The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 85 Li Zhi
When Wang Wenlong was in college, he also learned piano in order to pursue girls in the music club. Although his piano practice was not very good, his understanding of music theory was still at a passing level.

Wang Wenlong was shocked when he first saw Bach's score of Canon the Crab, and now he shamelessly plagiarized it for himself.

Wang Jide read the score again and again, and said solemnly: "Sir, you are a great talent, I finally know what kind of music can be produced by counterpoint."

Wang Wenlong smiled and nodded. The reason why he copied the Crab Canon was to show Wang Jide the European composition thinking. Looking at Wang Jide's thinking, it was obvious that he understood it and was a little eager to try it.

If polyphonic music and harmony are not studied, then the significance of the twelve equal temperaments will hardly be apparent. This is the reason why the Ming Dynasty's twelve equal temperaments were not widely known in the original time and space.

Now, after Wang Wenlong's prompting, Wang Wenlong was already looking forward to Wang Jide being able to write "Twelve Equally Tempered Music Scores" in the Ming Dynasty of this era.

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Shopping mall, Huangshan Mountain.

Li Zhi is 73 years old this year. He has a shaved head, a cotton hat on his head, tattered monk robes, and an unkempt beard. He looks like a crazy old monk.

"Sir, be careful, your feet are slippery."

Yang Dingjian supported Li Zhi slowly up the hillside, serving him carefully all the way, for fear that Li Zhi would fall.

He was Li Zhi's loyal disciple. After listening to Li Zhi's lectures in Macheng, Hubei, he followed him wholeheartedly. He spent money to collect all kinds of books that Li Zhi needed and tried his best to publish the books written by Li Zhi.

After hearing Yang Dingjian's words, Li Zhi laughed at himself.

"The huge Zhifo Temple has been burned down. I am still alive. How can I fall to my death on this mountain road?"

After he finished speaking, he burst out laughing, his laughter full of self-deprecation, but Yang Dingjian on the side listened with pain in his heart.

He knew that Li Zhi was also very sad at this time.

Li Zhi had once been elected as an official, and had been an official until he became the prefect of Yao'an. It was a great blessing to be promoted to the prefecture with only the title of Juren, but he had no intention of doing so.

Twenty years ago, Li Zhi resigned from Yunnan and came to the home of his friend Geng Dingli in Huang'an, Hubei Province. While serving as the Geng family's private school teacher, he began to write books and lectures, and gradually became famous.

Li Zhi's thoughts are not so much similar to those of the Ming Dynasty as they are more similar to those of Wang Wenlong's later generations.

When he was 12 years old, he wrote "The Theory of Old Farmers and Old Farmers", which greatly ridiculed Confucius's remarks that farmers were villains; after he gave lectures as an adult, he openly refused to praise Confucian sages, believing that "Although Confucius is mediocre, he is just like everyone else"; for Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism The "sage" Zhu Xi directly said that he would harm future generations in name only.

Li Zhi also said bluntly about all Confucian classics: they are just the author's discussion of some specific issues and are not the so-called "truth."Li Zhi believes that times are different and Confucianism cannot solve all problems thousands of years from now.

On this basis, Li Zhi spoke boldly on all social problems he saw.

He believed that women were equally intelligent as men. As long as it was not strenuous physical labor, women could do as well as men. So why couldn't women be emperors?He publicly praised Wu Zetian as a saint as emperor and was no worse than other emperors. He also believed that women could choose their spouses independently and had the right to remarry after being widowed.

The truth discovered by Li Zhi was actually very straightforward, simple, and true, but at that time people couldn't explain it. When Li Zhi explained it, he was denounced as an alien by the world.

The Geng family who took Li Zhi in was also a scholarly family. They gradually came under pressure because of Li Zhi's lectures. After Geng Ting-li's death, his brother Geng Dingli was initially willing to take Li Zhi in, but eventually turned against him because of different views.Geng directed his letter to look for chapters and excerpts from Neo-Confucian classics to criticize Li Zhi's teachings. Li Zhi wrote directly to reply: I live in your home and see that your daily behavior is no different from others. All your daily life is also based on your own wealth. But when you talk about Taoism, you say that others do things for selfish desires, but you do things according to the laws of nature.

"You may not do what you say, and you don't say what you do!"

The root of Li Zhi's disapproval by the world can actually be seen from his letter to Geng Dingxiang: Neo-Confucianists did not do what they said, but Li Zhi really did what he preached.

Li Zhi felt that women were no different from men, so both men and women could come to listen to the lectures. Li Zhi felt that many of the Confucian classics were wrong, so he analyzed the problems one by one during the lectures, and he also published these things Written into a book.

Not only the Geng family who took Li Zhi in, but also the entire scholar-bureaucrat group would not tolerate such behavior.

Since Li Zhi left the Geng family to give lectures in Macheng more than ten years ago, under the instigation of Geng Dingxiang, the scholar-bureaucrats in Hubei have denounced Li Zhi as a monster.

But Li Zhi's personality charm is too strong.

Many students heard the training and went to listen to Li Zhi's lectures. They originally wanted to criticize Li Zhi's teachings, but after hearing them, they wholeheartedly agreed with Li Zhi's theories and were infected by Li Zhi's charisma. His reputation grew.

At this time, Li Zhi did something extremely rebellious - he shaved his head.

"The Classic of Filial Piety" says: The hair and skin of the body are received from parents and do not dare to be damaged. This is the beginning of filial piety.

But Li Zhi only thought what kind of nonsense Xiao Jing was talking about?Is it unfilial to cut your hair?What does cutting hair have to do with filial piety?

Li Zhi didn't cut his hair because he wanted to challenge anyone. It was just that the summer weather was too hot more than ten years ago. Li Zhi was in his 60s and was not in good health at the time. He felt uncomfortable with the heat. At that time, he was living in Zhifo Yuan in Macheng and saw the people in the courtyard. When a monk shaves his head, he asks the monk who shaved his head to shave his head too.

Some people think that Li Zhi converted to Buddhism, but he had no intention of doing so at all. He just expressed his appreciation for Buddhist ideas. In his eyes, all the schools of thought are similar, and none of them can completely guide real life.

Li Zhi felt that losing his hair was his private matter, but this immediately aroused the anger of Taoists. Especially since Li Zhi lost his hair and was unwilling to become a monk, people at this time naturally regarded him as a eccentric behavior that betrayed the secular world.

The officials and gentry in Macheng contacted the imperial censor to drive away Li Zhi. Li Zhi had no choice but to find friends and come to Shanxi, where he continued to talk about Taoism and publish books. Later, he moved to the capital and Nanzhi, writing books wherever he went. After publishing the book, he It caused rumors, so I had to look for the next step.

Last year, Li Zhi heard that Zhifo Temple had repaired the pagoda where he was buried after his death, so he returned to Macheng, hoping to retire in the familiar Zhifo Temple.

As a result, as soon as Li Zhi returned to Macheng, there was an upsurge of expulsion in the local area. When Feng Yingjing, the minister of Huguang, heard that Li Zhi was going to Zhifo Yuan for retirement, he directly ordered the demolition of Zhifo Yuan and did not allow the monster to settle down in Macheng.

A few months ago, amid the winter snow, the officials and gentry of Macheng went out en masse. Taoists wrote and pasted texts around the Zhifo Temple angrily denounced Li Zhi's evil deeds. He entered the temple, demolished the pagoda built by the monks for Li Zhi, and burned the Zhifo Temple to the ground.

Li Zhi could only escape all the way north with the help of his disciples, and took refuge in Huangzhi Mountain.

　Finally, I have a manuscript saved, and I can publish it regularly in the future. If there are two chapters, it will be at nine o'clock in the morning and sixteen o'clock in the afternoon. If there are three chapters that day, it will be nine o'clock, twelve o'clock, and sixteen o'clock.

　　I apologize to everyone for the unstable publishing schedule during this period.

　　
　
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