The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations compiled by the thinker and educator Confucius and his disciples in the Spring and Autumn Period, and recorded the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples. It was written in the early Warring States Period.

It is one of the classic works of Confucianism.

The book has 20 chapters and 492 chapters, mainly quotation style and narrative style as the supplement.

It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and more concentratedly reflects the political propositions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts, educational principles, etc. of Confucius and the Confucian school.

Most of the works are quotes, but the words are rich in meaning, and some sentences are vivid and vivid in the chapters.

Its main characteristics are concise language, easy to understand, and profound intent, with a graceful and gentle, slow and implicit style, which can display the characters in simple dialogue and actions.

The Analects of Confucius, which was popular in later generations, is a new version compiled and summarized by Lu Lu and Ancient Theory.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as the Chinese in later generations have attended nine years of compulsory education, they will say two, three, and four whenever they talk about the Analects of Confucius.

From this we can see that Confucianism, or the sage Confucius, has a status in the minds of the world that no other scholar can match.

Since Emperor Wu of Han's "demolished all schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", the Analects of Confucius has been respected as the "rule of the Five Classics and the throat of the Six Arts".

It is also a first-hand information for studying Confucius and Confucianism, especially primitive Confucianism.

Zhu Xi combined the "Great Learning", "Doctus of the Mean", "Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" into the "Four Books", which made its status in Confucian classics increasingly improve.

Subsequently, the imperial examination began to be based on the Four Books to open the imperial examinations and recruit scholars, and then it was maintained until the imperial examinations were abolished.

For thousands of years in China, its status in the hearts of scholars and scholars has always been a sacred existence like a golden rule.

In later generations, if it were not for the revival of modern culture, its status for thousands of years would definitely be unshakable.

Even the Kong family in Lu Province has been honored for thousands of years and has remained unchanged.

Those who have not been to Confucius' Mansion can't imagine how glorious and luxurious it was back then.

It is in line with the old saying that there is no dynasty for thousands of years, only a thousand-year-old family.

An iron-clad family, a dynasty with flowing water.

Historically, although the behavior of the Kong family was despicable, others could not do anything about it.

The kings of dynasties in history had to take gentle measures against them to win over scholars all over the world and then consolidate the country.

In one sentence, the three immortals of making contributions, making words, and establishing virtue have been achieved to the extreme.

The first one is pushed to three thousand years and the next one is pushed to three thousand years, but nothing is right.

The members of the chat group know this very well.

Even if you don’t know much about Confucianism and the status of Confucius in the minds of scholars, you can still understand one or two things.

It is precisely because of this that after listening to Cao Zhengchun's words, a very absurd feeling arose in everyone's hearts.

Is this how the Analects of Confucius explained?

If Confucius knew, he would not jump out of the coffin and curse?

[Administrator] Emperor Shi Huang of Qin: "This is the first time I have heard this statement! But I have to say it, it's quite interesting!"

Distorting Confucius's meaning, such people are not ordinary madman, and calling them madmen is considered modest.

Over the years, any scholar has not regarded it as a standard and respected it extremely.

Anyway, Ying Zheng had never heard of it. Some people dared to distort Confucius' "The Analects of Confucius" and use it as a spoof.

If someone really does this, everyone in the world will drown him if he spits.

Not only that, it will also be written into books by countless people, criticizing him and making him infamous for thousands of years.

I didn't see that Ying Zheng just killed some alchemists back then, and was criticized by later scholars for thousands of years. Can't he turn over?

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Indeed, I have to say that this statement is very suitable for our family's taste!"

That year, Zhu Yuanzhang ended the Mongolian rule in the Central Plains, causing China to return to the rule of the dynasty established by the Han people, and established the Ming Dynasty;

Unified the whole country and ended the war; vigorously developed production, developed water conservancy, and worked hard to eliminate corruption, laying the foundation for the prosperity and stability in the early Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the scholar Song Lian presented the book "The Great Yanyi" written by the Neo-Confucianist Zhen Dexiu of the Southern Song Dynasty to Zhu Yuanzhang, which was valued by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang's family was poor when he was a child and had never read a book. He could be considered a lot of words.

But after becoming emperor, he knew the importance of reading and knowledge, so he studied hard day and night, and knew very well about Confucian classics.

"The Sermon on the Imperial Ming Dynasty" records a reading thought of Zhu Yuanzhang:

"I initially thought that officials were not trusted, and eunuchs went to and from the palace to raise their graces and keep their affections in order. If you have something to do, you will not let me down. When I read "The Great Yanyi", I saw that eunuchs were in charge of their work and defeated people and countries. Although they said that the eunuchs were wrong, they were also favored by the rulers. They were forced to make eunuchs not be able to be disciplined by soldiers or political affairs. Even if they wanted to be in chaos, could they get it!"

After summarizing the experience of autocratic rule in previous dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang also sighed: "Those who are based on the heart are morality, benevolence and righteousness, and their use is infinite; those who are based on the law are power and tricks, and their use is sometimes exhausted."

Confucius was the master of Confucianism, and his sacrifice to Confucius became a symbol of respecting Confucianism.

Like most founding emperors, when Zhu Yuanzhang had just ascended the throne, he ordered the worship of Confucius by the Tailao ceremony.

One of the main reasons why Confucianism has been successful in all generations and has been loved by upper-level leaders is its emphasis on education.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang knew this and vigorously developed official education with Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism as the official academic.

Under its promotion, the Ming Dynasty became the first dynasty to clearly stipulate that all counties and counties across the country should establish official Confucianism.

For him, whether it is Confucianism, Buddhism, or Taoism, they are just tools to maintain rule.

From the perspective of the superior, he certainly hopes that the better this tool is, the better it is, and does not hope that this tool will have its own ideas, so it will not be easy to control.

Therefore, later Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that when the imperial examination was held, the questions should be drawn from the Four Books and Five Classics, and a complete system was formed.

Wu Chen, a Grand Secretary of the Dongge, also ordered Wu Chen and others to choose relevant content from Confucian classics based on the three aspects of "respect for heaven", "loyalty to the emperor" and "filial piety to parents", and specially compiled them into books in order to form a consistency of thoughts across the country.

This is used to imprison the thoughts of scholars and better safeguard the ruling status of the Zhu family emperor.

Similarly, Zhu Yuanzhang was not a stubborn person. He liked to boldly question the annotations of later Confucianism and directly explain his own interpretation of the classics.

However, his annotations are secondary creations based on the original basis and have not escaped from the original cage.

Therefore, after seeing Cao Zhengchun's words, Zhu Yuanzhang was quite interested.

If you comment on "The Analects of Confucius" from this bizarre perspective, the author must be a rebellious person.

Perhaps, only in the era of ideological liberation in later generations will there be the value of such people's existence and opportunity to survive.

Wang Lei: "What a bizarre statement, but if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with this kind of annotation!"

Ji Ning: "That's true. After all, the era when Confucius lived was not peaceful. If we only rely on benevolence, righteousness and morality, we would probably have been three feet tall in the grave!"

Hong Yi: "Distoring Confucian classics is an evil disciple!"

Fang Yun: "Hiss...I must know this person! I can't say that my opportunity to attain enlightenment will appear in this person!"

Zhou Qing: "Hey, if you have a chance, I will ask Confucius! Confucius in my world is a powerful man!"

[Administrator] Fang Han: "@Fang Yun, brother, do you take this seriously? Do you really feel the opportunity to attain enlightenment?"

[Administrator] Qin Yu: "If Brother Fang Yun can really be allowed to prove the truth, then this person's words are not unreasonable!"

[Administrator] Wudang Dao Ren: "It's not bad, you must pay attention to it. Even if you only have a small opportunity to prove the truth, you must not miss it!"

When everyone saw Fang Yun's words, they became even more interested.

Of course, everyone did not doubt Fang Yun's words.

The world of Fangyun takes the Tao of Talent as the mainstream Tao.

The great way of talent is commonly known as the way of scholars.

As long as you understand the profound meaning of Confucian classics, you can gain powerful power.

Now, Fang Yun has reached the end of the Great Dao of Talent and has become the supreme existence of the Taiyi Realm.

It is only one step away from entering the realm of Eternal Daluo.

The newly-entered little guy in Cao Zhengchun's group had a distorted version of "Run Yu", which could actually touch Fang Yun's opportunity to prove his truth.

It can be seen from this that this so-called distorted version may not necessarily be a mistake.

Although he was a little envious of Fang Yun's good luck, the members of the group were all happy for him at this time.

[Group Master] Renzu: "@Fang Yun, is this true?"

On the other side, Li Luo, who was diving and peeping the screen, also saw the chat record.

When he saw Fang Yun's words, he emerged and no longer invisible.

The opportunity to attain enlightenment is hard to find throughout the ages and will be fleeting.

This matter is even more careless.

While speaking, Li Luo had a divine thought and looked at the world of group members that Cao Zhengchun mentioned.

This is a small world with a background of Zhao Ji, Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was about seven years before the Jingkang Rebellion.

Yes, it is the famous calligraphy and painting emperor in later generations.

It can be said that he was born in the wrong era.

If you were born in later generations, you would not be able to get the title of great calligrapher or great painter.

But unfortunately, he not only gave birth to the wrong age, but also gave birth to the wrong birth.

As an emperor, he is not good at doing his job, is keen on calligraphy and painting, and is weak and incompetent.

No wonder, the Zhao Song Dynasty was destroyed within a few years, and was captured by barbarians and tortured to death.

Gu Chuan

Deserve it!
To be continued...