In the long river of history, Chinese civilization has a long history. Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and Indian civilizations died out one after another, and only Chinese civilization has no fault and continues to this day. This is a very magical nation. Why did Zhang Qian succeed in his mission to the Western Regions? In addition to his unremitting efforts and sharing various interests with other countries, I think there is another point: he is the representative of a nation, and the nation itself has strong adsorption and appeal to support him. At that time, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty deposed hundreds of schools and respected Confucianism alone. That is to say, in this period, at least to some extent, the culture of this country and people's thoughts are unified. For today's diversified society, I think we should learn from it. The unity of culture means the unity of thought, so the centripetal force of this nation is unconsciously condensed.
In the era of diversification, we see a large number of graduate students and doctoral students studying abroad, some of which are paid by the state at public expense. Finally, fewer and fewer people are willing to return to China for development. Pay attention to Confucian culture here. Think about Qian Xuesen's generation I don't want the most favorable terms and the most generous treatment. I just want my own country. The May 4th New Culture Movement was a shock to Confucianism. Of course it was progressive at that time, but because it was not mature enough, it completely denied the old culture. Whether the role of the May 4th Movement is beneficial or harmful, not to mention that if history is handed over to time, there will be a relatively fair answer. What I want to say is that there was such a strong cultural thought in ancient times that we need to respect it today. Just like the Disciple's Rules, which has been popularized since primary school.
For the whole cultural system, think about our current thinking from the previous Silk Road. In Europe, two western civilizations appeared as early as BC, and Christian culture was born in Hebrew civilization, and Christian thought has continued to this day. In every city in Britain, the most famous buildings are often their churches. This is the highly developed European culture with modern civilization.
Confucianism does not exclude the dross of conservatism. For modernity, we just suck in the essence and get rid of the dross, so that it can adapt to this era and be used by our pluralistic era.
In the role of the Silk Road, there is a saying: In ancient times, the Silk Road was a famous land trade channel across Asia and connecting Eurasia. It is an important economic and cultural bridge between the East and the West, linking China's ancient culture, Indian culture, Persian culture, Arabic culture with ancient Greek culture and ancient Roman culture, and playing an extremely important role in promoting the cultural exchanges between the East and the West.
Looking for our ideas from the Silk Road, there are cultural ties and civilized exchanges. In order to seek their own economic development, countries all over the world actively participate in regional economic and transportation cooperation, so the Silk Road has also been endowed with richer connotations, and it has become an Asia-Europe land economic link connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean based on modern transportation facilities and services, which is of great significance to promoting economic and trade cooperation, economic development and cultural exchanges among countries along the route. Now it seems that the political significance is stronger, and culture is not as direct as economy politically, nor as powerful as military. It is a kind of soft power.