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Chapter 431 Talking about Xiaoci

The textbooks of Jiliguo are of course designed to meet the needs of Jiliguo. In the actual training, it is used in conjunction with another textbook, which is Shire's first ten speeches.One of its pedagogical purposes was to explain why Charles said that.

This is not only a cultural enlightenment, but also an introduction to Dongguo spoken language.

The ten speeches are "I am Shire", "Opportunity is Hope", "Our Crean District", "No More Ignorance", "Work Creates the World", "Building a Beautiful Home Together", "Who Are We Friends", "Unity is Strength", "New Everyday", "Master of Destiny".

The textbook must be very simple, so simple that a considerable number of people in Jili can understand it, and you can imagine how simple it is.The basis for its analysis of all issues comes from the introduction of the two concepts of "loyalty and forgiveness" at the beginning.

Niu Yiping had already read this textbook, so he asked Hua Zhenxing if he was a Confucian disciple?
The so-called "loyalty", the center, the fourth tone of the middle recitation, means "to build up others if you want to be established, and to achieve others if you want to achieve yourself";

These two sentences are easy to explain and easy to understand. The former mainly talks about what should be promoted, which is related to morality, while the latter mainly talks about what should be prohibited, which is related to the law. The two can be cross-validated.

Therefore, when people face the complicated world, they have the simplest value standard.

When Shen Sishu was compiling the textbook, he also introduced many Confucian concepts at the beginning, including various Confucian moral standards, but Ke Fuzi deleted them, or moved them to the end as the introduction of "super outline content", leaving only this Two.

It is like a postulate in geometry, which not only deduces the entire ethical system in textbooks, but also explains the principles of order in politics, economy, law and other aspects.

This is not a book of Confucianism, but a social training textbook. The entire text is less than [-] words. It first tells people two simple arguments, and then uses the arguments as the basis to explain the new alliance's policies, even if it is "cannot be big or small." Just" little things like that.

You don't want to step on the fly by accident when you go out, so don't fly anywhere.This sentence can be made clear, and only after being made clear can it become the basis for formulating social management norms.

Someone wants to say again, I do realize this, but when I was really in a hurry, I couldn't find a toilet nearby.This involves how to solve the problem, and then become the basis for promoting public decision-making.

When Kelin District first started the sanitation campaign, public toilets were built in every block, and the number of squatting spaces was designed according to the number of residents.

Don’t think it’s ridiculous, the above contents are all in the textbook. This textbook is not for students to read by themselves, because most of them are still illiterate, but for teachers to explain in class.

Using the same method of argumentation, one can also deduce why one cannot steal, rob, or kill...

Another example is why we should honor our parents and treat others with courtesy. In fact, it is a commentary on "If you want to establish yourself, you will build others, and if you want to achieve yourself, you will achieve others"-"What you ask for is for the son, and serve the father."

In the best possible and reasonable expectations possible, you treat your parents as you expect your children to treat you.In fact, such ethical requirements are beyond the scope of today's Jiliguo society, because many children cannot find their fathers.

But you must at least know how to treat your mother, right?Even if it's for your own children.Moreover, relatively noble ethical requirements should usually go beyond the status quo and represent a social ideal.

People who can't find their parents also hope that they can have parents, especially hope that they can get good care from their parents since they were young.So in as good and reasonable an idea as possible, if there are parents, how do you want them to treat themselves, and how to treat their children in reality.

This is the "filial piety" in the traditional culture of Dongguo.

Filial piety is an acquired theory, which is equivalent to a "theorem", while loyalty and forgiveness is an innate theory, which is equivalent to a "postulate".The system of filial piety and compassion can be derived from the principle of loyalty and forgiveness, and it can also explain various traditional cultural phenomena such as "respecting heaven and worshiping ancestors".

The specific manifestations of filial piety are different in different era backgrounds.During certain periods in the history of the Eastern Kingdom, the formal requirements for filial piety became more and more dogmatic and patriarchal, and gradually took on a decadent character.

People should criticize these dogmatic and patriarchal filial piety requirements. They are even just protecting some kind of decadent legal system in the name of filial piety, which is already a reaction against the essence of filial piety.

When contemporary Dongguo people criticize the patriarchal dogma in the name of filial piety in history, in fact, their subconscious value judgments and argumentation methods all point out the hypocrisy of these patriarchal dogmas and believe that they cannot represent true filial piety.

People have not criticized filial piety itself, nor have they overturned the above-mentioned argumentation process. Except for cultural and social subversives with ulterior motives, the starting point of most people is not to regard unkindness and filial piety as virtues.

For example, Ke Fuzi once saw Shen Sishu pretending to be clever and explaining to Manman the "Disciples Regulations" compiled by the Qing Dynasty in Dongguo. Schools also need a Student Code of Conduct.

Jili Kingdom does not have the history of the patriarchal clan era of the Eastern Kingdom, so this textbook of the New Alliance only introduces the original intention and origin of compassion and filial piety.

Originally, Ke Fuzi wanted to delete this part of the content, thinking that it was too deep for most students and not suitable for introductory education. This textbook must be very concise, and relevant content can be learned in the advanced class textbook.

But Shen Sishu finally wrote it out, and he was reluctant to delete it, and strongly requested to keep it, so it was streamlined and put it at the end of the textbook, as an extension and improvement content in the classroom.

If you just start talking about "Ziqiu Analects", no matter whether it is "rotten and backward", it will be beyond the standard and can no longer be beyond the standard. Most of the Jiliguo students don't know what they are talking about.

The four dimensions and five constants in the traditional culture of the East, that is, "propriety, righteousness, honesty, shame" and "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness", are not directly thrown out in this textbook, and are also placed at the end , derived from those two theories, and then introduced and explained.

Ye Yining was flipping through the textbooks, while Hua Zhenxing looked at her flipping through the textbooks, and inexplicably thought of Mr. Ke Fuzi.

When some people criticize Ziqiu, they often say: "Ziqiu talks about rituals, and what he maintains is the long-lost Zhou rituals, which represents a backward and conservative thinking."

Ke Fuzi once sighed for the patriarch.Ziqiu really likes to talk about Zhou Li, because what he saw was the collapse of order, and what he hates most is the collapse of order.But he didn't see the order re-established in later generations, so he missed the era with the best order in historical legends.

As for Ziqiu himself, he is neither conservative nor narrow-minded, rather open and tolerant. He can be called an outlier in the aristocratic era of that lineage, and he has also completed the ideological enlightenment of later generations.

When Ziqiu talked about rituals, rituals were both Zhou rituals and non-Zhou rituals. He just took Zhou rituals as an example, which he thought was the embodiment of "benevolence" in that era.Li itself is the embodiment of benevolence, and benevolence is "loyalty and forgiveness".

Ke Mengchao's words were suspected of being taboo for the venerable, but Hua Zhenxing believed that what the old man said was very reasonable.Of course, it is impossible to write such words into the teaching materials of the training class. This is his old man's separate teaching to Hua Zhenxing.

As for the Jili Kingdom, there is no history of the Zhou Dynasty at all, and of course there is no confusion about the rituals of the Zhou Dynasty. We only need to introduce the arguments of Confucianism.

All social ethics systems are established on the basis of their theories, through logical progression, adding some new external factors such as the needs of the times, the needs of governance, and the needs of social stability and development, resulting in various deduction and changes.

Some people may not realize that the cultural system based on this foundation has any unique value?First of all, the most unique place, it does not require the participation of "God" from the beginning, it is another belief system.

All values ​​are derived from the two most fundamental theories, and these two theories are derived from people's own needs, which can be called "Confucianism".You can change the name, but the essence remains the same.

Therefore, the unique characteristics of Dongguo people or Dongguo culture, their attitude towards gods is quite open and inclusive, with the spirit of equal negotiation, inclusiveness and even resistance to criticism.

Does God need tolerance and criticism from people?You heard that right, it is true.

No matter which family's Bodhisattva or god it is, it doesn't prevent the same person from worshiping.With the development of society, even if there is no god, it does not prevent someone from making it for you, not to mention the kitchen god and the toilet god. Have you ever seen the god of the high school entrance examination, the god of the college entrance examination, and the gods of the fourth and sixth grades?

Gods can become a kind of intention, a kind of sustenance. People seem to tacitly say that there is no problem in worshiping the God of the college entrance examination, but it is not the credit of the gods to do well in the exam, nor is it the responsibility of the gods to fail in the exam.

As for failing the test, the theory of punishment by the gods is even more nonsense. It would be good not to pursue their responsibilities, but there is no way to pursue them if they want to. After all, this is just a psychological game that everyone understands.

The Dragon King Temple was built on the embankment, and when the flood came, it rushed to the Dragon King's own home first. When there was a severe drought, the Dragon King was even invited down from the altar to parade in the street and flogged.Sometimes when it rains, some people will say that the Dragon King has appeared, and some people will say that if you don't fight, you won't live up to it.

If people who grew up in a different cultural environment, they might be stunned when they saw this scene. How can a god appear?Isn't this a kind of group subconsciousness, which is holding those officials accountable!

In the eyes of ordinary people in the Eastern Kingdom, Lord Dragon is not so much a deity in charge of rainwater as an official responsible for regulating rainwater. This is either an attitude towards gods or an attitude towards people.

If this is just the way people play, then the intellectual class is even more interesting.Ziqiu doesn't speak strangely, but it doesn't prevent intellectuals from studying the classics of various religions. Buddhism and Taoism, including classics of various religions, can be the object of study.

In this process, disenchantment is naturally carried out, and the sacred classics of various religions are only regarded as research materials, and the things that are interesting or reasonable are studied, and the nonsense is treated as nonsense. .

People don't care much about how it's bullshit, and pay more attention to what they can learn.

All kinds of religious classics can be studied, studied, analyzed, and even questioned, criticized, and reformed. You can often see typical Confucian intellectuals, and they also give themselves the title of a certain layman or a certain Taoist.

The transformation of Buddhism by the intelligentsia in the Eastern Kingdom led to the creation of the native Zen, and they once scolded the Buddha and the ancestors endlessly.The vast number of intellectuals do not feel that it is deviant, but are particularly fascinated by the process and state of thinking reflected in it.

This is no longer the attitude of believers towards gods, but a mind game of intellectuals.

An ordinary Dongguo person may be used to this, and don't think it is special. Isn't this how things are supposed to be?But from the perspective of another civilization system, this is incomprehensible, even unimaginable.

How could they have no god?The answer to this earth-shattering question is as simple as it doesn't exist in the first place.

Is there any other civilization in the world that does not require the participation of gods from the stage of enlightenment and from the fundamental theory of culture?Only this one, no semicolon!

God may or may not exist, and whether it exists or not does not affect people's moral choices and value judgments.

The Dongguo culture based on this is full of the spirit of openness and tolerance. All existence can be criticized and all existence can be learned. This is not only the dialectical spirit of Taoism, but also the argumentation method of Confucianism.

The language and characters used by Dongguo people are not as simple as expressing meaning, but also a unique analytical language family, open and inclusive, and can smoothly generalize and absorb new things with almost no obstacles.

When facing fictional gods, Dongguo culture also has very realistic moral standards, which are still based on the two fundamental arguments of Confucianism, but many people do not realize it.

If another cultural context is used, the corresponding ethical order system can also be deduced, and similar social norms can be formulated, but the way of argumentation is different.Still taking that seemingly kindergarten example, why can't people defecate anywhere?

If all human moral standards come from God's revelation, then they must be derived according to this logic.Because God loves the world, urinating and defecating everywhere is unhygienic, which will affect the living environment and human health, so it violates God's will.

If in the scriptures, God said something, it would be easy.If it is something that God has not mentioned, then a deconstruction process must be established, just like deriving from the two fundamental theories of Confucianism, but the starting point is God.

Of course, this is just an example.In fact, in many places and periods in the world, including Dongguo, many people defecate indiscriminately, and no one engages in such arguments.

The purpose of this example is to illustrate the contextual system for promoting social education under different cultural and traditional backgrounds.

After reading the above analysis process, some people will inevitably have a question, what if the gods are removed from it?Especially in modern times, many outstanding philosophers and thinkers have done this with the best of their talents.

Some people call it the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment, which reconstructed an ancient Greek civilization according to academic ideals.

This problem does not exist in the cultural background of the Eastern Kingdom, but it is a big problem in any other civilization background in the world.

Therefore, those excellent philosophers can often only adopt two methods. One is to deconstruct God and re-explain what is the real God and divinity; the other is to create another philosophical concept to replace God, such as the absolute spirit.

Whether God is dead or existence is prior to essence, there are obviously such traces.The writings of many people are a great project, sparkling with sparks of wisdom, and they spend their entire lives to prove how God exists, or to prove that God can not exist.

Why can't he go around?Because it has existed since the enlightenment stage of civilization, it is the source of the moral system and values ​​established by the entire civilization, and it is the basis of cultural arguments, and it can only be deconstructed in a certain way.

If you give up God, what will you use to maintain the social moral system?If you don't give up God, how can you solve the openness and inclusiveness of civilization, as well as its crucial ability of empathy?

Openness and inclusiveness are a kind of cultural gene and a kind of subconsciousness.Without it, civilization will show exclusivity and aggression. When it is strong, it regards the outside world as the object of colonization. When it is weak, it will cause internal tearing.

Another problem is the deadlock. The history of certain civilizations’ encroachment on other civilizations, in the cultural subconscious, is to spread the gospel on behalf of God’s will, thus finding a moral basis for self-justification.If you give up God, how can you face your own history morally?
Doesn't anyone realize this?Many excellent thinkers have seen it, but even if they argue for propositions such as "God does not exist", there are obvious differences with the Eastern culture.

Because when you are demonstrating "how does God exist" or "whether God exists", the concept of God has already been involved.Even if the final conclusion is "God does not exist" or "God does not need to exist", the method is to find another concept to replace God's status.

Whether it is "absolute spirit" or "existence essence", "free will", or "capital worship" or "consumption worship" that replaces God, it is a different context system from Dongguo culture.

Because the basis of the argument of Dongguo culture has not had the participation of gods from the very beginning, and there is no need to replace it with anything.

The question comes back to reality. Why did the New Alliance adopt such basic teaching materials in the social transformation of Jili Kingdom?

Because the local primitive tribal culture is more complex, there are all kinds of strange god beliefs, including shamanism, witchcraft, religions spread in the Western colonial era, and various modern sects infiltrated from neighboring countries.

How to carry out cultural integration?Anyone who comes will have a huge headache. If a certain kind of god belief is promoted, endless disputes can be foreseen in the future. If all "superstitions" among the people are banned by law, a real backlash will occur immediately.

I just circle around in the original circle, and I can hardly find a way out.In Kefuzi's solution, the height is not on the ceiling or on several floors, but dimensionality reduction.

The Confucianism Hua Zhenxing learned, if it must be called Confucianism, was not directly inherited from Ziqiu in history, but was taught by today's Ke Mengchao, but it seems very primitive and simple.

The doctrine of the Master is very open, and can even become a theoretical basis for overthrowing the regime, because its most fundamental argument does not have unquestionable divine authority, let alone a regime or a generation of monarchs?
Therefore, in the history of the Eastern Kingdom, there have been many dynasties changing. People take this for granted, and they can accept and explain this phenomenon well from a cultural perspective.

Of course, each dynasty pays attention to the integrity of the legal system, and later generations of court Confucian scholars created the theory of reincarnation of the five virtues, with the purpose of explaining the justice of the current dynasty replacing the previous dynasty.

But what is the standard of reincarnation in heaven?This circle has turned back again, and it is still a judgment of values, and those who are virtuous live in it.What is virtue?The benevolent has virtue, and benevolence is loyalty and forgiveness.The so-called way of heaven must still meet the moral standards that people need.

Therefore, in the cultural context of Dongguo, "rebellion" is not necessarily a morally derogatory term among the people.The fundamental argument of Confucianism includes the idea that dynasties can be changed, and even the inference that systems can be changed.

Confucianism does not talk about ghosts and gods, but the "Book of Changes", which is called the book of divination, has become the first of the Five Classics of Confucianism, so what is the Confucian School of Changes talking about?If you are poor, you will change, if you change, you will succeed, and if you succeed, you will last forever.A gentleman strives for self-improvement.

There was also a dark moment in the history of the Eastern Kingdom. Confucianism did not need gods, but the patriarchal law of a specific era became a sacred dogma. If it deviated from its most fundamental argument, it lost its most precious openness and inclusiveness.

Ziqiu is not a god, someone used Ziqiu's name to compile the patriarchal system, and wanted to be holy in the world, who should be criticized?This is the question Hua Zhenxing wants to ask Ye Yining.The theory of Confucianism is the cultural gene of Dongguo. It tells the truth of being a human being and the way of looking at things.

You can judge Ziqiu without respecting him as a saint, but you can't ask Ziqiu to be a god who can directly give you everything you want.

Hua Zhenxing saw that Ye Yining had turned the textbook to the end, so he turned what he wanted to say into a divine thought, and sent it not only to Ye Yining, but also to other people present.

(End of this chapter)