Chapter 28 culture is communication

When the convoy arrived at the gate of the hotel, they saw a Chinese man standing upright amidst the bustle, holding a book in his hand, much like a spy joint.Unfortunately, I soon discovered that the connector signal in his hand turned out to be my "Notes on Mountain Dwelling". His name is Xu Fugang, and he works in a company in Singapore. He read my diary from the "Lianhe Zaobao" every day, and after learning about our itinerary, he flew from Singapore to Cairo to visit me.This moved me so much that I pulled him to sit down on the sofa in the lobby of the hotel.He only had one small request for me, to write a paragraph about wandering in a foreign land on the ancient Egyptian papyrus he carefully prepared, and I immediately complied.He said that his thousands of miles of interception and ancient papers are the best commemorations, and they have nothing to do with the millennium journey that everyone is concerned about.

From this incident, I want to thank modern media again.The real pain of ancient travelers was unspeakable loneliness, but this time, although we encounter a lot of troubles every day, through Iridium and Maritime satellites, and then through TV and newspapers, countless readers and readers in the Chinese-speaking circle around the world The audience is always with us.I write a diary every day, and when I finish writing, I go to Zhou Bing, who is in charge of teleportation technology in our group.The skinny Zhou Bing always lives in different hotels facing east, with equipment and cables all over the floor, and stays up almost all night, sending the images he took back to Hong Kong, and sending my articles along the way.When he set off the next day, he staggered to sleep in the car.These days, he is even thinner.Only now do I know that my diary has been serialized in Taiwan's "United Daily News", Hong Kong "Ta Kung Pao", Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao", Malaysia's "Sin Chew Daily", the United States and Canada's "World Journal", and "Qiao Bao". , the system serialized "Beijing Evening News" and "Yangcheng Evening News".That is to say, a large part of the Chinese newspaper with the largest circulation in the world has published it.They all obtained texts from the website of Phoenix Satellite TV, and they were published for more than three months, with more than a hundred articles, which is a big move for any newspaper.They don't know whether this difficult cross-country expedition can really be completed step by step, and they don't know whether I will quit halfway due to illness and tiredness, but they all set up the most attention-grabbing pages for grand publication. I think there is only one reason, They quickly comprehend what such investigation activities mean to Chinese culture and what it means to Chinese people.

The revival of any kind of civilization is predicated on self-confirmation, and extensive self-confirmation is predicated on communication and popularization.I thought that the Chinese civilization had many problems in terms of communication and popularization, but when I visited Egypt, I found that their problems seemed to be more serious. Even in the most prosperous period, Egyptian civilization pursued mystery and closure, and even pursued incomprehensibility. As a result, it could only be complacent and finally unsustainable.This is not the case in Chinese civilization. The theories and viewpoints of the pre-Qin philosophers are different, but they are all opposed to being closed and deep. Each school strives to spread its own theories all over the world.Later, regardless of the Wei, Jin, or Tang and Song Dynasties, the dissemination of cultural information was smooth in Kyushu, and even a few lines of poetry could cover the north and south of the river like a spring breeze, with few obstacles.Even those classic novels were the subject of street talk during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The greatness of Chinese civilization largely depends on its popularization attempt and spreading power.When it is temporarily in decline, it will conceal self-protection and masturbate with aloofness, but once there is a possibility of prosperity, it will always inject all kinds of rivers, open all veins, and swallow ten thousand remittances.I think whether Chinese civilization can be revived in the 21st century depends first on how many channels to spread it have melted ice and snow and removed obstacles.This cultural inspection has attracted the attention and participation of so many Chinese newspapers and periodicals, which seems to be a signal that Chinese culture is facing a new integration and building a common discourse.As for whether my diary is written well or not, or whether the Phoenix Satellite TV program is filmed well, these have become secondary issues.

Culture takes communication as its career, and culture takes communication as its lifeblood.There are so many obstacles in the world and so many estrangements in the world, which can only be solved by culture.This time we conducted a comprehensive experiment, using wheels to communicate with several major civilizations, using radio waves to gather the attention of Chinese people from all over the world, and let the world see how Chinese people turn cultural speculation into cultural behavior. As I was writing this, the captain Guo Ying and the director Gui Ping came to me worriedly. It turned out that our journey encountered a lot of obstacles again.

To shoot on the Suez Canal, the Egyptian military has not yet approved it, and final efforts are still needed.Non-Muslims are not allowed to enter the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, and there is no room for accommodation.To make matters worse, we passed through Israel, making it impossible to enter Iraq.Israel has Jerusalem, and we have to go there; Iraq has the ruins of Babylon, and we have to go, but modern international politics can only let us choose one of them.On balance, we prefer Jerusalem because it is very important to several major religions, but Babylon is a pity. I just learned from the news that a military coup has taken place in Pakistan, and the tense situation has become a hot spot for the international community.Then, we may be blocked in Pakistan. If this is the case, how did the five jeeps reach India and Nepal?If we can’t go to India and Nepal, we will not only lose a very important civilization and source of religion, but also we will not be able to cross the Himalayas.If you divert to the north and enter Xinjiang from Iran through the Turkmen Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajik Republic or the Kazakh Republic and the Kyrgyz Republic, although it is also interesting, it is another matter.

It seems that in modern times, it is still extremely difficult to get unobstructed.I really like when traveling in Europe, the borders of many countries don't even have a small guard post, only a sign is erected, and all the cars are speeding past.But this kind of situation is unimaginable in some old civilizations. I really don't know what kind of luck it is.Could it be that civilization has degenerated into obstacles as soon as it gets older? However, we're going to get through it anyway this time.Because we Chinese have finally understood that civilizations appeared in the world not to set up obstacles but to remove them.So, let's bite the bullet and do a tough test this time.

October 19th, 1999, Cairo, overnight at Les 3 Pyramides Hotel