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Another reason why Russell disliked Confucius and his Confucian culture was his filial piety culture. Confucian filial piety believes that "it is against filial piety not to be an official because the family is poor and the parents are old, because being an official can support their parents." The most serious situation of unfilial is having no children and cutting off the sacrifice to ancestors. Probably because of this creed, it is of great biological significance for China people to have more children. "(Page 30) However, Russell believes that filial piety culture is not unique to China. In the case of economic backwardness, all cultures in the world have existed. However, this is a manifestation of economic and cultural backwardness, not a sense of cultural superiority. Generally speaking, with the improvement of civilization and the development of market economy, this filial piety culture based on family ties has gradually become indifferent, but strangely, China still retains this backward and ugly culture! Filial piety culture, in order to seek family self-interest, often does not hesitate to play tricks and bribery, corruption. Therefore, it is a disaster for the development of a nation to take the blood relationship as the link, the clan interests as the core, ignore the public spirit and seriously lack the sense of fairness and justice. As long as this kind of thing exists, it is impossible for that society to be truly clean, fair and just, and it is impossible to effectively control the social phenomenon of corruption.

Therefore, Russell basically held a negative attitude of disgust and disgust towards Confucius and his Confucianism. Praise only Confucian etiquette

Russell also talked about the golden mean of China people. Especially in the compromise reached by Manchu and Han on the issue of male braiding and female feet after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. The customs and habits of the Manchu dynasty turned out to be: men wear braids and women let go of their feet. However, this custom conforms to the habit of Han men storing hair and women binding their feet. The result after the game is: China men wear braids, and women bind their feet as before. Man and Han gave in to each other. So Russell said, "This is equivalent to adding bad habits to the original bad habits." Interestingly, Russell compared such a compromise to a political compromise in Britain, which is very similar to Britain. This is also to let the British know the writing style of China people. Out of hatred for China's "deep love and strong hatred", Russell made three critical comments on China people and China society, arguing that the main weaknesses of China people are greed, cowardice and indifference. "The people of China have no humanitarian impulse, and it is this impulse that enables us to use 1% energy to reduce the damage caused by the remaining 99%." (page 165). China people have no concept of human rights, no awareness of human rights, and neither the government nor society has any awareness of disaster relief. He said, "When I was in China, millions of people died of hunger. Several oceans will sell their children to others. If you can't sell it, it doesn't matter if you kill it. Relief for victims is mainly held by whites. People in China rarely do such things, and even a small part of them are occupied by corruption.

Although Russell sympathized with the people of China and defended China from the standpoint of the people of China, he actually expressed his despair of the values of the people of China between the lines. All these are due to China people's special love for power and their great habit of using power or even force to get money, which means that even if China people gain independence, freedom and wealth, they will never know where they will eventually go. Of course, China is not without ambition, but he is much less than us. Their ambitions are different from ours-but not necessarily good, but their preference for power. The natural result of this preference is that greed has become a shortcoming of China people. Money is the way to enjoy; Therefore, money is enthusiastically sought after. For us, money is mainly the way of power; Politicians can have no money, but they must have power and be content with poverty. However, in China, supervisors have real power and almost always regard it as the only way to get rich. Its purpose is to escape to Japan at an appropriate time and let them enjoy a peaceful life in the following days with enough plunder. As for running away means losing power, they don't care!