Philosophy from the Night Watch

The word "philosophy" is full of foreign flavors. At the end of the 19th century, the Japanese Western Zhou translated the Greek word philosophia into Chinese "philosophy". Huang Zunxian introduced this word into China, which seemed to spark a debate about whether there was philosophy in China. We all know, yes, there must be. For example, Confucius has successfully put on many hats on the world stage, one of which is a philosopher. Of course, philosophy itself is the main battlefield of ideological struggle. In the era when people from 80 to 8 years old must talk about materialism and must fight idealism, the imperial philosophers have not forgotten their ancestors, and deeply digging into the long river of history can deduct philosophy The ancestors of the family, and one by one, put on the hat of materialism, which is another story, not to mention for the time being.
Old Li didn't read much, and he was a rude person. With my simple eyes, the development of the so-called Sinology over the past two thousand years is nothing more than the process of the development of Confucianism to Neo-Confucianism. These two theories flourished in the two heydays of Chinese civilization, the Han Dynasty and the Song and Ming Dynasties. In these two periods, there appeared works that Lao Li believed to have surpassed the times to a certain extent at that time: Wang Yun's "Lunheng" and Wang Yangming's "Biography of Xilu". "Biographies and Practices" are not listed for the time being, and here only a little talk about "Lunheng".
In fact, the book "Lunheng" has little influence on mainstream ideology and is even listed as a banned book. The reason why Lao Li appreciates this book is not only that he has the courage to pull the emperor down to the ground, but also that he is the first to systematically expound the philosophical category of "balance". The "balance" he talks about is balance and balance, and in fashionable terms, it is the opposition and unity of contradictions. Of course, "Mandarin·Zhengyu" records that as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Taishi Shibo proposed "harmony with real creatures, and harmony will not continue." Harmony itself is a most basic concept of Chinese philosophy. These propositions have long penetrated into the hearts of every Chinese and affect the behavior of Chinese people.
However, Lao Li believes that the so-called philosophy is justified. The most popular philosophical word today is "harmony". Under the power behind this word, a group of imperial philosophers swarmed out, and "balance theory" is their greatest achievement. Of course, Comte, Spencer and Bukharin The others are also defined one by one, and the concepts that are half-new and not old are poured out, and they truly reach the value of what we have learned, alas, academia. Lao Li believes that, looking at the world, the most backboned literati and the most spineless literati come from China, and in contemporary times, the latter is the vast majority.
Going back to The Night's Watch itself, the film is widely regarded as the splendor of present-day Russian cinema. Russian literature and art have been in a state of decline since the theme of the theme creation that year amazed the world, including movies. It is said that the shooting cost of "Night Watch" is only 5 million US dollars. In terms of form, you may say that he is a big platter. It is true that you will find the shadow of many Hollywood movies in this film. However, this film The thoughtfulness that you want to reveal is still eye-catching. The maintenance of harmony and balance, the choice of good and evil, are very artistic themes in themselves.

2009-07-20 First published on Baidu http://hi.baidu.com/leeyzh/item/5da21505730e8337a2332a79

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