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In the last few thousand years the Chinese culture guided their people with philosophy but not religion. The religions over there today such as Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism, Islam and Marxism actually were from foreign countries. In Chinese history we hardly see wars related to religions. That means when religious people killed each other in the world Chinese were born and lived peacefully in their homeland. That is why people who inhabit that mainland are more than anywhere else in the world. Just for this reason we can say that the Chinese culture is greater and smarter.

The Chinese did not worship any particular religious leaders like Western people worship Jesus or Mohammed. They did endorse something or someone. Those are the Sky, the Earth and their Ancestors. They also were told to obey their emperors, listen to their parents and respect their teachers. They don’t have religious festivals. All their festivals relate to nature such as spring festival, moon festival and festivals for remembering their ancestors.

The Chinese fight each other a lot more since Marxism’s influence got into China and Marxism was the product of the Western world. In Chinese history philosophers that the Chinese endorsed, Confucius, Lao Tse and Zhuang Tse, all suggest dealing with things peacefully. They encourage people to accept the destiny of their lives and not to fight.

Confucius once answered his student’s question about what word he would like to use to guide his life. The word he chose was “forgiving”. When discussing about how should people treat each other. He simply said “don’t give what you don’t like to the others.”
Lao Tse told people that when you do not intend to do certain things these things are done. His principle of dealing with people was Yield.

Zhuang Tse believed that life is a dream. The material we obtained during that period will eventually vanish. A dream is a dream and there is no reason to fight for a dream.

These kinds of instructions make the Chinese work hard but not struggle a lot. They enjoyed their enriched lives instead of seeking for material things desperately. Living in a backward agriculture society the Chinese had simple ways to entertain themselves. They worked in the fields when the Sun was rising and returned home at the time of sunset. People in the low classes play chess, Majiang or cook good food. People who are intelligent focus on writing poems, painting, practicing meditation and researching medicine or astrological theory. Land provided all they need, food, clothing and shelter. They used the recycled waste material to improve the quality of their fields and made sure it grew things forever.

Up to the 19th century, what the Chinese sought was inner joys and peace but not material things. China was not developed not because the Chinese have a low IQ but because their goal was different from the Western world. It is time to reevaluate the different goals from different cultures. Improving lives to a certain level is good. However, maximizing GDP should not be mankind’s ultimate goal because it will result in the exhausting of the earth’s resources. The globe’s environment such as the quality of soil will be destroyed when we seek profits. The price is too big! I do believe mankind on the Earth once destroyed Mars. We should take a lesson before it is too late.

So please don’t force the Chinese to consume, don’t place so many business orders with them and don’t force GDP up. Leave them alone and let them handle things in their own way. With their philosophy they will be able to feed their 1.4 billion people well and find an appropriate way of surviving for mankind.

If this world practices the Chinese philosophy we will have a much better living environment. We will not get involved in the endless religious conflicts. We will not have a headache about how to maintain high GDP and create jobs. We will not fight for resources of the Earth. It looks all religions say the same thing that I mention here. However, since they discriminate or fight each other then they didn’t actually practice what they say. That is why we have to abandon religions and pick up philosophy – any philosophy that gives us happy minds.