Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 244 Ancient Scriptures and Modern Scriptures

  In the Cai Mansion, Cai Yong seems to be lost in memories. The friendship between him and Lu Zhi is just like Hu Guang and Chen Qiu. Although they are not friends, they appreciate each other.

  Cai Yong and Lu Zhi also admired each other’s literary accomplishments in the process of compiling the Xiping Stone Classics…

  The people who participated in the compilation of the Xiping Stone Classic at that time included Cai Yong, Lu Zhi, Ma Rike, Yang Biao, Han Shuo and others.

  However, there were many academic disputes when it was compiled...

Cai Yong looked at Fei Qian, and felt that since Fei Qian was going to formally set foot in the vortex of Luoyang, some things still need to be explained to Fei Qian a little bit, so he asked: "You know that the ruling and the opposition, except things In addition to the dispute, there is also the dispute between ancient and modern?"

   The battle between East and West?

   It is estimated that it is the dispute between Kanto and Kansai, that is, the struggle between Dong Zhuo faction and Yuan Yang faction.

   But what is the debate between ancient and modern?

  Fei Qian thought about it for a while, and suddenly thought of a possibility, so he tentatively said: "But the dispute between the ancient scriptures and the modern scriptures?"

Cai Yong smiled slightly and said, "That's right. The dispute between ancient and modern times has been going on for a long time. Since the violent Qin Dynasty burned books, many scriptures have been lost. Later, they were completed by great scholars in Qi, Lu, Yan, and Zhao. However, they were dictated by dictation, and the meanings of the words are many. Errata..."

   Feiqian nodded. Regarding this matter, he only knew something about it after he came to the Han Dynasty, especially when he was in Jingxiang, he had a little discussion with Pang Tong...

The cause of this matter is actually the dispute between schools in the Warring States period. After the Emperor Yanhuang had the big signboard of following the heavens and doing the way, the princes and emperors wanted to better rule the people under them and to allow the shepherds to always have the right to herd sheep. Just keep looking for the right religion...

From Xia to Shang, from Shang to Zhou, the imperial power gradually broke away from the form of the leader of the tribal alliance, and put on more sacred cloaks, but this layer of cloak was used to deceive those heads of Guizhou who did not know the truth. As far as the "scholar-bureaucrats" above are concerned, they know what is going on, so in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, there have been many incidents of "scholar-bureaucrats" committing crimes against the princes.

As a result, after those talented and bold rulers came to power, on the one hand, they hoped to pass on the throne from generation to generation, and on the other hand, they were worried that someone would threaten the throne in the future. It is a tool for people's thinking, so at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, a hundred schools of thought began to contend...

  At that time, the royal family of Zhou Dynasty was in decline, the feudal lords became powerful, and the "Zhou Li" that maintained the feudal patriarchal hierarchy was greatly damaged, the lords fought for hegemony, and the society was in turmoil. At this time, intellectuals representing the interests of various classes were extremely active and became an important social force. They stepped onto the stage of history one after another, wrote books and proposed solutions to social real problems, forming a prosperous situation where a hundred schools of thought contended.

   Among them, the most famous ones are Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, and Mohism.

  They each designed a set of governance plans for the emerging ruling class to end separatism and achieve unity, which laid the foundation for the choice of social governance ideas after the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The struggle between this kind of schools reached its peak in the late Warring States Period. The final result was that the Qin State, which believed in the Legalists, unified the Central Plains with iron and blood. On the ruins of the world, there are still different voices whispering, so a massacre within the academic scope was carried out...

  Many Confucian classics were destroyed and lost at that moment.

  But the Legalists of the Qin Dynasty were the first academic faction to govern after all, and there was no specific experience of the predecessors to refer to. Therefore, the Legalists followed the Qin Dynasty in the end and took a box lunch to rest.

In the early Han Dynasty, Liu Bang first adopted the Taoism of Huang-Lao to rule. Later, he found that Huang-Lao’s study of being born without dispute was not suitable for his own rule, so he was always looking for other ways. It was against this background that Confucianism ascended the throne. The stage of history...

But at that time, the scriptures were indeed damaged too much in the Qin Dynasty, so in order to establish a relatively complete system, many great Confucian scholars appeared one after another at that time to contribute their own scriptures, but these scriptures and the remaining pre-Qin scriptures discovered later have some differences. Some of the differences are mainly in the different positioning of the role of Confucius. In order to promote the status of Confucianism, the Jinwenjing intentionally worships Confucius and elevates Confucius to the position of Xuanshengsu King; while the Guwenjing still believes that Confucius He is just an educator and historian, and the Ancient Wenjing worships King Wen of Zhou even more...

  Cai Yong said: "Today, between the government and the opposition, there are many people who are fighting against each other because of the past and the present. You need to be careful. If there are people who say something about the scriptures, they are mostly the current scriptures. You can just listen to them and don't need to debate them."

   Fei Qian nodded to show that he was being taught, and at the same time thought in his heart that Master Cai Yong is a gentle sect of ancient scriptures, and he was also worried that I would cause unnecessary disputes because of other people's different interpretations of some scriptures.

   Fei Qian couldn't help feeling a little moved in his heart, Master Cai Yong really cared for him like a child! I remember back then, when I just came out of college and was about to go to work, my parents at home explained it like this. If there is any dispute in the company, just listen to it and don't get involved...

  This is really…

Ancient knowledge is limited by words and carriers, so it is recorded in a relatively simple and obscure way. Therefore, for the same scripture, or even the same sentence, there will be some ambiguity due to different interpretations of individuals, especially in the Han Dynasty. There is no age of sentence breaks, which often leads to disputes between the two schools...

   Fei Qian suddenly thought of a question, Cai Yong is the defender of the school of ancient scriptures, so who is the supporter of the current scriptures in the current court?

Unexpectedly, Cai Yong shook his head regretfully, and said: "There are many people who study the ancient scriptures, but not many learn the ancient scriptures. Lu Zigan is also a master of the ancient scriptures. It's a pity..." Cai Yong only mentioned one Lu who had left the court. Zhi, the others did not say whether it belongs to the current scriptures or the ancient scriptures. On the one hand, they are worried that Fei Qian will get close to or hostile to someone because he knows who is studying the scriptures. It is undoubtedly inappropriate for newcomers to the court, and it is also contrary to Cai Yong's consistent philosophy that gentlemen are not friends; on the other hand, Cai Yong also met people who used to study ancient scriptures before, but later turned away for various reasons. Put into the arms of this scripture, so it is not easy to talk to Fei Qian...

This time, Cai Yong readily agreed to transport his own collection of books away. On the one hand, he felt Yu Feiqian’s sincerity. He couldn't bear to let Shu Jian suffer losses again.

   Feiqian suddenly asked: "I wonder if Wang Situ learned from the present scriptures?" Now Situ Yang Biao resigned, Wang Yun stepped up again and became Situ, but he was still a minister.

  Cai Yong looked at Fei Qian, apparently wondering why Fei Qian asked Wang Yun alone, but since Fei Qian asked, he thought about it, and finally said truthfully: "Wang Situ is indeed studying the Jinjing."

I see…

   Cao said: "I heard that Situ has a seven-star sword. I would like to borrow Cao Cao to enter the prime minister's house and kill him. Even though he dies, he will not hate him!"

   Allowed to take the treasured sword and give it to him.

   …

   Seeing that he couldn't do anything, he knelt down with a knife in his hand and said, "Cao has a precious knife, and I offer it to you."

   Zhuo picked it up and looked at it, and saw that the knife was more than a chi long, decorated with seven holes, extremely sharp, and the Guobao knife...

  (end of this chapter)