The craze for debating scriptures in Bianliang lasted until after the Yuan Dynasty. People’s enthusiasm for debating scriptures even exceeded the annual Yuan Dynasty activities in Bianliang.
Zhao Xi finally understands how culture is respected in this era...
At this time, it’s time for a moment that attracts worldwide attention: the court defense.
After several months of non-stop debates in four venues every day, the theories of each school of thought have basically been sorted out.
Whether it is scholars, officials, or even the people, they have a rough judgment on the final winner.
To be honest, this is quite a test for Zhao Xi.
Court debates require propositions from the emperor, just like imperial examinations require propositions from the emperor.
Such a long period of debate basically covered many issues concerning the ultimate orthodoxy of various schools of thought.
If the topic of the court defense is one that has been debated before, it will not only lose the meaning of the court defense, but also verify Zhao Xi’s knowledge.
"Official..."
When discussing court debate matters, the first thing to do is to determine the topic of the court debate. Han Qi was too embarrassed to ask the officials.
With this grand event reaching this level, it seems that the officials are trying to shoot themselves in the foot.
No! If the private scholars were to engage in debates casually, they would never be able to exhaust all the topics. After all, their structure and knowledge are only limited.
Later, those scholars who were truly capable of debating scriptures and those who truly represented the Xianxue school no longer mingled with each other.
This leaves a lot of room for court arguments.
What now? In order to maintain the nobility of the classics, the officials forced the court to intervene.
This is official, and it will definitely be flocked to by scholars. What's more, the officials allow the results of these debates to be used as a reference for the final court defense.
Likewise, whether they were senior officials, famous scholars, or ministers who were famous for their knowledge in the imperial court, in order to show their knowledge, they tried their best to come up with questions for those who debated the scriptures.
In the end, the official family had no topic to raise during the court defense...
"In the official family, scholarly debate belongs only to scholars. Even if the court is involved, it is incomparable with court debate. On the same topic, different scholars will explain it differently on different occasions."
After all, he is one of his own. Han Jiang is looking for a slope for himself, for fear that he will get stuck in the threshold and cannot get out.
"Officials, as Xianggong Han said, are in different places and different people. Even if the topic is the same, the content is different. The same topic on different occasions can better reflect the foundation of the debater's argument."
Lu Gongzhu also followed, and the reason was quite good.
It seems that the entire government agrees with this point of view.
They knew the situation of Bible debate during this period, and they covered almost all the topics that could be debated in the classics.
At this time, even if they were asked to propose questions, they would probably repeat the ones they had already argued... There was no way, there were really too many sessions held, and all of them were poor and knowledgeable. They only wanted to show off their knowledge and had long forgotten about the court debates.
This is the case.
Only then did I remember that I was still a member of the imperial court, and court debates were more important than those debates.
Now that things have come to this, I can only find a reason to convince myself.
It's not that there are no topics. Later, the imperial court intervened in the debate, which raised the level of the debate.
At this time, if you choose a lower level or a popular topic, it is better to choose similar topics.
Among the Four Books and Five Classics, the "Zuo Zhuan" with the largest number of words only has 190,000 words. However, the "Zuo Zhuan" is only a chronological history book and is not practical for debating scriptures.
The topics that can be used to debate scriptures are limited to the Four Books because they involve the debate over orthodoxy. The full list is only over 50,000 words.
Putting aside some topics that cannot be used as Bible debate topics, there are really not many. Even the topics for the Bible debate in the past few months have traces of being pieced together.
Therefore, at this time, similar issues came up in the official family, and I think the entire country and scholars understood it.
"What? You think I can't answer the questions?"
Zhao Xi doesn't have these worries.
Zhao Xi knew very well what was discussed in the entire Bianliang debate.
It’s nothing more than an excerpt... This is the limitation of the times and their fixed thinking.
Whether they are scholars or courtiers, the types of questions they ask are exactly the same as those in scientific examinations. They extract sentences from the Four Books and Five Classics and let the debaters use them to develop.
Zhao Xi's relaxation did not make the husbands feel relaxed, but instead made them more solemn.
After all, the officials did not participate in the debate, and even if they knew about it, they would not know it in too much detail.
If the officials set the question without knowing the truth, it would be okay if the question is difficult enough, but if the question is popular... it would be a shame.
"Official..."
"Everyone, I would like to ask, when debating the classics, who is arguing?"
"In the official family, debating classics is based on the classics."
When it comes to the meaning of the classics, everyone has their own understanding. In this debate on the classics, Wang Anshi's son Wang Shi truly became a blockbuster, and it also made Wang Anshi's new learning appear in Shilin for the first time.
At this time, Wang Anshi responded confidently to the officials.
He seemed to feel a little inappropriate.
The official family was often surprised. He really didn't want any changes in the official family at this time to ruin Xinxue's good situation.
"Then let me ask again, since it is a classic, why are there different opinions on it?"
Zhao Xi can actually say it directly, but doing so is a bit pretentious.
It is quite a sense of accomplishment to let these famous people follow their own words step by step, and finally land on the issue they want to explain.
Originally, Zhao Xi was just playing this court defense from the beginning...
"Times have changed, and the classics have been interpreted by great scholars of all ages. It is impossible to know whether the original meaning of the classics is the original meaning of the sages."
"Nowadays, the interpretations of various schools of thought are naturally the foundation of the ultimate classic, tracing back to the source, and using this to define the orthodoxy of Confucianism."
Having been immersed in the classics for many years, each husband has his own understanding of the classics. At the same time, he also maintains doubts about the interpretations of the classics by his predecessors.
This is the embodiment of the prosperity of the Song Dynasty.
Others had already begun to be wary of officials at this time, after all, this kind of thing was common for officials to come to power.
But Han Jiang was cooperating with Zhao Xi.
Regardless of whether the official's point is taken correctly or not, the official cannot be left in the cold.
"It is true that as Mr. Zihua said, the struggle for orthodoxy...that is to say, all schools of thought are at the ultimate root."
"Since the court debate will ultimately fall on the orthodoxy, searching for chapters and excerpting sentences is a debate on the scriptures, so going straight to the root is also a debate on the scriptures."
"The topic I came up with is...Tao!"
Zhao Xi enjoyed the confused expressions of a bunch of husband-in-law, and this was the case at this time.
"The official family, but can we trace the origin of the debate?"
Han Qi doesn't have any school disputes. Whether he cooperates with the officials or not depends on the needs.
At this point, as the prime minister and assistant, you should cooperate with the officials.
"Yes or no, it's a matter of opinion. It can be about understanding the way, discussing the way, explaining the way, or even establishing the way."
I have been debating the scriptures for several months, and the whole scholar community is looking for chapters and sentences, but I am different from you.
Debate with a clear outline is the proposition that truly fits the debate between orthodoxy.
The word "Tao" is truly a matter of opinion. It can be discussed among the people, debated among scholars, and the same can be said in the court.