Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1118 Demise is imminent
Originally, in history, after Yan Yuan passed away, Li Wei, Cheng Tingzuo, etc., helped Yan Yuan wipe his ass and make up for the loopholes almost the whole time.

Because in fact, both Li Yi and Cheng Tingzuo understand that Yan Yuan, as a Confucian school, has a huge philosophical dilemma and logical loopholes.

Li Wei is busy repairing the statement that "practice brings true knowledge", which is obviously not a Confucian system.

Cheng Tingzuo used a more ingenious method of "abstract affirmation and concrete negation". He no longer "smells" like Yan Yuan and slammed various schools, but affirmed the "sage's learning" in the abstract, and said in detail that " The learning of the sages is like the sun and the moon. How can later generations catch up with the learning of the sages? The learning of the sages interpreted by later generations is like seeing the path of the sky at a glance."

Why did Cheng Tingzuo choose this method of abstract affirmation and concrete negation?
Because before Yan Yuan died, the last words left to his disciples were very meaningful.

【Everything in the world can still be done!If you wait for the accumulation of learning, wait for it. 】

In the end, when Cheng Tingzuo arrived, Li Wei's eldest disciple, the astronomer Liu Xiangkui, was arrested at Cheng Tingzuo's home because of his private collection of banned books, leaving Cheng Tingzuo with a deep psychological shadow.

However, once a compromise is chosen, this kind of knowledge, which was originally too heretical, will eventually come to another kind of poor scripture that abandons Song Confucianism and respects Han Classics.

In the end, as Liang Qichao said, "Those who are too hardworking and like ink, those who pass it on are rare. It will not last long, and then it will die."

And the last trace in the popular world, that is, in "The Scholars", in memory of these two friends, Wu Jingzi wrote the story of Lu Xinhou's collection of banned books and Zhuang Shaoguang's lamenting "I can't do it", and resigned from the noble to return to his hometown.

It's just that at this moment, the changes after Jiugong Mountain have allowed this school to survive here, and its influence has gradually expanded.

Because, in the original history, the great Confucian Zhang Boxing said that Yan Yuan's set was the standard gonggong study, which Zhu Zi considered the most heretical knowledge.Moreover, he asserted that the logic of Yan Yuan's set of knowledge, "Chen Tongfu is the first to be promoted, followed by Wang Anshi, all of which disrupt the way of the world."

The official ideology of Dashun theory, as well as the orthodoxy of legitimacy, are exactly based on Chen Tongfu's orthodoxy.

Dashun's core force, the Liangjiazi group, received the official school name from Wang Anshi's Sanshefa.

Although, indeed, with the development of textual research, in the debate between Mao Qiling and Li Wei, using textual research as evidence, saying that "Zhou Li" is not a true scripture, but a fake book, still gave Yan Li, who wanted to do business and reform the system. School of thought hit.

But in the end, it was not the same as in the original history. In order to justify the name of the school, Li Cheng himself devoted himself to textual research, hoping to find evidence supporting the school in the classics, and the school was eventually annihilated in the revived Hanjing.

Zhao Liben, who was illiterate at this time, heard the voices of children reading in the school, and didn't know what these children were reading.

In fact, what is being read inside is the "brainwashing" book of their school.

It is their school's own "San Zi Jing".

The original Three Character Classic, of course, must be learned, after all, it is really well written, and it is the best for enlightenment.

But their own school, or the "San Zi Jing of Real Learning" that implements their school's educational philosophy, is also teaching.

Perhaps, they feel that some things have to be taught from dolls.

Ancient sages, learn to teach people.If there is a law, it will be eternal.

I was eight years old and entered elementary school.Learn small arts, perform small festivals.

When in and out, with impromptu.Be sure to grow up later, let irreversible.

To nine years, taught arithmetic.Ten years ago, I lived in an outside room.

Learn calligraphy, learn youthful instrument.It is appropriate to be simple and understanding.

And sweeping, and coping.The instrument is rough, and I would like to advance and retreat.

For 13 years, he has studied music composition.Praise poetry, dance is spoon.

And fifteen, into the university.Learn great rites and perform great festivals.

The purpose of learning is Mingde.Be close to the people and do good deeds.

Diligence technique, dance elephant heir.Learn five shooting, and five imperial.

Twenty crowns, beginning with silk.Learn the five rituals, be filial and orderly.

Dance Daxia, learn Naibo.The virtues of animals are nothing but ethics.

Thirty strong, men should be.There is no fixed formula for learning and benefiting.

Friends Sun, see what you want.The size becomes, at this time.

At the age of forty, he began to become an official.Thinking and plotting, the way advances and stops.

Fifty or sixty, official system.At the age of seventy, he became an official.

This Xuezong originated from Tang Yu.The three things are in harmony, and the six houses are repaired.

The six mansions are called water and fire.Gold and wood, earth and grain.

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Use this virtue to make use of it.In this life, three things are important.

Zhou Zuzhi, said three things.Teach all people not to brush.

One and six virtues, wisdom and benevolence.Righteousness and harmony, self-contained chanting.

One and six arts, ritual and music shooting.The number of imperial books is suitable for each use.

Confucianism succeeded, and all sages followed.Or rites and music, or farmers and soldiers.

Zi Yayan, poetry and book ceremony.Sex and nature are not to be heard.

Words and actions, loyalty and faith.It is the four ends, each earnestly.

All of these are true.

Contain scriptures and teach people to be happy.

Why so far, but chapters?
For practical learning, it is not a matter of business.

I would like to expose this as a formula.

Those who are ambitious, work hard!
In fact, it is very simple. The core of this set of things is to use the "six arts after the magic reform" as the basis for rebuilding Confucianism.

Based on art.

Although the logical and philosophical dilemmas of their schools have not been resolved.

Even though, the problem of how to learn the six arts can lead to the Dao has not been solved.

But in the end, they chose to "wait for future generations", believing that the wisdom of future generations can solve these problems. They must learn practical knowledge and focus on practice without being expelled from Confucianism.

The purpose of running the school is still the practice of the six virtues and the six practices, all of which are included in the six arts.

Through early childhood education, children were taught the revised Three Character Classic, and under the premise that the upper-level construction could not be solved for the time being, they forcibly instilled in the children the concept of "learning skills and learning practically, this is the right way".

But in fact, what destroyed them in Dashun at this time was precisely their philosophy of emphasizing practical learning.

Because the typical example of Liu Yu proves Zhang Boxing's inference: those who don't study the classics and don't straighten their hearts, no matter how much they learn the six arts skills, they can't comprehend the way of sages from the skills.

Even if the Six Arts are narrowly defined, Liu Yu has fought wars, planted cotton, and done mathematics, at least three of the Six Arts?Then why didn't he understand the way of a saint?You school can never say that he is a Confucian scholar, right?
Originally, Zhang Boxing's deduction was just a mouthful.After all, one cannot say that people like Yan Yuan and Li Wei are not Confucian scholars, right?Although they are a bit heretical, no matter it is the classics or classics, they are always worthy of the title of great Confucianism.

Similar to Wang Anshi, although in the eyes of the Great Confucianism, he took the wrong path, but he can't be expelled from Confucianism, right?

In the past, the Yan-Li School could say, look, those of our school are following the path of the six arts and practicing Congsheng. Those of us from the Real School have proved that our thinking is correct.

Now Yan Li school is more uncomfortable.

The first department of new studies, a group of students who study agriculture, arithmetic, gun shooting, cannon firing, navigation, and astronomy.However, the problem is that this group of practical learners did not become enlightened from the Six Arts.

This is obvious.

According to Yan Yuan, those who are proficient in one of the six arts are considered Confucian scholars; those who read the scriptures are not worthy of being called Confucian scholars at all, but are just literati.

That's all right.

Those who learn arithmetic and fire cannons are very good at one of the six arts, and those who can't recite the Analects of Confucius can only recite excerpts.Are they Confucian scholars?

And those who can recite the Analects of Confucius and Mencius are not Confucian scholars, but literati?

Does this make sense?

What is a Confucian scholar, is it your definition?Are you Confucius, or Mencius, or Zhu Zi?What are you?

Those of us who co-authored and recited classics since childhood are not even Confucian scholars?
On the contrary, those classics can't memorize a few words, and the words are geometric, so they have become Confucian scholars?

This is the "orthodox" dispute.

Or a battle for the right to speak.

If the Yan-Li School is orthodox, they can naturally define what is considered a Confucian scholar, and what is not a Confucian scholar is just a literati.

But the problem is they are not orthodox.

The orthodox learning established by Dashun officials also has a big problem, that is, it has never been able to complete the closed loop within the framework of Confucianism and is not systematic.

In fact, there is basically no real orthodox learning in Dashun.

Moreover, Zhu Xi's original assertion was true.If you do things and study them, you will end up making things difficult for yourself.

In the end, Ye Shi chose "physical reality", and he wanted to restrain himself and return to the ritual, and put the system first. Even if it was done like this, it still couldn't be closed.

Not to mention the plethora of problems now.

The rise of textual research has triggered a wave of textual research, a pile of fake books, so that a lot of knowledge can only be established today, and tomorrow it will be criticized as something derived from fake books, heresy.

Dashun's own "innuendo" Guan Zhong's problem of prominent learning has already caused a storm.

Now the Yan-Li School does not talk about Guan Zhongren's inhumanity, but directly recognizes Liu Yu as "although he is far from being a great sage who understands Confucianism, he is still a second-class Confucian scholar, or a sergeant."

And when Liu Yu and others were about to leave Jiangsu, and the emperor was about to make his last southern tour to reformed Jiangsu, and brought Liu Yu and others back to the capital by the way, it was inevitable that something would happen.

The current predicament of their school is really too big.

Think too much.

There are too many things to solve.

But within the stereotype, there is actually no solution.

Even the set of things they proposed by themselves was completely unjustifiable by Liu Yu, a group of new learners and practical learners-a group of people with six skills, who didn't even have the qualifications for the imperial examination, and were purely marginalized people in society.Either in the factory, or in the colony, or in the army, or in the farmland, there is really no sign that they have acquired the sage's learning from the practice of the six arts.

In short, although it is different from the original history, it seems that extinction is inevitable.

(End of this chapter)