当中国的知识精英走向被鸦片战争的炮火打开的中华帝国大门的那一刻起,他们发现每一个人都被这场硝烟弥漫的战争推向了传统与现代、中国与西方的十字路口,不得不“睁了眼看”。在他们凝视西方并观照自我的过程中,几千年来天朝帝国子民的文化优势心态面临着从未有过的挑战,“儒道互补” As China’s elite of knowledge moved to the gates of the Chinese imperialists opened by artillery fire of the Opium War, they found that everyone was pushed by this smoke-and-mortar war to the crossroads of tradition and modernity, China and the West, having had to “Open your eyes ”. In the process of staring at the West and looking at themselves, the cultural superiority mentality of the empire people of the Empire over thousands of years has faced an unprecedented challenge. “The mutual supplement of Confucianism and Taoism”