Chapter 27: The Lost Dog
In the usual impression, it seems that in the past two thousand years, Confucianism has always been a cowardly, weak and unlucky person who is willing to bully him, but in fact... it is not the case at all.
He is a cowardly, weak and unlucky person, and is just a funny image at the beginning of the founding of Confucianism. Yes, the sage is actually very funny, and he is not a wise and martial arts person at all.
"Records of the Grand Historian" records something, which is such a funny thing.
The sage was in Zheng, and he lost his disciples, and the sage was independent of Dongguomen.
A man from Zheng said to Zigong: "There are people in the east gate, their cheeks look like Yao, their necks look like Gao Yao, and their shoulders are like Zibao. However, their waists are less than three inches below Yu, and they are as full as dogs that are lost." Zigong told the saint to the truth.
The saint smiled happily and said, "Shape is the last. It is called a dog that is lost, how yes! How yes!"
The text is very simple and you can understand it at a glance. Moreover, things are very simple and very funny.
When the saint arrived in a city in Zheng State, he actually got separated from his disciples. How did he get separated? There was no reason. However, a saint who was said to be wise and shocking the world and was so confused that he got separated from a large group of his disciples. This must be..., are there many ways to go?
This is not the end. After the saint could not find his disciple, he immediately did nothing and stood at the east gate with integrity, waiting for his disciples to come to find him.
At that time, the saints should have this mentality: "Well, I'd better stop running around. What if I walk around and lose myself in the end? Well, I'll stand here with the door blocking the door, and wait for them to come to find me."
If a child of seven or eight years old is lost in the amusement park, and then blocks the door and waits for his family to come to find him, that would be smart, but..., you are an adult, blocks the door and waits for others to come to find him, isn't that a little cute?
Afterwards, I don’t know how long I waited, but in the end the disciple found his cute teacher.
Then, Zigong told the teacher a...that was something that he deserved to be beaten.
"Teacher, do you know how we all found you?" Before the teacher could answer, Zigong continued with a smile: "We met a man on the street. He said that he had stood at the East Gate with a forehead like Yao, a neck like Gao Yao, and a shoulder like Zichan. However, less than three inches below Dayu's waist, his haggard and uneasy look was like a stray dog. When we heard this, we went over and looked for you and immediately found you."
Zigong said that his teacher was like a betrayal dog. Even though he was not saying this, why was he so bold, rude and so mentally retarded to tell his teacher about this?
In other words, why did he say such insulting words to the teacher? Why did he make trouble for him? He just wanted to say them out and make things difficult for the teacher?
The reason is very simple. This is just a joke. The reason why Zigong insists on telling the teacher is not only to make the teacher happy, but also to relieve his own teacher who is a road-dead teacher. His embarrassment at this moment. This... is Zigong's filial piety!
To put it bluntly, it is very likely that there is no Zheng people at all, and this joke was simply made up by Zigong himself.
So, what's funny about his words?
In fact, it is this sentence: "The cheeks are like Yao, the necks are like Gao Yao, and the shoulders are like seeds, but they are less than three inches below Yu's waist." Look, it describes how timid, how specific, how vivid and how detailed it is.
However, except for a contemporary Zheng State Zichan, whether it is Yao, Gao Yao, or Dayu, they are all people from ancient times. If that is the case, what do these three people look like? How did the mysterious Zheng State person know?
Not only that, the body parts described are also very strange. They are neither dressed nor face nor appearance, but where? The forehead, neck, shoulders, and the most puzzling... three inches below the waist.
What a confused person, can he use these four parts to describe a person's characteristics?
"What does your brother look like? Tell me about it?" A woman with anticipation in her heart asked her friend.
Because he wanted to sell his younger brother, the sister pondered for a moment and said honestly: "My brother... is actually not handsome. His forehead... is a bit like Chris Evans; his neck... is a bit like Keanu Reeves; his shoulders are average, which is better than Johnny Depp. By the way, he is still great at the length below his waist, just three inches less than Beckham! Do you want to say who he looks like? Well..., his slutty little look is a bit like Song Kanghao."
This is the same joke, so after hearing this, the saint immediately burst into laughter and said with a blushing face: "This..., image... is actually not important. However, it is really accurate to say that I am like a beleaguered dog! It is really accurate to say!"
So, if any painter paints a portrait of a saint according to the description in this joke, then... would be really funny.
However, one must not be more mentally retarded. Just draw the saint like a dog, a lost dog, but the saint is just open-minded and self-deprecating when he is in trouble.
From this short story, the only valuable information that can be obtained is that in the early days of the founding of Confucianism, I was really in a miserable state. A group of people who had a home cannot return, and I could not repay the country. They ran around like headless flies all day long. Even at the most unlucky time, they were about to starve themselves to death. This... I am really unlucky, very sad, helpless, easy to bully, and... it is really pitiful.
It is said that Mozi is to support the world by pushing his head and benefiting the world. No matter how hard or tired he is, he is willing to do it. However, can the real peace in the world be achieved by stopping a few wars and protecting a few cities?
The Mohist idea of love is absolutely good. It allows everyone to fall in love with each other, build a harmonious society, and have a beautiful family. If you have something to say, don’t just play with your life with real swords and guns. Of course, there is nothing wrong with this!
But... who listens, or... who dares to listen?
In that terrifying Warring States Period, which was already the law of the jungle and the prey of the weak, if anyone dared to listen to such words, then..., no one who died will not lose money!
If you don’t want to harm others, can you still stop others from killing you, swallowing your country, destroying your home, and taking away everything that belongs to you?
Therefore, whether it is a saint who is running around like a betrayed dog or raising his heels like Mozi, it is simply not useful to promote his own morality.
The answer is whether the Mohist school has a strategy to pacify the world, because the Mohist school is a very awesome school. Not only does it have a bunch of killers and assassins all over the world, but it also has many a lot ahead of the time, which sounds like a myth.
Therefore, the entire Mohist family will definitely be of great help when the strength of everyone is still similar. At least the country's war weapons will be increased by several levels.
However, from the day when the Mohist family was born, until the entire Mohist family completely disappeared, there was no black technology used by any country.
Didn’t Mozi know the power of his school? Didn’t Mozi, who have passed through Mozi, understand how awesome his school was?
They all knew it clearly, but sooner or later, the world would return to unite, and sooner or later, and they were also firm and confident!
Therefore, compared with turning people's hearts and creating a truly healthy and prosperous era, forcing a direction of the world's general trend and ending this chaotic era violently before the hearts of people are reversed. It is obviously a matter of forcing the seedlings to grow and it is not worth the loss.
To put it bluntly, compared to turning people's hearts around, even if millions of people die, it is absolutely worth it.
Therefore, in the era of the sub-saints, the world was already the world of Yang and Mo families, and Confucianism..., the Confucianism, which was already extremely cowardly, was almost done...
Chapter completed!