Before, we wore the robe of Confucianism just for inheritance. When did we become Confucian’s younger brothers? This is nonsense, and we will never give in!
Well, the basic style must be like this. Baijia will not surrender to Confucianism unless it is absolutely necessary. Although it has been sanctioned by Confucianism for hundreds of years, it is only a few hundred years. Baijia said that in these hundreds of years, you Confucians have been assimilating our
At this time, we are also accumulating strength and waiting for counterattack.
By the way, although Xunzi has always claimed to be a Confucian, most Confucians ignored Xunzi as much as possible when they were at their peak, because Xunzi was probably the first person to dig out the foundation of his own school and achieve miracles.
He dug up Confucianism to the end, pushed it from the righteousness of glory to the inherent evil of nature, and finally dug out Legalism. As a great Confucianist, most legalists in later generations will quote his words when they have something to do. There is no way he can be regarded as the orthodox Three Saints of Confucianism.
, the road he paved for Legalism may not be less than that for Confucianism.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, when Confucianism was prosperous, Confucian scholars tried their best not to pay attention to Xunzi. Instead, when the Legalists had something to do, they offered sacrifices to Xunzi. Sometimes many people thought that Xunzi was a powerful figure in the Legalists, but he
He is truly a Confucian person.
The significance of Xunzi's existence is to open a new era when Confucianism's benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and faith are in conflict. Generally speaking, Confucius is the well-deserved founder of Confucianism, Mencius is the light of Confucianism, and Xunzi is the shadow of Confucianism.
Mencius's approach is only suitable for prosperous times, and can only be based on a very powerful country, while Xunzi's approach, ahem, it's not wrong to say that Xunzi is a Legalist, and can teach scheming bitches like Li Si and Han Fei who are masters of imperial scheming.
There is no problem at all in using it to control chaos.
Therefore, if Confucianism wants to save the day in troubled times, it can only be Confucian scholars who study Xunzi. The problem is that most of the time Confucianists do not regard Xunzi as a human being.
In fact, Xunzi's faction was not willing to play with those Confucian scholars, and they could play well with the Legalists, so Xunzi's faction was quite chaotic in later generations, and they probably didn't even know which faction they should be considered.
However, that belongs to later generations. Hundreds of schools were basically crushed by Confucianism. Except for the Legalists and medical schools, which could not be crushed, farmers including Xu Xing were almost crushed. Other political strategists, Yin and Yang families,
Basically everything is driven into loess.
As for Taoism, Taoism and Taoism are not the same thing at all. In later generations, Confucianism basically crushed all schools to death, and at the same time Confucianism itself was also played to death.
However, the biggest difference between the late Han Dynasty and later generations is that the families representing the hundreds of families have not yet been wiped out. Although they put on the robe of Confucianism, it does not mean that they are Confucianists.
To put it bluntly, if Confucianism could be overthrown, hundreds of schools of thought would be able to change their skins in an instant. Even the Xun family, which represents the Confucian theory of evil nature, would rebel. Speaking of the theory of evil nature, it is really not popular among Confucians...
It is also because this Xun family has no pressure at all to overthrow the Xingshan sect that is now in power. None of Xun Yu and Xun You believe that people can be purely good!
What's more, even if you are purely kind, you will sometimes do bad things with good intentions, such as Confucius and Mencius. The Xun family said that our ancestor is Xunzi, and the core ideas are not those of yours. Our comrades are all Legalists.
Heretics are more abominable than heretics. For Confucianists, Xunzi's sect might not be much better than heretics if it were not of great significance.
Similarly for Xunzi's faction, the other party is also a heretic, not to mention that the other party has been in control of the trend for so many years, so many comrades in Xunzi's faction can no longer support it.
Therefore, after determining the situation, with the cooperation of Cao Cao's side, hundreds of schools immediately arranged in full swing. If they seize this opportunity, they must bring Confucianism down from the altar. If nothing else, they must not continue to only respect Confucianism.
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The existence of official-centered thinking has led to Confucianism occupying an absolute advantage in the officialdom while only respecting Confucianism. If other schools do not put on a layer of Confucianism, to a certain extent, they will be a network that cannot be broken through.
If I have learned this school but can't sell it to the emperor's family, why should I learn from it? What, just put on the shell of Confucianism, haha, then I might as well learn Confucianism.
In this case, other schools of thought were basically forced to death, and learning was useless. Who would learn this thing? Over time, other schools of thought have more or less problems with their inheritance. Confucianism's plan was thus successful.
The family dies.
If learning is useless, it will be difficult to recruit disciples. If you do not receive a large number of disciples, there will be no way to ensure that excellent disciples appear in each generation. Without excellent disciples, there will be no way to expand the school's ideas and reverse the current trend.
Entering an endless loop until the genre bids farewell.
It is not that there are no schools that have thought about competing with Confucianism, but Confucianism, which occupies the position of morality and has people everywhere, is simply not something that other schools can compete with.
The best opportunity in history was probably during Wang Mang's new dynasty. Unfortunately, Wang Mang, the time traveler, failed to defeat Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, and finally fell to his knees under a meteor storm.
After that, all the schools of thought could only go downhill, and there was no hope of knocking Confucianism off the altar. They could only watch as Confucianism absorbed their thoughts and schools.
The reason is that, on the one hand, Confucianism is so powerful that the power of hundreds of schools of thought has been lost in hundreds of years. Even the famous schools and thoughts of the past have been shelved by the inherited families or integrated into Confucianism.
become something else.
On the other hand, after Wang Mang's new dynasty, no one who stood at the top had the idea of promoting hundreds of workers, farmers, and merchants. The once-prominent sword-making family and the once-prominent inherited medical skills were all knocked down to the bottom of society.
Unless you can forge the Mountain-Breaking Sword, or have millions of people alive like Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, you will be at the bottom of society no matter what.
All walks of life once had their own ancestors, and they were never inferior to others. Why do you Confucians stand on top of us as soon as we turn around? We used to be able to read and write, and we were also nobles. Why have our professions become despicable now?
Once upon a time, our ancestors had the same surname as the country. We once fought for the country and shared the glory with the country. Why now we have lost all our glory. The tools that once gave us glory have become symbols of our humbleness.
Why is this so? Is it because we are illiterate? No, ordinary people may not be literate, but our colleagues are literate.
We are humble just because you stand on top of our heads and look down at us. We ourselves have never been humble, but you think that we should be treated like cows and horses. In this case, you can just follow me and fall into the soil where I was born and raised!
