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Chapter 541

In addition, there is another huge problem in "Fengshen Yanyi", that is, the problem with the core three views is very serious.

Looking at the entire Fengshen Yanyi, ordinary readers may see it as the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, explaining the teachings and cutting the teachings, a very common story about the confrontation between the two camps.

But the real situation is not so simple. As an excellent author, you always have to put some of your own ideas and concepts into the novels you write.

And Fengshen Yanyi belongs to the kind of personal three views that are very superficial, even directly on the bright side.

For example, what the author supports is the interpretation of education, that is, the three views behind the interpretation of education: the idea of ​​elite governance.

In the setting of Fengshen Yanyi, the proposition of explaining education is "following heaven".The principle of teaching is to conform to the trend of the way of heaven and abide by the meaning of the way of heaven.Explain the truth of the Dao for all beings!

Therefore, the standard for recruiting apprentices is to be elite, and only those innate creatures with excellent roots and extraordinary aptitude are recruited.In modern terms, it means selecting the best from the best, selecting the most outstanding talents from each city and region, which is the enrollment strategy of Tsinghua University and Peking University.

On the contrary, the doctrine of interception refers to intercepting a ray of life, the so-called Dao fifty, Tianyan 49, and escape one.This escaped one is the ray of life that the interception education wants to intercept.

To put it simply, although fate stipulates that the probability of my failure is as high as 98%, but I desperately want to seize the last 2% success rate.

After all, even though the leader of Tongtian knew that the way of heaven was Zhou Xing and the Shang Dynasty, and the probability of the Shang Dynasty's failure was as high as 98%, in the end, he still desperately bet all his belongings to try to seize the poor 2% success rate.

As for the strategy of recruiting disciples, Guang Chengzi, a disciple of the Interpretation of Education, has a saying that can be described very well, that is, "Those with hair and horns, those born with wet eggs, can all live together in the same group."

This sentence can be understood as that they only recruit noble mammals, while Jiejiao not only recruits mammals, other insects, invertebrates, oviparous animals, etc., even flies and mosquitoes can enter Jiejiao and become Disciple of Interception.

In Tongtian's own words, he advocates teaching without discrimination. No matter what the qualifications of the disciples are, whether they are outstanding elites, as long as he has a heart to learn, he can become his own disciple and get his own teaching. .

And the most direct result of these two concepts of recruiting disciples is that the core of explaining teaching is only 12 golden immortals, burning lamps, and some third-generation disciples and non-staff disciples, and the total number of them does not exceed 100.

But Jiejiao has more than tens of thousands of disciples. In the end, Master Tongtian was even able to hold on to the Ten Thousand Immortal Formation, trying to fight Chanjiao again.

So here comes the problem, readers agree that educating and teaching should follow the destiny, do whatever God tells you to do, and at the same time advocate elite education, you only need to teach those few elite talents.

Or is it better to accept the fact of cutting off education, and never admit defeat even if it is God's will?

Well, no matter what you think, the author of Fengshen Yanyi must have recognized the concept of Chanjiao more, and advocated conforming to the destiny and elite education, otherwise he would not have arranged Chanjiao to help Zhou Guo, but transferred to arrange Jiejiao went to support Zhou Guo.

But this point Liu Xu is extremely disapproving of. As a child of an ordinary family, Liu Xu must have nothing to do with elite education.If the education system at that time still pursued elite education, it would be impossible for a small town like Liu Xu to do any historical research in the end, and he could only be a miserable brick-maker.

So Liu Xu actually likes to stop teaching very much, but hates explaining teaching very much.

However, the author cannot be blamed too much for this, because this concept was a common concept at that time.

During the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system was followed, which is the system of elite education.

Except for a very small number of poor families who are willing to give up their homes and businesses, sell a little bit of land, and have to provide for their children to study.

The vast majority of scholars are the upper-class people in the family, and only such people can leave production, qualify for education, then take the imperial examination, and finally become social officials.

It is precisely because only officials and wealthy businessmen have the ability to send their children to study, and when their children become prominent and gain fame, they can send their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even descendants to study endlessly.

This is also the reason why the so-called scholars' families, scholars' families, poetry-reading heirlooms and other families appear, because it is such a family of officials one after another, through high-cost elite education, that they control the society from generation to generation. society's ruling class.

In this way, the sons of soldiers can only fight wars, the sons of farmers can only farm, and the offspring of officials can become officials round after round, so that the entire class can be completely solidified.

And the author of Fengshen Yanyi is obviously a beneficiary of this system. Of course, he cannot be willing to destroy such a system. Instead, he must continue to advocate the correctness of this elite education, and criticize the idea that there is no class in the novel. .

According to the plot in Fengshen Yanyi, the reason why Jiejiao failed was because they taught without distinction, and absorbed many bastards and devils into it, making the entire Jiejiao interior smoky, killing tens of thousands of people every now and then. Refining magic weapons, and at the same time promoting inhumane methods such as plagues and natural disasters, are used to justify the demise of the sect.

Thereby completely negating the idea that there is no distinction between teaching and learning, and fully advocating the concept of elite education.

In the whole novel, the only concept that satisfies Liu Xu is probably something related to Western education.

In Fengshen Yanyi, the Western Sect was an extremely poor sect at the beginning, with few apprentices, and a pitiful sect that even had its second sect leader to fight in person.

However, with the end of the Great Tribulation of Conferring Gods, Xixijiao became the biggest winner instead. Not only did he take away Kong Xuan, the most capable saint under No.

The [-] celestial beings of the Jiejiao were snatched away by the Western Cult and [-] people from the world of mortals, and several powerful disciples of the Jiejiao were also taken away by the Western Cult.

Even the Twelve Golden Immortals, including Daoist Cihang of Chanjiao's own family, were taken away by Western teachers.

By the way, this real person Cihang is the later Guanyin Bodhisattva, who was born a boy and became a daughter.

It is worth mentioning that the historical Guanyin Bodhisattva was still a man in the Tang Dynasty. As a result, after Wu Zetian, the image of Guanyin Bodhisattva gradually became a daughter.

Therefore, in the author's writing, the rise of Buddhism is actually sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, and shamelessly captured the elite disciples of Taoism, which led to the later Buddhist prosperity and the story of Journey to the West!
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