Chapter 671: Be Proud of This Civilization

Chen Changfeng felt ashamed thinking about it, he was tainted, but when he heard Yang Lingyue had already started speaking, he hunched back and went back to the stage to listen.

Yang Lingyue had already greeted his leaders and friends and introduced himself, of course he only said that he was a young director.

He held the microphone but did not look at the speech on the stage.

An elder on the far right of the first row frowned, but he was relieved immediately.

"Just now, Chairman Chen Changfeng talked about yesterday's salon. I thought about it and didn't go off topic. After all, only under the same cultural background can everyone quickly reach a consensus.

Under the same cultural background, we can express our own ideas by quoting the quotations of ancient philosophers and various idioms.

Why is it so?

Then we have to talk about civilization. Of course, the civilization here refers to the only civilization in the world that has continued from ancient times to the present, that is, the Chinese civilization, also known as the Huaxia civilization, which is closely related to all of us present.

There are many different interpretations of civilization. I will talk about my personal understanding.

Civilization is a state that gradually emerges after society develops to a higher stage. It contains material, spirit, and also the culture created by a country or a nation in the past. In short, it is the sum of spirit and culture."

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When Yang Lan heard this, his brows relaxed.

When he first heard Yang Lingyue define "civilization", he couldn't help but worry because he was too young and would be labeled as "shameless".

Then he felt that his worries were unnecessary. Would the speech manuscripts for such occasions not be reviewed?

Of course, she never doubted that someone had ghostwritten it. Who could write such a manuscript and let a young man write it for them? Besides, the reviewer was a fool.

But she frowned again in a flash: Why should I worry about these things.

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"The earliest record of the word "civilization" is the Book of Changes, which says 'Seeing a dragon in the field, the world is civilized.'

We don't want to do prophecy on this occasion, so we won't extend it."

When he said this, Yang Lingyue smiled to ease the atmosphere, and then continued:

"Civilization is something that must appear in the development of human society.

When different people gather together, various traditional cultures interweave, forming rules, forming a country, and forming the rules of communication.

When people's living and production tools gradually become unified, and their diet and writing tend to be consistent, civilization is born.

Civilization is the most brilliant and dazzling thing in the development of human history, and it is also something that people in various civilizations are proud of.

If the emergence of tools completely divides apes from humans, tribes The emergence of the country has made the scattered human beings move towards concentration, so civilization has completed the spiritual unification on the material basis.

However, no matter how brilliant and dazzling the civilization is, it will disappear and perish. After all, civilization is carried by people.

Take the Roman civilization as an example. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, its culture was gradually lost, and now Europeans do not identify with the Roman Empire.

If you go to Rome and tell him that he is Italian, he will nod, but if you say that he is from the Roman Empire, he will find it ridiculous. This is that national identity is greater than race.

But we are different. No matter where we are, even the Chinese who have migrated to the southeast for several generations, most of them will consider themselves descendants of Yan and Huang, and heirs of ancient China. Although the traditional culture is not completely lost, there is a concept of "China". A high sense of identity.

Even if some people disagree, in the eyes of all foreigners, whether you are Malaysian Chinese or Singaporean Chinese, they will call these people "Chinese", that is, "Chinese".

This is the national identity that transcends racial identity, that is, first Chinese, then different ethnic groups.

Before the Qin Dynasty's "same writing and same track", everyone was nominally a Zhou Dynasty person, but the identities of the various vassal states were not recognized, the language and writing were not the same, and people only called themselves Qin people, Zhao people, Qi people, etc.

The calendars of various countries were also different. Looking at the books written by people at that time, the month of "first month" had to be compared with each other. Qi was November, and Qin was September.

But after Qin unified China, the old and young people of the six countries died. , all newborns were Qin people, which laid a solid foundation for the Han Dynasty. Chinese civilization has since been condensed, and all ethnic groups are highly cohesive, and there is no possibility of dispersion.

This is also the reason why the world recognizes that among the four ancient civilizations, Chinese civilization has continued to this day.

The Chinese are a tenacious nation;

China is a "resilient country".

Thousands of years of history have proved that even if the country collapses or even perishes, the genes flowing in the blood of the Chinese people will continue to self-assemble into a new old country, and this new old country will often go further to the top of the world.

So many Western scholars who study China say that "China is a country disguised as a civilization", and I deeply agree. "

At this point, Yang Lingyue pointed his finger to the audience and then pointed to himself.

"We should be proud of having such a civilization. Thank you everyone. "

After speaking, he bowed and slowly stepped down.

This speech can be said to be resounding.

Yang Lingyue summarized Martin's views in his 2010 TED speech. Putting them in today's context, it helps many people understand some of their own ideas, even though they are very abstract and are just theories.

A question-and-answer website once had a well-known answer: I said I want to unify the world, you will think I am overestimating my own capabilities. But I don't think there is anything wrong with this idea, this is the influence of Chinese civilization.

Because such an idea is incredible and unimaginable in other existing civilizations.

Such intense applause from the audience proved its importance.

When Yang Lingyue walked off the stage and walked to his seat, he was still full of spirit.

The people in the audience paid their respects and continued to applaud.

Yang Lingyue nodded to Director Wang, and then met Yang Lan's eyes, who had nothing but admiration on his face.

In just a moment, Yang Lingyue looked at her from head to toe. Today's outfit was more dignified and her temperament was more elegant. I think the "beauty of destruction" would be even more. Thinking of this, he smiled and nodded in greeting.

Unexpectedly, she was stunned by this smile, but in just a moment, she regained her elegant posture, really worthy of being a nine-tailed fox.

No one gave a speech next, only the host made a summary speech.

Afterwards, people left the cultural forum venue one after another, some to socialize privately, and some to go to the economic and trade forum.