Even if Zheng Xuan knew that the earth was round, he couldn't go around it!

The most important thing is that Fei Qian once again occupied a high moral position and suppressed the "Eight Discussions". The reason why today's Han Dynasty and the Confucian scholar clan can command from a high position is that they first substituted themselves into the identity of "disciples of sages"

Go there, and then put on a bright and shiny "moral guardian" robe, and then you can naturally kill everyone, without any disadvantage.

It turns out that the word "morality" was not passed down by the Confucius and Mencius themselves, but that the descendants of Confucius and Mencius got it from the next door neighbor. Laozi said in the "Tao De Jing": "Tao is born, virtue is the animal.

The shape of things is determined by the potential. Therefore, all things respect Tao and value virtue. The respect of Tao, the nobility of virtue, and the fate of people are always natural." Xunzi later put it forward, and it was said in the chapter "Encouraging Learning"

, "Therefore, learning only ends with etiquette. This is called the ultimate morality."

What’s interesting is that Lao Tzu is not a Confucian, but Xunzi, although he is a Confucian in name, but in his heart he pays attention to "propriety and law". If we compare it with the so-called traditional Confucian "benevolence and righteousness"

Xunzi is facing off, and I'm afraid he won't be defeated by the old man...

Basically, morality is a code of conduct and norms set by human beings in order to live together.

Therefore, as long as it is morally reasonable, it is basically in line with most people's ideas. This is not absolute, because basically there are no absolute things in the world. Just like the situation Zheng Xuan is facing now, which one is right?

That's the mistake?

If it is said that Zheng Xuan surrendered, then it is not a matter of simply modifying one sentence!

This means that Zheng Xuan’s personal information hidden in the annotations of the "Book of Rites" may need to be rewritten! It may even affect other annotations of scriptures!

This is what Zheng Xuan has the most trouble with.

The "moral" standards respected by "scholar-officials" are very high, almost as high as those of sages. It is okay to talk and criticize others, but if you want to use these "sage morals" as a measuring standard for yourself...

Zheng Xuan felt terrible just thinking about it.

Zheng Xuan was not a saint, so when he annotated the scriptures, he would more or less add some personal information based on his own wishes. This is a very common behavior. Confucius did this, Jia Yi did it, and Zheng Xuan did it too.

After that, a group of people later did the same thing.

Because in the process of translation and annotation, it is simply too easy to "include private goods".

There are some novices in later generations who often say that articles written by others are "containing private goods". It seems that by saying this, they are standing in the position of judge, superior and comfortable, but in fact these novices

I don't even know the definition and scope of "containing private goods". I just heard others say it, and then followed it myself to show my "smartness", just like those guys who are stupid when reading the annotations of the Bible.

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There were only two ways before Zheng Xuan.

It was obviously impossible to continue on the opposite path to Fei Qian's, and it was impossible for Zheng Xuan to jump out and criticize what was wrong with Fei Qian's annotation that "you cannot punish a doctor"...

Because no matter what he said, he could not get around the "ritual", so Zheng Xuan had to change his annotation at the moment, but how to change it was a difficult problem. One way is to block the back door that he originally opened, and follow the "

The original intention of "Book of Rites" is to only talk about the etiquette of driving, without adding anything else. The other direction is of course to be consistent with Fei Qian, and replace the back door originally given to the "scholar-officials" with the shackles of the "scholar-officials".

It seemed that it was more appropriate to choose to be honest and discuss the matter as it happened, but Zheng Xuan felt that something was wrong, and his intuition told him that if Zheng Xuan really did this, he would probably fall into another pit.

"Mr. Zheng..." A servant reported in the corridor, "Guo Zini came to pay homage..."

"Oh?!" Zheng Xuan raised his eyebrows, his face showing joy, "Please come quickly!"

Not long after, Guo Yuan walked in and prostrated himself before Zheng Xuan, "This disciple has met the Master! It is Yuan's fault that he has not been able to serve the Master for so many years!"

"Get up...let me see...it's still the same..." Zheng Xuan walked up and helped Guoyuan, "When will you come to Chang'an? Why didn't you let me know in advance, so I could send someone to pick you up?"

you?"

Guoyuan was dressed in black plain clothes. Except for a small piece of jade hanging from his belt as decoration, he looked as simple as a farmer. His complexion was slightly dark, obviously caused by the daily wind and sun, and

The appearance of ordinary gentry children is completely different.

"Replying to Master," Guoyuan said respectfully as before, "I am so stupid, how dare I bother Master... I arrived in Chang'an the day before yesterday..."

"The day before yesterday?" Zheng Xuan nodded. "Come, sit down..."

Zheng Xuan took Guoyuan and sat down in the hall. He asked his servants to bring some syrup and dried fruit snacks, and asked about what he had seen and experienced on Guoyuan's journey. Finally, he asked, "Zini...has he been there?"

Qinglong Temple?』

Guoyuan nodded in agreement.

The biggest event in the past two days was the public trial at Qinglong Temple. There was an uproar within Chang'an Sanfu.

"Hmm..." Zheng Xuan pondered for a moment, and then pushed his original annotation on the "Book of Rites" on the desk in front of Guoyuan, "Zini, come and take a look... I kind of want to change this annotation.

I just haven’t figured out how to change it yet..."

Guoyuan first greeted Zheng Xuan, then stretched out his hands to respectfully pick up the letter Zheng Xuan pushed over.

Zheng Xuan looked at Guoyuan's movements and couldn't help stroking his beard slightly. He had somewhat guessed what Guoyuan would say...

Sure enough, after a moment of silence, Guoyuan put the slip on Zheng Xuan's desk again, then lowered his head and said, "Master, why don't you just tell me directly?"

"Speak directly?" Zheng Xuan frowned slightly, "Why?"

Guoyuan indeed chose this plan, just like the person himself.

As upright as a stone.

"Then do you know..." Zheng Xuan frowned and tapped his fingers on the slip twice, "If you tell it directly..."

"Master..." Guoyuan bowed slightly, "The disciple knows that the master's move is for the safety of the students in the future. The master has worked hard, and the disciple also admires it."

Zheng Xuan's brows relaxed slightly, "Then why did you..."

"Master..." Guoyuan lowered his head and said, "Don't talk about what happened, don't admonish for what happened, and don't blame the past."... In the past, the sages were not afraid of hardships and dangers, nor were they greedy to change their ways.

How did the Six Kingdoms come to have peaches and plum blossoms bloom all over the world? The true meaning of the scriptures does not lie in the slips, but lies in the heart..."

Zheng Xuan took a long breath, pinched his beard, and was silent.

Zheng Xuan left these "back doors" not entirely for himself. Now that he is old, even if he can use these "back doors", how long can he use them? Zheng Xuan has experienced the disaster of party imprisonment. At that time, he

I just thought that if there were "Eight Comments", there wouldn't be so many Confucian students, including himself, who would have suffered so many unfair injustices...

But now Guoyuan's words confused Zheng Xuan again. Could it be that what he did was not necessarily right?

Could this be the meaning of hussar?
Chapter completed!