Comparative papers on Chinese and western cultures

When I see an ancient civilization, I hate Europeans for destroying culture and burning cities, but I also appreciate the splendid culture of Greece and Rome. When I look at the history of the Middle Ages that lasted until the British parliamentary war, I really can't bear to watch it any more, because I feel sad: in human history, there are such despicable intrigues and destruction of civilization that even the most brutal and chaotic tyrant in Lian Dongfang can't do it. !

I once said, "China people destroy culture, such as Xiang Yu burning Epang Palace and Dong Zhuo destroying Chang 'an Luoyang. There is no such behavior abroad! "But I was wrong.

In ancient times, when Western Rome perished, the Goths, a branch of the Germanic people, burned buildings in Rome, and 45,000 houses were destroyed, while 1800 palaces were completely burned and treasures were taken away. Treasure and prisoners of war all became the funerary objects of alaric, the leader of the Goths, and books and cultural relics were smashed. Even if 100 palaces reach the last epang palace, the number of goths destroyed is 18 epang palaces, which is an astronomical figure!

The astronomical figures formed by the destruction of Europeans are far more than these. . .

16 18, still German, this vein is full of Mongolian blood, but some people call it a natural and excellent purebred nation (in fact, Hitler claimed to be purebred), and even shamelessly raised a butcher knife to his own culture and people. For religious disputes, in the past 30 years, Germans invited Danes, Swedes, and later Spanish and Russians, and called on almost all neighboring countries to open their doors. What did they do? Trade? Spread culture? Don't! This is sabotage! It's slaughter! Within 30 years, one-third of the German population died, five-sixths of the buildings were destroyed, and the ancient German civilization was almost extinct in 2000-it was these outstanding Germans who started the Second World War more than 300 years later. The destruction continues, and it is more serious, worse and more inhuman every time!

Not only Germans, but also people from other European countries are very interested in cultural destruction. Its scale and far-reaching influence are amazing!

The Dutch hate Spanish rulers, so they take it out on culture. The church is dark, but as a kind of architecture and culture, it seems that the church is innocent. Even if it is right to destroy some churches and attacking the lair of reactionary rulers is a revolutionary act, we must always exercise restraint. The Dutch took out the means to destroy Indonesian civilization in the future, and burned and destroyed more than 5,500 churches in one breath, of which more than 300 were built in early Rome with a history of nearly a thousand years. The Duke of Alpha in Spain did not show weakness, and took out the means of exterminating Inca culture in front of their ancestors, and razed Antwerp, the largest city in the Netherlands as the center of Western European civilization. Antwerp was a part of the Spanish colony at that time, and its fiscal revenue accounted for half of the entire Spanish treasury. Europeans destroy their economic lifeline in this way, which is hysterical at best and schizophrenic at worst-I thought Europeans were just colonists who destroyed the culture of other regions, but later I learned that they would not even let go of their own culture: 1687, the Venetians shelled the Parthenon, known as the "treasure of Greece",18th century, which destroyed civilization. What a savage nation is chosen from civilized nations! It is puzzling that when the Romans annexed Catalonia, they clearly listed Catalonia as one of his provinces, made it a part of the Roman Empire, and set fire there for six days and six nights. It is really unreasonable to destroy Catalonia's culture. . . What's more frightening is that I know that people in China eat well during the famine years, and I think it's barbaric. Later, I learned that during the Russian crusade, Commander-in-Chief Boyakov [a civilian] led his men to eat human flesh on the pretext of insufficient rations, and the living also ate it all the way from Moscow to the edge of Heilongjiang, and the bones became mountains in the dark. . . Speaking of which, I feel very tired. Because Europeans have destroyed culture and human beings, they have only talked about a small part.

In European history, it is rare to see them destroy a palace-this is not a compliment. Because Europeans destroy culture, in a small scale, they generally destroy a city completely, and in a large scale, they destroy a nation's civilization! Good Rome, Gauls came and burned, Carthaginians came and burned, Goths came and burned, Romans ruled and burned! Inca, the destruction of Mayan civilization, the disaster brought by the Crusades, the civil strife and destruction of the Huguenot War, the bloody killings of the Hus War, and the atrocities of France and Spain in Italy. . . . . . If you want to fully understand the cultural achievements of western civilized people praised by Bai Yang and others, take your time and see for yourself. You may not finish it for three days and nights.

I used to think that there were many people in China, such as Qin Gui, Wang Jingwei and Yuan Shikai, who didn't betray the country, and even ordered the bad king to kill Yue Fei, Yuan Chonghuan and other national heroes. Therefore, the quality of China people is poor, and there are problems with traditional culture. No wonder they were bullied and ruled. But I was wrong.

Without looking at the history of Europe, you won't know what a real traitor is. If the so-called excellent Germans I mentioned just now opened their doors and let foreigners invade themselves because of religious disputes, if it is excusable, then it is simply whimsical for the British king to call Italian and German mercenaries to the British Isles to suppress Kate's peasant uprising. Empress Dowager Cixi joined forces with Britain and France to suppress the Taiping Rebellion. Although she was a traitor, she didn't "please" all the way. In contrast, among traitors, Cixi and the king seem to have no sense of shame and personality.

Alaric invaded Rome, and the hysterical brothers, the national heroes of Rome, bravely resisted, and were killed by Honoriu (also a mentally retarded person). When Joan was defending France, the kings and nobles she defended were sold to the British for 40 thousand francs-such a rogue's despicable means are really disgusting! Will the French sell their national heroes as sons? ! Wallenstein, a Czech general, fought against the Danish invasion for the German emperor, and was finally tricked into the palace and shot with a poisonous arrow-the same hooliganism. Yue Fei was killed and there were trumped-up charges. Wallenstein's death is really quite cowardly! Hannibal lecter sighed when he was executed by the king he defended: "A man who is so afraid of the Romans is going to die!" " "The Punic War lasted for one hundred years, and the Catalans poisoned their garde nationale at the most critical moment of the war. Their civilization is really obvious.

What is even more ridiculous is the war between Rome and Persia. In the first three times, regardless of the outcome, the proud Romans paid a large amount of gold to the Persian Empire "generously". The Byzantine Empire seemed so rich and boring that it gave away 265,438+0,000 pounds of gold, even Justinian was no exception. Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War, and he attached great importance to defeating his Prussian king, which was disgusting. His descendants also continued the tradition he left behind-on the eve of World War II, the French representative betrayed the Czech Republic in Munich, thinking that the French who had gained peace actually danced a cheerful group dance in front of the embassy. At the beginning of World War II, the French watched their ally Polish soldiers attack Nazi tanks with spears, and finally fell off their horses and died, while hiding in the bomb shelter to watch the movie-like appreciation. At the gates of Paris, these French people who felt good about themselves chose two traitors, Petain and Laval, and completely betrayed themselves. So, is France at peace? Don't! Their compatriots were armed by fascists, acted as two devils, invaded the Soviet Union and turned into cannon fodder. . . These are the ugly faces of traitors in Europe! But this is only part of it.

I used to think that China people are good at torture, and there are various punishments for killing people. But I was wrong.

The most terrible criminal law in China is "Nian", which is to cut off a person's flesh with a knife, and then make up a knife in a person's heart. In "civilized" Europe, the Vatican punishes people not with a knife, but with a blunt object-oyster shells. Cut off your hands and feet before execution, and you won't make up a knife after execution. People will slowly struggle to die. (A Greek female geometer was once punished) In France, molten lead water is poured on people bit by bit, and then the flesh is clamped down piece by piece with pliers. Of course, before torture, people should be sprinkled with a layer of quicklime. As for gouging out eyes, cutting off ears, dismembering and lighting lanterns, torture is common in European history, especially when the peasant uprising in Tuvaben, Germany was suppressed.

What makes me laugh and cry even more is that during the Thirty Years' War, Europeans invented an "itch punishment", that is, putting honey and salt on the soles of criminals' feet to make them lick and laugh to death. What a brilliant creation! Xu Yunfeng was threatened by pro-American Kuomintang officers in Zhazidong: "Can you resist hundreds of punishments invented by Americans?" It seems that the study of torture in Europe has continued into modern society and is still tireless.

In the past, I thought that China people imprisoned ideas and destroyed culture, such as the prevalence of stereotyped writing and the appearance of literary inquisition. Now I know that compared with Europeans, China is really nine Niu Yi hairs.

In the fifth century, Constantine the Great declared Catholicism the state religion. From then on to around17th century and 1200 years, printing was not allowed in Europe (equivalent to cutting off the roots of culture), scientific research on "heresy" was not allowed, religious debates were not allowed, and "heresy" creation in culture and art was not allowed. In Spain, people who argued about the Bible were buried alive and burned alive. Add one in Germany: after the heresy is executed, the property belongs to the informant. In France, the so-called civilized France, at the beginning of17th century, if you dare to hold a piece of paper with fonts printed on it, you will be sentenced to death. Germany's anti-cult law and inquisition are well-known in Europe, and other countries have followed suit. Finally, Martin. Luther carried out the religious reform, but Calvin, the new Pope in Geneva, still refused to sing, dance, play games and wear beautiful clothes, still banned music and brutally suppressed Baptists. It is an extremely strange phenomenon that Catholics in Europe can't understand the Bible for generations, because the Bible can only be copied into books in Hebrew and ancient Greek, and even if it is read, it can't be understood. It was not until the Reformation that the European people saw the Bible written in their own national language for the first time, thus imprisoning people whose thoughts destroyed their own culture. No wonder they were helpless in the face of the epidemic of the Black Death. No wonder illiteracy is everywhere, so that medicine has only been established for more than 200 years.

China burns books to pit Confucianism, while Europe has no books to burn and no Confucianism to pit. China, I don't think there will be a duel between thinkers and Confucianism, and the dispute between Wang Lu and Zhu Cheng's two schools of Neo-Confucianism is limited to the scope of argument. At most, some Confucian scholars will gather to have a good fight. Although there are many religions and beliefs in China, there is no religious war, and no religion in China will easily execute people on the basis of their teachings.

Hus and Jerome were sentenced to death for opposing church exploitation, Bruno was sentenced to death for agreeing with Copernicus, Thomas. Moore was sentenced to death for refusing to recognize the king of England as a religious leader (the internal organs were cut out and cooked for animals), while Servit was roasted alive by Calvin, a religious reformer, for his new discovery in blood circulation. Campanella was imprisoned for 27 years for writing "Sun City" and made contributions to the country. Cervantes helped in the war, was deprived of the membership of the church and the right to work, and finally died tragically in the slums! As for rabelais, he narrowly escaped the mob, but his good friend, the man who helped him publish the legend of the giant, died under the disorderly stick! Even Michelangelo was almost sued by the church because of his "heretical" creative tendency in The Last Judgment. . . In ancient times, Europeans killed Plato, Socrates and Aesop, and in the Middle Ages, they even killed civilized elites. European civilization, you have farmers who sow for you, but do you have soil? If it is still growing, it will be hundreds of years later. And before that, how many times have you experienced burning, destruction and extinction!

China's stereotyped writing was founded only 600 years at most, while the extreme religious rule in Europe was 1200 years. If they are more capable of destroying civilization and imprisoning ideas, we orientals have to admit defeat. Because if people like Li Shizhen, Xu Guangqi, Cao Xueqin, Zu Chongzhi, Li Bai, Du Fu, Ma Jun and Sun Simiao were in Europe, they would have died hundreds of times, not to mention Shi Naian, the author of Water Margin!

There have been some once-in-a-century bastard rulers in China. Ming Wuzong, Jie, Zhou, Huan Ling. . . . . . However, please believe me, if there are only a handful of such thugs and animal rulers in China, they can also find many similar ones in Europe, and they are extremely dissolute and cruel, far exceeding these villains in China!

Roman emperor Nero, a monster born after his uncle married his niece, was greatly inspired when he saw his mother kill his father when he was a child, and became bloodthirsty as an adult. In order to seize power, he first sank his mother's boat, and then sent warriors after him, because he was not dead. Stabbed his pregnant wife to death. In addition to being extravagant and killing innocent people, he had a whim and burned the whole of Rome. The fire lasted for several days, killing countless people, but he stood on the balcony and smiled. As for the cause of arson, there is no accurate statement so far. It can only be attributed to "insanity". Great damage has been caused by war in the East, but I'm afraid it's hard to find a second such inexplicable damage even in world history.

Dracula, the Grand Duke of Romania, did something even more ridiculous. Seeing that Central Asian businessmen could not take off their hats, they cruelly nailed the hats of Central Asian businessmen to their heads. In order to show majesty, dozens of high iron plates were inserted at the entrance of the palace, and the living were dressed like barbecues and changed into new people every day. This is called justice. In fact, it can only show that he is a mentally abnormal person, and Queen Margaret III actually owns a swimming pool filled with the blood of girls under the age of 12, and finally scares all the ministers of civil and military affairs who have girls at home away. I don't know whether their cruelty can be compared with that of Zhou Wang in China, but I know that Zhou Wang owns a wine pool and a meat forest, which is his extravagant performance, and it is the basin branded and resisted by repression that is a symbol of his cruelty. The human flesh forest in Gracilar and Margaret's blood pool only make me feel cruel and extravagant-especially their inhuman "imagination"! I used to watch the history of China. When I saw Tang Zhongzong's daughter poisoned him, I felt very inhuman. But when I saw the Roman emperor Seville killed by his daughter's son-in-law, I immediately threw his body into the street for public display and brazenly crushed him with a carriage. I couldn't help but marvel: what a civilized nation! Even if China killed his father and regicide, there would be no such crazy, shameless, unscrupulous and blatant case! Although Ivan the Terrible was great, it was difficult for him to get rid of the traditional wildness of Europeans. Finally, he killed his crown prince with a scepter. On the other hand, Caesar was stabbed to death by his illegitimate son bould. . . When I saw that there was a retarded emperor Sima Zhong in the history of China, I felt ridiculous and shameful. But when I studied less than half of European history, I found a group of retarded emperors or kings. French charles vi was mentally ill, Russian Tsar fedor was a fool in the womb, Roman monarch Claudius was polio and * *, another Roman emperor Honoriu was mentally retarded, but he was relatively sober, because he had not forgotten to kill the national hero who defended Rome, his hysterical brother, and implicated others at will!

I heard before that when Emperor Yang Di raped his own sister, it was outrageous. Looking back at what Europeans have done, I can't help laughing. Greeks have a great tradition of intermarriage between brothers and sisters (Cleopatra's husband is his brother), while in Rome, uncles can marry nieces and half-brothers can marry. As for the civilized story of a prince who killed his father, married his mother and had four sons with his mother, it can reveal the deep-rooted incest culture in Europe. . . . This habit of incest seems to have a long tradition. Hitler's first love, Gilly, was his niece. I wonder if it is the continuation of Roman civilization in modern society? ! I read a comment about the emperor before, saying: Mingwuzong was the biggest bastard emperor in China history, because he committed adultery with the minister's wife. In Europe, because the emperor is not allowed to take concubinage, there are sexual scandals that the king and the minister's wife are having an affair in palaces all over the world. It may be an exaggeration to say that the European Court of Justice is a club. Even in the 10 century, a folk "culture" was formed, and men and women lived together. If Ming Wuzong is really measured by the standards of assholes, then European monarchs have become assholes one after another, and its tradition should of course be called: the tradition of assholes. Elizabeth I is the product of this tradition. The great Napoleon wore colorful green hats, the queen of the outstanding king Peter Si Nuo raised a large number of Toy Boy in the harem, and the powerful Ivan the Terrible raped his daughter-in-law. The spoony Queen Mary revenged her lover and murdered her husband. . . Such a noble court, where chickens fly and dogs jump, must come from this distant cultural influence. If Caesar didn't have an improper relationship with King Nicodemus when he was in Asia Minor, he still deserves my admiration. Because Caesar has many titles, such as tenure, head of state and so on. . . But after he came back from Asia Minor, he added another name: the rival of the Queen. Look at this lyric satirizing Caesar's homosexuality: Caesar conquered Gaul and Nicomes conquered him. Caesar won bravely because he conquered Rome. Nicodemus did not win, but conquered Caesar!

Some people say: Europeans are aboveboard, because after the conflict, they are not fighting each other, but fighting each other. I wonder if the hooligans in China are also aboveboard (in the form of a duel). I want such people to see how "aboveboard" Europeans are. Alexander, the ruler of Greece and Macedonia, showed no mercy to those who violated him. First, he killed the nephew of his mentor Aristotle, then got up with a gun and stabbed the rescuer himself (Europeans always like to do it themselves). The ability to kill heroes is by no means inferior to Zhu Yuanzhang. What is particularly shameful is that when he killed his friends who grew up together, he pretended to be crazy and stupid, pretending to be unconscious after drinking "divine water", and when he killed his father's old men, he actually sent an assassin to assassinate him-a move that Zhu Yuanzhang could not do. Alexander is known as the king of the universe and the Pharaoh of Egypt, but if he is "aboveboard", I really disagree.

The Pope is a respected role in Europe, and European monarchs and kings call him "Dad" in friendly colloquial language. It was the good fathers of these Europeans who forged an imperial edict of "Constantine the Great dedicates land" in the 8th century, deceiving European countries to transfer land to him regularly or irregularly. This scam lasted for more than 700 years before it was revealed by the historian Valla of Naples. Open the Pope, do reform-through-labour activities, long-term deception, cheated a lot of wealth, unprecedented. There is a saying in the reform-through-labour camp that it is better to pay ten * * * than one liar. Pope, the father of European kings, how can I evaluate you? !

In Europe in the 16 and 17 centuries, the church sold a large number of "exemption symbols" to the people, that is, those who bought the exemption symbols could go directly to heaven. Deceive the people and treat their respected saints as human beings: take a broken blanket and talk nonsense about Christ's use, and find a broken headscarf and say it was worn by the Virgin Mary. The most shameless thing is to pretend to be St. Peter's body with the bones of animals such as pigs and sheep, and sell one for five gold coins. If the first pope lived in heaven, he would cry in heaven. As for selling a pile of chicken feathers as angel hair, it is even harder for them to do it.

In Germany, there have been four peasant uprisings in more than 40 years, namely, the shoe uprising (shoes are the symbol of poor peasants), in which lords and knights deceived peasants, pretended to sign a peace treaty, then disintegrated the peasant army, and finally carried out bloody repression. Peasant uprisings broke out twice in Tuvaben and Franchia, and German rulers repeatedly used such means: signing a peace treaty-disbanding the rebels-slaughtering farmers. China people also know that you are joking. European monarchs are shameless to the extreme.

Open and aboveboard Europeans? Where is it reflected? Is it reflected in Dante stealing Pushkin's wife aboveboard and then killing Pushkin in a duel?

The most surprising thing is that there have been false czars in Russia. In Russia, in order to gain power, Uncle Isky actually found a handsome, tall and charming rogue from Lithuania to pretend to be Prince Dimitri, who had been dead for many years. The fake czar appeared twice in Russia. It is really a super farce in the history of the world court, and it is also a "miracle" that makes people laugh and cry! There are countless such examples in civilized Europe. . .

In the past 1000 years, 20 popes died, and the cause of death of 10 popes is still unknown. This is the opening of Europe.

Unprecedented and unimaginable frauds, scandals, cruelty, absurdity and farce have appeared many times in Europe. Want to see a history several times darker, scarier, disgusting and ignorant than China? Then I recommend Europe to you.

Actually, Europeans are not clumsy. Of the seven wonders of the world praised by the Phoenicians, except the pyramids in Egypt and the hanging gardens in Babylon, the other five all appeared in Europe. However, the pyramids have stood for thousands of years, and the hanging gardens were discovered by archaeologists at the end of the century. What about the five wonders of Europe? Let's see their ending.

Statue of Zeus: This large statue with a height of15m is decorated with precious stones, ivory and gold. About 200 years after its establishment, it was demolished and carved up by the Greek people and some smugglers. Even ebony, which was made into body parts, was greedily carved up-the attitude of the Greeks to the gods they worshipped was not much different from that of the Pope. The former was torn down and sold for money, while the latter was cheated by people using animal bones as sacred bones. Because of the war, the Temple of Al themis was destroyed by fire in 356 BC. After reconstruction, it was burned again in 262 AD. The colossus of the sun god in Rhodes Harbor: It collapsed half a century after it was built because it was located near the earthquake zone. Mausoleum of Mo Solas: It took more than 40 years to build, but due to ignorance of the geographical conditions at that time, it was still destroyed in the15th century earthquake, and the buried treasure was unknown. Alexander Lighthouse: This building with a height of more than 1.20 meters has fortunately existed for more than 1000 years, but it was still destroyed due to disrepair and earthquake.

What happened to European civilization? !

If the destruction of the king's mausoleum and the statue of the sun is due to natural disasters and the collapse of the Alexandria lighthouse, half of it can be attributed to natural disasters and half to people's neglect of the protection of classical culture, then the temple and the statue of Zeus are purely destroyed by Europeans themselves! The pyramids in Africa, the Ju Lushi Mausoleum in Asia, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, the Great Wall of Wan Li, the Hanging Gardens, Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, the Forbidden City, Kong Lin and even the lost Mayan pyramids in the United States have been preserved. What's wrong with Europeans? Is there something wrong with your mind, bad luck, or other strange reasons that led to the destruction of the five wonders? !

Some people say, "Germans can almost build tall buildings with the money they spend on maintaining and protecting old buildings, because Germans have a traditional love!" Words are full of worship. I want to tell this kind of people: if Germany doesn't protect some old buildings, I'm afraid it won't find any historical sites! Leaving aside the above-mentioned burning of Rome and World War II (the fierce expression of German traditional love), five-sixths of buildings in Germany were destroyed in the 30-year war, which broke out in 16 18. The Germans not only burned them themselves, but also invited troops from other countries to help destroy them. If you can see large-scale cultural buildings five or six hundred years ago in Germany, I think it is really hard to get them.

In addition, some people in China have such remarks. People in China, for example, have the ability to have children and know nothing. Also: China people have a bad race. Even: The French call China the son of * (speaking in a calm and affirmative tone). I want to say to such a person, "Is your mother from China? . . "As for some people who say," Mongols can rule China, so there is something wrong with the culture of China. " It's a stupid thing with chaotic logic. China was ruled by Mongolia for 89 years, while Russia was ruled for two and a half centuries, and the Eastern Roman Empire was destroyed by Turks who had been ruled by Mongolia. According to this statement, isn't the problem of western culture more serious? !

It is unnecessary to discriminate against yourself in extreme ways.

Greece was ruled by foreigners for thousands of years. I wonder if people who feel inferior are interested in belittling western culture?

The era of chaos is also the period of the demise of western Rome. Xiongnu not only breached Chang 'an, but also entered ravenna. For inferiority complex, they will only emphasize the humiliation suffered by China, and then comment on cultural inferiority complex. As for the west, it seems that burning Rome can represent the bright future of the west. They will never say a few words, because most of them don't understand the west at all and are too lazy to understand it. [Note: Lombardy, Arabia also invaded East Rome] The history of the East and the West is dark and humiliating, and both cultures have defects and deficiencies. Both China and Rome have experienced many foreign invasions, and both have tasted the taste of reparations. Why do some of our compatriots take pains to prove that they are inferior people in bring disgrace to oneself? . . Overseas, due to lack of education, the low quality of China people is looked down upon by people. To put it bluntly, Eight-Nation Alliance robbed us of all our education funds, and they robbed us of the money for education, and then insulted us as an inferior nation and our culture was inferior. Foreign dogs will naturally wag their tails in response. Normal people should hate their ancestors, not their own race! If I am in Europe or the United States, I see people in China spitting, talking loudly, speeding, shopping and fighting. . . I won't discriminate against my compatriots, but I will hate those Europeans who took away our wealth-they caused our poverty today. It has caused our backwardness today and caused the low quality of the people. I would rather take it out on their generation than on my grandparents.

Europeans learn from Africa to make bread and ham, beer and coffee, learn to use the solar calendar, and then scold Africans for being inferior.

Europeans plundered gold and ivory from Africa, plundered all kinds of raw materials, used these wealth to revitalize their economies, and then accused Africans of being niggers.

Europeans hold bibles from Asia (Middle East) and bow down to Christ. Jesus, and then discriminate against colored people! They drove black people to slums, deprived them of the education they deserved, and then insulted them as inferior races.

This is the truth of the so-called excellent nation.

The reasons why the West later surpassed the East are as follows:

Buddhism was introduced to China in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it did not flourish in China at that time. Buddhism began to flourish in the period of "Five Wild Flowers". Nomads invaded the land north of the Yangtze River in China. Han people were killed at will by Hu people from the grassland beyond the Great Wall, and women were insulted at will. The property of the Han people may be robbed by the Hu people at any time and anywhere, and the Hu people even eat the Han people directly as food. In order to weaken the rebellious spirit of the Han people and suppress Confucianism and Taoism in China, the Hu people preached the Buddhism that "all the sufferings in this life are doomed in the last life, and we have to endure the fate and wait for changes in the next life" to anesthetize the Han people. Later, the Yuan Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty tried to suppress the majority of Han people in China for the sake of a few nomadic people. In order to maintain their own rule, while removing the essence of Confucianism, they naturally advocated Buddhism to ease the thoughts of Han people. Monks, on the other hand, bully the weak and fear the hard, and do nothing good.

But as long as the Han people overthrow this oppression, the roles of Buddhism and monks will be very different. In the Tang Dynasty, a large number of eminent monks like Master Xuanzang introduced foreign culture and technology to China. In the Song Dynasty, a large number of monks joined in wave after wave to resist the invasion of Jurchen and Mongolia. During the Ming Dynasty, monks from Shaolin Temple went to the southeast coast to help resist the Japanese pirates. Monks and soldiers from Wutai Mountain fought against the invasion of the Ming Dynasty with the border guards from Datong, Shanxi. ......

Similarly, why is there such a big difference? The key lies in the state's control over religion, as do other doctrines; Not only in China, but all over the world. At the height of Vatican power, Europe was in darkness. When the cardinal appointed by the Pope is also the prime minister of all European Catholic countries, even the king is afraid in front of the Pope. No wonder so many scientists were sent to the stake. At that time, being accused of "heresy" could destroy a European family, which was similar to China's treason. Europeans committed treason, so it doesn't matter. As long as they go to the church to donate money, the church will exercise the right of asylum for him. China was far ahead of Europe in ancient times, and besides the extraordinary wisdom of China people, the Vatican contributed a lot. When Europeans fully realized this, one by one out of the control of the Vatican, the law is greater than religion, they also developed.

In other words, political power over religious power is crucial to the prosperity and strength of the country. Or should I say, the national interest must be higher than faith.