Chapter 437 Habitual Double Standards
Xiao Peng's impromptu trip turned into a "Lost in Thailand" because of the sudden rainstorm and snowstorm.
Originally, the snow on the highway had been almost cleared due to the "Snowman Competition" organized by Xiao Peng, but there was another snowfall in the afternoon. Although this snowfall was not as heavy as the first one, it lasted for quite a while, and soon the road was covered with snow again.
It was seven days later that Xiao Peng and his team escaped.
But Xiao Peng and the others were in a pretty good mood.
For Xiao Peng and his friends, life at sea is even more boring. Being trapped here, they can still surf the Internet, build snowmen, and have snowball fights. Life is full of fun. Although Tom has no experience of living at sea, as a child, having a game console and the Internet means everything to him.
However, after being trapped in the snow for so long, Xiao Peng and his friends had no intention of skiing on the Zugspitze again. They just played for a while at a small ski resort nearby.
Germany has everything except ski resorts. There are hundreds of ski resorts across Germany, and there are at least more than seventy ski resorts in Wolf’s hometown of Baden-Württemberg alone!
There has been a debate about where skiing originated. A four-thousand-year-old mural was once discovered in a cave in northern Norway. It showed a person skiing with skis and ski poles in his hands. Therefore, Western scholars believe that skiing originated in Northern Europe and Scandinavia.
However, people later discovered rock paintings of skiing patterns dating back 6,000 years in the Altay region of China, so the origin of skiing became China again.
But many Westerners do not admit this.
In Western countries, there are the so-called four aristocratic sports: skiing, golf, equestrianism, and tennis. Did our aristocratic sports actually first appear in China?
This is absolutely bullshit! This must not be admitted!
Westerners are full of double standards. For example, they don't acknowledge China's 5,000-year history. They believe China only has 3,700 years of history and that the Xia Dynasty never existed. In fact, many of them don't even acknowledge the Shang Dynasty.
Some people say that the Xia Dynasty had no written language. They believe that the standard for the existence of civilization is the existence of written language, cities, religious rituals, and bronze smelting technology.
Even if the Shang Dynasty had oracle bone inscriptions, they were primitive and unsystematic writing systems and they did not recognize them. Even the Zhou Dynasty characters, which were mostly circulated because they were engraved on bronze vessels, they only recognized part of the Zhou Dynasty history.
They do not recognize all ancient Chinese books, including "Records of the Grand Historian" and "Book of Songs". For example, because there is a story in "Book of Songs" about "the black bird giving birth to the Shang Dynasty", they believe that the Shang Dynasty is a myth and does not really exist.
Well... if that's the case, then the Han Dynasty is also fake. After all, Emperor Gaozu of Han killed a white snake, right?
In modern China, there is also a group of people who are known as the "antiquity doubters". In fact, they are the public intellectuals of the older generation. They doubt this today and that tomorrow. These people have provided evidence for the West: Look, people in your own country say so.
What do modern public intellectuals say about this matter?
Modern science emphasizes standards and evidence; it requires standards. The West has established standards, so we must adhere to them. If you study the history of the Shang Dynasty, you'll find that before the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions, the Shang dynasty existed only in a few records. The first mention of the Xia Dynasty appears in records from the Western Zhou Dynasty, which claim the Shang replaced the Xia. This served as an excuse: "Look, the Shang replaced the Xia, and we replaced the Shang. This is only natural."
It sounds reasonable, but they turned a blind eye to the discovery of oracle bones. In their eyes, the ancestors of the Chinese were wearing animal skins and living in thatched huts one year, and were living in cities with written language the next year.
In the eyes of these people, everything must be aligned with the West, and they must use Western norms and standards to regulate themselves, but the West only makes rules that are beneficial to itself!
Could it be that Chinese historians understand China less well than Western experts and scholars? What's going on in their heads? How did the name "Huaxia" come about without the Xia Dynasty?
Fortunately, "stone carving" is not one of their criteria for judging civilization. If this criterion is included, Chinese civilization can only be counted from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
And the old Western double standards are also reflected in this point.
If we follow their calculations, then the Jianzhou Jurchens before 1599 are not considered a civilization. After all, it was not until 1599 that Nurhaci ordered his men to create the Manchu script based on the Mongolian script. The Khitan script was not created until after the establishment of the Liao Dynasty. So, are they not considered civilizations?
The ancient Egyptian civilization, which is generally recognized by the West as the first to enter the hall of civilization, actually did not have cities; the Mayan civilization in South America did not have written language; and the Inca Empire even used knots to record events. Can their standards be applied to ancient civilizations around the world?
But this standard becomes different when it comes to them.
Ancient Greek history is all ballads, and poems like the Iliad serve as crucial evidence for their history. Why do they so vociferously praise ancient Egyptian civilization? Because they say Egypt and Israel belong to the West, and Greek civilization, originating in Atlantis, predates Egypt!
They use ballads to record history and fabricate more so-called "history" to disgust people, but when it comes to China, they turn into another face: you must produce rigorous archaeological evidence.
But there are still many people in China who support this view!
Is it black humor that a continent where almost no one was literate before the 13th century and where people were still eating human flesh and engaging in religious persecution in the 14th and 15th centuries has become the center of civilization?
There are three major categories of ancient civilizations in the world: one is the ancient civilization that has been interrupted; one is the ancient civilization that was once interrupted but restored by other races; and one is the ancient civilization that has never been interrupted.
Of all the civilizations on Earth, only Chinese civilization has remained uninterrupted! The West, playing double standards and deliberately ignoring the facts by elevating itself and suppressing China, coupled with some Chinese people acting as guides and confusing the public, has caused many Chinese to question their own history.
Anyway, in the West, they are the core of world civilization, and everything must belong to them.
Of course, no matter how the West plays double standards, no matter where skiing originated, one thing is undeniable: skiing has indeed developed much better in the West than in the East. Many Chinese people have never been exposed to this sport, including Xiao Peng.
But he really didn't think skiing was that difficult: Is there anything he can't do now?
So he paid the price for his indifference - he was finally carried back to the RV.
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