Volume 1 In Search of a Thousand Years Chapter 56 The Hundred Schools of Thought
After the hands are cleaned, there is still the last procedure of cinnabar enlightenment in the whole apprenticeship (cinnabar enlightenment is also called cinnabar enlightenment or cinnabar mole, which is the last process in the opening ceremony. )
He held a brush dipped in cinnabar and dotted a red dot like a "mole" on Qu Yuan's eyebrows. (Because "mole" is homophonic with "wisdom", cinnabar spot mole is actually taken from the meaning of "wisdom", which means to open wisdom, clear eyes and bright hearts, and hope that students can learn in the future at one point.) )
After the apprenticeship ceremony, all the students took their seats and began to listen, everything here was unfamiliar to Qu Yuan, and these were the scenes he had longed for many years when he was young. What was a longing is now a reality.
Qu Yuan, who returned to his residence at night, was lying on the bed, holding a book, still thinking about Mr. Lantaizhong, and recalling that everyone was arguing under the guidance of Mr. today. My classmates studied under different gentlemen, and their main genres were also different, so they considered things from different angles. In the future, will the students follow which school to realize their ideals?
Hundreds of schools of thought have existed and exited on the stage of history. After a hundred years of great waves and sands, these main schools of thought left by the times to future generations: Confucianism and Taoism
It can be said that Confucianism is the foundation and carrier of culture; The Mo family is a good medicine for the warmth and coldness of society; Taoism is the enlightening extension of the wisdom of life; Legalism is the benefit of a strong country
But it was in this era of constant strife that the cornerstone of the history of Chinese civilization was achieved. The pre-Qin princes have made great contributions, and that era is the cornerstone of the family and the country, and it also regulates the trend of the Chinese people from ancient times to the present.
Leaving aside the role of strife and tranquility in shaping civilization, it only involves a few families. Among them, the four schools of Confucianism, Mo, Taoism are the most well-known, and they also have a far-reaching influence on later generations. Regardless of the stance and doctrine of the four schools, the four schools are only for their own possession, to summon the same way, and to save all the people from fire and water.
There is a saying that the country in Confucianism and the two-phase interaction make China continue to advance and civilization continue to evolve under such a large framework system. It can be seen that the influence of Confucianism and Confucianism on China is particularly profound.
When it comes to Confucianism, many words and phrases may suddenly come to the minds of many people. Learning and excellence are the best, monarchs and ministers, teaching according to aptitude, poor and unswerving, mighty and unyielding, and so on.
Confucianism focuses on the edification of people, and knowledge and etiquette should be an important feature of Confucianism, especially at that time. However, we can't help but ask, after the test of history, Confucianism is conducive to the development of the country and society.
Why was Confucius so unpopular in the Spring and Autumn Period? As a result, his political blueprint, academic ideas, and life values were not implemented as he envisioned, and most people believed that Confucius's doctrine was not conducive to governing the country and securing the country in troubled times.
In the world of great controversy, attention is paid to timeliness and interests, and empty words and white teeth cannot solve the actual population, city-state, social problems, such things that the ruler really cares about, and Confucianism needs time to precipitate before it can play its role, and the ruler has no leisure to implement, caused by the times.
The times are developing and changing, and it is an unrealistic fantasy to try to return to the ritual system of the Zhou Dynasty, but this is also a common problem of Confucianism in later generations.
Of course, there are two great families of Confucianism, Mencius and Xunzi.
Mencius, Mengzi's mother must have known about the three moves, and the little Mencius was also extremely studious and motivated, but in his later years, he became more pedantic. I can't help but wonder, is the old man synonymous with backwardness and pedantic?
Of course, Mencius's statement that "the people are noble and the monarch is light" is still worthy of special mention, which coincides with the Mohists. Xunzi advocates "human nature is evil", but it keeps up with the pace of change of the times and conforms to the tone of the Warring States.
In essence, it is to use the term sexual evil to remind people not to let their hearts exaggerate unnecessary desires, so as to get the effect of educating the world. The role of Mencius and Xunzi can be seen from this, contributing to Confucianism.
Legalists pay attention to major changes and reforms, and reorganize and renovate the state system, not considering whether it is in line with human nature, but only whether it is conducive to the long-term. Reform has always been aimed at moving the interests of others, especially those with vested interests, whose power is so great and intertwined that it has the potential to affect the whole body. Under the feudal imperial system, relying on the monarchy to implement, the effect is excellent, but the disadvantages are also great, before the emperor is not replaced, everything is thriving, after the generation, the glory is difficult to achieve.
Taoism, counting it is the most mysterious and ethereal, making it incomprehensible to ordinary people. This road is the avenue of common life? Is it to ask for immortals to ask? Or is it something else? It's puzzling. Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, one is better than the other.
The so-called inaction is the only way to do something, which is Lao Tzu's consistent advocacy. Don't do things that are useless and cause chaos, which will damage the original way of social change and development. So why advocate a return to primitive society? Could it be that the primordial world is conducive to the evolution of the social avenue? It's hard to understand.
Unlike Lao Tzu's inaction, which is to have a do, Zhuangzi is completely inactive, do nothing, and return to nature is the best state. So let's take it a step further, is it the ideal way to do it?
The Mo family, to this day, is much less famous than the other three. I don't know if it was deliberately done by the rulers, or if the Mohist doctrine could not keep up with the trend of the times, and it was difficult to know. The concepts of love, non-aggression, anti-war, ranger, and equality are the core tenets of the Mohist school.
There are many differences between Mohist theory and Confucianism on ideas. The love of Mohism lies in the love of undifferentiatedness, while the love of Confucianism lies in the love of difference and the love of rank. What the Mohists said is to earnestly stand on the stand of the common people and seek benefits and development for the people, which is somewhat in line with the Marxist mass viewpoint.
However, this world is the world of differences, and there is a difference between people who are close and estranged, and undifferentiated love is unrealistic for the common people themselves, but the ruler can love the world and love the people like sons, which is a proposition that can be implemented. The means are different. It has to be mentioned that the Mohists are unique in terms of machinery manufacturing and tool use, not only from the ideological level for the benefit of the people, but also from the specific level of utensils for the common people.
Each family and faction are different, why not take the essence of it, and the process of dealing with the incident cannot be biased towards a single school, and the different situations in the future should be solved by the strengths of each family.
Thinking of this, Qu Yuan finally settled down after a busy day. You can also sleep peacefully. The excitement of the first arrival in Lantai gradually calmed down, and was unconsciously replaced by exhaustion and sleepiness.
( Pre-Qin Zhuzi prose: the representative works of representatives of various schools from the pre-Qin to the early Han Dynasty, each school is divided into Confucianism, Taoism, Yin and Yang, Law, Name, Mo, Vertical and Horizontal, Miscellaneous, Agriculture, Novels and other ten schools. The prose of the pre-Qin princes includes the works of various families, and there is a text that says, "All the sons of the hundred and eighty-nine families, four thousand three hundred and twenty-four articles"
Qu Yuan integrates Confucianism, Taoism, and Mohistism. However, it is ideologically consistent with Confucianism, such as: Confucianism advocates: moral government, benevolent government. Qu Yuan's proposition: Confucianism advocates the return of the world (the virtuous live in it), Qu Yuan advocates (the virtuous are in power), Confucianism advocates (loving people), Qu Yuan advocates? (sympathy for the people), Confucianism advocates (exalting talents), Qu Yuan advocates (exalting talents and empowering talents), Confucianism opposes Qin's war policy, and Qu Yuan also opposes Qin's violent conquest)