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[The Three Most Serious Retrogressions of Civilization in Chinese History] 

1. Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, causing the Chinese people's ideological realm to fall from the peak of contention among a hundred schools of thought, and there has been little achievement in the past two thousand years;

2. Mongolia destroyed the Song Dynasty, the iron cavalry stepped on it, the people with lofty ideals were slaughtered, and the Chinese popularity and creativity ceased to exist;

3. The Cultural Revolution eliminated etiquette and human relations, and the Chinese lost their independent personality and became spiritually empty walking corpses. 

It is unbelievable that the three culprits in the textbook are all great men. (Translated by Google) 

【中国历史上最严重的三次文明倒退】 一、秦灭六国，使中国人的思想境界从百家争鸣高峰坠落，两千年来几无建树 二、蒙古灭宋，铁骑踏过，仁人志士屠戮殆尽，中国人气节和创造力不复存在 三、文革，消灭礼仪人伦，中国人独立人格丧尽，沦为精神空虚的行尸走肉。匪夷所思的是：教科书上三个罪魁都成伟人

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But we live on and we keep learning, we learn to be free spiritually and be free in spirits, we learn to be strong enough so to stay kind and stay open, we learn to discover ourselves, find out who we were in past and figure out who we want to be in future.

It's okay to be without a glorious history, without existing forms or norms that could profoundly define who we are, as long as we keep the most valuable human traits alive: curiosity, creativity, compassion, empathy, and the will to be free.