“孔家店”的被废、被打与后果

辛亥革命前后,儒学、汉字、中医,先后不同程度地受到非议与打击。废弃孔家店,是清朝在没有看清世界也不了解自己的情况下,匆忙作出的偏颇决定。这一偏颇、激进、狭隘的重物学、鄙人学的"革命"传统,在中国近现代史上作为重要一支一直发展下去,甚至达到了意识形态化的极端地步,导致人文学领域遭受了中华民族有史以来的空前绝后的重大灾难。学分自然学和人文学,在自然学领域改革传统教育,全面向西方学习是应该的;但在人文学领域,既要向西方学习,也要继承自己的历史传统和学问。盲目否定自身的人文学传统,是自断臂膀、自残大脑的低级愚蠢行为,不符合对人文学的确当认识。"科教兴国",只能是狭义上的兴国,不能代替文化上的传承和创新。只有在文化上既传承且创新,才能真正既走得稳又走得远。人是人,人不是物,人文学是人的思维,在人文学领域失去"人的思维"这一根本,只能成为无头无脑的"莽汉",洋务运动的失败即为前例。只有人文学这一根本重新确立起来,中华民族"拨乱反正,步入正轨"这一时代性的任务,方能算实现和完成。

Attacking and Abolishing "Confucian School" and Consequences

Around the 1911 Revolution,Confucianism,Chinese characters and Chinese traditional medicine were reproached and attacked to some extent.Abolishing the "Confucian School" was a hasty and biased decision made by the Qing Dynasty when they were unaware of their own situations and of the world.Such a biased,radical and narrow-minded "revolutionary" tradition,which paid attention to material rather than humanism,has been inherited as an important branch of learning in Chinese contemporary and modern history even to the extreme of becoming an ideology,causing unprecedented heavy disaster to humanist field in Chinese history.Learning can be roughly divided into the natural sciences and humanist sciences.It is necessary to carry on the overall learning from the West to reform China’s traditional education in natural sciences;whereas in humanist sciences,we should learn from the West as well as inheriting our historic tradition and learning.It is like a suicidal low level foolish behavior to blindly deny our own humanist tradition,which is also inconformity to the appropriate cognition in humanist study.The initiation of "develop the country by science and education" can only be judged as in narrow sense,and cannot replace cultural inheritance and innovation,which enable steady steps to stride farther.Man is not material.Humanist study requires man’s thinking.If "man’s thinking" was missing in humanist field,man would become a mindless fool.The failure of Westernization Movement at the turn of the 18 and 19 centuries in China was a clear proof.Only by reestablishing the fundamental of humanism,can the epochal task of China’s "bringing order out of chaos and stepping onto the right path" be realized and completed.