Chapter 62 The genes and codes of history

History is the past, and the past includes the evolution of economy, politics, society, culture, weather, nature, mountains and rivers.When you do scientific research, you will classify it, some are called the history of rivers, and some are called the history of sand.No matter how these histories are classified and studied, they will precipitate and form some common things over time; especially in the humanities and society, some common social psychology, thinking patterns, values, and behaviors can be precipitated. Things actually have a long-term impact on our current business activities and some behaviors of private enterprises.

For example, private enterprises want to repair graves.Once when I went to Wenzhou, a local friend was the owner of a well-known private enterprise. He drove me to the bottom of a mountain. He said that this place was where his parents were buried. Is this really the case for building graves?” He said, “At first my parents’ graves were in the middle, and after a while someone built a higher one than me, so I ran to the top in a fit of rage, leveled the top of the mountain, and built a bigger one. You I don’t know that filial piety to your parents is very important here. If you are not filial to your parents, others will not do business with you. For the deceased parents, how can you be filial besides repairing the graves? So people value your attitude towards your parents’ graves. Parents are here Sometimes, when someone bullies their parents, the son will go out to fight with the knife with a knife, which is to stand up for the parents. If the parents pass away, if someone rides on the grave, it is equivalent to someone bullying the parents. If you want to stand up for the parents, you have to Move the graves of my parents up. My attitude towards my parents has won the respect of the local people, and they think I am very filial and a good person." This is a kind of "filial piety" culture inherited from Chinese history. "Filial piety" is the attitude of children towards their elders.In China, the most basic organizational unit is maintained by the family, so without filial piety, there can be no talk of loyalty to the emperor.The codes of these basic cultures are passed down and influence the behavior of the present.You say it is wrong, but it exists and it is reasonable; you say it is vulgar, but it wins everyone's respect.

And there are some private entrepreneurs who neither inherit the business on the traditional moral level, nor fight on the business ethics, business level and legal level, but adopt a very interesting method: First, the Boxer Spirit.Those who believe that they are not of our race must have a different heart; incite national sentiment, saying that foreigners have always bullied Chinese people, they lied to us, we are weak, and we have to fight against them. Second, the abuse of Mao Zedong Thought.Put up big-character posters to incite employees to besiege, abuse, and fight at meetings.No law, no business ethics.These historical genes and codes are most vividly reflected in some private entrepreneurs in China, through one person, one event, one sentence after another, one idea after another, they continue to emerge tenaciously.We have the ability to transform the future, but sometimes we show helplessness with history and can only compromise with history.

I was attending a lecture at Harvard some time ago, and the professors were asking and speaking in business language, while some of our private enterprise leaders liked to answer in the language of the "Cultural Revolution", such as guerrilla warfare, positional warfare, and revolution.These things are called the ciphers of history, and history stubbornly continues to reveal the concept of the "Cultural Revolution" through these people like pantothenic acid. This reminds me of something even more interesting ten years ago. When we were in Hainan in 1992, we wanted to buy land from a boss. The boss was "pointing out the country" in the room, and a lot of various maps were spread on the table, all of which were land.He is selling land completely using the language of the Communist Party when it was in the revolution. What first goes deep into the enemy's rear, then how to outflank, and finally the countryside encircles the city.After talking for a long time, I said is this buying land or fighting a war?Finally, a boss next to him told me that this boss has no hobbies, but likes to carry a military satchel with a little red book in it, and read it every day.

Some genes, thinking patterns, and language systems injected by history will continue to be manifested through private enterprises today. This is the power of history.So sometimes we must be in awe of history, because although we can doubt the truth of the past, we cannot doubt that the genes of history will be tenaciously expressed at some point in the future.The longer the history, the greater the impact on the future, because the genes of history have been deeply rooted in people's blood. The longer the history, the more relative right and wrong; the longer the history, the less right and wrong.why?If you look at right and wrong right now, yes is right and wrong is wrong; if you look at it after a while, if it is, if it is not; if you look at it for a while, right and wrong may be adjusted.

Our relationship with the United States is right and wrong. Generally speaking, the longer the history, the more relative right and wrong.Yesterday was right and today is wrong, today is yesterday and wrong, this is right and that is wrong, that is right and this is wrong.China is right, but the United States is wrong. For example, when two people meet for the first time in China, if they meet each other for the first time, they are called hooligans. Americans call this friendship, and this is right and wrong.Chinese people eat noodles without making a sound, which means they don’t taste good and are not enthusiastic about others; when they come to Europe, they always make noise when eating, and people say you are uneducated.Clothes with bare shoulders worn in Western parties are called formal dresses; in the crowd of Chinese, women who show their shoulders are called molestation.Now the whole world is engaged in a market economy, and all advocate the prosperity and strength of the country, so the traditional ideology has been weakened; in another hundred years, looking back now, there may be no right and wrong, or right and wrong are reversed.

Therefore, the more people who understand history and culture, the more relativist they are, and the more convinced that history has only success or failure, not right and wrong, and they value success and failure while downplaying right and wrong.We must stand in the long river of history to write our own history well, have an explanation to the ancients, an explanation to ourselves, and a guide to our future life.