There should be no doubt that the imperial dynasty of the feudal society of the Qing Dynasty, which our country traces back to, had the old idea of having a thick past and a thin present on top of culture and art. This kind of thick ancient and thin, in contemporary times is expressed in another word, with a strong accumulation of culture and art. The two are not only interchangeable, but also have different meanings. This kind of thick ancient, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a unique period of exploration of the world's modernization of the combination, is called the defense of traditional Chinese culture.

After the Sino-Japanese War, the Western-style reform and fitness movement before the Western-style reform educator Tang Shouqian has an interesting inference on this matter. We Chinese people are not always thick ancient and feel that Western learning from the middle school? Thick ancient and thin this represents our world than our ancient people, Westerners plastic arts, this of the sons. Try to take the tube, ink, Guan, columns, Huainan City and other books, in order to class seek, the root of the original with in, and the Westerners and our ancient people with the same kind of reasoning: our world than the ancient people than the Westerners on behalf of the Westerners?


These are the first of a kind in the world, and the first of a kind in the United States. It is his corrective to the theory that the present is not as good as the ancient and the theory that Western learning originated from the ancient learning of our country to the point.

He accused that, if our country's thinking talent, Westerners have not been cited and heavy? I especially do not want to chisel their own messy trick where the ear! He emphasized the social reality of the two polarized situation, not since the discussion of Zhenxin, but to use the barbarians for the discussion; not since the indignation of the accumulation of weakness, but to change the summer for the indignation of the Tang Shouqian 2 since the word, spoke of the core of socio-economic development and the need for triggers. He to the social doctrine of interoperability view that the interoperability view of the Chinese and Western schools accused of those types of Chinese and Western schools partition view, can be said to be sound, such as the Western school for no need to learn, not junior high school also no need to learn it? If Western studies are not necessary to be learned, does it mean that junior high schools are also not necessary to be learned? From this perspective, to put it bluntly, the ancient and the modern, is the right to rule over the classical culture of the isolation of the present, denying the cultural and artistic trends of the present and the development of the essence of itself.

Tang Shouqian cited an example of thick ancient, for example, Chinese medicine, not the "Neijing" is not square, not the "Suwen" is not medicine, to see a person, the more you see the disease is more serious. The patient accuses, therefore forced to prescribe other prescription, but the disease is cured. However, Chinese medicine will still feel that the formula does not follow the ancient path, although the cure are not valuable, the practitioner blames the cure and the formula is not ancient, the formula is not ancient and the cure is not expensive enough. It is a typical stereotype. Or to be sure, the end of the Qing Dynasty, a variety of government and gentry raging cultural and artistic war, in the accumulation of a strong Chinese traditional culture for the political party service projects, the essence of the phenomenon is only under the power of the war, it is not to be said.