明清之际,当西方国家正向近代文明迈进时,其新兴的科学技术和生产力也正冲决民族的、文化的藩篱走向世界,而这时中国却仍然沉睡在中央帝国的美梦之中。只有少数几位先觉之士,在与西人西学的交流中,由于科学研究上的收获,也从而培养了一种开放的心态,才剧烈地感受到了时代脉搏的跳动,认识到了闭关自守的危害性,因此便急切地发人之未发,振臂呼唤国家和文化的开放。我们陕西的王徵,便是这为数不多的先觉之士的一位。 At the time of the Ming and the Qing dynasties, when the western countries were making progress toward modern civilization, their emerging science and technology and their productive forces were also blazing a trail of ethnic and cultural barriers toward the world while China was still asleep in the dream of the Central Empire. Only a handful of pioneers, in the exchange with Western learning in Western China, have cultivated an open mind because of the harvest of scientific research, and have just felt the pulse of the times and realized the dangers of retreat Therefore, they are urgently sent to others and they call for the opening up of the country and culture. Wang Zheng of Shaanxi Province is one of the few forerunners.