Does ancient/pre-modern Chinese culture[1] deserve to be held in the same regard as the Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Renaissance Europe?Also, thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0AAFhx3RmA[1] Let's just say everything up until the end of Qing in 1911.
>>24818275I don't see why not. It's just not a traditional accessible by non-Chinese speakers, and I would say those not deeply entrenched in Chinese culture, which is basically only people born into it. They wrote an absurd amount and have a canon of their own, but 95% is unreadable to a non native speaker of Chinese. We have the foutrunate circumstance that Greek and Roman classics had always been big in Western Europe and since the 14th century we have been dealing with Greek texts in more than just Latin translation and so these literary traditions are a strong part of our own culture. This isn't the case for Chinese culture or their works so we are always going to have an outside look at it, as much as a Chinese villager might struggle to understand the Bible and Aristotle.
>>24818275Yes. In fact, it's the only non-Western literary tradition that deserves consideration beside the ancient Greeks etc. and all the others lag behind by a shocking distance
According to /clg/ yes
>>24818275Yes, as does Indian.
>>24818694Lol, no. No.
>>24818332>>24818343agree>>24818694yes, and i would persian as well
>>24818275Man I really liked the song you posted. I thought it was some ancient Chinese piece, but when I googled it I found it was just a cover of some gay ass Chinese love drama. Fuck that, now I hate it.
>>24818719I have found many Chinese songs I actually like then lose them because I can't fucking speak Chinese
>>24818275If you cant read the Thousand Character Classic you are dumbThat used to be the bare minimun to hold a wagie job in China.
no
>>24819537i like that xue hua piao piao song
It’s Ancient Greece and China and then everyone else.
>>24820367>>24818700why? Indian logic, metaphysics and epistemology were more advanced. China mostly focused on politics and morality, which are lesser branches of philosophy
It's very alien but I believe soI'm studying japanese and I also plan to learn classical chinese through japanese to read chinese poetry and philosophy
It deserves to be held higher
>>24818275They have some good four-character memesI don’t know how old they all are though
>>24820656Plato’s guru Socrates’ guru Pythagoras clearly traveled to India as per Greek historians (who else will count?) And if he traveled to India in his time he definitely had only those ideas in India at that time that Plato and Socrates talk about. Indians are first to question nature of reality and then give a theory of what it is and what world is. Their Upanishads are the first philosophy in the world, nothing so profound about nature of world, reality and God was created ever before., Indian used Pythagoras formula much before Pythagoras got to know of it. So it will be unreasonable to assume that while Pythagoras traveled to India but his disciples will have no Indian influence. India was considered land of wise in Greece, why and Alexander went on to meet Dandamis (Dandi Swami) a Brahmin guru, why? Because Greeks thought these indians sages are wisest among wise.
