Each country has its own label, such as "fighting nation" for Russia, "romantic and amorous" for France, "rigorous and rigid" for Germany, and so on. The Chinese label is more or less "industrious, hard-working, honest". These national labels, which are not formed overnight, have their own long-term historical background, and eventually form these characteristics.
Some historians have verified that all human beings originate from a female mitochondrial gene, who comes from the African continent. Over millions of years, multiplication and evolution have led to the formation of various races of all colors and languages all over the world. They settled in one realm, slowly formed tribes, then merged into states, and eventually formed what is now a territorial state to divide humanity.
The national identity of a country is formed according to its geographical location and climatic conditions for a long time, and it is inseparable.
Europe, located in the Eurasian Plate, is an area with excellent development since the record of mankind.
China, also in the Eurasian plate, the humiliating course of the modern century, it is easy to ignore a problem, China in fact, in the long river of history, most of the time, is the world's most powerful country, and not one.
The four ancient civilizations, ancient Babylon (located in West Asia, now part of Iraq), ancient Egypt (located at the junction of West Asia and North Africa, the present region belongs to Egypt), ancient India (located in South Asia, the geographical scope includes present-day India, Pakistan and other countries) and China (located in East Asia), the other three countries have disappeared. Only China, uncontroversial, has always existed. There have been frequent dynastic changes, but no one denies that China, in the same vein, is the descendant of Yan huang, all use the same language, the same Chinese characters.
The reason for this is, according to ideology, this is an inevitability.
Religion is practised throughout Europe.
Long long ago, there was a man named Abraham in Jerusalem who bore two sons, one named Isaac and the other named Ishmael. We don't know if Abraham was very powerful, but his two sons were great.
Isaac was the ancestor of the Jews who created the prototype of Judaism and eventually perfected it in the hands of Jesus, transformed it into Christianity, and ruled the present West. Ishmael, the ancestor of the Arabs, created the prototype of Islam and eventually flourished in the hands of Muhammad, becoming what is now Islam and ruling the current Middle East.
Because the ancestors of Judaism, Islam and Christianity were the same father, this father became the common prophet of all mankind, and the holy places of these three religions are jerusalem.
Because Christianity was born with independent and divided genes, Christianity later split again.
The Roman Emperor converted to Christianity and established Christianity as the state religion of Rome. When the Roman Empire split into the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire, Christianity also split.
Christianity in the Western Roman Empire had a pope, who gave its own interpretation of doctrine and became Catholic, and the center of the Holy See was still in Rome.
Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire also had a pope who gave its own interpretation of the doctrine and became orthodox, and the center of the Holy See became Moscow.
But in fact, all of the above religions have the same source.
Look at the following figure, the clearest:
The current situation in the religious world is such that Judaism and Islam hate each other and claim to be the true God, while Judaism and Christianity hate each other and claim that they are the true people of God, while the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in Christianity hate each other and declare each other heretics.
Thus, all the religions above have long been hostile to each other and attack and kill each other. Only when facing Buddhism will we unite as one, first to kill Buddhism and then to civil war.
The divergence of these ideologies is the real core reason why the West, or Europe, including the Arab countries, and the countries of Eastern Europe and Russia, have long been unable to complete the great unification. And the differentiation of these consciousnesses stems from their extremely selfish, solipsistic consciousness.
They can't do it, how to really respect each other, Lao Tzu is the first in the world!
In Contrast, China is particularly interesting. China also has a variety of religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Christianity.
Historically, Chinese religions can be divided into two main categories: religions native to China and foreign religions. After our country entered the class society, primitive religion dominated for a long time. Buddhism was introduced to China around the 1st century BC. By the time of the Shun Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty (125-144 AD), Taoism, which was native to China, was formed. The introduction of Christianity and Islam into China during the Tang Dynasty formed a situation in which Taoism, which was born and raised in China, and Buddhism, Islam and Christianity from abroad coexisted. During the Ming Dynasty, the main spread in China was Catholicism (also known as Roman Catholicism, Old Religion, etc.) and Christianity (including Orthodoxy, Protestantism, etc.).
However, these religions can coexist and coexist peacefully in the long run. This is very puzzling.
The reason for this is that China is a nation based on Confucian culture. We can believe it or we can not believe it. You can believe this or you can believe that. But all "faith" has its cornerstone, which is the foundation of the Chinese nation: goodness; integrity; diligence; the heart of harming others must not be there, the heart of defending people must not be without; peaceful coexistence, mutual benefit and win-win results; people do not offend me, I do not offend, if people offend me, I will offend.
The last one, I am afraid, is incomprehensible to peoples with aggressive genes. For a long time, under the glory of the great power of Yangyang, we have adhered to the square land of the Central Plains and not fought in the south and the north, even if Zheng He went far to the West, it was never for the purpose of aggression. Even if the eight parties come to the dynasty and the four seas surrender, the son of Heaven of China only enjoys his reputation. It can be said that it is a real kind of "stupid": only to enjoy nominal rights, but to fulfill the responsibility of defending the security of dependent countries. The most obvious example is the relationship between North Korea and Datang. The real kind that doesn't plan to plate: "Stupid big lack! ”
Great wisdom is foolish, and it is a blessing to suffer losses. Chinese, that's it!
There are needles hidden in the cotton, Taoguang cultivates obscurity, and there will be revenge if there is revenge. Chinese, it's still like this!
Therefore, the things that others took away many years ago, those that once flaunted their might, should we be careful?