this time, foreign races began to enter the pass, such as the Five Barbarians invaded China, and the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, while the Mongolians were an exception. This was because of the short-sightedness of the founding of the Song Dynasty, which gave a large amount of living space to the foreign race. The foreign race had strong mobility, and the ancient communication methods were underdeveloped, so when a dynasty was extremely weak, foreign races could often turn our entire China upside down.

This weakness is inevitable. In ancient times, underdeveloped science and technology, a large population will inevitably lead to severe social conflicts, and social conflicts will eventually break out.

Our rule by foreign races does not mean that we are weaker than foreign races, nor does it mean that we Han people are cowardly. Foreign races have hit us thousands of times and tens of thousands of times, but they can't beat us and can run away. They can even run to Europe and come back again. They will never fail. If we fail once, we fail. This is caused by special geographical factors.

You can make an assumption, if China does not have such a special historical environment, what would it be like?

Although our agricultural civilization has a periodicity, we all know that in the feudal era, the contradiction was between farmers and landlords. When the peasants resisted and won victory, they would become new landlords, and the population decreased, social contradictions disappeared, and they entered a period of stability again.

Or the original dynasty suppressed the peasant uprising, and the social population decreased, and entered a stable state again. Facts proved that peasant uprising lacked combat effectiveness, just as the peasant army was defeated by the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising in the late Qing Dynasty, although it was huge, but it did not achieve anything.

If it were our Han nationality, then when we came to this era of great changes in the world, our monarchs would never just want to maintain their own rule and suppress the people like the Qing Dynasty. Just like Japan, they left the ranks of colonial countries very early. Why? Because they have the existence of our Chinese culture, the depth of our Chinese culture is unparalleled in Western culture.

Maybe everyone thinks this is just an assumption, so let's just set it up.

But in China today, we Han people stood up again. We defeated Japan and separated from the ranks of semi-colonial countries. Just like ancient China, we began to enter a period of steady growth in power. In ancient China, we had the great enlightenment of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Iron Blood Qin Dynasty, the Han, Tang and Wu, the prosperous Song Dynasty, and the strong Ming Dynasty. Every dynasty has gone from nothing to something, from chaos to rule, to prosperity and decline.

Today, China has almost completed the steps from chaos to governance. Next, we will enter a path to prosperity, but will we decline?

I have said before that China is an agricultural country, so prosperity and decline are cyclical. Nowadays, the world's rapid development of science and technology and productivity have greatly improved. We no longer have land conflicts due to population growth like in ancient times. Secondly, with the development of science and technology, foreign races no longer have mobility, and they no longer pose any military threat to China.

The decline of ancient Chinese civilization had an irreversible periodicity, which was because technology was underdeveloped. Now that technology is developed and we are free from such shackles, who can still stop China's rise?

Our decline is only the limitation of technology. Therefore, all the students, what we really want to learn from the West is technology, not their culture. When our ancestors walked through the great enlightenment of the Spring and Autumn Period, through the Qin, Han, Tang, Song, and Ming Dynasty, we created brilliant civilizations, what kind of civilization will we create? If our descendants look back at us, if what they see is just a cultural country that simply replicates Westerners, then what is the meaning of our existence?"

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