Red Alert 1895: Chapter 756 Protect Traditional Culture Part 2

"Your Majesty, I think that a special person must be assigned to take charge of this matter. This matter should be done sooner rather than later, because once Western culture invades, our Chinese civilization not only did not progress during the Manchu Qing rule, but it is retreating rapidly. So Under such circumstances, many people will lose confidence in our Chinese civilization. Instead, they will start to worship foreign countries and even deny everything about our China. It is better to save Chinese culture sooner rather than later. It must be done as soon as possible. Show it on the one hand, and let us people see it. Otherwise, once the people see the growing gap between China and the West, some people may completely deny our Chinese culture, which will definitely be very detrimental to us. And we must Let the people know that our Chinese culture does not lag behind the West, and many things are ahead of the West. Ordinary people have poor knowledge and are easily deceived by some people with ulterior motives. Therefore, we must assign someone to take charge of this matter. We must establish our true Chinese civilization as soon as possible.”

After hearing this, Wang Guorui immediately realized the seriousness of the matter, because in the future, he will not only focus on the economy and industry, but also develop spiritual civilization. In the era of Wang Guorui's later generations, when it first started, it was claimed that the economy was in charge, and everything must give way to the economy. But in the end, I found that the economic development has improved, but the ideological and moral aspects have not completely kept up. So at that time, I thought of grasping spiritual civilization again, but it was already damaged at that time. Wang Guorui did not mean to criticize the leaders of future generations. After all, it is impossible for anyone to predict the future, and even any country officials will inevitably make mistakes when implementing policies. Mistakes are not terrible, the key is how to learn from experience and avoid future mistakes.

And since Wang Guorui experienced this situation in later generations, he naturally cannot make the mistake again. Therefore, it is also necessary to grasp the correct value orientation of spiritual civilization, and in this process, the essence of traditional culture must be strengthened in publicity and guidance. Chinese values ​​and Western values ​​cannot be exactly the same. After all, the cultural traditions of the two are completely different, so how can they be completely copied? The ancients said that oranges in the south and trifoliate oranges in the north, but the practice in Lao Maozi's place, isn't it necessary to improve it according to local conditions in China?

Therefore, in order to grasp spiritual civilization, there must be a dedicated person in charge. Especially those traditional cultural customs that are specially reviewed. Then for those traditional classics, remove the dross as much as possible, and then sort out the essence, and then proceed to make them shine again.

"Shi Maozhou. Who do you think should be in charge of this matter?" Wang Guorui asked.

Shi Maozhou replied: "Empress Kang is in charge! Empress Kang is not only good at classical culture, but also has a profound family background. She is also able to learn both Chinese and Western, familiar with classical and modern, so that she can judge whether something is in line with the new era. needs, and her identity is enough. It is completely competent."

Shi Maozhou's words are appropriate, because in charge of this traditional culture, one must have a foundation, not only to be familiar with traditional culture, but also to have contact with the culture of the new era, so that one can judge what is needed and what is not necessary to get rid of Dross. Of course, the identity of the person in charge is also an important issue. If there is no certain identity to be responsible for such an important matter, then it will definitely not work. Kang Tongwei is not only one of the queens, but also familiar with other cultural circles and what she has learned from her.

It's not impossible to make her responsible. There is also no lack of identity and cultural competence. In addition, she represents Wang Guorui's royal family, so she must have a suitable identity, and she can even carry out publicity on behalf of the royal family, which will help increase the royal family's status.

Coupled with the title of queen, it can also suppress some objections, especially those of some corrupt scholars. If a "courier" is in charge, those rotten scholars can start to vent without any scruples, and they can even make any insulting voices. But if a "Queen" is in charge, would those rotten Confucians still dare to scold the Emperor and Queen? Do they still dare to scold? These rotten scholars would never dare to scold the queen, they are a way of saying that the monarch and his subjects obey their father and son, if they dare to scold the queen, wouldn't they be slapping themselves?

So at that time, it can completely stop the mouths of many people. Let the screening and weeding out of this culture go.

"Tong Wei, are you willing to take responsibility?" Wang Guorui asked.

"Your Majesty, I am willing!" Kang Tongwei replied.

Wang Guorui thought for a while, and then said: "Then we will set up a Civilization Office. It is responsible for the collection and screening of our traditional Chinese civilization, and after passing the review, we can eliminate some of the dross, and then we can carry forward the essence."

"The concubine takes orders!" Kang Tongwei asked.

Wang Guorui said again: "Set up a spiritual civilization inspection office again, and it's up to you to be in charge. It is dedicated to inspecting the improvement of the remaining feudal customs across the country, and supervising local officials to prepare for the work of changing customs in the new era. If those officials are right Those who do not do well in the work of changing customs. Those who cannot get rid of those stereotypes and bad habits, but let those feudal stereotypes and bad habits continue to spread, will all be dismissed. If they do not do well in the work of changing customs, they will be included in the assessment and the promotion will be postponed. If If you have done a good job of changing customs, then under the same conditions, you have the priority to be promoted. The Spiritual Civilization Supervision Office specializes in supervising the affairs of local officials, and it should be taken as an important matter."

"In particular, the first thing is to put an end to the stereotyped custom of binding feet that has lasted for countless years. It must be absolutely eliminated, and it must not be kept. If parents and elders dare to continue to force their daughters to bind feet, the first Detention for 15 days for the first time, and one month for the second time. For the third time, you can be sentenced to imprisonment and deprivation of custody and custody of the children. The first thing to change the customs is to put an end to this little foot-binding thing.

If you want to talk about the feudal dross, the thing he can't bear the most is the bound feet, which makes Wang Guorui shudder. Especially when I saw those so-called bound feet on the Internet of later generations, that disgusting one almost made Wang Guorui vomit. Fortunately, none of his women had small feet. Zheng Hong was from the Tiandihui, and there was no habit of binding small feet in the Tiandihui. And Chen Lin is a minority, so naturally she doesn't have this habit. Liu Xue is an overseas Chinese, and she doesn't have this bad habit anymore. But Kang Tongwei was more fortunate. Kang Youwei was against bound feet, so she escaped. As for this matter, later middle school textbooks also used small fonts to write similar words. As for other Western women, let alone those Korean concubines, they didn't have their feet bound.

"The concubine is in charge, so we must put an end to foot binding as the top priority to get rid of the dross!" Kang Tongwei replied.

When Kang Tongwei heard about the bound feet, she also felt lingering fears in her heart. If Kang Youwei hadn't withstood the pressure of those families and avoided her fate of bound feet, otherwise she might have been like other women. If my feet were bound back then, would I be where I am today? Will he be able to learn foreign culture, and then follow Wang Guorui again? Can you still be queen? This is also conceivable. So now that she heard that Wang Guorui hated bound feet, she immediately had to do a good job of this matter first.

In fact, Wang Guorui still has a very important idea to put an end to foot binding, that is, women are also laborers! Those men who were spiritually castrated in ancient times were worried and afraid that their women would go out to show their faces and then cuckold themselves, but they actually thought of this method to confine women at home. After this kind of foot binding, they are also disabled one by one. They can't leave home too far. They can only live at home and cannot go out to work or do things. This is to maintain the so-called traditional thinking that the male dominates the outside and the woman dominates the inside.

Originally, this kind of thinking is understandable. It belongs to the ancient gender division of labor and has its human biological and philosophical principles. But Wang Guorui also dare not agree with this kind of mutilation of the bodies of female compatriots as the price. What's more, this kind of thing will inevitably become less and less in the new era. Let his technology become more and more advanced in the future, and the situation in which women were weak and unable to undertake too many heavy tasks in the past has also been greatly changed. At that time, those women will not be unable to participate in the work~www.mtlnovel.com~ It can even be said that they are all labor forces!

These labor forces are estimated. Once a woman's feet are bound, it means that she will not be able to go out to work. It means that the country not only loses a labor force, but also needs another person to spend money to support her. Although this man is her husband, maybe even his husband is willing to support her, but does it make sense? This consumes social resources. This is not as simple as a simple subtraction, but the result of ebb and flow.

If a woman can be freed from having her feet bound, then that is tantamount to liberating a labor force and reducing a social burden. Even if the woman can earn money, the economic and social benefits will be huge. If one less woman binds her feet, it does not increase a person's economic strength. He not only saves the cost of feeding her, but can also feed more people through labor.

This is no longer a simple behavior of cultural stereotypes, but has great economic benefits. Therefore, whether it is for the so-called abolition of stereotypes or bad habits, or to increase the number of social labor force, the abolition of foot binding must be done as soon as possible. One less person with bound feet will increase the economic benefits of the country and reduce the burden on the country. This is a situation of ebb and flow, and it must not be measured simply by feudal dregs. (To be continued.)