Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 410

Zhu Su is asking Song Lian directly, since you said Confucianism is so important.But in the time of Yao and Shun, there was no Confucianism.

Why is it that the Yao and Shun era without Confucianism was more admired by Confucius than the later generations with Confucianism?

This is undoubtedly an attempt to slap Confucianism in the face.

Song Lian frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and replied: "In the three generations, the hearts of the people have not lost. There is a virtuous king alive, and the world will be unified."

"Afterwards, the Zhou Gong ruled rituals, and the world was governed. Unfortunately, the rituals collapsed and the music broke down, and the world was lost. Above the temples, rotten trees are officials, and between the halls, animals eat money."

"The sage was born at this time, and it is precisely to return to respect and respect, to regain the morality of the human heart in this chaos, and to show a bright and righteous path."

"If there are no saints, wouldn't we continue to lose our rites and music, and people's hearts will be lost? The learning of saints is the learning of correcting people's hearts in the world. If you repent, you will be dressed like a beast!"

As expected of the great Confucian Song Lian, in just a few words, he dismissed Zhu Su's heart-breaking question invisibly.He also pointed out that the study of Confucius is to rectify people's hearts, and intending to abandon Confucianism will only bring the world back to chaos.

"I see." Zhu Su nodded, not in a hurry.Most of the Analects of Confucius expounded on the moral standards, principles of conduct, political thoughts and so on that Confucius advocated.Confucius, as a model for all ages, most of his concepts are actually no problem at the beginning.

Zhu Su didn't even think about criticizing someone who can be called a teacher of all generations.

He thought for a while and continued, "The student has another question."

"Since Confucianism aims to correct people's hearts and bring about great order in the world, then apart from the three generations, which dynasty can be regarded as a great order?"

Song Lian was taken aback, but this question was completely beyond his expectation.He thought hard for a long time before he sighed: "The loss of people's hearts in the world can't be easily restored. The rule of Great Harmony, even if you are as good as a master, can't be reproduced."

"Thinking about it now, maybe in the Han and Tang Dynasties, in this world, the word 'rule' could barely be said."

Zhu Su breathed a sigh of relief.Song Lian was objective and upright, and praised the Han and Tang Dynasties as the rule of the world, which is worthy of his name as a great Confucian.

After all, during the Song Dynasty, Wen Dao was prosperous, and it was a dynasty in which "the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world together", and it was also a dynasty that countless literati flocked to and yearned for.

If you ask other literati who have no bottom line, maybe they will insist that the Great Song Dynasty is the closest to the so-called "Great Rule", and then blame the "Weak Song Dynasty" on the head of the Zhao family emperor.

Although Song Zhi'an is weak, Jiumei and other Zhao family emperors are the culprits, but in reality, is it only the emperor who is at fault?
If you really encounter such an unobjective barbarian, you won't be able to talk about it in the future.

"Students can't understand this even more." Hearing that Song Lian's answer was as he expected, Zhu Su continued to ask:

"Since Confucianism is a school, it is for the purpose of bringing order to the world. The sages of several generations have ignorant heads and poor scriptures. The knowledge of how to make the world order should be more and more clear. The world should be closer and closer to the principle of great harmony. It's right."

"But why, in the Han and Tang Dynasties, which were so long ago, they were closer to governing the world. But in the Song and Yuan Dynasties after the Han and Tang Dynasties, the people were in dire straits, and the world was in chaos?"

"You know, both the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty respected Confucianism as the official school of the imperial court... They also governed the country with Confucianism. Why did the Han and Tang Dynasties prosper, while the Song and Yuan Dynasties governed so much?"

"This..." Song Lian was stunned by the question, and for a while, he didn't know what to say.

Even Liu Bowen, who had always been on the sidelines, gradually frowned and began to meditate.

"The Analects of Confucius is only more than [-] words." Zhu Su expressed his point of view without waiting for Song Lian to come up with an explanation. "However, many so-called 'great Confucians' in later generations, such as Dong Sheng and Cheng Zhu, faced only [-] words, but they could easily break out millions of words, tens of thousands of words, and tens of thousands of words. Make sense."

"When I was in Dahontang, I always thought about it. 'The Analects of Confucius' is what Confucius taught his disciples. If you want to teach others, you should be concise and clear so that your disciples can understand and absorb it."

"Is Master really going to be so secretive and secretive, and try to make every sentence or even every word he says contain the profound and profound truth that Cheng Zhu explained?"

"There are so many truths. Why didn't the master directly say it, but let the dull disciples who need to be educated guess and discover? If they are really so smart, why do they need the master?"

"If you spread a word to three people, it will be completely different. Those so-called great Confucians who comment on the Analects of Confucius and write thousands of words, will they really not misunderstand the meaning of the master?"

"The complex Confucianism that today's students are learning...is it really the Confucianism that Confucius said, thought, and wanted to spread to the world?"

Zhu Su's words were astonishing.

"Your Highness, be careful!" Song Lian stood up suddenly in shock, and even the teacup on the table was brought to the ground, as if he had never heard of it.His forehead and face were covered with dense sweat.

"Cheng Zhu...Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism is so profound and mysterious that it is so broad and profound that ordinary people can hardly get a glimpse of it even if they spend their entire lives."

"His Royal Highness doesn't know the mystery, but Anke speaks nonsense?"

Song Lian said.It's just that the look on his face at this time is no longer the sharp reprimand it was before.

"Profound and mysterious, broad and profound?" Zhu Su chuckled. "Master Song, aren't the things I wrote to Fang Xiaoru not profound and profound?"

"When it comes to esotericism, those words are probably no worse than Cheng Zhu's. Why did Master Song regard Cheng Zhu as the orthodox of Confucianism, and regard those words as demonic words to confuse the public?"

The few words Zhu Su wrote to Fang Xiaoru are the essence of philosophy that can be passed on to later generations, and they are all thoughts that have influenced millions of people and caused great disturbances in a certain era.

After a long history of digging, even the nonsense idealism among these ideas has enough profound "philosophies" for people to dig deep into them.Otherwise, how could a rigid talent like Fang Xiaoru be limped by fooling around?
Regardless of right or wrong, if we only talk about the profound, boring and obscure Neo-Confucianism, I am afraid it will not be as good as these many famous philosophical sentences that can be passed down to future generations!

"Zhengshuo, Yaoyan, Zhengshuo, Yaoyan..." Song Lian, who is as knowledgeable as Song Lian, was suddenly disturbed by Zhu Su's judgment.

Yes, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is indeed profound, but the few words that come out of Fang Xiaoru's mouth are not inferior to it.Could it be that Cheng Zhu is Zhengshuo just because he is attached to Confucianism?
If Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which is now regarded as the Zhengshuo of Confucianism, is really the so-called "Zhengshuo", then why did the world prosper and prosper in the Han and Tang Dynasties.But in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the imperial court followed Cheng Zhu to rule the country, but the whole world was in decline, and it seemed more and more decadent?

Doesn't this just show that the Neo-Confucianism enshrined by thousands of students has led the world into a wrong dead end?
Moreover, is what Cheng Zhu said really meant by Confucius?

If not, then what is the difference between Cheng Zhu's study and those fallacies and heresies mentioned by Fang Xiaoru?

Students all over the world have been studying for many years, and they have a lot of experience. Is it true that they are all wrong?

(End of this chapter)