Chapter 327: Descendants of the Mo Family
We brought Song Xiaotian to their doorstep.
His eyes were red with rage.
"Don't blame us, we are outsiders and juniors, your old man's order, we can only put you out."
I said, "Since you know your family's tutor, and you still talk back, isn't that uncomfortable for yourself?" ”
Meng Yifan also persuaded: "Your father and the old man are real, but they are not wrong, no one forced you to marry Pan Xiaorou, but let you take responsibility." You better think about it, if you don't understand, I guess you won't be able to come back. ”
Song Xiaotian stood in place for a long time, obediently walked into his car, and then drove away.
Today, he is indeed a little pitiful.
After he left, Song Lao and the others went to receive guests again.
It is said that things gather like and people are grouped, and Song Lao's guests don't seem to be ordinary people.
Among them was an old man who was of great interest to me.
His surname is Xiang, his real name is Xiang Long, and he is also an old man in his seventies, and he was the one who exorcised the evil spirit of Uncle Song and drove away the evil Buddha in Uncle Song's body.
What's more, this old man is also a descendant of the Mo family.
And my grandfather, Tang Chai, is also a descendant of the Mo family, so I am naturally interested in this old man.
Mohist is a philosophical school in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and one of the hundred schools of thought.
I don't know much about Mohists, I only studied them when I was in school, and I know that they are not only a philosophical school, but also a school of science in the earliest period of our country.
It wasn't until I learned that my grandfather was a descendant of the Mo family that I had an in-depth understanding of the Mo family.
Only after this understanding did I realize that the Mohists were really not simple, a philosophical school more than 2,000 years ago had discovered the principle of small hole imaging, and had also studied mechanics.
And the most famous of the Mo family is the Mo family trick.
Everyone knows Luban, and knows that Luban is the originator of architecture and carpenters in ancient China, but they don't know that in the ancient manufacturing process, the Mohists are better than Luban.
The mechanism technique recorded on my book of six mysteries is actually derived from the Mohist technique.
This Xiang Daoist is very knowledgeable, and at this time, some people are curious about the identity of his Mo family descendants and ask him for advice.
Xiang Daochang also did not hesitate to explain, saying: "Why did the Mo family perish? ”
"In fact, everyone should know that they have studied history, but the root of it lies in the ideas advocated by Mozi, the Mohist giant, and the two most important ones are, 'love' and 'non-attack'. ”
"What is contemporaneous love corresponds to the Confucian benevolence, which advocates friendship with relatives and friends, while Mohists believe that we should treat everyone like this, be courteous and respectful, and everyone should do this, and we must not be prejudiced against anyone."
"Instead of attacking, it emphasizes peace, and the Mohists oppose war, believing that those who start wars are evil, and they not only oppose war, but also take the lead in preventing every war."
Xiang Daochang said: "These two advanced ideas have already doomed the Mo family to face extinction under the circumstances at that time. ”
The Seventh Master nodded: "The ancient world is the world of kings, as the so-called Putian is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, in the environment at the time, advocating that everyone is equal, advocating that war is evil, which is shaking the foundation of rulers and nobles." ”
"This kind of advanced thinking is destined to be suppressed."
Xiang Daochang patted the back of the seventh master's hand and agreed: "This brother is right, the Mo family's requirements for human nature are very high, if you want to join the Mo family, you have to be close to the saint, you have to donate all your net worth, even if it is the giant himself, you have to donate all your property." ”
"And this money will be used by the Mohists to help the poor people in order to achieve what they think is a 'great harmony' world, which is an idea that is ahead of its time, even now, let alone more than 2,000 years ago. ”
"They have put in endless efforts to achieve this goal, but they can only end in failure."
"If the Mo family had not perished and had been committed to the development of science and technology, our technology might not lag behind the West so much today."
From Xiang Daochang's mouth, I took a deeper understanding of what the Mo family is, and I really admired it in my heart.
The word equality for all people is also unique in modern times, but it was the Mohists more than 2,000 years ago who really practiced these four words, but in fact, the great harmony of the world they worked for will never be realized.
I couldn't help but ask Daoist Xiang a question, and asked the question I wanted to ask the most: "Sir, the Mohists are the earliest scientific schools in China, why do they put forward the idea of ghosts and gods?" ”
In Mohist thought, there is a clause called "Ming Ghost", which is contrary to the Confucian principle of "the son is silent, strange and chaotic".
Mozi believed that if people do not have faith, they will become fearless, but if it is clear that there are ghosts and gods in this world, then people will be afraid when they do evil.
In the book Liuyao Xuanji, in addition to expounding Taoist thoughts, Master Zu also blended a lot of Mohist thoughts, and in those Xuanmen thaumaturgy, you can also see the shadow of Mohist technology, so I asked this question.
Xiang Daochang nodded and explained to me: "In ancient times, the Mohists, as the earliest school of science, did not have a clear dividing line between 'science' and 'ghosts and gods'. ”
But in fact, the reason why Mozi "will" put forward this idea is that he has comprehended the highest dimension of "science", that is, the "metaphysics" that modern science thinks, if you ask a Western scientist, what is yin and yang, what is the five elements of the eight trigrams, what is the pole and what is the infinity, he will not necessarily deny the existence of these things, but he will definitely say that these things are things in the philosophical category, he will not admit that these things are real, he thinks that your thing is just a concept, and your concept does not have an 'essence'. ”
Xiang Daochang laughed as he spoke: "But I want to ask everyone here, have you ever seen a ghost, have you ever fought with people, have you ever seen the resurrection of the dead, can you use modern science to explain everything you have encountered?" ”
The people present, the atheists, also listened to the music, and the people who walked with me and the seventh master laughed and did not speak, tacitly.
I couldn't help but be curious, and continued to ask: "Sir, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I would like to know if there is an exact record of Mozi's statement that he has comprehended the science of the highest dimension?" ”
Xiang Daochang looked at me and said confidently: "There is no exact record of this matter, it should be said that there is no record at all, but ......"
Before he finished speaking, Song Lao came over and interrupted him: "Why are you so old and old, you have so many words." ”
After speaking, Song Lao beckoned to us: "It's time to open the table, let's sit down, haha." ”