Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 476 Sincerely
After reciting to this point, Zhou Zhi suddenly remembered a popular science post on the Internet of Later Times, or a joke.

The "sitting like a corpse" here does not mean a corpse, but a "corpse".

The corpse is a senior priest who wears the costume of the ancestors at the ceremony and accepts the sacrifices of the descendants on behalf of the ancestors.

The so-called "ancient sacrifices must also have corpses".

The so-called "popular science post" of later generations didn't even understand what the corpse meant, and said that the corpses were used in the sacrifices of the Zhou people, which is the best proof of the pedestrian sacrifices in the Zhou Dynasty.

Then there was a wave of readers who didn't know the truth and replied to the post below, calling out the teacher who posted the post, Niu Niuniu.

But the truth of the matter is that "Zhou Li" canceled human sacrifices. In the "Three Rituals" system, all the sacrifices used were livestock, poultry, game, and grains, and there were no people.

Although the vulgar custom of human sacrifice was not eradicated afterwards, the Zhou people had already used a clear palace system to indicate that it was "incompatible with etiquette" and should be criticized.

This is the epoch-making significance of "Three Rites". There is no doubt that compared with the Shang Dynasty, which often sacrificed thousands of people for divination, civilization has made great progress.

What Zhou Zhi just recited was the most important chapter in the "Three Rites" - "Book of Rites".

"Three Rites" was written by the Duke of Zhou. The book records and preserves many etiquettes of the Zhou Dynasty. Among them, "Zhou Li" focuses on political systems; "Yi Li" focuses on behavioral norms; , Discussion.

The sum of the various ritual systems involved in the "three rituals" is the entire content of "rituals".

It seems so, but in fact, this book of about [-] characters is extensive and diverse, involving politics, law, morality, philosophy, history, sacrifice, literature and art, daily life, calendar, geography and many other aspects. It is almost all-encompassing and embodies the political, philosophical and ethical thoughts of Pre-Qin Confucianism. It is an important material for studying pre-Qin society, three Confucian classics of my country's ancient political system, and the blueprint and encyclopedia of China's ancient etiquette system.

In fact, jumping out to see, whether this work was written by Zhou Gong or not, it is at least the system and ideological theory of the Zhou Dynasty collected and sorted out by later generations.

Therefore, "Three Rites" can actually be understood as an ideological weapon used by the Zhou people to fight against the Shang Dynasty.Zhou Zhi believes that this is also the fundamental reason why the Zhou people were able to overthrow the Shang Dynasty in the end.

The Shang Dynasty attached great importance to divination, while the etiquette system of the Zhou people was undoubtedly the best weapon to use the rule of man to fight against the will of God, and to use humanistic ethics to fight against the rule of religion and divinity.

This also directly laid a foundation for the Chinese nation to respect the heaven and the law and pursue the future with caution, but it always made the divinity secular instead of the original gene of religion.

This gene has also affected all aspects of Chinese etiquette, system, lifestyle and behavior, embodies Chinese values ​​and worldview, and is also an important norm and guarantee for the operation of Chinese society and national development.

Among them, such as "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean", and "Li Yun", the influence on later generations is even more profound.

As the ultimate weapon to use "humanity" to defeat "sacred way", once "Three Rites" comes out, all gods and ghosts will naturally have to change.

In Zhou Zhi's understanding, the so-called "ghosts" are actually the temporary confusion and weakness of the mind, those accidental moments and accidental factors that induce people to go against their own concept of right and wrong, and the best way to overcome them is to " Sincerely."

This idiom also comes from "Book of Rites · University": "Those who want to cultivate their bodies must first correct their hearts; those who want to correct their hearts must first be sincere in their intentions."

Shu is almost impeccable.

This is also the best therapy that Zhou Zhi has explored over the years to strengthen his mind, at least for himself, it is the most effective method.

Sure enough, with the work in hand and the chanting in his mouth, the inexplicable emotions just now disappeared without a trace.

The foot plank is wild yam, scraped and washed, and added with two handfuls of broken rice, it can be used to make porridge.

Monks abstain from meat and fish, and out of consideration, Zhou Zhi tried not to eat meat these days, and accompanied the master to "clean the stomach".

However, the bamboo root water in the mountains is very "fashionable", it just increases people's desire for fat, and it was really unbearable until yesterday.

Once the precept was opened, the scourge couldn't resist, so Zhou Zhi took out another can of anchovies as a meat dish for him and Master Qiao today.

The camp has its own rain shelter function, so there is no need to pull up the tent, and it will not take long to take care of these things.

So Zhou Zhi simply scraped the soot off the pot and put it on a piece of bamboo, blended a little vegetable oil to make ink, cut the bamboo stick into a brush tip, and started writing with the ink on the red stone wall.

"The way of a university is to be virtuous, to be close to the people, and to be good..."

There is a saying that "a good calligrapher chooses his brush", which cannot be said to be entirely true, but at least there is some truth to it.

Even with simple bamboo sticks, after trying a few words, Zhou Zhi also found a way to hide the front and make the front.

The more words you write, the better, but the speed is much slower than reciting. Only when a piece of "University" was written, "Those that are thick are thin, and those that are thin are thick", the cave beside him began to reveal a swaying light.

After a while, Master Qiao's figure appeared: "Elbow, it's your turn! It's actually fun and very cool!"

Zhou Zhi took over the headlamp and put it on his own head: "Where's Master?"

"Master is waiting for you at the fork ahead, just follow the rope and go in."

Walking into the cave, the passage narrows rapidly, coupled with the sudden drop in temperature, all of a sudden you get goosebumps.

The light scattered by the headlights was constrained by the passage into a spot of light, and the crimson rocks on both sides turned into a strange yellow-white in the sunlight.

Extreme darkness and partial brightness affect people's vision and make people lose their ability to judge colors.

There are still some obvious dividing lines on the stone wall. Zhou Zhi doesn't know whether this is the sedimentary texture produced during the formation of the rock, or the weathered texture that was weathered later, but this kind of change is quite beautiful, and it also adds to the monotonous cave wall. Variety.

The cave is not big, and the left and right sides of the space allow people to open their hands, and the height is very high, allowing people to stand up on their own and straighten their arms.

However, there are narrow gaps further up, so there is not much room for people to move around.

Walking hundreds of meters in such a space, people who have never experienced it will feel some psychological pressure.

However, Zhou Zhi often conducts field investigations. He has drilled a lot of foundations in Han tombs and Song tombs. Jiachuan also has air-raid shelters left over from preparations for wars and famines, and Baimi Township’s useless tower bases and bottom floors. In fact, the environment is similar to here. For Zhou Zhi's hob meat, it can only be said that he is used to it.

Although the air in the cave is cold, it is not stuffy, and the walls of the cave are also very dry. This is basically an environment with constant temperature and humidity. What a nice place.

Of course, the premise is that he really did it.

(End of this chapter)