Chapter 898 - 900: 1 Bouquet of Roses
"Overall, Huaxia’s traditional education and scientific culture tend to lean towards a humanistic hue. This is also its fundamental distinction from Western and other systems."
In this sense, departing from the path of history and blindly evaluating who is superior or inferior, or even attempting to destroy other systems, is not only unscientific but also destined to be futile. Because "what exists is reasonable."
The emergence of modern industrial civilization has led to a leap in world communication and cultural exchange tools. Meanwhile, due to its application in military science and the advent of the hot weapon era, different human civilization systems have unprecedented exchanges and impacts, with frequency and intensity exceeding any period in history, causing unprecedented upheaval and turbulence in human society!
Due to the rapid advancements of Western industrial civilization, the East has gradually found itself at a disadvantage in these exchanges and impacts, raising questions among many about whether Eastern civilization has lost its necessity for existence and its scientific validity.
Huaxia is a representative example.
The Western education system entered Huaxia and developed continuously, eventually replacing Huaxia’s traditional Confucian education almost completely!
Huaxia’s traditional medicine is an important representation of this traditional culture. Mastering it requires not only a high theoretical foundation in philosophy but also a long-term accumulation of practical foundation. "Confucianism becomes medicine." "A scholar learning medicine is like catching a chicken in a coop." These sayings vividly illustrate this phenomenon! But without the education of Confucianism, all this becomes a rootless seedling!
Today in Huaxia, there are basically no traditional private schools, and even the weight and proportion of classical Chinese text education in the entire modern education system is disproportionately low! Even in university education for Chinese Medicine, classic Chinese Medicine books are no longer mandatory courses. Classical Chinese education is merely a one-semester course!