Since ancient times, we have had people who buried their heads in the sand, people who worked hard for their lives, people who sacrificed their lives for the sake of others ......"

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From the open text it seems: two years ago, we always boasted about the "greatness of the land and the vastness of the world", which is a fact; soon we no longer boasted about it, and only hoped that the League of Nations, which is also a fact; and now we do not boast about ourselves, nor do we believe in the League of Nations, and instead we are just begging for the gods and worshipping the Buddha, and we are nostalgic for the past and sad about the present, but it is also a fact.

Some people have lamented that the Chinese have lost their self-confidence

If the phenomenon is based solely on this point, self-confidence is in fact long lost. Earlier, we believed in "earth", "things", and later in the "League of Nations", but we never believed in "ourselves". If this is a kind of "faith", then it can only be said that the Chinese people once had the "power of other faith", but since the disappointment of the League of Nations, they have lost all this power of other faith.

Lost the power of other beliefs, will be suspicious, a turn, may be able to believe only in themselves, is a new road, but unfortunately gradually up the mystery. The first thing that you need to do is to believe in the "earth" and "things", or something tangible, the League of Nations will be slim, but this can still be a short time to realize the unreliability of relying on it. Once to the worship of Buddha, can be a mystery to the most, beneficial or harmful, a moment to find a clear result to, it can make people longer anesthesia of their own.

The Chinese are now developing "self-deception".

"Self-deception" is not a new thing, but it is only becoming more visible, and it is overshadowing everything. However, underneath this shroud, we have Chinese people who have not lost their self-confidence.

This kind of people, is now also how little? They are sure, not self-deception; they are fighting, but one side is always being destroyed, erased, eliminated in the darkness, can not be known for everyone. If we say that the Chinese people have lost their self-confidence, it can be used to refer to some of them, but if it is applied to all of them, it is simply a slander.

In order to talk about the Chinese people, we must not be deceived by the self-deceiving powder on the surface, but look at the bones and spine of the Chinese people. The writings of a scholar or a prime minister are not sufficient evidence of self-confidence, but you have to look at the ground for yourself.

September 25

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"Have the Chinese Lost Their Confidence?" is a miscellaneous essay written by the famous Chinese writer Lu Xun during the Republic of China period, which was first published in 1934, and later compiled into the "Miscellaneous Writings of And Jie Ting". Written on the third anniversary of the September 18th Incident, it refuted the pessimistic views of the society about the future of the anti-Japanese resistance and the accusation that the Chinese people had lost their self-confidence, and encouraged the national self-confidence.

Lu Xun, formerly known as Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881-October 19, 1936), was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, with the character Yu Cai. His original name was Zhou Zhangshou, which was changed to Zhou Shuren in 1898, with the characters Yushan and Yuting. Known by the pen name Lu Xun, his pen names include, in addition to Lu Xun, Deng Jiang, Tang Qi, Deng Dangshi, and Xiaojiao. Lu Xun's works include miscellaneous essays, short stories, commentaries, essays, and translations, which had a profound impact on Chinese literature after the May Fourth Movement. Chairman Mao described him as a great proletarian writer, thinker and revolutionary, the main general of China's cultural revolution, and also known by the people as the "Soul of the Nation". He often wore a simple Chinese tunic, his hair stood straight up like a brush, and his thick beard formed the character "一" in clerical script. He was born into a poor feudal family. In his youth, he was influenced by the theory of evolution and Tolstoy's idea of fraternity.

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2. Lu Xun (Literary scholar and thinker)_Baidu Encyclopedia ?