Chapter 593: Literary and Martial Arts
Although there are two kinds of immortal path cultivation, there are two kinds of body refining and qi refining, which are also specialized in martial arts.
Cultivating the immortal road also has two ways of literature and martial arts, about merit is biased towards literature, refining and cultivation is biased towards martial arts, merit refers to merit and virtue, and merit does not only refer to literary affairs, throughout the ages, there are many gods with martial arts, like Jiang Taigong, Guan Zhuangmiao, as for virtue, there is rarely a relationship between force.
Generally speaking, in troubled times, the status of warriors is higher, and when ruling the world, martial arts and scholars, scribes are more important.
In view of the chaotic situation of the division of feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, Song Taizu overcorrected, the status of the warriors deteriorated, the country was poor and weak, it was difficult to resist external troubles, and finally fell into the hands of barbarians.
Han Feizi said, 'Confucianism uses literature to mess with the law, and chivalry uses martial arts to violate the ban'. When it comes to ills, the scribes and warriors are inevitable. Not only is the secession of the military force a misfortune for the country, but the greed of the literati is also a source of chaos.
The education of the pre-Qin Dynasty paid equal attention to both civil and military, and the Han and Tang dynasties still had this kind of legacy, although Sima Xiangru and Li Bai were famous for their poetry, and they also had good attainments in swordsmanship. The so-called 'get on the horse to fight the crazy Hu, get off the horse and write the army in the army', Ban Chao threw his pen from Rong and ran the Western Regions, this kind of example cannot be enumerated.
After the separation of civil and military, the scribes were powerless, sentimental and sick, and the warriors fought bravely and ruthlessly, vulgar and unwritten, all of which were not the same.
However, the later generations have too much knowledge and too many programs, and the so-called youth is endowed with poor scriptures, and they can't learn to succeed. Zhuangzi said, 'My life has an end, and knowledge has no end', and it is very futile to learn infinite knowledge with a limited life. It seems understandable that ordinary people choose disciplines with similar temperaments into some specialized studies.
However, although the all-round talents of civil and military affairs are peerless and rare, as a necessary quality, they should always be involved, not that everyone should be to the level of a professional master.
Heaven and earth are originally one, from the point of view of its creation, Taiji gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip, which are very different and different. Since its unity, most of the universe is one and two, two and one nature, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism have infinite methods, which is nothing more than a kind of cultivation, the things of the three worlds are similar, and the structural differences between people are even smaller, and the obvious thing is only skin color and hair quality.
The cultivation method is different according to the body and soul, although there is a distinction between refining the body and refining the qi. Those who refine the body can become holy in the flesh, and those who refine the qi will turn into gods and return to the void, and the yin soul and the yang spirit have become one.
The same is true of literature and martial arts, the highest level of martial arts is not the strength of the body, but the strategy of the art of war. Xiang Yu learned books and swords to achieve nothing, his uncle Xiang Liang blamed him, Xiang Yu said that swordsmanship was limited and not worth learning. If you want to learn the skills of ten thousand enemies. Xiang Liang then taught him the art of war.
Although the art of war is a martial art, it needs a little literacy foundation, and those who can become a generation of famous generals since ancient times often have a high level of cultural literacy. Examination of Wuju's "Seven Books of Wujing" is almost all the works of famous generals, Sun Wu, Wu Qi, Jiang Shang, Li Jing, on the contrary, military failures and the cultural literacy of the main generals usually have a lot to do with it, from Chen Sheng, Xiang Yu to Huang Chao, Li Zicheng is difficult to become a climate, in the final analysis, it is a lack of literacy.
Chen Sheng was born as a tenant, although he was very ambitious, and said that 'the bird knows the ambition of the bird', but his bird's ambition is also very limited in reality, 'Gou is rich and noble, and he forgets each other', which is nothing more than wanting to seek wealth and nobility. So with a little achievement, he was eager to become the king and became the target of everyone, and was quickly extinguished.
Although Xiang Yu is a descendant of the generals of Chu State and has good learning conditions, he really has no talent in literature and art, thinking that learning literature is to remember his name, and it is simply regarded as the study of account books. Du Mu and Li Qingzhao were quite sympathetic to him, and naively said that 'the comeback is unknown'. Wang Anshi's vision is relatively old, "A hundred battles are tired and the strong men mourn, and it is difficult to return to the Central Plains once defeated." Although the children of Jiangdong are here now, are they willing to make a comeback with the king?"
Xiang Yu didn't recognize the reason for the failure until he died, it can really be said that he lacked the skills to return to the sky, even if he was given the opportunity to start over, I am afraid that he would have to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Grass saint Zhang Xu watched Gongsun Auntie dance sword weapon cursive growth, this is a typical example of martial arts, Taoism uses talismans to drive away ghosts and evil spirits, this is a clear example of martial arts, civil and military two different ways to the same end, as for the poetry as a pair, the number of fists is just a small trick of carving insects, and mutual contempt is even more ridiculous.
Although cultivators belong to the category of martial arts, there are many methods of the three teachings, which are far from being comparable to those of hard work. Like Confucianism, when the heavens and men were studied, the Mohists were good at guarding the law, and the Taoists were extremely poor, and the spiritual exchanges with heaven and earth required high cultural literacy.
Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism have the most extensive influence in the cultivation of words, doctrines, and evidence, and not only occupy an important position in Shinto, but also have considerable influence in the cultivation of the fairy world.
Confucianism and Taoism, as two schools of self-growth in Zhongxia, are inextricably linked. According to legend, Confucius asked Lao Tzu about the question of etiquette, which has some incense origins.
Of course, Confucius's Confucianism is very different from Lao Tzu's Taoism, Confucianism is close to personnel, turning the people into customs, and once became an official school in the mortal world, and its influence is both huge and deep. However, the fairy world is the base camp of Taoism, and although the three emperors and five emperors respected by Confucianism are the supreme humanitarians, most of them are secluded and cultivated in the fairy world, and do not ask about the world.
This is also a line of three Qing and four royals, which is difficult to shake easily even with the power of Confucianism. Confucianism in Shinto is generally some earthly gods, human gods, enjoy mortal incense, and there don't seem to be many officials in the fairy world.
As for the cultivation realm of Confucianism, it is not much better than that of Buddhism and Taoism, although the realm is a grade, the standard is still relatively substantial.
Hierarchy is an unavoidable phenomenon in rule, and the more extensive the country is, the more effective the decrees are, and a rational system needs to be determined.
In the feudal patriarchal social hierarchy is relatively strict, difficult to overcome, so there is a distinction between nobles and commoners, and after the unification of the Qin and Han dynasties, the feudal was replaced by counties, and the imperial court selected officials, and theoretically the common people could obtain the status of scholars through the imperial examination, except for the emperor, there was no official position passed down from father to son.
In this way, qualifications have become an important criterion for dividing grades, and martial arts can also be rewarded with military merits.
There are imperial examinations and schools, the imperial examinations are evaluated by examinations, and schools usually use the number of years of study as the standard, these methods have a certain degree of truth in measuring talents, but they are always a little one-sided. Especially since the Ming and Qing dynasties, most people think that it is a harm to talents. (To be continued.) )