Wang Li didn't want to answer this question. Unexpectedly, Yu Xian had no intention of giving up. Instead, he asked again, "What does Taishi Ling think?"
What do you think?
If something like that really happened...
Wang Li felt a headache just thinking about it, so he could only reply with deep meaning, "National Master, such a big event as offering sacrifices to heaven, or anything shocking to the world may lead to unpredictable consequences!"
"Unpredictable consequences?" Yu Xian was surprised.
Wang Li could only say, "Things must be looked at separately. If there is a bad omen, then of course it goes without saying that not only the two of us will be unlucky, but I am afraid that the three princes in the court will also be held accountable for this. If there is a bad omen,
Then you have to be carefully studied by others. As a minister, this is not a blessing."
Yu Xian nodded, "Not bad."
Soon, several people arrived in front of the White Tiger Temple.
Before Zhuolong Supervisor Shen Yue opened the gate, he solemnly said to Yu Xian and Wang Li, "The imperial master is responsible for the path of metaphysics, so naturally he has no interest in my Confucian collection. Taishi Ling has the "Ling Xian Shu" for practice, and the "Ling Xian Shu" for practice.
"Lingxian Diagram" is used as a guide, and this is also the case."
Yu Xian and Wang Li looked at each other and both smiled and said, "Don't worry, no one will touch your collection of books."
Shen Yue didn't expect the two of them to answer so simply.
He said with some embarrassment, "Actually, most of the books in the palace are in Dongguan. There are also many Taoist classics and star maps summarized by predecessors. After I have settled the two of you, I will go to Dongguan to help you later.
Borrow it here."
Yu Xian and Wang Li were both court officials, so it was reasonable to borrow books from Dongguan's collection.
Yu Xian's heart moved after hearing this.
When he was in the gourd, he noticed the strangeness of the mysterious wooden box.
The line above actually appears in Laozi's "Tao Te Ching".
This shows that I, Li Er, once obtained this mysterious wooden box. It is even possible that the reason why this wooden box fell into Heming Palace is that it was passed down from generation to generation.
If you want to understand the mysteries and discover more application methods, it is indispensable to read Taoist classics carefully.
Yu Xian smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble you."
Wang Li was not interested in this. The "Lingxian Book" and "Lingxian Picture" in his hands were originally a collection of previous works. Even if there were some scattered information, they were completely invisible to him.
He declined politely and said, "I don't need it. If there is anything I need in the future, I will go to Dongguan to get it."
After hearing this, Shen Yue opened the door of Baihu Temple with confidence.
Yu Xian raised his eyes and saw that the White Tiger Palace was neat and tidy. There were several rows of seats in the middle, and there were stacks of bamboo slips on the small tables next to each seat. On each table, there were also
Many names were written with pens.
Yu Xian glanced at it and asked in surprise, "What does this mean?"
Shen Yue replied from the side, "This is the seat where the White Tiger Monastery was used to discuss the scriptures. The tables placed on the tables were also the scriptures and meanings written by the great Confucians at that time. Back then, Emperor Zhang used to discuss cases one by one.
After browsing through those scriptures and meanings, I finally cut out the complicated and simplified it, and took out the things that best represent the essence of each school. These things, taken together, are what we call "White Tiger Tongyi"."
Yu Xian nodded after listening, "I see." Then he asked curiously, "What's going on with the names on these cases? Jia Kui, Ding Hong, Yang Zhong and others are certainly great scholars of Confucian classics, but what about the names behind them?
Who wrote these small words in the appended note?"
Shen Yue laughed when he heard this and said, "The Imperial Master is a foreigner, so naturally he doesn't know about our Confucianism. After our Confucianism experienced the disaster of the Qin Dynasty, many classics can only rely on oral transmission from one old Confucian to another. In this way,
Since then, there have been different versions and different interpretations of Confucian classics."
"Similarly, these great scholars in the palace will have different opinions even if they read the same classics. Each of them has his own teacher and his own understanding. Therefore, if we want to study the essence of a certain school, we can only
Let’s look for the disciples of this great Confucian to explain it. The names behind these are the Confucian scholars we have collected who are enough to pass on the school.”
Yu Xian was speechless.
In fact, there are two fundamental problems in this matter.
One is oral transmission, which results in scholars of modern literature and scholars of ancient literature learning different things.
Another reason is that the ancient way of writing was vertical writing on bamboo slips, and there was no punctuation mark at all. Don’t talk about the same book, even the same sentence, as long as the sentences are broken differently, there will be huge deviations in understanding.
For example, there is a very controversial saying, "The people can follow it but not know it."
There are two ways to break up this sentence.
One is, "The people can follow it, but they cannot know it."
The other is, "If the people can do it, let them do it; if they can't do it, let them know it."
According to the first explanation, it is to adopt a policy of obscuring the common people, telling them what to do, but not why they should do it.
The interpretation according to the second meaning is completely different. It means that if the common people are enlightened and do things in an orderly manner, then let them do it. If the common people are ignorant, then they should be taught well.
It is conceivable that just one sentence can form two completely opposite value systems. So the five Confucian classics will have many interpretations.
When the classics themselves are not very reliable, you can imagine how important this kind of teaching from master to disciple and oral transmission is.
In this era, if two scholars meet, the first person they ask about is your mentorship.
Which book did you study and which great scholar did you follow?
This is equivalent to future generations asking you which university you went to and which major you studied.
Because even if different people teach the same book, it is completely different.
For example, "Yi" has Shi, Meng, Liangqiu, Jing and other schools in its academic inheritance; "Shangshu" has Ouyang and Xiaoxiahou; "Shi" has Qi, Lu and Han; "Li" has Xiaodai; "Spring and Autumn"
》There are different inheritances such as Yan and Yan.
Those who have these inheritances all have a very clear pedigree from their masters, and they are knowledge passed down by word of mouth.
Most of the others are just wild ways of figuring out the classics on their own.
For example, when Zhuge Liang went to Jiangdong to quarrel with the Confucian scholars, Yan Yan once asked him, "What classics did Kong Ming rule?"
This sentence may seem strange to people nowadays.
Why are you so noisy and asking people what books they are reading?
But if we look at it in the context of the time, the meaning becomes very clear.
If translated into modern terms, it would be, "Young man, you are very awesome. You can talk so much. Did you graduate in 1985 or 211?"
This suddenly hit Zhuge Liang’s sore spot!
So Kong Ming immediately had a big outburst, causing everyone in Jiangdong to change their colors.
Everyone knows what happened to Kong Ming.
He is a correspondence student who has worked hard in Nanyang!