WMA Martial Arts Professional League today to face the embarrassment, in fact, nearly two hundred years of China’s cultural anxiety refraction: How are the reform of our traditions, in order to face the aggressive catch-up even to go beyond the Western civilization?

Since the colonial gunboats, playing Peter the Kangxi and Qianlong’s dream and a high degree of cultural self-sufficiency, the Central Empire, caught in a hundred years at a loss. 54 sports dynasties, nine decades the great debate between the previous Chinese and Western cultures, whether it is “whether the Latinized Chinese” or “Chinese count as pseudo-science”, the parties Tuomohengfei Jizhuoyangqing in the front of the stage, but behind it are all secretly enveloped the shadow of this cultural anxiety.

In this anxiety, it was argued, “School for the body, Western learning for use” will naturally and some radicals believe that Chinese culture, Orthodoxy “all are wrong, full plate and blowing up.” Therefore, the Chinese characters must be Latin-based and switch to phonetic writing, and completely abandon Cangjie made under the Chinese character. Reason? Because foreigners are phonetic system, while the foreigners very strong. By extension, need to use Western standards, to re-abandon沙汰traditional Chinese everything. All were kept, then the transformation of the sub.

From a historical point of view, which of course has its advanced in, and even at that time China did not learn from the West can not be salvation. However, to this way of thinking to the very extreme, but also equally astonishing: In the West’s “scientific” standard, similar to how Chinese medicine witchcraft considered science? Faced with the same disease, different patients may be to open two kinds of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions diametrically opposed, it will still allow the advocates, “guess – experiment – experiment was repeated – indeed on the” scientific model of the Western crazy. But who can categorically say that the human sciences, can only be used to define the set of the West?