Author: Chen Xianda (honorary first-class professor of China Renmin University)

Everyone lives in his own time, and no one can surpass his own time. The epochal nature of human beings is also the historical nature of human beings, because any era is a stage in the historical process. People observe things and the world from their own times and personal situations, so historicity and epochal nature are not only the characteristics of human cognition, but also an insurmountable fate.

The creators of China’s traditional culture are not the embodiment of absolute spirit, but great thinkers, who are all realistic people living in specific times. Their thoughts are great because their ideas and theories not only reflect the requirements of their times, but also have wisdom beyond the times. Real thoughts have both the characteristics of the times and the eternity beyond the times.

Some people say that it is wrong to take the essence and discard the dross. Everything that can be handed down in Confucianism is the essence; Not the essence, it has long been eliminated by history. The same is true for the whole traditional culture. Is that right? It’s only half right. There are both the essence and the dross that have been handed down. Because the spread of traditional culture is not the culture itself, but the choice of people, especially the choice of the ruling rulers. They carry on the cultural inheritance according to their standards. The evolution of cultural tradition is not the evolution of culture itself that has nothing to do with society, but is filtered and screened by the times and history. The standards of filtering and screening cannot be divorced from the standards of class. Because the dominant thoughts in any society are the thoughts of the ruling class. Zhu Xi’s selection of The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, University and The Doctrine of the Mean as four books certainly has his own standards. There are also standards for the selection, deletion and revision of "Sikuquanshu" compiled by Qianlong. We are in socialist China, and we also have our own standards for traditional culture, that is, "take its essence and discard its dross".

Some people say that what is "essence" and what is "dross" cannot be distinguished. Indeed, unlike apples, culture can be divided into two parts at a glance, and the rotten ones can be removed and the good ones kept. Traditional culture is a complex organism. It is impossible to treat traditional culture simply by taking it. It must be chewed by oneself and digested by the stomach, which is reading and understanding. "Take its essence and discard its dross" is the traditional cultural view of Marxism. Not only do communist party people do this, but all dynasties have done it. It’s just that the standards of "essence" and "dross" are different in each era and class. In the process of culture development, there are both screening, reservation and increase, just like flowing water.

For us, the standard of distinguishing essence from dross is the standard of Marxism. Mao Zedong has long said that the factors that contribute to the establishment of a national, scientific and popular culture in traditional culture are the essence, and the opposite is the dross. In the construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the essence is the factor that contributes to the establishment of advanced socialist culture and socialist core values, and all superstitious, backward and reactionary things are dross. The so-called creative transformation and innovative development of traditional culture is to absorb Chinese excellent traditional culture to build advanced socialist culture and make it an important ideological resource to cultivate socialist core values.

The interpretation of traditional culture is actually the interpretation of the reader. What can be read depends on the reader. The interpreter is in the social life of a certain historical period, and he has his own position, academic background or opinions. Therefore, it is very important to interpret traditional culture from what point of view. It is self-evident that there is a great difference between interpreting Confucianism from the west, interpreting Confucianism with Confucianism, or insisting on analyzing traditional culture from the perspective of historical materialism. In contemporary China, it is definitely a controversial issue whether the study of Confucianism should adhere to the basic theories and methods of Marxism. We believe that Marxism can’t replace Confucianism, but if the study of contemporary Confucianism still can’t go beyond the original perspective of Confucianism, then whether it is followed or continued, it is still confined to the traditional scope of Confucianism, at best, neo-Confucianism. If the study of traditional culture is still in the original tradition, and can’t produce new ideas that adapt to the times and are consistent with the direction of historical progress, then what is the significance of attaching importance to traditional culture? Tradition is valuable because it can generate new ideas through activation, collision and absorption. For contemporary people, excellent traditions are ideological soil and nutrients, not just edible fruits. We should bear contemporary fruits in the soil of traditional culture. We really need experts in Confucianism, but it is not under socialist conditions to cultivate a group of Confucian scholars who are still square and obedient and dare not cross the line.

Source: China Social Sciences Network-China Social Sciences News

This year, we reported on Changyou’s new action. This old factory is uncharacteristically conducting game tests frequently.

Moreover, this momentum has not subsided until recently. Changyou has tested 37 games overseas in the past six months.(It refers to the package of the game, including the package that has been removed from the shelf, and there may be different packages but the same content.).

Most of the games tested are light and moderate, and one of them, Covenant of Victory, which is a casual SLG game, looks quite distinctive.

Today I’m going to talk about Covenant of Victory.

At present, it is speculated that this game is still in the stage of gameplay verification.

Its art materials are highly consistent with the previously tested product "Dispute of Homeland", and many explosive games can be seen at the gameplay level.

The Covenant of Victory is special because it mixes a lot of small games. In this game, you can see open boxes, strong chess, merge-2 and other gameplay, all of which are light and moderate categories, or the types of gameplay that are often seen in WeChat games.

Gameplay fusion is nothing new, and the above-mentioned open-box gameplay has also spawned many types of innovative fusion.

Just as mixing wine needs to choose a base wine, so the integration of gameplay also needs to choose a base. In the process of "A+B", no matter how many elements are added later, the core gameplay should not change.

The Covenant of Victory is somewhat divorced from this logic.

Although it still retains SLG’s marching, team matching and other gameplay, it is difficult to define after the experience, whether it still takes SLG as the core gameplay or has been diluted into an open box game.

This game just takes the difficult definition of this experience as the highlight.

The Covenant of Victory mentioned the words "zero waiting time" and "random recruitment" in the game introduction. It is hard to imagine that such an experience will appear on a SLG.

It can be clearly seen from the cultivation of gameplay that SLG is often inseparable from the framework of card games in design.(including the card drawing, training and team matching of military commanders)The card game also determines the common commercialization mode of SLG. No matter how the theme or gameplay changes, the deep cultivation game is always the same.

Covenant of Victory, on the other hand, makes the cultivation of cards more simple. The game gave up the traditional way of drawing cards, but adopted the simplest synthetic gameplay. The same way of playing is rare, which can be seen in crazy games’s Crazy Fight Monsters. This game is now out of service, which means that there has been no successful case of this design.

Merge-2′ s synthetic gameplay is easy to use. Players can get monster eggs by placing hanging machines or paying fees, and instantly generate monsters of different classes. Two monsters of the same class can be synthesized. There is a probability of successfully synthesizing a high-class monster, and there is also a probability of failing to generate a slime. slime can only be used to upgrade the level of other monsters. Simply put, this can only be regarded as a form of casual games.

This kind of cultivating gameplay can be done long enough-there is no fixed synthesis formula in the game, which means that even if the player synthesizes a high-grade monster, he doesn’t know in advance whether it is the one he wants, and the game will rise exponentially. Moreover, no matter whether the player wants to synthesize a monster or obtain a slime, different purposes can only be achieved through the operation of "incubating eggs". The reason why the formation line of the game is longer is simply because of the influence of randomness, which leads to the loss of efficiency of the player’s formation decision.

At the same time, this kind of gameplay does not have depth-the way to cultivate magic objects only retains "upgrade", and designs such as equipment and magic objects are abandoned. Although lightness is the trend of SLG now, if most products work hard on fur to attract players, then "Covenant of Victory" has gone deep into the bone marrow, and even seems a bit dull.

The relatively mild card game also affects the core game of Covenant of Victory, which makes its weight shift from SLG to placing cards.

The cultivated monsters can be matched with teams and play a role in the SLG battlefield. Convention of Victory uses the traditional COK-like framework and still has the characteristics of point-to-point marching and inspection tasks. However, although "Covenant of Victory" has designed legion skills for each monster, the content of SLG fighting in the game has not yet been produced, and the fighting process is only PV video, which has nothing to do with the team in which the player plays.

Now the PVP game of Covenant of Victory is more like inheriting from the open-box game, instead of thinking about moving closer to SLG. In the game, the content of playing cards is made. Players can choose to play a monster and form a two-person team with the Lord. They can play against other players by consuming admission tickets and finally get rewards according to the points ranking.

Similarly, "Covenant of Victory" provides two ways of conscription, and adds randomness to one of them.

One is the combination of strong chess, which is not only the main way for players to recruit, but also the embodiment of randomness. Players will harvest a certain number of dice by hanging up and SLG killing wild monsters, and will randomly get different kinds of soldiers or gold coins after throwing them on the chessboard. It is difficult for a player to get a specified kind of soldiers simply by rolling dice, but he can also use special dice to roll a specified number of points, which may become one of the paid contents in the future.

The efficiency of conscription may be limited, but the benefits will be higher. As players roll dice more and more times, the level of the chessboard will increase, and the number of soldiers won will also increase each time.

The other is to use gold coins to buy soldiers of specified types directly, which also eliminates the waiting link for training soldiers. However, this recruitment method has a limited amount, and only a certain number of soldiers can be purchased every three days. This will not become the main means of conscription, but can only play an auxiliary role.

If you formally join the SLG gameplay, it will be difficult for players to get the arms they want, which also means spending more time accumulating troops. Perhaps the game of strong chess itself is mild, but it will become more severe when applied to SLG game.

In addition, Covenant of Victory changed SLG’s urban construction play into the form of opening boxes, and the play experience also changed from the original macro "strategic management" to the relatively micro "role development".

Urban construction play is the key to control the game rhythm in conventional SLG. Players need to spend time waiting for the building to be completed, and they also need to follow the order to unlock the upgrade conditions. In this process, you can use acceleration props or unlock the construction queue to improve the construction efficiency, which also provides a commercial space for the game.

However, "Covenant of Victory" directly abandoned the concept of "urban construction", and players only need to keep opening boxes to get buildings, thus saving the time waiting for construction.

These buildings are not only functional. They also need to be regarded as "equipment", and at the same time affect the value of the Lord’s combat power, and the Lord’s combat power determines whether the player can continue to advance the task progress.

Just like the box-opening game, players get stronger buildings in the process of constantly opening boxes, and choose to replace them or sell them. After selling the treasure chest, you can get gold coins and upgrade the treasure chest level. Gold coins are the only resource in the game.(excluding paid content)The level of treasure chest determines the probability of high-quality buildings.

"Covenant of Victory" basically restored the game experience of opening boxes, and made the threshold lower, and provided treasure boxes to players through a series of ways, such as hanging up, completing tasks, and killing wild monsters.

In particular, the design of hanging up the machine will not exist in many open-box games, because as long as the process is properly designed, players will not "encounter no boxes to open" in the early stage of the game, and the Covenant of Victory still adds the guarantee measures.

Nowadays, the game of opening boxes has a very high popularity in domestic and foreign markets, and it has also been sought after by many manufacturers. For example, "Seeking the Way", which is a mutual entertainment of Sanqi, has been a great success in the WeChat game, and it has also achieved good results in using the App to go to sea. Recently, it is also preparing to launch a new product "Little Fight". What can be recognized is that this gameplay originated from the WeChat game and has potential on the App side.

Compared with the traditional SLG gameplay, opening a box is likely to extend the player’s online time. In other words, it is difficult for players to have nothing to do. As long as they are willing to spend time, they will definitely gain combat power improvement or resource accumulation, and they will basically not be discouraged by the game control progress. For reference, the producer of "Crazy Knights", which opened the box, once revealed the initial data of the operation, and the average online time of users reached 60 minutes.(It may also be influenced by small game platforms).

The online time of a player may not be the standard to measure whether an SLG is excellent or not, but it often means that it brings a continuous sense of growth to the player, and this more direct and intense stimulation may better retain the player.

In addition to bringing advantages, it also takes a certain price to join the open box game, the most obvious thing is to reduce the weight of resources. This is also very important for SLG. When the fun of resource production, distribution and consumption is no longer provided in the game, players may lose their sense of purpose in SLG gameplay.

Generally speaking, the Covenant of Victory is still a product in its infancy, and the game experience focuses on single-player play.

However, don’t forget that when the open-box game is in the fierce competition of innovation, when everyone is thinking about how to use the open-box game as the base, few games have used it as an auxiliary game so far. As for the feasibility of this innovative direction of integration with SLG, it remains to be seen.

As a badminton enthusiast, what other brands do you know besides Unix, VICTOR and Li Ning? Today, let’s learn about badminton brands around the world with Aiyuke Xiaobian. Some of them may be the first time for many people, so it is recommended to collect them!

I. Malaysia

Although Malaysians are crazy about badminton, the Japanese brand Yonex still has the highest brand influence, and Malaysian local brands mainly include Huili, Yapai, Pod and YANG YANG.

After the Tokyo Olympics, Huili sponsored Wu Jialang, the top ten player in the world. He used VERSION2 and entered the China market in 2020. Yapai once sponsored Li Xuanyi, a Korean veteran, and in 2014 tailored the apacs LHI series rackets for him; Protech’s brand spokesperson is Zhang Weifeng, who is familiar to everyone; YANG YANG is a brand founded by YANG YANG, a player from China, which is popular in Southeast Asia. Daren Liew once endorsed Yang Yang.

Second, Britain

As the birthplace of badminton, Britain has many badminton brands. Carlton was founded in 1946, and plastic badminton ranks first in global sales, but its products are mainly at the low end. Danish men’s singles player Witting Haas once endorsed Carlton. Founded in 1928, Yashilong is one of the most qualified badminton brands in the world. Later, it cooperated with China Company and entered the China market. The badminton No.3, No.4, No.5, No.6 and No.7 produced by Yashilong has become one of the first choices for fans to play.

Wesson trademark was first registered in Britain, but strictly speaking, it is a China brand. The best-selling badminton rackets include Kirin 80, Blade 7000, Jinghong 7 and Dragon Shadow. Deng Lupu is very famous in the fields of tennis, squash and golf. With its advanced technology and strong strength in rackets, he later began to set foot in badminton supplies.

Yehlex is a badminton brand registered in Britain by people from Taiwan Province, China.

Third, Germany

Adidas is the most famous sports brand in Germany. Founded in 1949, Adidas is a very famous sports brand in the world. In recent years, it has started to set foot in the badminton industry. Although it is aimed at low-end users, the designs of sneakers and rackets are still very beautiful.

Suopai SOTX originated in Germany, and entered Chinese mainland and Hongkong to explore the badminton market in 2002. What impressed me most was the Aegis badminton racket launched by Suopai, which attracted a large number of fans with its excellent offensive performance and cool all-plating appearance. Oliver, founded in 1936, was first famous for his squash equipment. Since he entered the China market in 2002, he has been deeply loved by the majority of golfers with low prices and a wide variety of entry-level badminton rackets, but now it is very small.

Talbot-Torro are two badminton brands. Talbot was founded by former British badminton player Derek Talbot in the 1980s, and was later acquired by Torro brand.

Fourth, Japan

There are many famous badminton brands in Japan. Unix, founded in 1946, is the best-selling and most famous badminton brand in the world, and has an unshakable king position in the badminton racket and badminton shoes market. Its series of rackets, such as bow and arrow, NR, double-edged, VT, Jiguang and Tianqi, have almost led the revolution of badminton racket in the world. At present, it has sponsored many world-class stars such as Lin Dan, Li Zongwei, Arceloró n and Ma Lin, as well as many national teams such as China, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia, and also sponsored many world-class events such as the Japan Open and the All England Tournament, as well as various amateur events.

Gaoshen was founded in 1951. At first, it produced and sold synthetic fiber fishing lines, cables, fishing nets, etc. Later, it expanded its business and began to produce badminton rackets. The industry is famous for its ball lines. Gaoshen is a company that once loved playing black technology on badminton rackets. Yawen pole, (inner) conical pole, octagonal pole and oval racket frame give Gosen a unique feel, which also causes people to have different opinions on Gao Shen. At present, there are mainly the following series of high-god rackets available in the market: Roots/ Stem Power, Ryoga/ Overriding, MiracleLight/ Miracle Light, Gungnir/ Eternal Gun, etc.

Founded in 1906, Mizuno is the largest manufacturer of sporting goods and sportswear in Japan. Mizuno has sponsored badminton players such as Ashan/Hendra and Aohara Hope. Xunfeng brand was founded in Japan in 2001, and later entered the domestic market, dedicated to the production of cost-effective badminton products.

Yasushi is a world-famous brand of running shoes founded by Yasushiro in Oni Tsuka, Japan. Yasushi has always been relatively low-key, but at the same time it has many loyal supporters. The price of the top jogging shoes he launched is generally more than 1,000 yuan. Arthur has a good reputation in indoor sports shoes. In recent years, Arthur began to enter the badminton market and launched a number of series of professional badminton shoes.

V. United States

Wilson, founded in 1913, is the most famous tennis racket brand in the international market, but he also owns badminton rackets. Prince is a tennis brand established in the United States, which also produces badminton rackets, but it is relatively small in the field of badminton.

Aoshiwei Ashaway has a history of nearly 200 years. It is an American brand founded in 1824. They first made fishing lines. In 1949, they began to make badminton racket lines. In 2009, it was said that the thinnest badminton racket line ever was launched.

VI. France

The famous badminton brands in France are Burberry and Decathlon. Baibaoli is a famous tennis brand, which was founded in France in 1875. Later, it began to set foot in badminton. Nelson, the former top ten mixed doubles player in the world, used Baibaoli racket, and Kentai, the Japanese mixed doubles player, also used Baibaoli. Decathlon is a world-famous shopping mall for sporting goods. They also have their own brand of badminton rackets, which have been evaluated by Aiyuke APP.

VII. Denmark

FZ FORZA is the largest badminton brand in Denmark. In 1990, Mark Christensen, a bronze medalist in the All England and World Championships, founded FZ FORZA, and its headquarters is located in Slyu, brenner, northern Denmark. In 1996, FZ FORZA was awarded the title of the first brand in Denmark. FZ also enjoys a high reputation among top players. Danish men’s singles player antonsen and women’s singles player Mia have all endorsed the FZ brand.

Eight, China

As the largest badminton market in the world, there are many badminton brands in China. Due to the limitation of space, this article only lists some well-known brands.

Li Ning Company is a sporting goods company founded by Li Ning, a well-known "Prince of gymnastics" in China in 1990. In 2009, Li Ning officially signed a contract with the China Badminton Team, which opened the way for Li Ning’s badminton to take off, and also sponsored many world-class badminton events such as the China Open.

VICTOR (Victory) is a brand in Taiwan Province, China, which has sponsored Danish and other national teams, as well as many World Badminton Federation competitions. In the early days, it focused on low-end rackets with high cost performance.

Kaisheng fans have the most contact with TSF series classic rackets named after Tang Xianhu, F9 rackets used by Fu Haifeng and C7 rackets used by Cai Yun. Kaisheng was founded in 1991, and its brand name comes from the sportsmanship of fighting bravely to win the championship, which means that China badminton players will wave Kaisheng’s racket, sing triumphantly and be invincible. Kaisheng Badminton was acquired by Li Ning in 2009, and now it is a brand owned by Li Ning, and serves as the equipment sponsor of the national youth team.

Boli, founded in 1982, is a Taiwan Province enterprise that manufactures carbon fiber tennis rackets, squash rackets, badminton rackets and other sports equipment. Boli’s classic racket series is very popular among amateur golfers, and the 1982 racket series is one of the outstanding masterpieces.

Kawasaki brand was founded in Japan in 1896 and began to set foot in tennis badminton in 1915. As early as 1973, Kawasaki made the first carbon racket in the world, which also marked the formal entry of this badminton equipment into the carbon age. Kawasaki was acquired by China enterprises in 2008. Kawasaki is famous for its high cost performance. Li Mao’s signature spear series, Spider-Man series and other rackets have high popularity among amateur fans.