It is not easy to be a gentleman, and a gentleman who can really be proficient in the six arts must be a hero in the world.

At this point, Mozi has always been obsessed with his imperial chariot and archery skills. Because when he looked at the world, he could enter the hero in the eyes of Mozi, that is, Confucius, but there was an era difference between the two, and it was difficult to compare, and Mozi had always been angry about it.

The same is true of the study of the six books, and it may not be possible to become proficient in the six books instead of being literate without spending decades learning.

Ximen Biao's words against Ximen Leopard are absolutely wrong, because the six books in the six arts are not only literate, but to let people know the origin of words, and those who are proficient in the six books can make words when necessary.

Ximen Leopard is not proficient in the Six Books, but he understands the meaning of the Six Books, so he also refuted Ximen Biao's words back then.

Ximen Yu said: "The Mo family's cheap characters, the old woman can study at night for a year, and she can also read the Mo family's rough and shallow newspapers. Even if a gentleman knows how to make words and knows the root of words, can he really compare to those people in the Mo family for the benefits of the world? ”

"My brother started studying six books when he was eight years old, and now I can read all the texts he can read. He won't, I still understand. ”

"Maybe when it comes to why a certain character is written like this, there are a few ways I am not as good as my brother, but when it comes to talent, he is not as good as me. Does he know that the earth under his feet is round? Does he know what the clouds in the sky are? Does he know why there are four seasons? ”

"There was none of that in the book he read. And in the books I read, the books that I can understand with the cheap characters of the Mohists, all these things are there. ”

"I heard that there is not one of the people of Sishang, under the age of twenty, who does not recognize five hundred words. Ye, which is governed by his father, is the richest place in the Wei Kingdom, and how many people can recognize 500 words? ”

Starting from the six books, the remaining five rites and six music, which have involved differences in values and world views.

The Mo family's incivility and non-happiness are known all over the world. The Mohists mourned for three days, persuaded that the mourning for three years would affect production, and the world would inevitably be in chaos, which involved the difference between "morality" and "profit".

Just like not long ago, in the debate of "why virtue is virtue" in Fei Guo, the scholar could not say that "virtue is for the world to become better", because once it is said, virtue has no sacredness, and in order to make the world better, isn't it for the benefit of the world?

Therefore, virtue must be eternal, unchanging, and without reason, and virtue is virtue in order to be able to stand. Once it is said that virtue itself is for the betterment of the world, it is transferred to the morality of Mojiayi that is profit, and only virtue and profit can be separated.

And virtue and benefit are separated, why should we obey virtue? It can only give virtue a sacredness, an eternal truth that does not need a reason, because virtue is right, so it must be observed; It is not because virtue is beneficial to the world, so it is right, so it must be observed, and the difference is very great.

The difference is that there is a process of argumentation for why virtue is right.

The Mohists said that it is necessary to know the most perfect "paradise" based on rational reasoning, with the natural will of heaven as the rule, and on the basis of the essence of human nature.

This is the first time that the world has tried to use reason to build a perfect world, and this process must also include rational morality, rational law, rational compliance and non-compliance, rational trade-offs, and rational everything......

Therefore, Ximen Yan studied the six arts, and since the six books, the dispute with his father Ximen Leopard has been unable to be bridged.

Royalty, archery, and counting are just arts, not Tao, and the differences are not so big.

From the beginning of the Six Books to the Five Rites and Six Pleasures, this difference began to become difficult to bridge, and there was no compromise and each insisted on its own words.

Ximen Yu argued that the Mohist "cheap characters" can benefit the world and make more people in the world literate, so it is enough to give up some of the content that is condescending and so that most people in the world can learn to read. As for the meaning of the Six Books, it should be selectively studied by those who still have the strength to do so after they have completed their studies, rather than as a criterion for evaluating whether a person is a gentleman or a commoner.

Simon is talking about six books, but he is not just talking about six books.

Today, Simon Leopard knew that his son would definitely come, and he also knew that his son's wide aristocratic robe must be wearing a set of blue-brown shirts, and even knew that his son would accuse him of being a father with anger today.

All of this stems from the controversy a year ago, and Simon Leopard still remembers it vividly.

Ximen Leopard remembered that a year ago, Ximen Yu talked to him about the Mohist writing, and said that the Mohist primary school did not teach six books, only the text, and said that this would benefit the world.

Benefiting the world, benefiting the world, these words made Ximen Leopard's brain hurt a little, and he was also angry at that time, so he shouted: "This is the difference between a gentleman and a gentleman." Even if they are literate, they don't know what the words come from, let alone the truth contained in them. ”

"For example, the simplest human character, what is a person? Why is it written like that? Because people know how to be humble and courteous, and know etiquette, people write on bamboo slips, bow down, and lean forward with their backs straight. Learn to write people, you know how to behave, and go deeper, from the characters learned in the six books, you can know how to be considered a person, and know the etiquette. ”

"How do you write the characters of the Mo family? All stood up! It's simple, people have no etiquette, this is still people? Moreover, those common people who learned the characters according to the teaching method of the Mohists, even if they recognized them as human characters, they could not know the morality contained in the word human at all! ”

The herringbone originally looked very similar to entering, but the waist and hips were obvious, and it was a style of standing up and saluting with a back. Simon Leopard cares not about how people write it, but about the hidden meaning behind these words.

Ximen Leopard remembered that at that time, Ximen Biao replied directly: "People should be standing!" All things are born with people as the head, and people should stand when they live in the world! ”

Simon Leopard's temper at that time also came, and he angrily reprimanded: "The Son of Heaven sacrifices to the heavens, and still salutes, how can there be anyone who stands and does not salute?" It is precisely because the Shu people cannot understand the true meaning of the etiquette that the Mo family does not educate, but even the truth contained in the text itself has been changed. ”

"This cheap character was created by the people of the Mo family. Well, he is suitable for learning from hermit masters, and he may not be able to read the six books. But Mo Zhai, Yu Huali, Meng Sheng, Gongzaoye and others, which one does not have the art of a gentleman? Who doesn't know why people write like this? ”

"What are they going to do? Still think the chaos in this world is not bad enough? Everyone seeks profit, then everyone wants to be a monarch, is there still governance in this world? ”

Ximen Leopard remembered that after he said this, Ximen Biao talked about a lot of "self-interest", "conjugation", "public righteousness", "the monarch is the sovereign of the country rather than the entity of the person" and so on, in the end, Ximen Leopard remembered that Ximen Biao asked: "Father, have you read a story handed down by the Mo family?" ”

"In the Song Kingdom, there was a real gentleman named Gongsun Ze, and his wife was also a virtuous woman, who knew etiquette and had a heart of benevolence and compassion."

One day, the youngest son of a farmer's family in his fiefdom died, and the farmer was considered a subordinate of Gongsun Ze, and Gongsun Ze's wife thought to herself, how sad the farmer's family must be? So I went to visit. ”

"But as soon as I entered the door, I saw that the family was eating and drinking soup."

She asked, "Why are you still drinking soup?"

The family replied, "Because there's salt in the soup."

"Actually, what Gongsun Ze's wife wants to ask is, why is your son dead, why are you still in the mood to drink soup and eat, why aren't you sad?"

But what the farmer heard was the most obvious question, and thought that he was just asking them why they wanted to drink the soup, so he replied with the simplest reason, saying that there was salt in the soup, because salt is very expensive, because the soup is ready, and if you don't drink it, it may be spoiled the next day, and it will be discarded, and it will be wasted, so you should drink it."

After Gongsun Ze heard this story, he sighed: In the past, Bu Zixia lost his son, and under the sadness, he cried and was blind. And those who really know etiquette, if an elder in the family dies and can't even eat, they must observe filial piety for three years, and they can only drink porridge for the first three months. It is really a courtesy, and it cannot be inferior to a common person. ”

"This is the courtesy, this is the courtesy. Father, don't you grieve when your relatives die? Could it be that the common people are naturally inferior to our nobles, and they don't know etiquette than us? Don't you know the sorrow and pain of the world? But if you drink soup, won't it hurt? ”

"Those gifts, those joys, is this what the people need? The benevolence of the aristocracy could have cured the symptoms and the root cause, and they wanted to be benevolent and love others, so why didn't the people give the land to the people? It's like a person who is about to starve to death in the wilderness, but at this time he gives this person a piece of jade and doesn't give him food, is this benevolence? ”

Simon Leopard said angrily at that time: "As you said, should the rich people of this world give everything they have to the people?" ”

Ximen Yan straightened up and said, "It depends on how rich you are." Abundance of labor, capital, body, and mind is what the Emperor of Heaven would like to see! The fiefdom of the nobility, why is it noble? Did they work? They are just silverfish, pigs and dogs raised by the people, but they think they are shepherding the people! ”

"Me too!"

Simon Leopard remembered that during that quarrel, when Simon Biao said this, he took off his long shirt, revealing the short brown inside, and said: "Father, I am ashamed that I am a silverfish, can you know the bitterness in my heart? ”

"The blood I used to be proud of is now like a thorn in my heart."

"When I eat, I think of 'no crops and no grains, and I will take 300 pieces of grain'; when I am dressed in fine clothes, I think of 'I don't spin or weave, and I will have 300 horses of silk and silk.'"

"I went to study outside, and those who studied with me pointed to me and said, I am a nobleman, what do I know?"

"If I go to learn the five rites and six music, the rites that come to mind are the ridiculous story of Gongsun Ze. The music that comes to mind is the music that the princes and nobles let the people cast bells and bronze to use in the music that is not beneficial to the world! ”

"Father, I feel that since I was born, I have been burdened with the sin of being sorry for the people of the world, because of the obligations of our fiefs and the peasants in those fiefdoms to us!"

"I just...... I just want to atone for my sins! ”

"Etiquette and pleasure are meaningless, just toiling the people of the world! They should all be abolished! ”

Simon Leopard still remembers, still remembers that after his son took off his robe, the more he talked, the more excited he became, and finally knelt on the ground and cried.

But he also remembered that when he heard his son's evaluation of etiquette and music, he sighed deeply and asked in a calm tone: "Since you have learned words, do you know what pure words mean?" ”

At that time, Ximen Yu must have been surprised that his father would talk about this unrelated matter, so he said: "Pure, the essence of rice." The cleanest rice is pure. ”

Ximen Leopard nodded in approval, and then said: "The essence of the Mo family lies in synonym and benefiting the world. And the benefit of the world comes from the benefit of everyone, so what they want to do is 'the people are the gods'. ”

"And you...... After studying with the Mo family for all these years, what you have learned is 'taking the essence of the people'! Pure, popular, must be right? Those things that the people don't need must be abolished? ”

"When I built water conservancy, my parents and villagers didn't understand, or there was cursing, I said, the people can be happy, not worry! If the whole world depends on the people, the world will be in chaos! ”

"If you can't figure out the difference between the people and the people, you won't listen to the Mohist lectures in the future. Otherwise, you will be miserable here, and even if you go to Sishang, you will be excluded like an outsider. ”

"What do you see now? What you see is that the people are suffering from separation, but do you think Sishang is a happy land? Did you know that in the Song Kingdom, the Mo family acquiesced in land annexation, making the people become domestic farmers or forced to work in the Sishang workshop? You know the meaning of the Mohist family! Do you think the Mohists are benevolent people who talk about compassion? Do you think I'm dirty here, and the Mo family is all good people there? Do you know that when the bird slouched to defend the city, there was a fire in the city, and the bird slouch knew that the person was going to fight the fire, but he violated the Mo family's order to defend the city, and immediately shot him? Do you know that in the appropriate year, he treated witches in Si Shang and poisoned dozens of people with laughter? ”

"Sishang is not a happy land, and the Mo family is not a group of 'good people' in your heart!"

"Your pain stems from your childishness! Get out! ”