Chinese wisdom

Author: Zeng Shiqiang
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: This is not a book that curses the Chinese. As a Chinese person, to curse Chinese people, even if it is written brilliantly, is ultimately "weakening one's own people's prestige." Why? If it makes future generations lose confidence, what benefit does it bring to us? This is also not a book that praises the Chinese. Praising oneself is like "pasting gold on one's own face," which has no real meaning. If it makes future generations think they are superior everywhere, with high aspirations but low ability, it is also in vain! What we do is only to describe and analyze the Chinese. We dare not claim to be "objective," but at least we strive to be "faithful." Chinese people may seem simple, but in reality, they are very complex. Those who curse write and write, but they only scratch the surface of the Chinese, without harming their essence. Those who praise use all their eloquence, but it is just adding flowers to the existing beauty, as if it hasn't made the Chinese stand out more. Whether it's cursing or praising, Chinese people have always been Chinese for thousands of years! To say the Chinese have changed seems unlikely. Don't we often say that Chinese people don't change their habits from an agrarian society? Mountains and rivers may change, but nature is hard to alter. What can be done? To say the Chinese haven't changed seems wrong either. We often worry that China