zhan 卬 (yǎng): The guilt of King You of Zhou

King You of Zhou was deaf and corrupt, pampered and praised, corrupted discipline, appointed traitors, reprimanded the virtuous, and acted perversely, causing the wrath of heaven and resentment. The northern dog Rong took the opportunity to invade and killed the king of Zhou You, leading to the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty. King You of Zhou was in chaos and brought disaster to the country and the people, and the upright scholars expressed their feelings of worrying about the country and at the same time, and at the same time expressed their indignation of hatred, which to a certain extent reflected the dark reality of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the struggle within the ruling class.

Natural disasters**, the situation is difficult and dangerous, the country is not peaceful, and lives are devastated. He looked up to the heavens, which referred to both the heavens of nature and the heavens of human society, that is, the supreme ruler on high. Therefore, natural disasters include two factors: natural disasters. And judging from the suffering of the people, ** is even worse than natural disasters. A man has a good field, but the ruler takes it for himself; They have good labor, but the rulers take it; The innocent are arrested and the guilty are forgiven, which is a typical perverse abusive policy.

The root cause of the Zhou Dynasty's current troubles is that women are favored, and the main means of harming this favored woman is slander and telling right and wrong. The effective way to prevent women from causing trouble is to let women engage in silkworm weaving and not interfere in government affairs. fabricating charges and killing scholars; The government is tyrannical, and the people are not able to make a living; encroachment on the land, plundering of slaves; indulge sinners and persecute the innocent; political style, discipline disorder; Jealousy and jealousy, traitors gain power; The net of crimes is dense, and loyal ministers flee, these are the crimes of the Youwang, otherwise, they will not end up with a ruined country.

The sage and gentleman are the pillars of a country, the old and prestigious, experienced mature and stable talent is the vitality of a state, and now the vitality of the Zhou Dynasty has been damaged, the pillars will fall, the people will die, and the gods are angry. In the face of natural disasters, the scholars expressed their sincere feelings of worrying about the country and the times, and exhorted King You not to insult the ancestors and strive to save the descendants of the Zhou Dynasty.

Looking up at the heavens, the will is deep, but the heavens are ruthless to me. The world has not been peaceful for a long time, and great disasters have descended on the world. There is no stability in the country, and it harms the scholars and the common people. Pests and diseases damage crops for many years. If the net of criminal law is not reined in, the abyss of suffering will not be alleviated.

They have a good field, but you take it for yourself. People have strong labor, but you take advantage of it. This man is innocent, but you turn against you and arrest him. That man should be a sinful, but you forgive and forgive.

Talented men dominate the country, and talented women die. It's a pity that this woman is too crazy, like a owl and a notoriety. Clever words are good at lying, and disasters and evil are hidden. Trouble does not come from heaven, but from the woman's side. It's not someone else who comes to teach, just because it's close to women's red makeup.

fabricated charges and framed poorly, contrary to the preamble and the afterword. Isn't she vicious? Who is the most vicious! It's like a profiteer making a windfall, and a gentleman has a clear insight. The woman should not be in charge of the government, and the silkworm weavers are all abandoned.

Why does the heavens punish the suffering? Why don't the gods shelter? The culprit and the stubborn enemy don't care about it, but they are jealous of me. People have no mercy when they suffer from disasters, and they pretend to be confused when they are corrupted. The good ministers and wise men fled to the country, and the country was in danger and there was no help.

The sky is ruthless and the law is ruthless, and it is difficult to hide from the harshness. The good ministers and wise men are all exiled, and the bitter fruits are tasted when the country is worried. The sky ruthlessly descends the law, and the frequent crises are unstoppable. The good ministers and wise men were all killed, and they were sad when they were worried about the country.

The spring is boiling and the water is spraying, and the bubbling spring has a deep origin. When you are worried about the country, you are sad, is it possible that your sorrow is increasing today? Disasters do not fall during life, and disasters do not follow after death. The Emperor of the Thick Earth is unpredictable, and he controls the living beings. Don't insult your ancestors, save the Bang family for your descendants.

鸱 (chī)

"Summoning" (mín): The scholars cry out in despair

King You of Zhou favored and praised him, and rebuked Zhongliang, causing the country to be on the verge of extinction; He appointed traitors and corrupted the dynasty, which caused great harm to the country as much as he favored and praised him. Through the history of the death of King You, we may have some new feelings when we understand Confucius's sentence "Only women and villains are difficult to raise".

Questioning heaven is not a simple rebuke, the Zhou people's concept of destiny has the color of heaven and man's induction. What is celestial induction? It is an idealistic doctrine in Chinese philosophy about the relationship between heaven and man, which refers to the sympathetic correspondence between heaven and human affairs, believing that heaven can intervene in human affairs, foreshadowing disasters and auspiciousness, and human behavior can also sense heaven. What the Son of Heaven does will affect the will of the Heavens, the Son of Heaven is politically clear, the natural wind and rain are smooth, the Son of Heaven is mediocre and tyrannical, and all kinds of natural disasters will fall on the Heavens; Therefore, the successive disasters and famines of God must be the result of the lack of virtue of the Son of Heaven. The people were poisoned by famine and displaced, and one had to wonder why Heaven had condemned the world.

Intrigue and corruption of the dynasty, this is the result of the connivance of the faint king, which is completely different from the above-mentioned famine and exile from heaven, it can be seen that the reason for the disaster from the sky is the evil government of King Zhou. Traitors and villains messily slander and hurt each other, do not serve seriously, and do all kinds of bad things in a stupid and evil way. The result of this is to bury a good Zhou Dynasty! When an upright scholar makes such an exclamation, his heart is actually bleeding.

After sparing no effort to denounce the traitors, the scholars began to attack them from another angle, lamenting that their position was too low to contain their arrogance. The villain deceived and attacked the treacherous, and the upright man was conscientious, and the scholar began to ask: Do they not know their own shortcomings? The scholars lamented that their position was humble and powerful, but in fact, they were inseparable from the hatred of the family and country that was sentimental and favored traitors and corrupted political affairs. As a scholar, even at the lowest level, he has the responsibility and obligation to do his best to persuade the king to change from evil to good.

The scholars saw the natural disasters of drought for many years at this time**, and said: I think that such a Zhou Dynasty has no reason not to perish! In fact, this is the psychology of the scholar's anti-prophecy, and he bitterly stated that the country would be destroyed, precisely to avoid such a destruction. But history tells us that pointing out the tendency to perish does not stop the tyrants from perverse, and that their awareness of the state of affairs can only be after the destruction of the country. But after the destruction, enlightenment is meaningless. The exhortations of loyal and righteous men have always been powerless against this historical process, and what they have done is nothing more than to smear a trace of tragedy on a bleak scene in history.

The contrast between wealth and poverty makes people sad, and it makes people have a strong hatred for the dark reality, so the scholars once again pinpoint those villains who are powerful. The scholars reprimanded others for eating coarse grains, and they ate fine grains, but they did all the bad things, and refused to abdicate and make way for the virtuous. The depletion of the pond water is not caused by a day, the depletion of the spring water is broken from the source, the depletion of the pond water is a metaphor for the chaos of the king of Zhou is due to the absence of virtuous ministers outside, the depletion of the spring water is a metaphor for the chaos of the king of Zhou is due to the absence of a virtuous concubine inside, the scholars warned the king of you should rein in the precipice, and know the way back, otherwise the small disaster will accumulate into a big disaster, and the small disaster will become a big disaster, and the country will eventually be destroyed.