What is Confucianism?

Did someone come first? Or did it come first?

Are people important? Or is faith more important?

Tang Yi used three questions to throw a modern person's torture of ancient China to Yin Zhu. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is undeniable that Chinese civilization is great, and so is Confucianism. It is also undeniable that in the Song Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, the Chinese civilization already had the possibility of civilization promotion.

So why has the Chinese civilization been standing still for thousands of years? On the contrary, the Western world, in a very short period of time, has gone from barbarism to civilization, thus pushing the whole world forward by a big step?

There are many reasons for this.

First, the geographical conditions of the Chinese nation have determined that the Chinese civilization has been a self-sufficient agrarian introverted nation from the very beginning. China has more than 5,000 years of vitality, but its creativity is insufficient, and it has never been able to form a driving force to promote the progress of civilization. We occupy the best land relative to the surrounding countries, and we can afford to eat and clothe. We don't need a higher level of technology to create living conditions, and we don't even need gods to comfort our souls. We only need an advanced philosophical thought to educate the people.

Therefore, in the history of 5,000 years, religion has not become the mainstream, but the most moderate virtues of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, have been widely spread.

Second, the Chinese nation has been the leader of this world for the vast majority of the time. Any foreign race is either swallowed up by it or slowly assimilated in the long river of history. Civilizations from the Arab world and Europe have never been able to pose a threat to Han culture, let alone have an impact. Without collision, there would be no spark, and the fire of modern civilization could not be ignited.

Until the middle of the 19th century, I, the Chinese people, still believed that the Qing Dynasty was the center of this world, and except for our land in the Qing Dynasty, all other places were wild lands. The things of our Great Qing Dynasty are the best, and our people of the Great Qing Dynasty are the highest race.

However, the two Opium Wars completely woke up the Chinese nation.

It turns out that we are not the most advanced.

It turned out that the Europeans had almost robbed the whole world.

It turns out that we are already behind.

So why did we go earlier? Didn't you know it for a long time? Know! Since the Tang Dynasty, China has been the center of the world, and all countries have come to court.

During the Song Dynasty, the southeast coast was full of Arab merchant ships, and the Great Song Dynasty at this time had begun to transform from a primitive natural economy to a market economy.

Western missionaries came to this land during the Ming Dynasty.

But, it didn't work! We don't believe them at all. When you say the sky, aren't you drooling over the prosperity of Greater China? Speaking of God, isn't your country not as strong as mine? Mine is the best!

It has always been the foreigners who follow us behind our ass to learn from us, how can we learn from the foreigners?

The third, and most important, is Confucianism!

Confucius traveled around the world and saw the constant disputes and rituals in the world, which led to the brilliant history of Confucianism for 2,000 years. The original intention of Confucius was to educate the world with Confucianism, to respect the rule of etiquette, to emphasize the rule of virtue, and to rule by virtue.

The original intention of the founding of Confucianism was actually a philosophy, a philosophy for governing the world. This is just right for our appetite, just in time! We are well fed and warmly dressed, and what we lack is a science of governing the world.

As a result, Confucianism became popular as soon as it came out, and stood out from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, where hundreds of schools of thought contended.

In the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu even proposed to "depose a hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone", pushing Confucianism to a supreme position. Confucianism suddenly became a means for the imperial power to rule the people, to govern everything, to explain everything, above everything!

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, at the beginning of the imperial examination system, Confucianism became the only passage for the lower class people to reach the upper class, and the upward channel and living space of natural science were completely sealed.

Everything is inferior, only reading is high! Why?

It means that even if you are researching the atomic bomb, it is not as good as a scholar who is admitted to the imperial examination and has status as a minor official of the ninth grade.

Even if you make hybrid rice and benefit hundreds of millions of people, it is better to write a good poem and be praised for a longer time.

In such a social environment, those who have the ability and conditions have all gone to study and become officials, who cares if they are scientific or not?

So, even though we invented the compass, we only use it to look at Feng Shui, not to sail to the sea.

Even though we made gunpowder, we only used it to make fireworks, not to build cannons.

Although we had already mastered the mystery of material transformation before the pre-Qin period, we only used it for alchemy, rather than further exploring the true meaning of the world.

Why is this so?

Without him, gunpowder, compasses, and chemistry are not as useful as reading the books of the saints, because... Can't be an official!

Tang Yi threw out three questions, and while torturing the Song people, he was also telling Yin Zhu that there are many things that can be done in this world, and the young master has no heart to go to the court to stir up the wind and rain. If I am not an official, I can do a lot for Da Song.

What you can't solve in the court, the master can do it for you when he is in the market.

......

Until Tang Yi had been gone for a long time, Yin Zhu was still sitting in the courtyard, thinking about Tang Yi's words, he was completely stunned by Tang Yi.

Can you not get dizzy? Yi Tang didn't deal with Fan Zhongyan this time like when he dealt with Fan Zhongyan, and he casually came up with some later views to deal with things. What he threw out this time was a big killer weapon of the materialist worldview, which was the shocking theory of Old Man Ma to change the world.

That is, there is matter in the world first, and then there is consciousness, matter determines consciousness, and consciousness is the reflection of matter. It's just that he was afraid that Yin Zhu wouldn't be able to accept it, so Tang Yi made a slight change and replaced "material" with "person", which was enough for Yin Zhu to ponder for a while.

Fan Zhongyan returned in the evening, and learned that Yin Shilu had not eaten the grain of rice at night, and thought that his illness had worsened. When I hurriedly came to the side courtyard, I saw Yin Su sitting in the courtyard with a dull gaze.

"Shi Lu, why are you still sitting in the courtyard? The night is cool and windy, and it is not good for your body! ”

Yin Zhu looked at Fan Zhongyan blankly, and then he came back to his senses and showed a smile, "Brother Xiwen is back!" ”

"Shi Lu, what's wrong?" While speaking, Fan Zhongyan ordered someone to help Yin Su into the house.

Yin Zhu walked into the house with difficulty, and said, "It's not much, it's just a few words with that Tang Dalang, and I feel a lot." ”

"Oh?" Fan Zhongyan was suspicious. "How? Brother didn't look away, did he? Can this son be returned to Shilu's insight? ”

Yoon-so's footsteps paused... He was stunned for a moment before spitting out two words.

"Demons!"

"Demons?" Fan Zhongyan didn't know what he meant. "That's good? Or is it bad? ”

"Good.... It's a bit too much! ”

"Hahaha!" Fan Zhongyan laughed heartily, "It's rare that Shi Lu has such a high evaluation of the juniors, as long as this son is carved, it will be a piece of beautiful jade!" ”

Yoon Su didn't comment, but asked, "How does Brother Xiwen want to teach?" ”

Fan Zhongyan smiled confidently: "The old man has already thought about it, this kid doesn't like culture and education, so he can't be forced, so he should be tempted step by step, and let him slowly get involved in the study of saints." When he is older and his heart is settled, he will naturally be able to understand the old man's hard work and devote himself to learning. ”

Fan Zhongyan couldn't help but be proud, but without thinking, Yin Zhu shook his head and sighed, "If you follow Brother Xiwen's method, this son will be abolished!" ”

"What do you mean?" Fan Zhongyan was taken aback.

"This son cannot be taught, but he is not taught. As long as it is supplemented by virtue and does not go astray, it will be a tool in the future! ”

Fan Zhongyan was stunned for a moment, he never expected that Yin Zhu's evaluation of Tang Yi would be so high!

"I've never heard Shi Lu say this about a person....."

Yin Zhu broke away from the handmaid's support, turned to face Fan Zhongyan, and said word by word:

"In less than thirty years, this son can open a school and become a saint!"

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ps: This chapter has been written for a long time,

Explain in advance that the article is purely a personal point of view, and I don't like to rush it.

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