Fei Qian stood in the peach forest and looked at the peach trees in front of him.
The peach blossoms on the peach mountains are almost ready to bloom again.
Peach trees are deciduous trees. They are bare every winter, just like lifeless dead trees. When spring gets warmer, flower buds and young leaves emerge from the tips of the branches, and then wait until the flowers bloom. At that time, the peach blossoms were even more luxuriant than the leaves, and the trees were full of red and the green leaves became the embellishment.
"Senior sister, why do you think the master is studying and why he is willing to teach people the Confucian classics?" Fei Qian looked at the peach blossom buds and said without looking back.
Cai Yan was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that Fei Qian would ask such a question when he came here.
"I once heard a saying before, which is called teaching people... well, giving people peach blossoms leaves a lingering fragrance in their hands..." Fei Qian picked an early-blooming peach blossom branch, handed it to Cai Yan and said, " I think the master must be like this too."
Cai Yan subconsciously took the peach blossom branch, seeming to recall some things from Cai Yong's lifetime, and his eyes were covered with a layer of moisture again, just like the fine dew on the peach blossom petals.
"What about you? Senior sister, why are you studying?" Fei Qian did not directly console him, but asked the second question.
"Me?" Cai Yan raised his head.
Fei Qian nodded: "Well, senior sister is also a scholar... Well, I think if anyone in this academy, including me, really talks about reading, I'm afraid senior sister is unrivaled. However, I want to know Why do you want to study, senior sister?"
"Why?" Cai Yan was in a daze. After being stunned for a moment, he shook his head and said, "I...I don't know..."
Fei Qian was silent for a while.
"What about these people?" Fei Qian pointed to the academy halfway up the mountain and said, "Then why do these people come to study?"
Cai Yan also looked at the academy and hesitated to speak.
In fact, Fei Qian had considered this issue as early as when he was under Lushan Mountain.
When later generations studied, they basically followed the crowd. It’s not that there were any shortcomings in the education system of later generations, but the sentence hanging on the wall at the beginning made the initial foundation seem somewhat hollow.
At that time, the teacher pointed at the wall and knocked on the blackboard and said, "Look, look at it, this is the goal of your study." Then the children sitting below all looked serious and nodded in cooperation.
After returning home, the parents stared and said, you damn baby bear is not studying for your parents! It’s not for others! It’s for your future job, it’s for your good future!
Although what they say is different from what the teacher said, most of the children are nodding their heads in a semi-serious manner to deal with their parents, but in fact they have a pair of more confused eyes open, and most of them are longing in their hearts not to study or do those things. I have never forgotten my homework. I don’t want to listen to those troublesome questions. I just want to dig holes in the sand, catch loaches by the river, and play marbles with my friends...
What to do with reading?
Most children in future generations who have just received education will not have any idea.
Around him or them, although everyone's appearance is slightly different, most of them wear the same school uniform, attend the same classes at the same time every day, and although their parents and family conditions are different, it doesn't matter.
There is such a big gap between the aristocratic schools, so as a child, I basically don’t feel it.
Anyway, whether you are studying or not, you have to upgrade, all the way up to elementary school, and you don't see the difference until you reach junior high school and high school. But by that time, it is often a bit late, and it coincides with the rebellious period, hehe...
In the Han Dynasty, scholars were scholars, and the class gap became more and more obvious as time went by. Scholars could seek official status without becoming a scholar. After being promoted, they could begin to enjoy privileges by becoming a scholar. Then they could study again, take exams, and be promoted, and then there would be
More privileges…
For ordinary people in the feudal dynasty of later generations, reading can change their class. Even children understand this. Reading can lead to good food and clothing. If you don't read, you are a mud-legged person without any privileges.
Although people who study purely for personal status and power may not have such lofty aspirations and make such outstanding contributions as those who study for the sake of the nation and the country, they do not have much desire for knowledge.
Even some corrupt officials in history are outstanding from a purely literary perspective.
Only when a person faces his own desires will he not be tempted by desires and go astray.
Cai Yan's eyes moved over. "Then general..."
"Don't call me general, call me junior brother." Cai Yan turned his eyes and just started to say, when he was interrupted by Fei Qian.
Cai Yan's eyes widened a little, flickered twice, hesitated, and finally changed his words: "...Junior brother, why are you studying?"
"I want more people to study." Fei Qian smiled lightly and said directly without any pause, as if he had thought about this issue for a long time, "Reading can be very complicated, or it can be
It's very simple, but a person, a Chinese, cannot help but read. Starting from Cangjie, books have been the civilization of China. If you don't read, how can you be worthy of the ancestors who have worked hard to pass down the fire of these civilizations?"
"And there is a very interesting thing about reading..." Fei Qian turned around and pointed at the peach blossom in Cai Yan's hand, and said, "Most things in the world are less and less as they are divided. For example, I gave you this peach blossom,
I no longer have it in my hand, but only reading is different. No one in the world will lose that part of the book's content in their heart just because one more person understands the book. As long as the inheritance continues, this is the only thing that can be infinite.
Things that are endlessly increasing…”
A word or a book does not lose its original role just because more people read it. It can still be read and understood by the next person. It is precisely because of the accumulation of knowledge that there will be a great deal of information for future generations.
explode.
Cai Yan was a little surprised.
"However, scholars cannot only be Confucian..." Fei Qian continued, "Although there are currently many Confucian classics, my senior sister also knows that there are actually many classics that were not Confucian at the beginning..."
how to say?
Confucianism certainly has advantages of this kind, but this is the only one that is not very good. It refuses to face up to its own shortcomings, and just covers up and embellishes them blindly. Otherwise, the Bangzi Kingdom in later generations inherited this shortcoming of Confucianism, and everything looks like it
Fiddle with it under your own name.
"In the pre-Qin culture, Taoism followed Mohism, and Confucianism was at the bottom. But now Taoism has withdrawn from the world, Legalism has disappeared, Mohism has retreated, and only Confucianism remains..." Fei Qian said, "And the current Jinwen classics tamper with right and wrong.
The compilation of holy scriptures, ancient scriptures, quotations out of context, prophecies and theology, each of them is constantly attacking... This is not a blessing for Confucianism, but a disaster for Confucianism..."
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were many schools of thought, but Taoism, Legalism, Mohism and Confucianism were the dominant ones.
The so-called legalist theory of criminal names only looks at the opposite, and implements absolute rule, exploitation and oppression of the people. This theory also accumulated the dissatisfaction of the people to the peak when the second generation of Qin Dynasty was implemented. In addition, the old aristocrats in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period took the lead, so
The Qin Dynasty was quickly overthrown by uprisings in various places.
The Mohists, on the other hand, only looked at the unity, gave up the struggle, and tried to persuade the two naturally hostile classes to practice mutual love based on the same identity. Naturally, this kind of knowledge could not withstand the crushing oppression of the ruling class, and eventually retreated from the world and almost perished.
Confucianism is different from Taoism. It is best at clarifying right and wrong. It advocates using etiquette to control the exploitation of ordinary people so as to alleviate the struggle between classes. At the same time, it advocates benevolence and love for things and advocating morality and probation, so as to expand the identity between classes. Compare
In line with the actual needs of the current feudal society, it naturally became the preferred political guidance theory of the Han Dynasty.
Of course, there are many people among Confucians who are true Confucianists who are loyal to Confucianism. They often complain about the people's sufferings and redress their grievances. They also often do deeds to save the people from harm and disasters, and even go so far as to destroy their families and kill their monarchs.
Yan Yan directly remonstrated and asked for political improvements.
For example, the disaster caused by the Party's imprisonment started with some people, such as Li Ying, feeling that the eunuchs were causing harm to the country and causing chaos in the government, and then they rose up to resist. However, it later became magnified and then went astray...
"Senior Sister, I think there is something in this world that I am afraid there is no one more suitable than you to do it..." Fei Qian looked up at the sky and said, "I wonder if Senior Sister is willing to listen?"
Cai Yan's eyes flickered a few times, his long eyelashes drooped, and he whispered: "...What...what's the matter?"
"Stand true while retaining differences, remove the false and retain the true." Fei Qian said slowly, "Too much of the Confucian classics in the world has been tampered with, forgotten, and devoured..."
Cai Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he didn't know what kind of emotion surged in his heart. After a moment, he slowly said: "Junior brother, are you going to reorganize Confucianism?"
Fei Qian laughed, but shook his head, and said: "Confucians regard their own knowledge as their destiny, and they are clinging to the old ways. How can they allow me to criticize right and wrong? If word spreads, will the Confucian people in the world not criticize me with words and writings?"
After two to three hundred years of tireless indoctrination by Confucianists, Confucius has successfully evolved into a saint. Only then can these Confucian disciples raise their heads and proudly call themselves the disciples of saints, just like the people in the Han Dynasty who often say that they are the disciples of saints.
No matter what surname there is in the place, it belongs to the most primitive clan worship, and Confucius, the saint, is like the patriarch of the world's gentry.
What would happen in the Han Dynasty if you insulted the ancestors of a family? Even if you were chopped to death by members of the family on the spot, the government would not punish this person for murder.
Therefore, it was not advisable for Fei Qian to express any slander or dissatisfaction with Confucius, or to express his desire to surpass Confucius in later generations in the Han Dynasty, because that would not only be against Confucius alone, but also against the entire world.
The foundation of clan worship hidden in the Confucian classics family is why later generations are more accustomed to calling it Confucian "family". This is the reason.
Cai Yan frowned delicately: "Then... what does junior brother mean?"
"It's like the Xiping Stone Scripture!" Fei Qian said with a smile, "Just make another Pingyang Stone Scripture! But senior sister can indicate in it that a certain scripture is found in a certain book and was said by someone..."
Cai Yan's eyes lit up, and he immediately shook his head and said: "This... junior brother's intention is to rebuild the learning of each school? Reinvent the Mohism method? This may cause more controversy..."
Fei Qian smiled slightly and said: "Why use the word 'family'? The world is Han, so the world's knowledge is 'Hanxue'!" If you want to improve within the original framework, you need to modify and touch the areas.
There were too many, so he simply enlarged the scale. However, this time, Fei Qian no longer wanted to have the concept of "home", but placed it on the status of all China from the beginning.
It's like dividing a cake. In the beginning, there was only such a small piece, and everyone naturally had constant disputes. If there were more people, there would be fewer people. But now that the cake is bigger, even if the original proportions are maintained, it will still be more valuable than before.
Be bigger!
"Chinese studies?" Cai Yan murmured and repeated, "But...but I'm just a woman..."
"What about women?" Fei Qian looked at Cai Yan seriously and said, "Sister, some people look at you and only see your appearance. When your appearance is not there, they despise and abandon you, or they just want to borrow you.
If your body gives birth to a child and inherits your bloodline, if you give birth to a daughter or are infertile, you will be insulted in every possible way..."
"And in my eyes, what I see is the sky full of literature..." Fei Qian said slowly, there seemed to be a hidden magic power in his words, causing a faint blush to appear on Cai Yan's face, "
Senior sister, you have been reading scriptures since you were a child. Not only the books in the master's house, but also the books in Piyong, Dongguan and Lantai have been read thoroughly! What's more, senior sister has a photographic memory. At least nearly half of the books in the Han Dynasty have been saved.
Yu Senior Sister! Who dares to underestimate Senior Sister! Let him come over!"
"Pfft!" Cai Yan finally couldn't help it and burst into laughter. For a moment, she was even more beautiful than a peach blossom.
Most of what Fei Qian said was true.
Fei Qian also likes Cai Yan, but it does not mean that Fei Qian must take Cai Yan into the harem.
It is the natural instinct of every adult male to like a beautiful and charming woman, but it does not mean that when you see such a woman, you have to use your lower body to think instead of your brain.
If this is the case, wouldn't it be like how many people in later generations are willing to spend more money to get a so-called female college star female title for services, even though they know it may be fake, as if this can mean that he has played with all the female college students.
and female stars...
In the Han Dynasty, was Cai Yan's value really only used to vent his desires and have children?
Historically, Cai Yan was plundered by the Xiongnu for twelve years and treated as a female slave. Naturally, she could no longer access any books, and it was impossible to continue to read to her. She had to milk sheep every day like ordinary Xiongnu women.
Shearing milk, shearing sheep, cutting grass, etc. Under such circumstances, after Cao Cao redeemed them with gold, he could still remember more than 400 books he had read, and he still wrote them down without any mistakes!
Twelve years!
Most people in later generations have gone through twelve years of education, and still have the opportunity to have continuous access to books, as well as opportunities to use knowledge in concrete terms and memorize it repeatedly, but who can still remember those lessons recited twelve years ago?
?Not to mention that it can be written down word for word.
Not to mention others, most of the texts Fei Qian memorized in elementary school have now been returned to the teachers.
Such a Cai Yan is standing here alive. This was in the Han Dynasty, when the illiteracy rate was almost 99%, and many people only wanted to use her as...
"I will give you money, I will recruit people. If you find it inconvenient for male officials, I will recruit women!" Fei Qian said, "In the past, there were female ministers, female historians, and female cavalry. Today, there is a female doctor.
What's wrong? If it were the Cai family's father and daughter's two-stone scripture, it would definitely be passed down through the ages!"
In primitive society, women were often engaged in gathering, breeding and other work, while men were often engaged in hunting and other work. Later, men farmed and women weaved, and the division of labor between men outside and women inside gradually formed. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the gender division of labor between men outside and women inside was not very clear.
The status of women has not been reduced too much. There are even many women whose names have been seen in history books. However, as time goes by, due to some reasons, they become rarer and the "difference between men and women" gradually changes.
It evolved into "the difference between the status of men and women." Under the oppression of Confucianism, women gradually lost themselves and became obedient, and then formed the "three obediences." It was even written in black and white in the "Book of Rites"
Among them, "A woman is one who obeys others. When she is young, she obeys her father and brother, when she marries, she obeys her husband, and when her husband dies, she obeys her son."
Cai Yan looked at Fei Qian blankly, the original faint sadness on his face gradually disappeared, the rosy color reappeared, and his body gradually straightened up. After a while, he seemed to have made up his mind, and said proudly: "Okay
!Since junior brother said so, I will give it a try!"
