The process of human civilization
It is the Yamato nationality that has promoted the world status of the whole colored race, especially the yellow race in Asia since modern times, and also pointed out the development path for the yellow race civilization in modern times.
When white people roamed the world relying on the achievements of industrial civilization, almost overnight, other colored people on the earth became their colonial objects: the land was occupied, the aborigines were killed and exploited; When these countries and nations have struggled for hundreds of years in sudden disasters, and when almost all nations and countries in the world are still benefiting from Britain as the core of civilization, only one nation and country has miraculously risen in the way of "dealing with a man as he deals with you": the Yamato nation of Japan. 1868.
At that time, the sages in China described it this way: The Japanese hated westerners, but they still learned western learning. Although they were heartbroken, they persisted.
It is this indomitable spirit and mind that enabled the Yamato nation to complete an epoch-making masterpiece.
This work, which quickly awakened at that time, greatly inspired the pioneers of Asian countries to work hard.
China's revolutionary pioneers and people with lofty ideals also set out from there, absorbed nutrition and accumulated strength, and embarked on the road of expelling the Tatars and restoring China's national rejuvenation.
Westerners later admitted that when all the civilizations in the world were conquered by western civilization like Indian civilization, or China civilization was subordinate to western civilization, only Russian, Japanese and Ethiopian civilizations could resist the impact of the west and maintain a meaningful independent existence.
After the Meiji Restoration, some Japanese intellectuals embarked on a difficult and great road to support the revolutions of Asian countries for the overall rise of Asia.
The Philippine, Thailand, China, North Korea and other Asian countries all have the footprints of these people's struggle.
The ideals of these people were later promoted by Japanese militarists to the "Glorious Circle of Greater East Asia", thus making their deeds a pearl in the dark and forgotten.
In fact, from the fact that Lu Xun, Sun Yat-sen and other sages have so many "Japanese friends", we can also know that there are indeed a group of people in Japan who are interested in the great cause of the rise of China and Asia.
Today, some people even "boldly questioned" the Japanese doctor who treated Mr. Lu Xun that year. These people are not only ignorant, but also slander and insult history.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the struggle for control of the trans-Manchurian railway led to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904- 1905.
The result of that war surprised the world that an Asian country could defeat a country with the largest territory in Europe militarily, and also let westerners know that westerners are not invincible.
For China, if Japan hadn't defeated Russia, it should be unknown whether the border between China and Russia can be bounded by Heihe River today, because even then, Russia still planned the independence of Outer Mongolia, but it should be an indisputable fact that Russia stopped its territorial plunder in Asia after the Russo-Japanese War.
Of course, it also greatly inspired the militaristic forces in Japan.
However, after the Meiji Restoration in Japan, it followed the capitalist development path. The inherent inclusiveness and diversity of capitalism always give Japan a place for peace. Today, we can still feel it through some historical events.
1932, Japan was in the period of Inukai Tsuyoshi's cabinet. In order to peacefully solve the Manchuria Incident and the Shanghai Incident provoked by the Japanese army, Prime Minister Gou Yu went all out to conclude an agreement with Chiang Kai-shek's national * * under the mediation of British Minister lampson.
The main contents of this mediation plan are: "cease fire", "clearly stipulate the date of Japan's withdrawal from North China" and "solve the Manchuria Incident at the same time".
On April 29th, this agreement was signed in Shanghai.
At the venue where the ceremony was held, a bomb placed in advance by the Japanese army exploded.
Masaaki Shirakawa, the Japanese commander, was seriously injured and died soon. Fleet commander Nomura Saburo was blown blind in one eye; Ueda Yoshinobu, the head of the department, and Shigemitsu, the then minister of China, were blown out of their eyes.
The signing was therefore postponed.
On May 15 of the same year, the May 15 Incident occurred in Japan, and the dog-raising prime minister was assassinated by a naval officer.
As a result, peace between Japan and China failed to be realized, and Japan accelerated into the era of militarism.
However, even in the militaristic era when Japanese soldiers wore sabers in and out of Congress, there were still some members of parliament and people in Japan who dared to call for peace. This continuous force is also one of the cornerstones of post-war peace in Japan.
After the end of World War II, a group of Japanese politicians realized that the most important thing in Japan's future is to establish democracy.
If you can't stand up politically, then economic revival or post-war reconstruction will become empty talk.
Since then, Japan has been founded on the spirit and principles of party politics and parliamentary politics, which laid the political foundation for Japan's re-emergence after the war.
This is another lesson that Japan has taught the Yellow Civilization: a country can develop and even become a strong country by learning capitalism and engaging in a market economy, but there is no other way for a country to truly grow into a healthy modern country and a developed country than democratic politics.
After the war, Japan had internal and external forces to "reinvigorate its armaments."
It goes without saying that many people may not know that Japan is still facing enormous external pressure, mainly from the United States and western countries, who demand that Japan become the forefront of Asia's resistance to capitalism.
1On June 25th, 950, the Korean War broke out.
After the US troops stationed in Japan and the United States moved to North Korea, Japan's domestic security forces weakened. Therefore, Marshal MacArthur instructed Prime Minister Yoshida to form a police reserve of 75,000 people on July 8. 1August, 952, changed to the security team; July 1954, changed to Self-Defense Force.
At that time, Japan was entrusted by the United States as a defeated country, and the instructions of the United States must be carried out. However, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida insisted on the principle of "prohibiting Japan from rearming itself" and never "rearming".
195 1 On September 4th, a peace conference with Japan was held in San Francisco, USA, and a peace treaty was formally signed on September 8th. Japan embarked on the road of post-war independence and has since become an important peace force in Asia.
On the other hand, our little brother of socialism, North Korea, although reduced to an international beggar, still cares about "the politics of the first army", acts as a troublemaker in Asian countries and discredits socialism.
Once, when western countries invested in a vast world, China closed its doors; Today, while innovations in developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan are emerging one after another, China is stubbornly preventing the emergence of new things.
It is not these new things that want to "subvert the political power of socialist countries" or "expose the secrets of socialist countries", but the inevitable result of Marxism's rescue of China-French writer peyrefitte said: "Marxism, like the Qing Dynasty, is an exotic product for China people, but both of them have also promoted China's closed door.
One manifestation of today's closed-door policy is that people still live in fear of freedom and democracy.
1854 Japan signed the Kanagawa Treaty, 1868 Japan experienced the Meiji Restoration. After more than 30 years, the sudden rise of Japan once again shows that a nation can absorb the influence of culture in one generation and leap forward for centuries.
This is an epic historical contribution and enlightenment from Japan to China, to Asia as a whole and to people of color all over the world.
After all, Japanese culture and China culture have the same ancestor. Learning from Japanese should be a shortcut to China's revival. Will there be a powerful dragon along the same road in Asia? It is still unknown at present, but what we can know is that in today's China, more and more people see a trap that predecessors have long discovered: all kinds of expedient measures, from totalitarianism to market productism, can neither restore Confucian authority nor build China into a modern country.
Contemporary western scholars unanimously admit that there are at least 12 civilizations in the world, among which seven civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Egypt and Crete, no longer exist, while the five civilizations that still exist are: Chinese civilization, Japanese civilization, Indian civilization, * * * civilization and western civilization.
Many people in China may feel aggrieved or even indignant that Japanese civilization has become a major civilization form in today's world, but it is a fact. Looking back, we can see that today's * * * civilization originated in the 7th century, while Japanese civilization began to grow and develop at least from/kloc-0 to the 4th century, and it is recognized as the second modern civilization among the five existing civilizations in the world.
Now, as China people, it doesn't matter whether Japanese civilization is the main form of civilization. If we don't catch up, Chinese civilization, no matter how brilliant and huge it was, will remain in people's memory, just like the memory of the late Qing Dynasty today, and the only feeling is decline.