中国人的精神书评决赛作品

The spirit of the Chinese people
The spirit of the Chinese people was written by gu hongming, a scholar of Chinese and western studies in the late qing dynasty, which changed some westerners' prejudice against China. He used the pen to maintain the dignity of Chinese culture, highlighting the characteristics of the Chinese people, let us see the deep, simple, broad Chinese spirit.
The Chinese people are unique, and the Chinese spirit is also unique. But gu lived in a time when the spirit of the traditional Chinese people was being crushed by the so-called advanced western civilization. Gu Lao saw this tragic situation and intended to find something valuable from the tradition and put it on the Chinese people at that time, so as to prove the superiority of the tradition and shape the progressive and modern Chinese people. That's why he wrote it.
It is undeniable that the "Chinese spirit" that gu emphasized is indeed yearned for and missed. In his opinion, due to westerners' theory of "sexual evil" and their fear of god and law, external coercive force is needed to restrain them. Spending a large amount of money to support the "idle class" (such as priests, military police, etc.) is not only a problem, but also causes a strong constraint on people themselves, which in turn drives people to go to extremes and extends to the state machinery to form militarism -- undoubtedly, this is also a major reason for the great powers of the early 20th century coveting China.
The language of China is also a language of the soul. It is an obvious fact that for foreigners living in China, it is much easier for children and uneducated people to learn Chinese than for adults and educated people. The reason is that children and uneducated people think and use language with their hearts. On the contrary, educated people, especially rational modern europeans, think and use language with their brains and intelligence. A saying about elysium also applies to Chinese language learning: unless you become a child, you won't be able to learn it.
What gu hongming describes in this book, however, is only the Chinese people of that time and even a long time before that time. At that time, China was still in the feudal society, so there are inevitably some opinions in this book which are now regarded as nonsense. These assertions are indeed ironic. In this book, for example, Mr Koo hong-ming's views on women are rather out of place. The Chinese concept of a woman is one who holds a broom and keeps her house clean. In the second chapter of the book, in the description of women, gu hongming wrote about the three conforme and the four virtues and praised them highly. This is where his pedantry lies.
The book's analysis of the spiritual level of the Chinese people, as well as the comparison between eastern and western cultures and examples, illustrate that the real Chinese people are those who lead a rational adult life with a childlike mind. 112 years ago, a late qing scholar was proud to tell the world in English what the true Chinese spirit was. 100 years later, the nation under the correct leadership of the CPC central committee of the reconstruction of the great revival of the Chinese nation, learn the classic Mr Gu is also very meaningful, let me deepen the further understanding of national spirit, to enhance the of the culture of the motherland proud and confident, that is in the book, he wrote "the spirit of the Chinese is the perfect combination of soul and mind, tranquil and peaceful state of mind to make the Chinese through the essence of things, that is full of ideal of reason, the Chinese spirit is the spirit of a kind of eternal youth, is a kind of national spirit of immortality. The secret of immortality is the perfect harmony of the Chinese heart and mind. As a new generation of young people, we will carry forward the Chinese spirit.