The Salted Fish Invading the Entertainment Circle

Chapter 140 The Sixth Crisis

At noon, seeing the little White Rabbit and Liu Yan, the bosses who were in a bad mood, they tried their best to make a plate of spicy chicken, a plate of garlic pork ribs, and a plate of spicy beef tripe; to make Yang Zhu, a heavy-tasting carnivore, feel better. I got addicted to my mouth,
Satisfied, the second brain rewarded a wave of dopamine, and Mr. Yang finally felt better.

After the meal, Lin Keran volunteered to make tea. Yang Zhu looked at the ancient Bada Mountain tree in the sand pot with some distress, and wanted to tell her that Pu'er is not green tea or white tea, so it is not suitable for cooking;
But looking at her serious look, and remembering the kindness expressed to her in the morning, she finally endured it;
Forget it, let’s take another taste of Pu’er.

After dividing the tea, Yang Zhu tasted it. Sure enough, even if it was an ancient tree, the astringent taste would still make people frown.

But not to mention, the tea from Bada Mountain is rather bitter. After this kind of cooking, the taste is stronger and the bitterness lasts longer. Apart from the astringent taste, it is actually quite suitable for the taste of old tea lovers like Yang Zhu.

"How do you feel?" Lin Keran looked at Yang Zhu expectantly, ignoring the frowning others;

"Well, don't say it, it really has a different taste." Yang Zhu nodded.

Lin Keran became inexplicably happy.

Eldest Prince Lin couldn't stand the taste, and he calmed down after a long time. In order not to be killed by his own sister, he quickly changed the subject:

"Daddy Yang, I can understand the rest of what you said this morning, but one of the reasons why you said that Western countries are wary of us is because we are the only country that uses hieroglyphics today,"

"This... I'm a little confused, isn't this reason a bit irrelevant?"

Yang Zhu smiled:
"The sun never sets. There is an expert on China named Martin Jacques; he said something that I agree with,"

"That is [China has never been more than a country, but a civilization disguised as a country];"

"If you look carefully at the general history of the world, what are the common characteristics of the other three countries that are also the four ancient civilizations?"

Prince Lin scratched his head, but couldn't figure out why;
Yang Zhu didn't make things difficult for him, and said directly:

"The biggest thing these four countries have in common is that they have their own pictographs, or cuneiform scripts that are transformed from pictographs."

"The foundation of Huaxia's characters is pictographs, and ideograms have been developed on the basis of them; in academia, it is a highly developed first-level script, and it is currently the only popular first-level script;"

"As for English, French, German, etc., they all belong to [phonetic characters]. Academically, they are second-level characters lower than Chinese characters."

"A lot of people would think it's no big deal, but words are more important to culture/civilization than you might think."

"Going back to the original question, why did the four ancient societies that adopted pictographic characters develop such a high level of civilization? Why do Western countries have so much wariness against us because of square Chinese characters?"

"Because, to a large extent, the level of writing determines the upper limit of a civilization; under the same development cycle and the same development environment, countries/civilizations that use first-level writing will definitely have much stronger civilizations than countries that use second-level writing. .”

The four of them were a little confused and couldn't figure out what the logic was.

Yang Zhu looked at them and sighed:

"Simple, for two reasons"

"First, the amount of information contained in each Chinese character far exceeds that of the second-level characters represented by English, so its learning and communication efficiency far exceeds those of the second-level characters;"

"When you look at traditional Chinese characters, do you feel like looking at a painting? Even if you can't recognize the character or pronounce it, you can roughly guess what it wants to express?"

The four nodded.

Yang Zhu said: "This is the awesomeness of Chinese characters!"

"There is a saying that the lower foundation determines the superstructure, and this sentence is also suitable for Chinese characters;"

"There are nearly 99 Chinese characters in total, but only about [-] are commonly used, and if you can use [-] Chinese characters proficiently, the text information composed of them can meet [-]% of your needs;"

"As for English, there are currently 60 words, except for a very few, each word has a separate meaning, and the Oxford Dictionary is collecting new words at a rate of 1000-3000 every year;"

"What does this mean? This means that the secondary language does not have a sufficient logical intermarriage system. It also means that with the same reading ability, if Americans have to spend 1 minute to read a complete paragraph of hundreds of words and thousands of letters, they can understand it. The content of this passage, and we may only need to spend a few seconds to understand what it wants to say after reading thirty or fifty words, and if we accept the teaching methods of the ancients, this passage can even be controlled. Within ten words.”

"The difference in the speed of receiving information will inevitably lead to the difference in the growth rate of personal abilities;"

"That's why Westerners always say that we Chinese people are smart, cunning, and capable. In fact, it's nothing more than an outward expression that our current information storage capacity is higher than theirs;"

"When the ability growth rate of all members of a country exceeds that of another country, even if the growth rate is only 10% higher, the energy change will cause a qualitative change, not to mention the growth rate brought by traditional Chinese characters far exceeds 10%;"

"At this time, do you think those Western countries will be afraid?"

"If you still can't understand, you can imagine that there are two Garen naked PK in LOL, one needs to kill three minions to level up, and the other only needs to kill one minion to level up; the most wretched After three to five minutes of development, the second Galen can kill the first Galen alive even if the skill is not used."

Everyone nodded, and only then did they understand the power of Chinese characters.

Yang Zhu took a sip of tea:

"Second, the comprehensive quality training ability of traditional Chinese characters."

"The comprehensive quality mentioned here is not the comprehensive quality in the narrow sense that you usually understand;"

"It refers to the ability to exercise everyone's willpower, emotional control, and aesthetic ability extremely strongly;"

"First of all, the exercise of willpower and emotional control;"

"In the past, writing was done with a brush hanging in the air. It was required to sit upright, concentrate, write accurately, without stopping, and with steady force;"

"Anyone who has really practiced brush calligraphy knows that this process is comparable to standing in a military posture;"

"But if you want to show your writing to others, it is impossible without three to five years of hard work, and then you have to practice hard all your life;"

"Because in the process of writing, people must concentrate at all times and regulate the muscles and mental power of the whole body. If you exercise like this for a long time, the resilience of willpower and the ability to manage emotions will inevitably be greatly enhanced;"

"So if you observe carefully, a true calligraphy lover and a person who has practiced writing brushes for more than three years will never be so impetuous;"

"And we all know that unless a person is a real professional; after a person enters the society, the real core competitiveness lies in the attitude of doing things and the tenacity of heart, not the superficial knowledge learned in university."

"Let's talk about aesthetic ability;"

"I remember what Mr. Ma said, with the breakthrough and development of artificial intelligence, in the next 30 years, if young people have special skills in philosophy, literature, and art, they may not even be able to find a job."

"I agree with this sentence,"

"If there is a day when artificial intelligence participates in social work on a large scale, quantum computers must have been widely used; from sweeping the floor and cooking to make books, to scientific research and development and experiments; these mechanical and rational tasks will be performed by robots. replace;"

"As for us humans, before AI has really become [human], except for a very few management positions, only these creative jobs can be done."

"Therefore, even if Western countries want to [de-globalize], under this historic wave of technological innovation, they have to let AI participate in social work on a large scale;"

"Unless they intend to go to war under such circumstances, they must compete directly with us in the cultural industry in order to preserve a living soil for their citizens;"

"At this time, another layer of power of traditional Chinese characters is revealed;"

"You know, in the Chinese tradition, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are juxtaposed, and [book] and [painting] are even more integrated;"

"Because traditional Chinese characters are originally based on pictographs, they look like a painting in themselves. Calligraphy has reached a certain stage, and you need to write your own charm to be considered a small success. At this time, painting is a matter of course;"

"And we all know that the most important thing about art is [rhythm]. Otherwise, Van Gogh's graffiti would not be regarded as treasures, and those lifelike sketches would be ignored by no one;"

"Moreover, if we are faced with dozens of traditional Chinese characters in various shapes and styles that look like paintings every day, and cultivated in this atmosphere, will our artistic aesthetic baseline be higher than that of Western countries?"

"Moreover, the so-called [By analogy], we have nearly [-] traditional Chinese characters. When we study traditional Chinese characters in depth, when we look at the pictographic materials that reflect life, nature, behavior, primitive philosophy and logic, is there any more? There is a high chance of touching a certain string in our brains, thus giving birth to some philosophical or literary insights?"

"hey-hey……"

"Think about it, our knowledge and information are received faster than Westerners. If our comprehensive quality and foundation are still higher than Westerners, and it takes a little longer, how do you let them mess up?"

"That's why they fear us because of Chinese characters!"

………………

After Yang Zhu finished speaking, several people were a little dumbfounded. It seemed that what he said made sense, but they felt that these were all brainstorming, and they were a little uncertain for a while.

After Yang Zhu made YY, he was very proud, but then he sighed again:

"pity……"

The little white rabbit looked at the frustrated face of his boss, and asked, "Boss, what's the pity?"

Yang Zhu scratched his head, then glanced furtively around, but didn't find the crab claws, and then said:

"Since the history books of our country, until now, culture is suffering the sixth crisis. You should all know it?"

The Lin brothers and sisters shook their heads, while the little white rabbit raised his hands: "I heard you say it five times before, but why is it the sixth crisis now?"

Prince Lin immediately asked humbly: "Wan Jing, what were the first five times?"

The little white rabbit recalled it slightly, and then recited it:

"The first cultural crisis, after the first emperor unified the six kingdoms, because of the formation of a unified country, there was no stimulus from the current situation; at the same time, because the first emperor didn't like too many factionalists extending their hands to the court, so the contention of a hundred schools of thought The situation came to an abrupt end, but the BOSS said that this crisis is not serious, at most it is just the factions of different schools of thought going into opposition;”

"The second cultural crisis was the "supreme Confucianism" in the Western Han Dynasty. Since then, Confucianism has flourished and almost squeezed out the living soil of hundreds of schools. Well, Confucianism has not been wiped out, and later absorbed many other schools of thought, the crisis is not particularly serious; "

"The third cultural crisis was the Southern Song Dynasty's Yashan siege, after a hundred thousand people braved their bones and jumped into the sea to commit suicide; China's brilliant culture was cut in half, and those so-called successors were slaves to the Yuan Dynasty, but their waists were not standing upright. Under this kind of atmosphere, the literati of the Ming Dynasty became a big cancer of the country;”

"Boss said that although the phrase [since the Song Dynasty, there will be no more China] from the islanders is hard to hear, but strictly speaking, it still touches the edge;"

"Yashan's death is a very serious blow to China's culture."

"The fourth cultural crisis was when the Manchus entered the customs. Under the means of taming slaves, Chinese culture inevitably suffered from soft bones and was severely cut from below. Since then, all kinds of dross have emerged one after another. There are also cultural tragedies such as literary inquisition and the burning of the Siku Quanshu; the impact of this crisis on Chinese culture is no less than that of Yashan, and even worse."

"As for the fifth cultural crisis, everyone is also very clear. During the period from 1840 when the great powers closed the door to the founding of the People's Republic of China, at this time, the whole of China suffered from severe self-doubt, and began to completely deny themselves and respect the barbarians. process;”

"Among them, Chinese characters, which are the foundation of Chinese culture, were almost abolished and changed to full Latin. BOSS said that if the famous linguist Zhao Yuanren hadn't written the "Homophone", maybe Chinese characters would really be abolished From this point of view, although the general public doesn't know much about Mr. Zhao Yuanren, his contribution is enough to shine in the annals of history."

"This time, the crisis has killed most of our Chinese culture. Since then, Western learning has spread eastward, and our cultural pride has disappeared. From [contempt for the barbarians] to [looking up to the foreigners], it began a long period of time. Over a hundred years of cultural inferiority."

After the little white rabbit finished speaking, the Lin brothers and sisters nodded. They knew all these things, but they didn't summarize them.

Yang Zhu carefully looked around, and finally deliberately skipped a more serious cultural crisis, and said:

"The sixth cultural crisis is now,"

"We are now surrounded by all kinds of Western cultural products and concepts. Thanks to the efforts of some foreign forces and leading parties, we even breathe the flavor of the West;"

"At the same time, some people in our younger generation have a tendency to gradually become bananas, while the middle class of the whole society still takes it for granted, and they don't feel that there is anything wrong. The bananaization of the middle class is even more serious than that of the younger generation;"

“Many people are ignorant of their own country’s history and traditional culture, and they even read the fabricated bloody drama of the Qing Dynasty as official history,”

"It's ridiculous to talk about foreign masterpieces, Western philosophy, and European and American economic theories all day long;"

"Cultural genes are different, and the unspoken rules of social operation are different; the Western set, whether it is literature, social research reports, or market economic theory, which one can really gain a firm foothold in China's soil?"

"In psychology, if those experiences are really useful, we will not count sheep, but will become more and more energetic;"

"In terms of management, if those theories are really useful, those small and medium-sized companies that used the super-M model and JIT model would not even sell their underwear;"

"In terms of market economics, if those theories in Europe and the United States were useful, McKinsey Consulting, the world's No. 1 consulting firm, would not have failed repeatedly after receiving a lot of money from a group of funders, and finally had to leave China in disgrace..."

"There are countless cases like this, but what's ridiculous is that Chinese people still don't want to wake up, and they still believe in the so-called [authority] abroad;"

"Hey……"

"In the final analysis, it is still the fault of lack of cultural self-confidence;"

"Because there is no cultural self-confidence, some people make comparisons, just to satisfy their ridiculous vanity;"

“Because they don’t have cultural confidence, some people fantasize that they can become [high-class people] all day long, and they still brag about it on the Internet; they are more proficient in talking about bags, makeup, luxury goods and entertainment gossip than anyone else, and it feels like they have mastered it.” It’s like a great skill; but you ask her some historical and cultural common sense and she doesn’t know anything;”

"Ask her who the first emperor of China was, and she will tell you it was Yongzheng;"

"Ask her who wrote [Yu Shufeng Sudden Last Night], and she will tell you that it is her idol;"

"Ask her what are the four great inventions, and she will tell you that they are smartphones, facial masks, plastic surgery and beauty cameras;"

"This kind of thing... If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, would you dare to believe it!?"

"Not to mention the disgusting and sad things that regard Hanfu as exotic clothing, the air in foreign countries is full of freedom, and the ultimate goal of life is to get a green card in the United States;"

"However..."

"Our inheritance has been broken seven or eight times;"

"Our institutions of learning are still winking at the West;"

"Our public opinion environment is still eager for quick success, and many companies are still fishing for redeye with half-bait;"

"Even the root of our culture - Chinese characters, have been severely cut, and they are no longer what they were before;"

"When [we don't see each other], [love has no heart], [can't give birth], [face has no wheat]..."

When even our Chinese characters lack sufficient interpretation logic, how difficult is our cultural renaissance..."

"When the external environment tends to be tense, if we are still so distorted and chaotic internally,"

"A little carelessness will cause chaos;"

"Therefore, we can only use various means and cultural works, hoping to let the public see the shining points of Chinese culture,"

"I also hope that through the method of comparing the current situation at home and abroad, everyone will start to reflect, gradually regain their cultural confidence, and gradually reverse these distorted values..."

"At the same time, in order to buy us enough time for [self-healing], I will tell Chairman Lin about my plan to set our main opponent on fire and have no time to look outside..."

PS: This chapter is some emotions after seeing a question from a certain book friend last night. Because of some reasons that everyone knows, many places dare not talk about it, and they can’t finish it for a while; It's a chapter.

The words of the family, don't take it to heart, forgive me!

(End of this chapter)