1. Detailed explanation of some words in the sentence:
(1) Desire: thinking.
(2) must: must.
(3) Culture: enlightenment and education.
2, the original sentence: if you want to know its way, you must first be a history. To destroy a country, we must first destroy its history, its race and its culture.
Vernacular translation: To master "Avenue", we must first study the history including "Avenue". If you want to destroy other people's countries, you must first tamper with the fact that they recorded the past history. If you want a nation to die, you must let its historical view die-trample on national history, deconstruct national culture, cleanse national self-confidence and destroy national identity.
Extended data:
"If you want to destroy a country, you must first destroy its history. If you want to destroy its family, you must first destroy its culture." This sentence mainly talks about the importance of the influence of ideology and culture to a country and a nation. If you want a country to perish, you must first let it have no historical and cultural support; If you want to destroy a nation, the most important thing is to make it have no cultural thoughts.
Author Gong Zizhen (1August 22, 792-184 1 September 26, 2008), born in Ding 'an. Han nationality, Renhe (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). In his later years, he lived in Yushan Pavilion in Kunshan, also known as Yushan people. Thinker, poet, writer and reformist pioneer in Qing Dynasty. He is the author of Ding 'an Anthology, with more than 300 articles and nearly 800 poems. Today's collection is the complete works of Gong Zizhen.