Among these remarks, most of them adopted the words of another sage.

That is, Mencius.

Don’t Confucius and Mencius separate their families?

Mencius not only expressed his desire for benevolence and politics, but also expressed his importance to filial piety, and he did so himself. When Mencius's mother passed away, Mencius sent his disciple Chong Yu to ask the craftsman to make a coffin and ordered the coffin to be well-deserved and buried his mother with a grand burial.

Chong Yu thought Mencius had too high requirements for coffins and was too extravagant, so he asked if it was necessary for Mencius to raise the standards so high and do so exquisitely?

Mencius said, "In ancient times, the coffin was unlimited. The ancient coffin was seven inches, and the coffin was called. Since the emperor gained the common people, it was not straightforward to be beautiful, but then it was done to the hearts of the people. It had to be happy; it was happy without money. It was wealthy, and people in ancient times used it. Why was I the only one who was not like this?"

In Mencius's view, the ancients could use thick coffins and heavy coffins, so they could use them themselves. Only in this way can they be considered as having their descendants fulfilled their hearts and having money. Why can't they give their mother a grand funeral?

Simply put, be rich and willful!

So, is Mencius wrong?

Actually, there is nothing wrong.

But the problem was that later disciples expanded and unilateralized Mencius's words.

Mencius was rich, but not everyone had money.

Just like why don’t people eat meat in later generations, they will sigh, “Why don’t young people go to the factory?” Uh, it’s wrong, “How can young people not perform a grand funeral ceremony”?

Once the ruler is high and does not understand the actual situation, and this argument begins to fill the superstructure, from theory to theory, never understand why this happens, and does not care about how to change it. When you just blindly consider it from your own interests, huge social problems will naturally arise.

Just like in the current Han Dynasty, although there are people like Guan Ning who advocated burial insignia, there are also more people who want to bury themselves, and even burial in great detail is still the mainstream attitude. This has led to the fact that the family is poor due to funerals, and the elderly will go bankrupt if they die.

If a grand funeral is not performed, it will be directly or indirectly scolded and accused by the big man keyboard warriors, especially the owners of the manor, local tyrants, and merchants who can benefit from the grand funeral, spare no effort to promote grand funerals, and even instruct some hired robbers to promote grand funerals in black and white, mocking and insulting those who are burying the poor funerals.

Under such circumstances, many poor people, once they are old and feel that they don’t have much time, they will go up the mountain and commit suicide!

Because of this, it is considered missing!

Not considered dead!
Chapter completed!