The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
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Hua-Yi distinction is the greatest toxin
Confucian-spawned toxins are not the only obscurantist policy.
Another "Confucian poison" that brought about great disaster to ethnic groups and countries around China from the time of the Han dynasty to the present age.
That is, it is a notorious "Hua-Yi distinction".
In short, Hua-Yi distinction means that China's dynasty and emperor are the only rulers of this world, China's civilization is the only civilization in the world, while the surrounding ethnic groups are all barbarians, It is an idea that it must obey the Chinese dynasty and the emperor and have to undergo "cultivation" of Chinese civilization. From our values of modern society, such self-centered thinking is too absurdity, but Chinese people themselves seriously think so long ago.
And the source of such absurdity "Hua - Yi distinction" is still Confucianism.
For example, in "Analects eight rows Third", the following words of Confucius are put on it.
"Confucius said," China without a monarch is superior to barbarians with a monarch. "
If it is translated into contemporary Japanese, "even if there is a monarch in the barbarian country, it will not reach the state without a monarch in China"
It is the way to lift China by thoroughly defeating the surrounding countries rather than thoroughly defeating the surrounding countries.
Confucius’s words are exactly the Chinese thought itself, it should be said that the origin of Chinese thought.
Confucius calls neighboring countries and ethnicities with the discriminatory derogatory term "barbarians", but in reality, in China It is a barbarian like a Beast.
And the source of a fine discrimination term "the barbarians beyond the borders of old China" is in "Book of Rites" which is regarded as one of Confucian sacred scriptures alongside "Analects".
Hua-Yi distinction, which thoroughly discriminates against neighboring ethnic groups and advocates Chinese "vainglory", is clearly being born out of Confucianism in this way, but what is further born from such thought is that China It is a traditional hegemonic invasion policy.
As the surrounding countries are barbarians, it is rather natural that the Chinese empire rulers them and "edifies" them.
Since barbarians like beasts are exorbitant from the beginning such as having "territory" and "sovereignty", the emperor of China is the sole ruler of the world, so how far the Chinese empire extends its territory it is also free to occupy some country.
It is neither "occupation" nor "invasion".
