At this time, there was no sophistry of white horses and non-horses, but that person was quite forward-looking, for fear of Chen Jian's quibble, and added: "Since Ji Xia supports the oath of the relatives, then don't say that the circle in Xia City is our square, and the square of Xia City is our circle." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIf the rules are not the same, what kind of brothers and relatives are they? ”

Chen Jian deliberately remained silent, and only when everyone below was chattering and discussing, did Chen Jian ask loudly: "Do everyone think that the sun and moon must be round?" ”

The people below agreed with Chen Jian's previous words, and sold the face of the previous drama herbs, so it was not good to accuse directly, but said very carefully: "Did Ji Xia see it wrong?" There are also people in our cities who have bad eyes, and red and green are the same in his eyes...... Is there something wrong with Ji Xia's eyes? ”

The person who asked the question smiled and said, "Ji Xia's eyes may not have a problem, but I'm afraid that there is something wrong with my head." Ji Xia is saying that the moon and the sun are not round? ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "I didn't say that the sun and moon are round, nor did I say that they are not round. Whether it is round or not, we don't know, the heavens and the earth are so big, so I said that except for the stars in the sky, even the sun and the moon are not known to us, how can we think that this is a warning from heaven and earth? ”

"You have all walked by at night, and the bonfires in the cities and villages are far away, and when you look far away in the night, they are like a dot. Isn't it because the sun and the moon are so far away from us that they are round like watching a campfire at night? ”

"I have heard of some towns that have picked up stars that have fallen from the sky, and you have all seen them as treasures, and they are uneven and strangely shaped and not round, but when we look up at the starry sky, we see that the stars are round. This does not mean that the sun and the moon are round, but they are too far away from us, so they look round. ”

"I have also heard that thousands of miles to the east, the Dongyi tribes live along the coast, and they are as blue as the sky, but they can pick up a handful of them but they are no different from the river. The sea and the sky are blue, their original colors? Or is it because we are too far away and our eyes deceive us? ”

After giving three examples, the face of the questioner has turned pale, on the one hand, he cannot refute Chen Jian's remarks, and on the other hand, there is also a hint of the collapse of faith: the world he thinks is not real.

The following discussion also gradually tended to support Chen Jian, they may not have seen the sea, but many people have seen meteorites and bonfires, and it is true that they remember carefully.

Chen Jian took advantage of everyone's confusion for a while, and seized the opportunity to say: "This means that the size of heaven and earth is not something we can speculate. Even the sun, moon and stars, which are common every day, do we not know whether they are round or not, so are we qualified to comment that the rarely seen guest stars are a harbinger of calamity? Since you say that you respect the ancestors of heaven and earth, but you don't even know what heaven and earth are and draw conclusions, isn't this the greatest disrespect? ”

"Only when you know and understand can you comment; If you don't know what you don't know, but you don't know it, but you comment on things you don't understand, is this what a sage should do? ”

Jian Chen shouted a few words, using the momentum of the mouth cannon to deter everyone, clapping his hands, and several people from Xia Cheng immediately brought silk silks and brushes, as well as a small toolbox of Jian Chen.

He took out a ruler and drew two circles of the same size on the silk, and drew a small circle around one circle, and drew a large circle around the other circle, and the four people pulled up the silk and tore it open, and people were surprised to find that the two circles of the same size drawn with the ruler became one big and one small in their eyes!

Jian Chen didn't ask them what they saw, but he knew the result by listening to their inhalations, so he said bitterly: "This silk is only a hundred steps away from you, but I can't tell if it's the same size." Heaven and earth are so vast that how dare we say that we know and understand them all? ”

After everyone was silent for a moment, the person who stood up again was no longer the confident momentum just now, and after saluting Chen Jian again, he asked, "Ji Xia, are you saying that you don't know if the sun, moon and stars are round, right?" That is to say, the sun, moon and stars may be round. But the ancestors said that the sun, moon and stars are round, this is the wisdom left to us by the ancestors, does Ji Xia think that you know more than all the ancestors? Since you don't know, why not follow the wisdom left by your ancestors? ”

After Chen Jian returned the salute, he said in a deep voice: "How dare I disrespect my ancestors? But must the ancestors be right? The souls of our ancestors are immortal after they die, they went to another world to guide us, and time passes, and it is they who have learned to plant in another world to guide us, not when they were in this world, which is what they told me when I heard the guidance of my ancestors in my dreams. This is the greatest protection for us, just like our ancestors tried countless plants and trees many years ago to know what we can eat and what we can't eat. Do they not have to risk being poisoned to try to leave me with so much command? Isn't that the greatest disrespect for the ancestors' efforts? ”

"Now that I'm talking about my ancestors, I'll say one more thing. My woman, Hongyu, came from another tribe, and at that time they didn't know how to build and they didn't use potter's wheels, so they couldn't burn very large clay pots and pottery pots, and they could only pinch out palm-sized ones with their hands, which were not as big as cow's hooves. ”

He changed his words, not about those mysterious worlds, but about common things in life, everyone suddenly became interested, just listen to a story.

But the minds of the people who listen to the story are different, and Yuemei, who had been smiling and staring at Jian Chen, felt slightly sour when she heard the name Hongyu, and felt very uncomfortable.

There was some contradiction in his heart, he wanted to cover his ears and stop listening, but he was very curious about what Jian Chen was going to say, so he had to force the ninja to listen to the feeling that it seemed like a kitten scratching in his heart.

After Jian Chen said a few more jokes about the backward clan, which attracted the ridicule of everyone with pride, he said: "Later, she came to Xia Cheng, at that time, Xia Cheng always ate fish, and every time she cooked fish, she had to cut a small fish in half, and only half of it was cooked each time. I thought it was some kind of special cooking method, but after eating it, I realized that it was average, so I asked her why she did it. ”

She said that this is the wisdom left by the ancestors, and that this is how the fish should be cooked. I thought that since it was the wisdom left by my ancestors, it must be due to the reason that I did not understand. ”

Everyone's curiosity was also aroused, and they whispered to guess what it was for, Chen Jian smiled: "But after a few months, she suddenly stopped cooking so much, and put the whole fish into the pottery mustache." I asked her, "Why?" She said...... She dreamed of her ancestors, and her ancestors scolded her in a dream, this wisdom is because in the past, the clay pot of their tribe was very small, and a fish could not be boiled in it, but now in Xia City, the pottery can cook a deer, and the fish must be cut, shouldn't this be scolded? Then you say, Is there something wrong with the wisdom of your ancestors? ”

Only then did the people below understand what Jian Chen was going to say, and seeing that Jian Chen still respected his ancestors, the original slight opposition in his heart also dissipated, and said with a smile: "Of course it's right." At that time, the clay pot was too small to fit such a large fish. And the wisdom of the ancestors actually said: when the clay pot is small, the fish should be cut open and cooked. But your woman only remembers the second half, but not the first half. ”

Jian Chen nodded, "That's it." So if you want to know why for the wisdom left by your ancestors, otherwise you just follow it all, isn't it as stupid as a woman who cuts a fish apart? ”

"It's just stupid, it's just a little slower when you eat fish. However, if we do not think about why our ancestors left such wisdom, but directly follow or even misinterpret the wisdom of our ancestors, it is not a matter of starvation, it will bring disaster to the tribe and the city. ”

"I've heard of a story spread among some clans that the souls of animals are in blood after death, so they can't eat blood; But in some more backward clans, I heard that drinking blood is easy to get sick and die, so I can't eat blood. The wisdom of our ancestors tells us that it is better not to eat blood, but because of the fear of getting sick? Or is there really a soul in it? ”

"Isn't it ridiculous to misinterpret the wisdom of our ancestors like telling a child: stay away from the fire, or you will be drowned? It is the wisdom of the ancestors to stay away from the fire, but the reason in this wisdom is not the fear of drowning, but the fear of being burned to death! Isn't that something that every priest and chief should consider? Why did the ancestors leave such wisdom? Does that wisdom still apply now? In order to save these thoughts and directly tell everyone what not to do, wouldn't the ancestors scold us for being stupid just like in the dream of the red fish? ”

"The world is vast, the wisdom is endless, what you know knows, and what you don't know learns to think until you know, this is the reason why our ancestors were able to take root and multiply on both sides of the river. And some of today's descendants, who don't know it, think they know, and this is the reason why the weak barbarians have been exterminated by us. That's where we should be vigilant. ”

"So the priest asked me if I ever knew the heavens and the earth. I say that the heavens and the earth are vast, how can one person know? Heaven and earth are everything, if anyone can know the heaven and earth, they will know all the rules between heaven and earth, spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four seasons are cold and warm, spring and autumn are fruitful...... This can be changed with hands, where is there such a person today? Aren't those who talk about the heavens and the earth exactly the kind of people who explain and speculate without understanding what I mean? ”

"The way of heaven is the most difficult answer to know, and although we don't know it for the time being, it doesn't affect our pursuit, nor does it affect our food, clothing, shelter and transportation. Put down what you don't know and wait for future generations to understand; Pondering what we know, leaving wisdom for our children and grandchildren, and telling them what is and why, this is what we need to do! Knowing nothing about heaven and earth, but vainly talking about the vision of heaven and earth, this is exactly what we want to put an end to! ”

"Our ancestors warned us that if we did not keep our oaths and turn our backs on our relatives, we would invite disaster. Instead of reflecting on whether we have done something wrong, we think that it is better to give up the oath directly. What's the difference between that and not eating because you know you're choking? ”

"The rules of heaven and earth cannot be changed, and it is right for people to follow this rule. It's like planting in the spring, if you plant in the winter, you won't get any crops. This is because we know a little bit of the rules of heaven and earth about the four seasons, so it is right to do so. But nowadays, many people don't even know whether the guest star is round or square, a warning or a bad omen, but they think that they have everything about the guest star, which is not following the rules of heaven and earth. ”

"We shouldn't be worried and scared for no reason until we figure it out. If the arrival of the guest star is only a reincarnation once in hundreds of years, it is normal for a tree to bloom, and it will not affect us; If it is a warning, then we need to keep our oaths and reflect on our hearts. If it is a bad omen, then we need to hold hands, dig dikes and ditches to prevent drought and floods, and prepare for the expedition. That's what I mean when I say warnings and bad omens aren't necessarily bad things. As for the reincarnation of the guest star? Is it a warning? Is it a bad omen? Shouldn't this be the case when we at least figure out whether it is square or round, and then follow the rules of heaven and earth? ”

After Jian Chen finished speaking, he bowed to the people on the stage again and again. A few words can't change people's minds, but they can at least plant seeds, and in the history of thousands of years, any change is accumulated little by little.

The dialectic of alternating blessings and misfortunes, opposing dogma without blind faith, respecting heaven without fearing heaven, and taking the way of heaven as the biggest rule in the world, but this way of heaven was actually stolen by him The concept of the way of heaven is not the way of heaven in the mysticism, but the rules of the operation of all things.

In the short term, it may only lead to thought, but he believes that these words will be remembered and used by future generations when needed.

When he denies it completely, it can be said that he has the limitations of the times; When he is fully affirmed, it can be said that he has a simple scientific outlook. The choice depends only on the needs of the community.

Is it the need to catch up when you are lagging behind, and to put all the bad blame on one person for improvement? Or does it take a cultural expansion when you go up, putting all the good in one person for self-confidence?

The person who left his name in the long river of history is just a symbol, a collection of all good and bad, praise and basins will be buttoned up, he doesn't care.

After three prostrations, no one stood up for the time being to say anything. Most people don't necessarily agree, but people just want an acceptable explanation, especially in the face of fear, and it's enough that people instinctively hope that what they're afraid doesn't happen.

He didn't explain all this with Xia Cheng's falsifiable ancestor sheltered worldview, but he just said that he didn't understand it, the days were still long, and it was impossible to transform people's minds in a few days. Those dramas, stories, and myths are all long and effective methods, and the way the people of Xia Cheng understand the world will one day be imposed on the rest of the clans.

As for those who opposed Su Yue becoming the leader, Jian Chen naturally offended them, but he also gained Su Yue's favor.

And Su Yue is nearly forty years old...... will always die before him.

Tomorrow.

Square length. (To be continued.) )