Well,for my motherland,China.
Tomorrow,is her 60-year-old birthday.60 birthday is the most important day for one man traditionally in my country but I don't know what the reason is.It's said that Empress Dowager Cixi fighted with Li Hongzhang for her 60th birthday because at that time The Qing was in danger of the invasion from western countries ,but they didn't have enough money to get ready for the miltary.What Cixi said at that time is :an ordinary folk grandma also can have a Luxury birthday party,I am the one of the country and I can't lose the dinity and I want to tell that The Qing is alive.What a foolish woman.If there was no her in our history,what would happen to this country?hahah,who knows?Maybe no differet result.
So,you have known the importance of the 60th birthday.
We put this thought to the motherland.60th birthday,every one should be proud of it.
I won't write some historical histories here .
A few years ago,a scholar called Huntingtun wrote a book called <The Clash of Civilizations> and then "China Threat Theory"blew with the wind in the whole world.After all,the fact is :China,as a developing country has done well with the developments on economic , miltary,also,the science research .Nobody can reject this fact which has been made by the whole hardworking and wise Chinese people.
But,another scholar a professor of Harvard ,Tu Wei-Ming had another theory for the crash of the cultures.It is dialogues,dialogus making between western and eastern country cultures.It's a good way to devolve this global problem.So,the clash won't cause the war and the win or lose,which is really possible if eveyone of the whole world has the hope for the peace.I think,it's very very difficult for some countries which want to be the strongest one and there are many many crash between different countries and peoples.After all,dialogues may do better work than the fire,because it can make we know each other well .
Here,let me tell you why the China Threat Theory is not impossible.
First,from the tratitional cultures.When some one knows the culture well,he won't raise this theory.The main thought fluencing China men is Confucianism and Taoism,both are just two theory for people to live well with others and the nature and enjoy our lives.Confucia had many sentence to tell what we should do to communicate with others,for instance:己所不欲,勿施于人(This sounds like the motto:don't put your happiness on others' painess);己欲立而立人,己欲达而达人(this means if you want to develop yourself well,first to develop others).Maybe some foreigners will not understant the meaning at all.Well,it's the core that to live harmoniusly with them who are around you.Another way,Laocia and Zhuang Chou who I love so much are very different.Here is Zhuang Chou.He didn't care about the life and the death at all.He just looked himself as one thing of the nature.Not like other thoughts to fight with the nature.But he belonged to it.He wanted to coexist with others too ,and more didn't care about the physical world but the spirit world so much.But,they all wanted to be the one of the world,not the one like the god,but the one who was the highest on morality.
Tagore had said:the Chinese are born to enjoy the interests of life,their ways of thinking are so different from other countries.Yeah,so well he said.Chinese have no ambitions to control the world in any fields.That why she has to develop herself is just to make her people not to suffer from hunger and coldness ,not to be bullyed by others any more,and the pressure from other countries.
Second,the policis our leaders having making are so harmonious .Chou En-lai put forward the theory "Seek common ground"has become one of the principle of dealing with the foreign affairs between countries.The theory also is one of the old thought of Confucianism.(君子和而不同,小人同而不和:it means great men are harmonious though they are in different positions,but the curses are opposite )
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In a word,China men has no ambitions to win other peoples ,other countries.It's very stupid to think our thoughts in their ways.
We are kind after all.
Russell said:China has no philosophy at all.He was wrong.
I am very proud of our philosophy.It is connected to our lives and behaviors so closed.I am proud of the ways of our people think:they are sensitive to the essence of the lives!