Having said that, we want to ask, where are the secrets of these creations and where are their roots? Someone tried to give the answer like this. Jews are God's chosen people because in the Bible, Jews claim to be a nation specially chosen by God from all peoples. Others believe that Jewish creativity comes from talent, racial inheritance and innate intelligence. These two views, including Jews themselves, are very opposed because they have suffered racial discrimination in history. I think it's better to look at its reasons from the perspective of historical dialectics.
First of all, Jews have a special historical equation, that is, immigration.
Jews moved everywhere. Their ancestor Abraham led a group of Jews across the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and came to Canaan from Ur. After living in Canaan for some time, they came to Egypt. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, returned to Canaan and established the ancient kingdom of Israel, which was also the most glorious period of ancient Israel. Later, the kingdom of Israel was divided, and the neighboring Babylonian Empire, Persian Empire and Greek Empire all invaded Palestine and Israel for a short or long time. After the Roman Empire became powerful, it fought two wars with the Jews, both of which ended in the failure of the Jews. After that, Jews entered the diaspora period until the establishment of modern Israel in 1948. Jews have a history of civilization of about 4000 years, but the history of migration and dispersion of more than 2000 years determines the specific cultural structure of the Jewish nation and produces special cultural effects.
The second problem, the structure of Jewish culture, presents a diaspora form.
Jewish culture, its way of existence is scattered in heterogeneous cultures. The total Jewish population in the world is about140,000. There are 65 countries and regions with more than 654.38+0000 Jews living in the world, and Jews are almost all over the world. The country with the largest number of Jews is the United States with 5.6 million, and Israel has the second largest number with 4.85 million. Such a scattered cultural structure leads Jews to contact with other cultures all the time, and an important relationship state appears, which is called cultural contact.
China is also a country where many Jews live. It is a very important phenomenon that Jews opened Kaifeng in ancient times. There are still several stone tablets in Kaifeng Museum, which record how the Jews arrived in Kaifeng and how the emperor of China gave them their surnames. Most of these people changed their surnames to Zhao, and some changed their surnames to Li and Shi. In modern times, Jews are a very important phenomenon in Shanghai. From World War I to World War II, the Western Holocaust forced Jews to flee around the world by boat. Many countries refused the Jews to land, and the big ships that Jews took hovered outside the port, unable to move forward. At that time, Shanghai, China was the only free port in the world and accepted many fleeing Jews. Dr. Sun Yat-sen also wrote to the local authorities in Shanghai, asking them to take good care of Jews, and accepted many Jews during World War II. Therefore, many Jews who came to Shanghai with their parents as children later became important figures in the United States and Israel, and had deep feelings for China, especially Shanghai.
Jews live in the cracks of culture, and they all have the identity of a guest. This cosmopolitan sense of homeland is completely different from China culture. China people emphasize home, which is similar to the hieroglyphics of home. There is a shed above, a pig below, and a place to live. Home is inseparable from the house. You must buy your own house to feel safe and feel at home. Jews are completely different from us. They don't do much basic agriculture because the crops are driven away before they are ripe. Therefore, their lifestyle is mainly to be an intermediary, and their business development is related to this historical situation.