Chapter Ninety-Two: Huaxia
If the teachers and students here today were the teachers and students of Guozijian, Zhu Zhanji would never dare to show off casually.
But all the bigwigs here today are bigwigs from the Ministry of Industry, so Zhu Zhanji dared to teach these bigwigs a lesson in the field he was familiar with.
Even so, he had to be careful not to say that Confucianism was not at all.
He is here to win people's hearts, but not to win hatred. In this era, even if Confucianism is bad in a thousand ways, it must not be said.
He only needs to ask questions, but he doesn't have to solve them, as long as today's problems can make these people think deeply and spread them, this is enough.
With these considerations, Zhu Zhanji spoke.
"Throughout history, there are several aspects that can promote the development of human society. Agriculture, Literature, Science, Geoscience, Astronomy, Medicine, and ......Physics."
Although everyone listening to the lecture felt that Zhu Zhanji's words had some logical problems, Zhu Zhanji had just spoken, and although everyone was a little unconvinced at this time, no one interrupted him, just wanted to hear what Zhu Zhanji would say later.
But who knew that Zhu Zhanji threw out this argument, and then did not say more on the general outline, but directly and meticulously analyzed the role of these seven categories.
"Agronomy is an important discipline in which human beings conform to nature, conquer nature, and make use of nature. When human beings learned to cultivate and use the power of nature to produce food, the model of agrarian society became an important symbol of the Chinese nation. Humans no longer migrated with food, forming a sedentary tribal pattern. Since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the tribal system has gradually declined, forming a more powerful state form, which constitutes the distinctive national characteristics of our Chinese nation, and is also an important way to distinguish the Chinese nation from the barbarians.
Our Chinese nation has never been based on blood, Yi Di into China is Hua, and Hua into Yi Di is Yi Di. For thousands of years, from the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, there was only one place in China in the Yellow River Valley, and gradually developed to the vast territory of Nuer Gandusi in the north, Jiaozhi in the south, the East China Sea in the east, and the Western Regions in the west. When different nationalities and different bloodlines are willing to use Chinese characters, Chinese etiquette, and Chinese customs, then they are Chinese sons and daughters. ”
At this time, Song Li, who was still highly respected, opened his mouth and questioned: "Your Highness, in the opinion of the ministers, this conclusion is more based on the nature of the root of the doctrine, rather than on the distinction of agriculture. ”
Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "But the use of agriculture began in the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors four thousand years ago, and at that time, even the writing was not unified, and various academics did not appear. The so-called academic screening is just a summary of this stage by later generations, rather than an academic decision on the theory of separation, what does Song Shangshu think? ”
Song Li had nothing to say about this. It has only been 2,000 years since Confucius was born, but the integration of the Chinese nation has lasted for 4,000 years.
The formation of the Chinese nation was originally based on the formation of an agrarian society, and no matter how much lotus blooms in your mouth, you can't refute this.
For example, just like the classification of words, later generations divided the characters into big seals, small seals, and official scripts. It is only the summary of the different forms of writing by later generations, not the names given later, that determine the law of the formation of the characters.
"The second is the literary ......"
As soon as Zhu Zhanji's words came out, they immediately attracted everyone's attention. This is also a point that everyone is most concerned about, because literature is an important part of the inheritance and history of the Chinese nation.
This literature is not poetry, rhetoric, or opera, but a real academic theory.
Zhu Zhanji knew where his weaknesses were, and let him compete with these great Confucians, but he couldn't catch up, so he used his strengths and avoided his weaknesses, and said that he established a framework for classification, and he didn't fill in anything.
He is not a Confucian student, he is a prince, so he has a natural advantage, that is, he has a natural position to evaluate various doctrines from a high-level perspective.
No matter how domineering Confucianism is, it only serves the royal family. If he didn't have this identity, I am afraid that Zhu Zhanji would be drowned in saliva as soon as he opened his mouth.
In this era, if you don't become a great Confucian, you are not qualified to say this at all.
"From the hundred schools of thought before the Qin Emperor to the establishment of the academic thought of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty, for more than a thousand years, Confucianism has become a clear ideological position for the Chinese people to distinguish other ethnic groups. With the change of dynasties, Confucianism plays a role in inheritance and refining in the historical process of the Chinese nation, which is also an important reason why Confucianism has become the mainstream of thought. ”
Zhu Zhanji's words fully affirmed the role of Confucianism and also relieved most of everyone's hearts. If Zhu Zhanji dares to say that Confucianism is not at all, I am afraid that the entire court will not accept such an imperial heir.
"However, we cannot deny that there are positive aspects of other scholarships. Since the Han Dynasty, in order to adapt to the changes in history, Confucianism has been actively adapting to the needs of various periods, and even absorbing and adopting the advantages of other scholarships. For example, for all of you here today, the role of the Ministry of Industry is to take Confucianism as the center and Mohism as the surface, and promote the development of history through the use of tools. ”
Although they felt that Zhu Zhanji's words were a bit crooked, the people in the Ministry of Industry really couldn't deny it. The reason why the Ministry of Industry has always been the last of the six is because their role is more in action than in thought. Since the Confucian regime, thought has always been more important than action.
Like the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the enemy has occupied the entire Central Plains, the Han Dynasty is about to destroy the country, people are still immersed in the so-called Qing talk, the so-called selflessness, those who resist the enemy, want to do something practical people are rude people, this is a very extreme representative.
The Ministry of Works is the worker, so it is ranked last among the six ministries, even though their actual role is greater than that of the other ministries.
Like that Ministry of Rites, I don't do every day, but I still have to rank in front of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment.
Zhu Zhanji also knew that he was opportunistic, and it was completely impossible to expect him to surpass these people academically, and all he had to do today was to ask questions, so at the beginning, he directly made it clear that he wanted to ask for advice.
This is also because there is a member of the Ministry of Works sitting below today, which is the department he attaches the most importance to, otherwise, he would not have taken such a big risk to gain their favor.
"After all, Confucianism is a manifestation of learning, and it is the fundamental criterion for the management of government in every dynasty since the Han Dynasty. Inside, Confucianism is a fusion of many ideas from the development of Chinese civilization. The real core is the Chinese simple materialism that combines Confucianism and Taoism, and even includes Mojia, Xunzi and Han Feizi and other Legalist thoughts. ”
Zhu Zhanji is a little poor in donkey skills, and his understanding of ideology is not deep, and now he is just fooling people with some summaries of later generations. So when he felt that there were not many dry goods, he deliberately threw out the idea of naïve materialism.
Sure enough, the people below were confused. Some of Zhu Zhanji's words are very new, but they can understand it if they think about it a little.
But now this phrase of simple materialist thought makes everyone feel as if they are listening to heaven. So much so that everyone felt that they couldn't keep up with it, and they all doubted their IQ.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Song Li coughed embarrassedly, and asked Pingyi: "May I ask Your Highness, forgive the old man for his ignorance, what is this simple materialism?" ”
The idea of naïve materialism was summarized by Engels in later generations, and it is also one of the mainstream philosopherical ideas of ancient China recognized in the West.
Although he only knows a few scratches, in this day and age, he can barely cope with these people.
"The so-called simplicity, also known as simplicity, comes from Zhuangzi's ignorance, and its virtue is inseparable; It is the same as the absence of desire, which is said to be simple. Materialism is the cognition of the world, and the composition of the world is mainly idealistic or materialistic? ism, on the other hand, is a summary of things. Taken together, it is a summary of our most basic understanding of the world. ”
With so many concepts, everyone couldn't accept them for a while, and they were a little dizzy by Zhu Zhanji.
Everyone is thinking about what kind of perception they have of this society. Spiritualism, God, or materialism?
In the end, I found that I was still a materialist.
Because although the Chinese believe in ghosts and gods, this is only a kind of worship for those who do not understand affairs, not faith.
Since ancient times, Chinese people have believed in their ancestors and firmly believe that the world is made of matter.
The gossip theory and the five elements theory in the Yin and Zhou periods. Pipe. The Pool says: "The water is the origin of all things." Lao Tzu put forward the idea that "Tao" is "the sect of all things".
The Yin Wenwen school put forward the materialist theory of essence, believing that "essence" and "qi" are the origin of the world. Xunzi further developed the doctrine of essence qi, which believed that all things were composed of unified material qi.
Chinese natural philosophers have also addressed the question of whether matter has a minimum unit or whether matter can be divided indefinitely. Hui Shi proposed that "to the small without the inside, called the small one", that is, the smallest unit of matter has no internal to speak of. There are also people who advocate that matter can be divided indefinitely, and put forward the proposition that "one foot of air, half of it is taken in a day, and it is inexhaustible for eternity".
There is also the Five Elements Theory, which is the basis of China's scientific development, which also believes that gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are the five basic elements that generate all things. Whether it is the change of dynasties or the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, these are derived from the perspective of the five elements and the view of naïve materialism.
It can be said that this is also one of the fundamental foundations of Confucian scholarship, and if this is denied, it is equivalent to denying Confucianism, which is a real rebellion.
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