Wang Anshi and his son were a bit stimulated, and they didn't know how to respond for a while. Shen Long didn't rush him, and waited for a while before continuing to ask, "Does Jie Fu know where the root of Confucianism's problems lie?"

"Please also ask the Taoist priest for advice." Seeing those pictures of fruitful crops, Wang Anshi carefully recalled what he had learned and felt that there were no records of this in the saints' classics, only the "Book of Pan Sheng" and "The Book of Pan Sheng" in the Western Han Dynasty. The two agricultural books "Qimin Yaoshu" written by Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty are slightly involved, but these are not Confucian works. Their authors may be Confucian scholars, but what they wrote is very different from the Confucian classics.

Shen Long pressed on the book-like object, and a circle appeared on the curtain. He pointed at the circle and said, "I think Confucianism is like this circle, and the classics of saints are like the outer ring of this circle. Zhou Gong, Confucius, Mencius, etc. People frame this circle tightly, and later generations of Confucian scholars can only make fuss about it."

"It can also be said that later generations of Confucians believed that the sage had clearly explained the great road. Whether it was cultivating one's morality and uniting one's mind, or governing the country and bringing peace to the world, as long as one understood the sage's meaning, there would definitely be no problem. What does Jie Fu think? ?" This is equivalent to treating the sage's classics as unshakable Guigao.

Wang Anshi pondered for a moment. No one had ever analyzed Confucianism in this way before, but when Wang Anshi thought about it carefully, it seemed that Confucian scholars of all dynasties had done this. He also regarded it as the right principle and did not think there was anything wrong with it, so he nodded in agreement. Then ask, "Sure, what's wrong with that?"

"If there is only a corner of the world, the Central Plains, and if everything in the world has remained unchanged since the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, there is nothing wrong with it. However, the Great Master of the World has also seen that the Central Plains is only a corner of the world; time has changed, and everything in the world has changed. It cannot remain unchanged. The world is changing but Confucianism remains unchanged, and it will eventually be unable to keep up!" Shen Long sighed.

"There are differences between the Confucianism of today and the Confucianism of the Han and Tang Dynasties. It cannot be said that Confucianism has not changed." Wang Yu could not help but retort.

"Haha, no matter how much it changes, it's still just making a fuss in the circle. At best, it's checking for omissions and filling in the gaps. At worst, it's like building a dojo inside a snail shell. What's the point of doing this?" Shen Long He sneered and said, "Moreover, you regard the sage's classics as iron rules, but are the sage's classics really without errors?"

Hearing this, Wang Anshi and his son were a little excited, and immediately wanted to refute. Shen Long raised his hand to stop them, and then changed the picture, "The Book of Rites is a Confucian classic, right? You two should remember that there is a "Rotten Grass Turns into a Firefly" ' the words."

"This sentence comes from "Book of Rites - Yue Ling", the text says: 'The month of Jixia.\nThe sun is in the willow.\nIn the dim fire.\nDan Kuizhong.\nThe day is Bingding.\nThe emperor Yandi .\nThe god Zhurong.\nThe insect feathers.\nThe sound symbol.\nLin Zhong in the law.\nThe number is seven.\nThe taste is bitter.\nThe smell is burnt.\nIt is worshiped in the stove. \nSacrifice to the lungs.\nThe warm wind begins.\nCrickets live on the wall.\nThe eagle is learning.\nThe rotten grass is the firefly.\n'" Wang Yu blurted out, is there anything wrong with this?

"The transformation of rotten grass into fireflies means that fireflies are transformed from rotten grass. Is this what it means?" Shen Long asked, and Wang Anshi and his son nodded.

"However, this is not the case." The picture on the wall moved, clearly showing Wang Anshi and his son the whole process of fireflies laying eggs in aquatic plants in summer, the larvae pupating in the soil, and turning into insects the following spring. "Fireflies just Eggs are laid on water plants, and small fireflies are born from insect eggs, but not from rotten grass."

This is what Han Dachui used to attack Confucianism. Shen Long was deeply impressed by this and happened to use it to point out that the sage's classics were not perfect. "If Jiefu doesn't believe it, you can go to a place with many fireflies and observe it, or simply observe it in the yard." Raise some fireflies and you will know whether I am right or not."

"Even so, this is just a small oversight." Wang Yu still couldn't accept it.

"Okay, let's just treat this as a trivial matter. Let's talk about something more important. Confucianism has always respected the rule of three generations and has always regarded the rejuvenation of the three generations as the highest ideal. Is that right?" Shen Long asked again.

"However, Confucius said: 'The journey of the great road, and the heroes of the three generations, Qiu has not caught them, but they have ambitions.'" Wang Anshi nodded in agreement, Mencius said that he must be called the three generations, and Wang Anshi always respected Mencius, so he praised the three generations. Zhi's esteem is far higher than that of ordinary Confucians.

Is there any problem with this? Wang Anshi and his son immediately began to be worried. Even if the statement about "rotting grass turning into fireflies" was wrong, it was just a small omission, and the rule of three generations is the foundation of Confucianism.

"There is a science in later generations called archeology, which aims to study the history of ancient human society based on the material data left behind by various activities of ancient humans." Shen Long's words were a bit convoluted, but Wang Anshi and his son could barely understand them.

"All Confucian scholars praise the rule of the Three Dynasties, but how many of them really know what the world was like during the Three Dynasties? Even when Confucius Sheng was born, it was at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Confucius was not able to witness the truth of the Three Dynasties. He could only Guessing based on some crude history books."

"However, what was left in the Third Dynasty is not only the history books, but also the city of that time, with the inscriptions of the time and the tortoise shells of bells and cauldrons. The layout of the city can infer the social style of the time. The characters on the tortoise shells of the bells and cauldrons were carved by people of the Third Dynasty. The credibility is higher than the history books of later generations." This is also the content of that novel, and Shen Long feels that this must have a greater impact.

The scene changed and it was replaced by the Anyang Yin Ruins ruins. Shen Long pointed at it and said, "This is the capital of the Yin and Shang dynasties that was excavated by later generations. King Pan Geng of the Shang Dynasty moved his capital here. The Yin and Shang dynasties have been here for more than two hundred years. It was the capital city; through the excavation of the ruins here, the palaces and ancestral temples of the Yin and Shang Dynasties were discovered, and more importantly, the writings of the Yin and Shang Dynasties were discovered!"

A tortoise shell appears on the screen, and the tortoise shell is covered with simple words, "The Yin people respect ghosts and gods, and they will use tortoise shells and ox bones for divination on important events. The diviners will write on their edges to record the origin and storage of these oracle bones." The writings on the tortoise shells are called chronicling inscriptions. If we can decipher the words on these tortoise shells, it will be clear what they looked like during the Three Dynasties!"

"Later generations will call the characters on these tortoise shells and ox bones oracle bone inscriptions. After years of research, a lot of them have been deciphered. It can be said that later generations' research on the Three Dynasties is far better than that of the Song Dynasty." Shen Long looked at Wang Anshi, who was as dumb as a chicken. Father and son decided to give them a little more excitement.

"This place is in Xiangzhou. The palace and ancestral temple may be difficult to discover, but if you send people to Xiangzhou to buy tortoise shells, you may be able to find tortoise shells with characters engraved on them. Jiefu might as well send people to Xiangzhou! Maybe some characters can be deciphered. "
Chapter completed!