Ma Hsi-pin used to be very good in story telling, BUT not this one. Chiang Kai-shek's FAILURE started mainly in 1931. All his small failures built up his total failure in 1949. Mao told people to look at GOOD FUTURE while Chiang told people to look at GOOD PAST. That's it! (You don't need a monk to 'remind' you any tricky point along it.)
To the teacher Ma and to those who know the answer, I have a question here: For Hindu people they burn their body and push the ashes into the river, how does that affect their offspring, compared with what is discussed here? 请教马老师一个问题,有懂的人也请回答: 印度教徒死后将骨灰火化撒入恒河(或其支流),这对于后世子孙的影响与我们现在看到的讨论比较,如何?
There has never been any military genius in this wide, wide world since Napoleon Bonaparte except Mao Zedong who was predicted - co-incidentally - by Napoleon Bonaparte in early 1800s! Let's look at the Korean War with one side comprising the best soldiers from 16 countries, including the most powerful countries in the world at the time, the USA and Great Britain, led by the most widely admired General Douglas MacArthur, aided by Field Marshall Montgomery. The whole world turned admirably eager to see the defeat of the invaders, the North Korean troops. However, unexpectedly, the world was surprised to hear that Mao's troops, namely Chinese Voluntary Army entered the Korean peninsula. But what actually stunned the whole world was Mao's troops' repeated triumphs over the Allied Troops - the world's most powerful and best-equipped troops in the world then. The numerous defeats vindictively and deeply frustrated not only the leaders of the Allied Troops, and all the world leaders but also the rest of the world. No one had expected the Allied Troops' repeated losses in battles but Mao Zedong and the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese army, Pung Der-huai. Even Joseph Stalin seriously exhorted all his Russian generals and Kim Il-sung: " General Pung is the great genius. Let him lead the war on his own with you all following his orders without fail!" Even the great militaryman, Chiang Kai-shek, urged his generals to study Mao meticulously and exhaustively. None of Mao's successes had anything to do with Fang-Shui like none of the Allied Troops' losses was relevant to Fang-Shui.