Chapter Eighty-Three: Let Darwin Eat Xiang (I)
What Gan Tang didn't know was that because of his appearance, the explosion of the Puppet Wang Gong Factory in the southwest of Yanjing was staged in advance, Dayan moved the capital to Luoyang, Guan Hanqing saw that the literary style in Jiangnan was flourishing, so he and the opera class went south, and recently arrived at Quanzhou Port.
Guan Hanqing made a great name in Quanzhou for a "Single Knife Meeting" in Quanzhou, so he was also invited to the official residence by López today.
After all the guests came, Lopez clapped his hands and said, "Today I want to introduce three new friends to you, this is the eldest grandson and the youngest marquis Song Qing of the former Taishi Song Ci of Great Xia, which one is the famous opera artist Mr. Guan Hanqing," Lopez smiled and pointed at Guan Hanqing, "Mr. Guan's "Single Knife Meeting" is extremely popular in Yan Kingdom. ”
"Bang Bang!" There was a burst of applause.
Guan Hanqing stood up a little helplessly and waved to everyone.
López pointed to Gan Tang and said: "This young man is a friend of Song Xiaohouye, don't look at him is only fifteen years old, listen to Xiaohou Ye said, Mr. Gan is a great writer, and the martial arts novel "Tianlong Babu" serialized in Jiankang's "Huaxia Weekly" some time ago is Mr. Gan's work, which is a great achievement. ”
Gan Tang smiled and got up, and greeted everyone with a fist.
The servant brought the tea, and López personally poured the tea for Song Qing.
The Portuguese consul's wife obviously liked Guan Hanqing very much, and made up her mind to help him make a name for herself in the foreigner circle in Xiamen, so she immediately opened the manuscript brought by Guan Hanqing and said: "This is Mr. Guan's new work "Dream of Xishu", and everyone will soon enjoy this amazing work. ”
It's a pity that foreign devils generally only speak, but they don't recognize the square characters of Daxia, only the young Italian painter Lentini sighed and said: "My visit to China this time is specifically to study Daxia art, and Mr. Guan's works make me breathtaking." ”
The discussion of Guan Hanqing's "Single Knife Meeting" basically ended here, because other foreigners couldn't interject at all. López looked a little frustrated, and her failure to stir up a popular topic made the salon a little cold at the start of the day.
The handsome Portuguese businessman Tensen was very discerning, and took the initiative to shift the topic from opera to the current political system in the West, and the scene gradually became lively.
Everyone talks about what kind of system is advanced or backward, and it seems that all of them have become philosophers.
Gan Tang is too lazy to get involved, he has no research on this, and when asked, he can only talk in generalities, why bother to be ugly.
Seeing that he had been silent, López was afraid of snubbing this friend of the little marquis, so he took the initiative to ask: "Mr. Gan, what do you think of the advantages and disadvantages of the political systems of countries around the world?" ”
"No, there is no such thing as a good or bad political system." Gan Tang was not shocked, and said, "No political system is perfect, only suitable and inappropriate." ”
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, everyone looked at him in surprise.
Lentini frowned: "I think a republic is the best system. How can there be no good or bad political system? ”
"Great Xia and Yan are both monarchies, since the Italian republic is superior to the monarchy, then why does Italy have neither the wealth of Great Xia nor the military strength of Yan." Gan Tang smiled.
Lentini pouted and didn't want to speak anymore because their views were so different, and he didn't like the hellish dictatorships.
Mrs. Herman of Russia suddenly asked: "Mr. Gan, what do you think of the conflict in the European church today?" Now it seems that most of the people of Daxia are very much in favor of that rebellion. ”
The rebellion mentioned by this noble lady naturally refers to the fact that many countries in Europe are breaking away from the control of the Church, the conflict between the two sides is escalating, and now Europe is in the chaotic stage at the end of the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance is taking shape, which is the starting point of the rise of Europe.
"The ecclesiastical conflict in Europe also starts from the root of human development, and now there are many debates about the origin of human beings, whether it is Nuwa in the East or Adam and Eve in the West, they are actually wrong, and it is a kind of self-justification of human beings for many phenomena that cannot be explained." Gan Tang began to play tricks again.
Gan Tang's statement immediately aroused everyone's interest. Before Darwin's theory of evolution came out, there was a great market for human beings in the East and the West, where Nuwa and Eve created man.
Mariana: "Wasn't humanity created by God?" ”
Gan Tang rolled his eyes and said, "Madam, since God created human beings, who created God?" "Xiaoyang, why do I have 100,000 little pot friends? Ask you to death.
"This!!"
Seeing that Marianne was short of words, the French priest Henry continued: "God is omnipotent, God knows all the joys and sorrows of mankind, and we cannot know everything about God, and we cannot know everything as servants of God." ”
Gan Tang smiled: "Look, this is religion!" Blame all ignorance on God who is not there at all. ”
Henry cried hysterically, "You heretic, you slander the followers of God, and you will go to hell." ”
Gan Tang smiled: "Don't get excited, since God is omnipotent, you should care for the believers of God like you, then why are you the richest people in the West not living as an ordinary peasant among these pagans in Daxia?" You ordinary people in the West don't live as well as a dog in Great Xia. Why then? ”
The whole scene was silent, and all the Westerners turned red, only Song Hua's face was full of excitement, and Lu Mengya's eyes were little stars.
After a while, López said angrily: "Please pay attention to your words, Mr. Gan. Mr. Gan thinks that human beings were created by Nuwa in the East? ”
Gan Tang smiled: "No! Nuwa's creation of man and the saying that you Adam and Eve in the West are wrong. ”
Grace asked, "How did humans come about?" ”
"Let's start with two myths and legends of the East and the West. Fuxi and Nuwa, Adam and Eve!
Let's talk about the story of Fuxi and Nuwa first.
In traditional Chinese myths and legends, there are two ways in which human beings are born!
One is that Fuxi and Nuwa, who are brother and sister, are combined, and countless human beings are born.
Another way is that Nuwa made people out of the soil and gave rise to countless human beings.
In Western mythology, on the sixth day of creation, God created Adam in his own image.
God had Adam living in the Garden of Eden, and seeing that he was lonely, he created Eve from one of his ribs while he was asleep.
Adam and Eve were married.
Originally, Adam and Eve had no wisdom, but a serpent in the Garden of Eden tempted them to eat the fruit of wisdom.
When God found out, he was furious and drove the two of them out of the Garden of Eden.
And then, human beings were born because of them.