This statement was first recorded in Mencius, where Mencius quoted Confucius.
Those who support sacrificial burial believe that "the one who created the terracotta warriors will have no descendants." This means that the first person to use terracotta warriors instead of living people for burial will inevitably have no descendants. Their reason is simple, because the burial system is an important part of the rites and music of the Zhou Dynasty. Since Confucius advocated restoration, he would naturally support the burial system.
Those who oppose sacrificial burial believe that this sentence is Confucius's opposition to sacrificial burial, but there are two understandings.
The first explanation is based on the original words of Confucius in "Confucius' Family Notes". It is believed that Confucius advocated the use of straw bundles to serve as human figures to be buried with real people. If pottery figurines that resemble living people are used to be buried with them, the family or country of such a person will inevitably be destroyed. Confucius believed that even human-like pottery figurines should not be buried with them, and certainly no living people should be buried with them.
The second explanation is that the first person who used pottery figurines instead of living people to be buried with them was very kind. Didn't such a person have successors? The implication is that this kind of kindness should be carried forward, and there will be people who will succeed it.
Those who oppose sacrificial burial use "benevolence" as evidence, but those who support sacrificial burial use "ritual" as evidence.
Neither Confucius himself nor members of his family explained this statement. However, when Mencius quoted this statement, he concluded that Confucius opposed burial.
"Etiquette" is one of the holy ways, but etiquette is always changing, and no one can grasp the pulse. Only semi-saints can modify etiquette in the form of holy councils, but the changes are those that urgently need to be changed, and the burial system has never been listed. Enter the holy meeting.
Looking at the course of human history, Fang Yun is very clear that the burial system must be abolished!
"Then, the title of this scripture will be 'Qin Mugong kills three good people', to abolish evil etiquette and promote benevolence and righteousness!"
Fang Yun has chosen the title of this chapter. Classical meaning is not policy theory. Policy theory can discuss the pros and cons of the sacrificial burial system in detail. But the scriptures want to turn sacrifice and burial into a bad ritual.
After a long time, Fang Yun decided to use the extremely rare "multi-break" method to solve the problem using the two aspects of "benevolence" and "loyalty".
"A benevolent person knows how to like life but hates death; a loyal person knows how to serve the country rather than dig up the foundation of the family."
This statement means that a virtuous person should do things according to human nature. Everyone wants to live and not die, so being buried is naturally an unkind act. And a person who is loyal to the human race should know that everyone is the cornerstone of the human race. The foundation of harming the human race is disloyalty to the human race.
Fang Yun knows in his heart that when solving a problem, it is appropriate to be correct, comprehensive, and great, and to avoid being biased, evil, and impatient.
The benevolence in the first sentence is righteous and quite satisfactory, but the second sentence directly throws out "Sacrifice and burial is digging up the foundation of the human race", which is a bit "evil" and "urgent". If the following cannot be justified, the meaning of the entire scripture will inevitably be downgraded. .
Fang Yun didn’t write it before. I was a little frightened at first, but after writing two sentences, I calmed down.
If the second sentence cannot be explained later, it will naturally mean "evil" or "urgent". But if it is interpreted well, it will be "complete" and "great".
Fang Yun had already figured it out, and the second sentence further elaborated on the issue of social division of labor based on Xunzi's concept of the holy way of "stating the group through status". Essentially, it means that the current human race is short of manpower, but it is moving closer to the productivity of future generations and intercepting some advanced ideas. Integrate with the thoughts of Shengyuan Continent.
After breaking the topic, Fang Yun directly pointed out that Qin Mugong's killing of Sanliang was atrocities, and then wrote the meaning of this scripture according to the structure he summarized. When it is time to quote the original words of the saints, when it is time to use factual arguments, use factual arguments. Finally, the most orthodox Confucianism is used to prove that burial is an evil ritual, and the evil ritual must be abolished!
In this scripture, Fang Yun elaborates on the consequences of burial sacrifice from multiple angles such as economics and sociology. He goes straight to the core of the problem and is far more sharp than any previous comments against burial.
However, Fang Yun slightly changed the language of later generations and did not mention the core. He only talked about "conjecture" but not "reason".
Fang Yun is actually using clearer and more detailed language and principles to explain the thoughts of Shengyuan Continent. This behavior is the focus.
When writing this sutra, Fang Yun remembered a famous sentence from later generations.
The Six Classics pay attention to me, and I pay attention to the Six Classics.
The beauty of using this Tao lies in one mind.
However, Fang Yun knew that his writing skills were very low, and if he really wanted to make an annotation, he would be afraid of being backlashed by the power of the holy way, so he chose his words very carefully.
After Fang Yun finished writing this article on abolishing the evil ritual of burial, he felt a great power rising from the paper.
Fang Yun felt that the talent contained in it may not be as good as that of "Shui Tiao Song Tou", but its vastness and abundance are far better than any poem.
However, a more majestic and immeasurable force came down, covering up all the strange phenomena in this article.
The meaning of the scripture is no better than others. Even if Fang Yun is careful, since he mentioned "abolition of evil rituals" and negates the Shang and Zhou etiquette, and the reason is clear, before the saints give instructions, the meaning of this scripture cannot be published to the outside world, and the holy temple takes the initiative to suppress it.
Not to mention other consequences, if the news spreads hundreds or even thousands of miles, causing ideological confusion, it may cause the literary courage of some scholars to burst.
Fang Yun saw that the vision was suppressed, and realized that this article had "reached the level of sacred listening", at least the level of Zhenguo in the classics and meanings. If the level is not enough, no matter how wonderful your ideas are, they will not be taken seriously by the saints.
Fang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. He was exhausted. He only felt pain in his right hand. When he looked carefully, he saw that his right hand was slightly swollen. He was shocked. This was because of his lack of writing skills. Once he wrote such an article involving the holy way, he would suffer if he was not careful. to backlash.
"Fortunately, what I wrote makes sense. If I had made it up a little bit or if I didn't believe it myself but used the banner of 'abolition of bad etiquette', I would probably write myself to death."
Fang Yun shook his sore neck and looked up to see that the night was already dark. He hurriedly reached out to touch the test card. He could know the specific time by testing the card.
"I didn't expect that it was only a thousand words, but it took me six hours to write it. If you don't have enough writing skills in the future, try to write as few articles as possible!" Fang Yun thought to himself.
Afterwards, Fang Yun held the examination card and recited silently, and a plate of hot food fell from the sky.
Fang Yun was so hungry that after gulping down the beef and rice on the CD, he fell asleep.
Fang Yun slowly fell asleep. I don't know how long it took, but Fang Yun suddenly felt something was wrong. When he opened his eyes, he saw a pair of huge eyes in the depths of the endless void.
The eyes are composed of two suns, shining brightly.
"Give me back the pieces of Wenquxing!"
He saw the power of eternal ice turning into a river of ice and rushing towards him, wherever the power of ice passed. The stars freeze and the void cracks.
Fang Yun was so frightened that he closed his eyes and waited for death, but his body could not move at all.
However, a white fox suddenly appeared and blocked the eternal glacier.
"Is it Nunu?"
The figure of the white fox suddenly disappeared, and then, a huge arm that was thousands of miles away appeared in front of him. The arm was covered with blue-black scales and had sharp nails. Countless divine objects with powerful auras were flying around.
"Give me back my divine eyes!"
Fang Yun was shocked.
Suddenly, countless golden human characters emerged from the ground. Those shiny golden characters formed chains of light, intertwined into a large net, and pulled the huge arm back to the ground.
Fang Yun vaguely saw that there seemed to be three words "Emperor's Code" in the text that formed the chain, but he didn't know if it was an illusion.
Fang Yun just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw a huge black evil dragon's head standing in front of him, connecting the world and the earth. This dragon's head was too big. So much so that Fang Yun couldn't see his body at all.
This dragon head alone is as big as a planet!
The Prison Suppressing Evil Dragon opened its big mouth and swallowed the sky and the earth, as if it wanted to suck all the light into its mouth.
Before Longtou could speak, Fang Yun was already disheartened. Unexpectedly, there were so many powerful forces targeting him, and he said in anguish, "Who am I provoking?"
"Give back the true blood of my ancestral dragon!" the Prison Suppressing Evil Dragon roared.
Fang Yun had no choice but to wait for death, but the prison-suppressing evil dragon suddenly retracted his head and whispered: "I'm sorry. I recognized the wrong person."
Fang Yun is confused, this style is wrong!
Fang Yun took a closer look and saw that the dragon's head suddenly shrank rapidly. Shrunk into an inkstone turtle.
Yangui looked at Fang Yun sheepishly.
Fang Luck didn't hit him anywhere, so he stepped on it, scolding him while stepping on it, and vented all the dissatisfaction caused by the fright on Inkstone.
Inkstone soon couldn't stand being stepped on, and suddenly shouted: "Stop hitting! If you hit me again, I will kill you with the Moon Tree God's Punishment! I will kill you!"
Fang Yun was stunned for a moment, feeling his whole body cold.
On the bed in the examination room, Fang Yun slowly opened his eyes. He felt uncomfortable all over. At the same time, there was an indescribable feeling in his heart. He always felt that some vicious monster was watching him somewhere.
Fang Yun looked around and saw nothing. He just noticed that the sky was a little dark, and then he realized that he had just been dreaming.
Fang Yun was startled.
"Did I oversleep? This is the third night?"
Fang Yun stood up in a hurry, not even bothering to put on his uniform, and reached out to touch the test card on the desk.
It's a moment.
"It's past nine in the morning. Why is it so dark? The holy temple can block all the dark clouds..."
Fang Yun suddenly trembled and stood at the door of the study, looking up at the sky.
A dark vortex enveloped the sky, and countless bloody thunder flashed inside the vortex.
At the very core of the vortex, a spearhead composed of blue and white lightning appeared!
The thunder spear is slowly breaking away from the core of the whirlpool, and will soon descend completely over Jingguo.
The thunder spear exuded the aura of annihilating all things and terminating all living beings. Fang Yun just glanced at it, and deep despair arose in his soul. Then he slowly stretched out his hands, broke off the brush, and pointed the sharp break at himself. throat.
Wen Dan was slightly shocked, and Fang Yun suddenly woke up and dropped the brush.
"What a terrible punishment from the Moon Tree God. I can't even look at it. Today, I have no chance of survival. I just hope that Yuhuan is safe and sound." Fang Yun sighed softly, and his heart became more and more bitter. Unexpectedly, the monster saints So decisive, using such a powerful force to deal with himself.
At the same time, a petite woman wearing coarse cloth and her face smeared with grass ash came to the door of Fang's house.
Yang Yuhuan stood behind the threshold and looked at the woman silently. At this moment, Yang Yuhuan's eyes were dull and his face was gloomy, as if there was no life at all, like a walking corpse.
"Su Xiaoxiao of the slave family came here because of her admiration for Marquis Fang Wen. She voluntarily sacrificed herself as a servant of the Fang family in the hope of Madam's pity." Su Xiaoxiao looked at Yang Yuhuan timidly, her dark eyes flickering, really like a little maid.
"You're late." Yang Yuhuan's voice was hoarse, and as soon as he finished speaking, tears fell. (To be continued...)