After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 175 It is hard to get a reference

"But why?" Queen Ma did not understand why the candidates did this.

He turned his head to look at Zhu Yuanzhang with questioning eyes.

And Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head directly, he understood the reason, but he didn't want to say it because he was afraid of offending the girl.

"This..." Liu Bowen hesitated.

"Bowen, if you have something to say, it's fine for you to say it directly." Queen Ma said.

"The sage Confucius once said, 'Only women and villains are difficult to raise.' Therefore, those students who respect Confucius don't want to be in the same examination room with women." Liu Bowen said vaguely.

"Does the words of sage Kong really belittle the women of the world?" Queen Ma asked.

"That's not the case." Gao Qi replied, "Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty said in the Anthology of the Analects: The villain is the servant of the servant, and the woman and the villain are the servants and concubines. That is, the maid and the male servant in the family. Scope, limited to home."

"Although Zhu Xi's "Analects of Confucius" has been explained before, but in the hearts of men, they still don't interpret it in this way. They will subconsciously interpret that women are equivalent to... villains."

To put it bluntly, it is machismo, which despises women in its bones.

"No. No." Queen Ma said, "Ben Gong thinks that everyone's interpretation of this sentence and Zhu Xi's interpretation are not correct."

"Neither right?" The crowd was shocked when they heard the words.

The queen actually said that Zhu Xi was wrong!
"Please show the empress." Liu Bowen said.

"Only women and villains are difficult to raise. This sentence is not the full text. The full text is, only women and villains are difficult to support. If you are close, you will not be a grandson, and if you are far away, you will complain."

Queen Ma said, "This sentence was said by Confucius shortly after meeting Nanzi."

"So this sentence is actually talking about the love of children. It means that a man is too good to a woman and pesters her every day, and the woman will inevitably dismiss her. When you stay away from her, she will complain that you didn't go. find her."

"To put it bluntly, the shy attitude of the little girl has nothing to do with her conduct."

"Skinny ladies, gentlemen are greedy, they can't get what they want, and they toss and turn. In the relationship between men and women, men often take the initiative and women are passive. This is a woman's modesty and feminine beauty."

"So Kong Sheng's words are just teaching everyone how to properly pursue women."

No way?The crowd was dumbfounded.

Queen Ma actually interprets this sentence like this?

Even Zhu Yuanzhang was amazed: This old master Kong is actually talking about the love of children?
"Reporting to the Empress, Saint Kong doesn't talk about the love of children." Liu Bowen said.

"Nonsense, why can't Confucius talk about the love of his children?" Queen Ma said, "This palace asks you, does Confucius have a wife?"

"Of course there is." Liu Bowen said, "The sage's wife Qi Guan, a native of Song, once gave birth to a son for the sage, named Kong Li."

"Since he has a wife, why can't he talk about the love of his sons and daughters? Could it be that the sage just did it, but didn't dare to say it?" Queen Ma said, "Besides, Confucius said that three hundred poems are only true, and the beginning of the Book of Songs is , Guan Guan Jujiu, in the river continent. A slender lady, a gentleman is a good man."

When Liu Bowen and Gao Qi heard the words, they were speechless.

After a long time, Liu Bowen said: "Even if the Queen's interpretation is correct, it will not change the thinking of the world."

"Because even in Zhu Xi's Anthology of the Analects, it is not to look down on women in the world. Men's attitudes still cannot be changed." Gao Qi said.

"Alas!" Queen Ma sighed.

In fact, as they say, the deep-rooted concepts in the hearts of the world are difficult to change.

The only way is to have a few female champions, female generals, and talented females, so that people in the world can see the ability of women and make great contributions to the court, and people's ideas will gradually change.

There are only one or two, and people just think it's an exception.

She wants to improve the status of Daming women, and she has a long way to go.

This is also more firm, her determination to help Princess Ning Guo's reference in an open and fair manner.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. Now Queen Ma is a model for women in the hearts of the people. If she does not do it now, I am afraid it will be even more difficult in the future.

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"Empress, there is another important reason why students are unwilling to consult with women," Liu Bowen said.

"What's the reason?" Queen Ma asked.

"This..." Liu Bowen hesitated, "then let's just say it straight, since ancient times, the examination room has been regarded by scholars as a place full of majesty and righteousness. Men belong to yang, and women belong to yin."

"They don't allow the place where the yang qi gathers, there is a yin evil spirit."

"Before the exam, the exam room must fire three cannons to clear the evil spirits inside. In the eyes of most people, a woman's yin is easy to attract evil spirits..." Gao Qi continued.

"So in the past dynasties, in addition to enshrining the statue of Confucius in the examination room, it will also enshrine the gods from all over the world, and shout to the wandering ghosts nearby to 'revenge for vengeance, vengeance for vengeance'... Once a woman enters, people will I think the evil will be more rampant." Liu Bowen said.

"What kind of weird reason are you talking about?" Queen Ma frowned. In fact, she also knew the rules of the examination room, but she didn't go into it before.

"Your Majesty, this is not the truth of ministers, but the truth of the world." Liu Bowen said, "The ancient traditions, customs and taboos have been widely circulated."

"Although it doesn't make sense, everyone believes in this, the ancient rules, and the ministers have no choice." Gao Qi sighed, "So, once a woman enters the examination room, the candidates will never agree."

"You people actually treat women as evil!!" Queen Ma was obviously a little angry.

"I don't dare, please forgive the empress." Liu Bowen said, "I have absolutely no intention of this, everyone in the world thinks this way. I have always respected the empress and I would never dare to show any disrespect."

Queen Ma became silent when she heard the words, but she also knew in her heart that what Liu Bowen was talking about was something.

The thousand-year-old concept has been circulated, and the legacy of the people's thinking is too deep.

Even if she is Queen Ma, in the hearts of the world, she is the model of the mother's world.

People all over the world respect her, but she alone can't change people's prejudice against women.

"I report to the emperor and empress. In the past dynasties, there have actually been girls taking part in the imperial examination." At this time, Gao Qi suddenly said, "In the summer of the first year of Song Chunxi, the girl Lin Youyu asked for an exam, and 43 scriptures were recited in the post-secondary examination. Tong, Zhao Tefeng Ruren..."

"It means that in the first year of Chunxi in the Southern Song Dynasty, there was also a woman named Lin Youyu who participated in the imperial examination."

"However, Lin Youyu did not enter the Gongyuan examination room at that time, and referenced it with the man. Instead, she took the test in the Zhongshu Province alone. The content of the test was forty Confucian classics, and she passed all of them."

"In the end, the emperor was grateful for her outstanding talent, and named her a 'ruren', not a orthodox fame such as Tongsheng, Juren, and Jinshi."

(End of this chapter)