Chapter 577: History Books

Phaethon put the phone aside.

"How?" Shang Luo took the time to ask.

"It's really supposed to be scolded, Yunqiu feels that it should be scolded."

"That's right, it's really worth scolding. Leaving us with so many troublesome things, their academic attitude is really improper. ”

"Say." Phaethon suddenly asked, "I'm also interested in what you think. What do you think about this from your hometown, I mean 'yours'? ”

"The views of both sides are unanimous in this regard. The ancients scolded when they should have scolded, and at most they were ridiculed by the Venerable. Confucius is a venerable one and cannot be scolded. But Song Lian is from this dynasty, and he scolds when he scolds. Fang Xuanling is the old yellow calendar of the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse, and he scolds casually. ”

"Tsk, I can't learn. It's understandable, though. ”

"Where's the guys?" Shang Luo asked.

"On our side, Aristotle and Plato, though they are also alive, their words are as unshakable as the gods, like the oracles of Delphi."

"Hey, as if you really would believe it. You haven't believed much in the oracle of Delphi for the last dozen years. 】

"That's because many people know about you, and they are a little skeptical about your skill level."

But Aristotle was also a human being! Why was Aristotle exempt? 】

"Because. It's hard to say. Phaethon shook his head and said, "Maybe it's because our entire civilization is on top of it, so we really can't change it." When I think about it this way, this historical burden is really a bit heavy. Well that made me have more to say about another question. More doubts. ”

The compulsory course of the history textbook of Fa Ertong was flipped out and shown to Shang Luo.

"This paragraph? Dayu controls the water? Any questions? ”

"The origin of civilization can also be written? And can it be written so specifically? Where Greece came from is a mess, and where the Romans came from is even more difficult to say. This cannot be said. ”

"Why?"

"Well," Phaethon thought for a moment, "you can understand it this way: Greece and Rome were essentially two peoples. But there is a myth that binds the two sides together – after the fall of Troy, the Trojan prince Aeneas went into exile in the West, first to Carthage and then to Rome: this is very important, because this is the story that connects Rome and Greece. ”

"Can't say this?"

"This is absolutely not to be touched, whoever touches it will die. Because if you think about it with your head, you know that there is something wrong - the Trojans ran to Rome to re-establish the state, isn't this a gold plastering on their own heads? It is nothing more than to raise Rome's origins and raise Rome to a position on a par with Greece, so that the origins of Greece and Rome can be integrated. Because in the Battle of Troy, half of the gods were on the side of Troy, which means that Troy is qualified to share the world with Greece. And your side. Can it also be said that Shun imprisoned Yao? ”

"Tsk." Shang Luo shook his head, you might as well ask Yunqiu, I didn't say anything here.

"Yao Shunyu." Yunqiu took the phone and flipped through the compulsory first part of the history book, because the history book is told in chronological order from ancient times all the way down.

"That's easy to understand. Yao is six people, Shun is eight people, and it is not a story between two people at all. ”

"Wait, is this also updated?"

"yes, updated. We have systematic historical research, all of which have been researched. The part you see, I think that in ancient times, there was only Yao Shunyu and the like, which was written by Sima Qian, and Sima Qian's old man was very bad. What else did he write about Chi You taking a panda to fight the Yellow Emperor, do you believe this? ”

"I believe it, didn't Chiyou lose?"

"This one does. But it's impossible to think about it, pandas roll on the ground as soon as they appear, they have no craving for fresh meat, and they don't have hunting instincts when they see humans. After that, there will only be King Mulu. I think this credibility is similar to that of King Mulu, who also wrote nonsense by Luo Guanzhong anyway. Hey, if you want to say that Shi Nai'an writes the best, and what you write about cannibalism is called a wonderful. You have to splash cold water to eat people's hearts and livers, which is wonderful. ”

"Hmm," Phaethon nodded, "maybe that's the problem." Our attitude towards history, and toward the ancients, is completely inconsistent with yours. We are not too keen on archaeology, nor are we very interested in studying ancient texts. ”

"Why?"

"Because it's useless to get the evidence out. We are only learning from Aristotle, but his words have already been recorded. Even if it is updated, it will not be of much use, because there are only a few books that have been studied by the world. ”

"Hmm," Yunqiu thought for a moment, "so this creates some obstacles to your study of history, right?" ”

"It's really terrible to write all the ancient history in such detail, one by one. The ancient history of Greece can only be traced from the Homeric epics, but the stories recorded in the Homeric epics are also ancient to the "Greeks" in general. Because of the time of Homer's epic poems, those later stormy kingdoms did not exist at all. ”

"So, you have to accept this view of history, otherwise it will be difficult to score. History is history, and every detail of history can be studied and learned. ”

"Okay. I understand. So this part is."

"Ah, you simply look at the textbook is equal to correspondence, there are many contents of correspondence that you can't learn, such as Dayu's water control This part of our teacher is specially emphasized in class. This is what is often said, 'reason is in the first place'. ”

"What do you mean?"

That is to say, although Confucius later engaged in benevolence, at the beginning of our civilization, science was the most important. The cornerstone of our entire civilization is science. Because from the perspective of historiography rather than mythology, Dayu's water control is a process of founding the country, and the cornerstone of the founding of the country is engineering in science. In the process of controlling the water, Dayu turned to the world - the world as we know it - in the process, he gradually formed a concept that is enough to unite us all through the deployment of manpower and resources: the reality is cruel, and we all treat it from a scientific and prudent perspective.

"Specifically." She added, "In the process of controlling the water, Dayu will definitely involve manpower, resources, and even the deployment of the army." And the world at that time was subordinate to him because the people at that time had formed a consensus that 'we need to be rationally united'. Thus, our civilization was born from this vast project. Through this, the state appeared. So before Yao Shun was a myth for many people, eight or six. And starting from Dayu, Dayu is a person, he is the first person to dictate the eons, there is no doubt about it. ”

(End of chapter)