Chapter 2 Primer

I also feel overwhelmed by my diaphragm. Spiritual civilization? How to write spiritual civilization? Such a question rose in my heart. In the months after I accepted the assignment, writers and critics who knew me well also asked me with a smile in the same tone: Spiritual civilization? How to write spiritual civilization? Then just laugh out loud. A few months later, it was 2000. The year 2000 is the millennium, and China in the millennium is the year of the dragon.In Beijing without the sound of firecrackers, I felt the carnival of a nation worshiping its own totem.Coincidentally, I am also a dragon, because it is the year of my birth, and this kind of birth year only happens once in a thousand years, so I took it very seriously. For the first time, I wore a red belt and a hideous amulet on my neck.It is said that haircuts are not allowed in the first month, so I obediently waited until the day when the dragon raised its head on the second day of February to get a haircut.I have been educated in atheism since I was a child, and I still don’t believe in ghosts and gods, but I still do these things in a regular way, like accepting hints of a huge existence.I think the topic of the millennium is too far and grand, and the Millennium Year of the Dragon is full of mysteries and mysteries. In a country where dragons are worshiped as totems, and a person who belongs to the dragon, how can we be indifferent to this? ?When I did these things with unprecedented caution, I realized its unique meaning in the slow motion similar to movies: for an ancient and imaginative people, this seems to be going on. The ceremony of dialogue with the future is an unrivaled celebration of meeting with the heavens. I am just a member of the huge dragon clan who came as promised.

A huge hint is coming our way. A foreign scholar who studies the history of world civilization wrote that inside the universe, there actually exists DNA that can control its growth or aging. This thing similar to the human genetic code is scattered in the east and west in a hidden form. This is the world civilization They have their own high tide period and low tide period, just like God is always fair, since the sun shines the same amount, the civilization flowers blooming in the east and west are also roughly balanced.If the history of human civilization with written records is displayed in a long scroll, people will find that the prosperity and decline of Eastern and Western civilizations alternately jump like the positive and negative of an alternating current diagram, and have their own unique laws of operation.If the civilization of a western nation reaches its peak, the civilization of the corresponding oriental nation will fall into the trough; if the western civilization enters the night, its corresponding oriental civilization will go into the day.Even in an age when a complete civilization grows, the emergence of a culture has its corresponding laws.For example, in the period of ancient Greek civilization, if its occurrence and development were compared to a semi-circular cycle like a mountain peak, the emergence of cultural geniuses should be the ones climbing up the mountain, followed by narrative poets and lyric poets. birth.And hovering on the top of the mountain are prose, drama and other geniuses.Philosophers appear only when descending from the peaks to the bottom of the mountain.For example, the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, etc., and the appearance of these philosophers often marks the end of a civilization cycle.

After research, the historian determined that the time of a civilization cycle in the world is about 800 years.If the time scale of the history of world civilization is calculated from 4400 BC to the current 2000 years, there are a total of 6400 years. In these 64 centuries, we can clearly see the fact that the pointer of history only needs to turn 750 or 800 years. On the tick of the year, an iconic civilization in the world will collapse.For example, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization began to collapse in 3600 BC, and 800 years later, the civilization of the ancient Egyptian kingdom began to decline, followed by the Indus civilization and Sumerian civilization, the Egyptian New Kingdom civilization, Persian civilization, and Rome The fall of imperial civilization, they will have a major turning point every 800 years, and the error time will not exceed 50 years.Before 1200 AD, the Tang and Song civilizations closest to us collapsed.The Tang and Song Dynasties are the eternal pain for us Chinese.When the Great Tang Empire and the pilgrimage of all nations were established impressively, and the flames of Chinese civilization illuminated a beautiful national outline, most countries in America, Australia and Africa were still sleeping in the permafrost of civilization at that time.After the Tang and Song Dynasties, even though Kublai Khan and Batu of the Yuan Dynasty rode short and strong Mongolian horses and shocked Europe, they were only the last ray of the beautiful setting sun of the Eastern Empire.Since then, China has been hidden in the great haze of history, and soon fell into the eternal night of 800 years of reincarnation.Since then, the center of civilization of the entire world began to shift to Europe.Under the effect of the DNA of this almost demonized universe, the stubborn fire of Western civilization began to burn. Whether it was the heavy Iron Curtain of the Middle Ages or the Pope's Inquisition, they failed to curb its upward climb.The glory and splendor of Europe appeared irresistibly. This is the so-called 800-year growth period of the industrial civilization it created. In fact, only this weak and powerful seed was buried in the vast and fertile land of Europe. Its mission is to Let all countries outside Europe remember its name, it is a god everywhere.With the help of the achievements of industrial civilization, human beings can chase the speed of light, walk on the bottom of the sea, and travel in the sky. Humans can be more powerful than any imaginable gods, and more terrifying than any devils.However, since it is a civilization, it naturally has its life cycle, and its collapse seems as inevitable as its birth.According to the scholar's inference, the collapse of Western European civilization should have occurred within 100 years from 2000 to 2100 AD.

Today, the despondency of Western European countries is proof. So, after Western European civilization, who is the protagonist of world civilization?The answer is Far Eastern civilization in Asia. The two scholars who gave this answer are Japanese.They speculate that the representatives of Far Eastern civilizations are Japan and China.They said: In the 21st century, especially the first 50 years of the 21st century, the United States may be very strong.However, during that period, facing the upcoming alternation of Eastern and Western civilizations, China will gradually accumulate strength... The development of Shanghai and Beijing has shown that the wealth of the world has begun to flow from Washington, New York, across the Pacific Ocean to the Far East, especially It is flowing to the coastal areas of China.No one can stop this huge trend.

Therefore, they place great hopes on China.They believe that China's new spiritual civilization will become a model of Asian civilization. Science, technology and industrial production are originally a means, and they can also be called a developed form of material energy marked by horsepower.Horsepower created the Western European civilization that abused human beings and led to the end of this civilization.Human beings must reverse this contradiction, correctly control the horsepower, and create new values ​​of civilization.This important task will inevitably fall on China's shoulders and become a historical mission that China must undertake.

Although the author and these two scholars have different views, their predictions and calculations are not groundless.It takes almost no prophet to see a quietly rising mountain in the far east, and its name is China. However, few people understand the secret of its rise.In particular, the steep mountains of Chinese spiritual civilization have attracted the attention of many Western experts, but we don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain. The mountains of China's socialist spiritual civilization are very young. In September 1979, at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Ye Jianying, on behalf of the Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and the State Council, first proposed the socialist spiritual civilization Since then, a new civilization that is far more advanced than Western European civilization has surfaced. Although it is only a concept, its lines are still rough, and its eyebrows are not real, but it has shown its strength since its birth. Strong vitality, it is destined to be extraordinary, it will change people's cognitive experience of civilization with unprecedented new ideas.This year, on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, when the dragon raised its head, I embarked on the journey of interviewing.This is a mental climb similar to mountaineering.Most of the people I inquire about are units, individuals and regions that have made great achievements or made outstanding contributions in the construction of spiritual civilization. I feel like walking through the mountains.I felt a kind of leaping strength in this upward climb.This is a living spiritual mountain that is still growing. If you stand on the ridge, you will feel its rhythm and the wind whistling in your ears.It's a feeling of being in flight.

On February 2nd, thunder really sounded faintly in the sky.People in the old life said that the dragons are about to raise their heads, and probably the dragons are also hibernating. When the warm wind blows from the sky and the clouds and mists gather, the dragons will ride the thunder and lightning to fly to the sky. When the author's plane ascended in the sky, I felt as if there were dragons walking with people.Dragons are created by man.But the dragon has always been with the Chinese nation.Where there are Chinese people, there are dragons, and dragons live in the lives of Chinese people for thousands of generations.The nation with the dragon as its totem is the most creative nation. They cannot always hide in the shadow of the candlelight of Western civilization and suffer from the dust of other people's glorious burning.In the days of walking with dragons, the author has seen various forms of dragons scattered all over the country. For example, I have seen hornless chilongs dancing with wind and birds in the Mawangdui Tomb Museum in Changsha, Hunan, and in Ruicheng, Shanxi. On the temple of Yongle Palace, I saw the Chi kiss dragon hovering on the roof. I saw the green dragon playing with beads on the famous Nine Dragon Wall in Beihai, Beijing. I saw the one-legged Kui dragon on the bronze wares of the Shang Dynasty. Wengniu, Inner Mongolia. In Teqi, we have seen the three-star Tara jade dragon unearthed in the banner, and we have seen pterosaurs in the mural tomb of Bu Qianqiu in Luoyang, etc.These dragons of various shapes are distributed in all directions of the motherland like capillaries, forming a unique dragon culture in the world.The dragon culture has nourished the Chinese people for thousands of years, so that the spirit and temperament of the dragon permeate the blood of the nation. When the environment is harsh and difficult, it may be a flying snake; But as long as the wind and rain come, as long as there is a suitable climate, it will leap into the sky and soar into the sky.Because only flying is the pursuit of its life essence.

According to experts' research, the Chinese nation was called a nation from the sky in ancient times, and the so-called sun and moon are shining brightly.The origin of the Hua nationality comes from the sun, it is born because of the sun, and grows for the sun.The so-called Xia, Xia comes from Han, Han is Jianghan, the name of a big river, but it comes from the sky, Tianhan starts from the east, and after the question of the end of the Ji, it is called Tianheshu ("Book of Jin. Tianwenzhi").The Chinese nation is actually the son of the sun and the son of Tianhe. They both came from the sky, so they looked for the soaring dragon as their totem.

One day in July 2000, the author saw the first dragon in China on the west slope of Puyang, Henan.This is a dragon-shaped pattern made of clam shells. According to experts' research, it has a history of 6,460 years.This length of history is surprisingly consistent with the 6400 years of the world civilization chart quoted by the author before.The author does not know whether this is purely coincidental or hints to humans.In the archaeological tomb No. 45, on both sides of the owner of the tomb, there is a green dragon on the left, a white tiger on the right, and a big dipper. Although they are all made of clam shells, they still vividly outline the results of early astronomical research for us. Report.20 meters south of Tomb No. 45 is the second group of clam shell animals.The third group of tombs is in an oblique ash ditch with a thick layer of ash on the bottom. In the south-central part of the ash ditch, there is a pattern of a person riding a dragon and flying.The ash ditch runs from northeast to southwest. Some experts say that the ash ditch symbolizes the Milky Way in the sky, and the man riding a dragon is flying across the Milky Way on his dragon.

This is a picture with symbolic significance, and it may find the answer for why our Chinese nation takes take-off as its ultimate goal. Dragon, a dragon who is unwilling to sink and be inferior to others, a dragon who often thinks about fighting and forging ahead, and soaring in the nine heavens, is a concentrated symbol of our national spirit and the classic meaning of national spirit. When the author's interview was over, this feeling became even stronger.At present in China, a new mass spiritual civilization creation activity that hundreds of millions of people participate in and generally benefit from is the opportunity and condition for China's giant dragon to rise and take off. China's 9.6 million square kilometers of land will once again flourish, and Chinese civilization Will affect the world with rich and extensive content and extraordinary energy.

This article will tell the world that a new era of civilization has emerged.