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Fukuzawa Yukichi's evaluation of China.
First, let's see who Fukuzawa Yukichi is. He is a famous enlightenment thinker in modern Japan, an outstanding educator in Meiji period, the founder of famous private universities and Keio University in Japan, and also known as the father of modern Japanese education and the great hero of Meiji education. His most famous sentence should be: A country can be independent because its people have an independent heart. If everyone wants to be an official and the whole country is an antique, then the country will not be strong anyway. However, many people think, especially in China, that Fukuzawa Yukichi was the first to advocate Japan's foreign aggression, but I think his primary contribution to Japan is not expansion, but independence. Fukuzawa Yukichi is still very wise. It is this kind of thinking that he opposes learning divorced from reality. He rejected Confucius and abandoned Confucianism to collect blood and sweat because it judged that Confucianism and Chinese studies were divorced from practical knowledge in modern society. Fukuzawa Yukichi believes that there are so many things in the world that teachers can't teach all the students, so it is more important to cultivate students' ability than to impart knowledge. The so-called ability and the ability to study and handle things. Ability is not single, it includes memory ability, reasoning ability and imagination ability. These are the most useful things that independent people and independent countries need, and outdated Confucianism can't provide them, and it's useless. I think many things of Confucianism are old-fashioned and can even be described as imprisonment. Many backward things, such as study, have not been abandoned, but have been preserved and utilized for a long time. This led to the backwardness of China people's thoughts at that time, which has not been reflected yet. I still think it's good. This is why we ourselves later raised the banner of opposing old ideas and supporting new ones. Promote cultural revival. There are many things worth learning in Fukuzawa Yukichi's thoughts. As a China person, I also think that although we can't take away things that don't belong to us by violence and coercion, the development and choice of history should conform to nature, which can't be said to be advocated by Fukuzawa Yukichi. Invasion of China. We should hate him and even think that all his thoughts are theoretical preparations for Japan's invasion of China. On the contrary, if there were no backward China in the past, the people of China might spend their lives in backwardness forever, never thinking about change, never waking up, and never having a new China with rapid development.