What influence did Western civilization have on future developments

I think there are the following aspects:

1。Concept of marriage: Marriage in traditional Chinese ancient times emphasized the right family, because marriage is related to the union of two families. However, under the influence of Western culture, China's concept of marriage and companionship has gradually tended to be personalized, and it is good to choose a person you like.

2。Scientific view: ancient Chinese traditional culture does not attach importance to science, although from Cao Chong called the elephant, two children can know that China has logical thinking, but because China attaches importance to technology and does not pay attention to science, so in the past China is lagging behind the West in science.

Nowadays, China is aware of the importance of science to the development of the country, and has made great efforts to develop science, such as introducing science subjects such as physics and chemistry, but these are imported from the West. Otherwise, the imperial examinations in ancient China were all based on poetry and other literary and artistic examinations.

3。View of Nature: In today's China, a large number of trees are cut down for the development of ores for commercial development.

These are all influenced by the Western idea of the conquest of nature. You must know that the ancient traditional Chinese culture regarded nature as a sentient being, emphasizing the unity of nature and man, and the harmony of nature.

4。Personality: Because ancient Chinese society was dominated by agriculture, the character of the people was simple, conformed to nature, and regarded things as natural.

Therefore, traditional Chinese are self-contained and do not care about political affairs. However, because of the influence of Western democratic ideas, today's Chinese are advocating democracy and want to participate in politics. Guess.

5。Ethics: In traditional China, the father-son relationship is one of dignity and inferiority, and children must obey their parents' requirements.

However, in the West, the relationship between father and son is equal, and the relationship is like a friend. Nowadays, many families in China have been influenced by the West, and the relationship between parents and children has gradually become more and more flat, speaking like friends rather than traditionally, and is very solemn and serious.

China's ancient civilization is a vast inland civilization; It has distinctive local characteristics, diverse origins, and unbalanced development in multiple regions. Its development is continuous, continuous and uninterrupted; It is also inclusive, creating the richness and strong vitality of Chinese civilization. Chinese civilization not only benefits East Asia, but also has a great influence on other world civilizations, including Europe. Led by Chinese characters, including Confucianism, the legal order system, and Sinicized Buddhism, the radiation and spread dominated the material civilization and spiritual life of East Asia.

Represented by the four great inventions, China's material civilization provided some inducing factors for the Renaissance and modernization in Europe. Chinese civilization not only provides the material foundation for the modern civilization of the West, but also is the direct source of modern science and technology in the West. At the ideological level, Chinese ethics, philosophical views, political ideals, and especially practical reason had an impact on the European Enlightenment.

The examination system for Chinese officials has also had an impact on the examination system and civil service system in Europe and the United States

Because backward civilizations are not suitable for the laws of human survival and development.

Human civilization has developed from the primary to the advanced level along with the progress of human beings, and each stage of development has its own characteristics of the times.

However, its basic law is driven by the contradictory movement of the productive forces and production relations at that time, so social civilization cannot be judged by backwardness and progress, but by whether or not it promotes social progress to measure its adaptability to the times.

The progress of civilization is always achieved in the collision and integration of the old and the new, and the great changes in the contemporary world, with China as the representative of the Eastern civilization, and the Western civilization represented by the United States and Europe and other Western developed countries are colliding with each other, attracting, and forming a new civilization ecology in the integration. Backward civilizations will be outlawed, because this is not conducive to the progress and development of human society.

The famous scholar Huntington summarized the previous research and listed eight characteristics of Western civilization, I will read it to you: 1Classical heritage, that is, ancient Greco-Roman culture, 2

Catholicism and Protestantism, 3European Languages, 4The separation of spiritual authority from secular authority, 5

Rule of Law, 6Social Pluralism, 7Representative, 8

Individualism. With these eight characteristics, you can probably distinguish the face of the West from the height of civilization. However, you may not know that only the eighth of these eight is individualism, which is strictly modern, and several others have matured in the ancient West. In other words, the West was already the West before modern times, and it already had its own unique genes and growth logic.

The West has also suffered a lot from ancient times to modern times, and in many places it is no easier than China. The Reformation, a key step in modernization, caused a brutal religious war that wiped out a third of the population of Western Europe.

Remembering the eight core characteristics of Western civilization does not necessarily mean that the West is clear, because they are only static standards, and using them to understand the West is of course much deeper than the perspective of American dramas, British dramas, and Hamburger Coke, but it is far from enough.

When we look at the West, we must look at it dynamically, and find the generation and evolution of the structure from the dynamics, so that we can truly see the doorway of civilization. This course will take you to see how the West grew up, including the emergence of the eight characteristics, but what is more important is why they appeared, how they appeared, what consequences they had after they appeared, and how they were combined.

In a word, this course will take you to see the unique growth path of the West from the height of civilization, and there will be the joy of growth and the troubles of growth. Growing up along this unique path of growth is the West; It is not the West that deviates from this path of growth.

According to the idea of the growth and evolution of this civilization, the West is not a concept of physical geography, nor is it any label in your impression, but a civilization that grows up from a specific gene and along its own growth logic, and only by understanding its growth logic can we grasp its essence.