Cover the heavenly path of life, the saint can speak. From zigong below, it is not to be heard, and the future generations are shallow and Confucian, and can understand it! - Huan Tan
This is a classic quote from Huan Tan, the Great Master of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who played Shu to Liu Xiu, and because of this sentence, the Song Shu became the last song of Huan Tan's lifetime. Huan Tan, also because of this performance, completely went to the cliff of career. Soon after the recital was heard by The Heavenly Heavens, Liu Xiu summoned the officials to perform ceremonies, borrowed the gap between the words and words, and immediately ordered Huan Tan to be killed, but unlike in the past, at this time, no official stood up to defend Huan Tan, which was unprecedented in history.
It is worth noting that Huan Tan is actually the great Confucian of the world, which can be described as unique! Behind Liu Xiu's preparation to take Huan Tan's knife, what is hidden is Liu Xiu's belief in the art of the early Eastern Han Dynasty. This article will start from Huan Tan's eunuch career, from Huan Tan to Liu Xiu's faith, and gradually unfold the narrative.
In the history of the Two Han Dynasties, whenever the emperor ordered the punishment of a certain minister, there would be a situation in which the rest of the ministers defended. Liu Xiu was not a faint emperor, and the Jianwu Dynasty also had many defenses, but why did no one defend Huan Tan at this moment? The answer is actually very simple, because no one in the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu can look up to Huan Tan, and the most important thing is that Huan Tan moved Liu Xiu's death pit.
The so-called one wrong step is wrong step by step, and Huan Tan is the scripture scholar who has taken the wrong first step. Since the Western Han Dynasty was the time of Confucianism, feudal Confucianism has become more and more perfect, and it is more powerful than other schools. At the same time, the ritual and pleasure politicization that the original rulers followed was increasingly transformed into Confucian political indoctrination, which was the cultural and religious trend of the two Han Dynasties. However, in this context, Huan Tan has gone in a different path since he was a teenager, that is, he is familiar with liturgical music and reads the Five Classics.
Huan Tan's writings
Since the collapse of the liturgical music, the liturgical music system has gradually fallen to the altar, and Huan Tan's love for the liturgical music can be described as the most in the world. Crucial, however, is his practice of the Five Classics. At that time, Confucianism flourished, and the so-called Confucian scholars mostly exploited the loopholes in the classics in the Confucian classics, and even took them out of context, just to be more suitable for feudal rule, and this kind of Confucianism was called vulgar Confucianism by later generations.
The most famous is the words of the son: "Repay the complaint with virtue"! What is to complain with virtue, in layman's terms, is to impress people's insults to you with virtue! This is a standard that can only be applied among saints, and how can a saint insult others with words? Confucius definitely does not have such words, confucius Confucianism is very close to daily life, taking into account the daily life of the people. Such an act of taking meaning out of context is something that post-secular Confucianism cannot do!
Note - "How big is it, and how much you complain about." - The Sixty-Three Chapters of the Tao Te Ching
As far as repaying grievances with virtue is concerned, Confucius's original meaning was: "How can we repay grievances with virtue?" Repay grievances with directness, repay virtue with virtue! "。 The meaning of the two can be described as opposite! So why did Confucius put the hat of revenge with virtue? The feudal rulers need ears! Only under such a foolish education, using the name of the saints to fool the people, can we effectively consolidate the people at the bottom and effectively rule!
Those who can do this are vulgar and vulgar! However, this was not the case with Huan Tan, who never stuck to the chapters and sentences in his study of the scriptures, but exhorted the great righteousness. At the same time, he looked down on those ordinary Confucians who catered to feudal rule, and there were many criticisms of them, but those ordinary Confucians were the main force of Confucianism in the court of the Later Liu Xiu Dynasty, and in their eyes, Huan Tan was an alien and a scum!
Historical records record: (Huan Tan) erudite, studied the Five Classics, all of them exhorted the great righteousness, not for chapters and sentences... And the joy is not to destroy the vulgar Confucianism, by the many seeing elimination. - Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Vol. XXVIII
It can be seen that Huan Tan offended a group of ordinary Confucians who were very popular with feudal rulers at that time, and these ordinary Confucians were mostly rejected after entering the dynasty, which became the biggest reason why he was isolated in the court in the future. With the confucian self-esteem, do not put the vulgar Confucianism in the eyes, and from time to time there are some contemptuous words, can the vulgar Confucian not be angry? It can also be seen from this that Huan Tan's emotional intelligence is indeed low, almost negative, as evidenced by examples. During the Mourning Period, Empress Fu's father, Fu Yan, the Marquis of Kongxiang, valued Huan Tan's talents and was extremely friendly to Huan Tan, with many promotions and financial subsidies.
However, in the harem at that time, Empress Fu's position was in jeopardy, and the sister of the powerful minister Dong Xian ascended to the harem Zhaoyi, and the empress was not favored and Zhaoyi was powerful, and Fu Yan was worried about it. But just when Fu's father was worried and almost couldn't sleep all night, Huan Tan said to him: When Emperor Wu spoiled Wei Zifu, secretly searched for Empress Chen's sins, and prepared to depose her and establish Wei Zifu instead, the result was really abolished, and now the situation of your daughter Empress Fu is exactly the same as that of Empress Chen! Huan Tan What does this mean, the benefactor Fu Yan burned his eyebrows at this time, Huan Tan's words at this moment are like telling him that "after burning the eyebrows, they will be disfigured, and they will also stink for ten thousand years"!
Isn't that worse? More importantly, Huan Tan is not just a simple ridicule, but has a way to deal with this crisis! In this way, the nature of the problem has changed completely, and now it has become Huan Tan's wit! Even if you have countermeasures, just say it and why scare the abbot who treats you so poorly. It can be seen that insufficient emotional intelligence is also a key reason why Huan Tan's career is not smooth and there are no friends in the court.
People like Huan Tan have offended a large number of ordinary Confucians who occupy important positions in the court, and it is indeed difficult to ascend to the heavens, but it is not impossible, after all, there is a kind of person, known as "nobleman". With the help of nobles, why worry about not accomplishing great things? Huan Tan's nobleman was Song Hong, the Grand Sikong of the Jianwu Dynasty, recommended by Song Hong, who was ranked as the third duke, and Huan Tan was bound to serve in an important position, and was successfully worshipped as a councilor. However, soon after entering the army, song Hong, a nobleman in his life, became dissatisfied with Huan Tan and reprimanded him in person. As described earlier, Huan Tan loves liturgical music, so according to Huan Tan's personality, he will definitely show it to the emperor after entering the army. As a result, Emperor Liu Xiu was obsessed with piano music and lust for ears.
Han Ru game diagram
Since ancient times, there are not a few monarchs who have lost their minds to the point of destroying the country! The Zhou Dynasty Youwang and Li Wang are examples. Nowadays, not long after the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are countless potential enemies, and the country is in ruins waiting to be revived, which is a good period for the emperor to work hard to govern, how can he indulge in vocal music! What's more, when playing this world, Song Hong made a lot of efforts, even at the expense of abandoning his family! Therefore, in Song Hong's view, Huan Tan is a real nonsense, and he is reversing the black and white politicians! Conclusion: Huan Tan misled the monarch into doing mediocrity, embarrassing and useful!
Song Hong reprimanded Huan Tan in person and has not been close to him ever since. Just because of a concert in front of the imperial court, Huan Tan lost his only friend in the court, which is to lose his only political resource in political terms, and he is not far from death. At that time, as far as Huan Tan was concerned, he was completely wronged! The emperor himself was obsessed with vocal music and ear desires, and as a courtier, Huan Tan could not resist and disobey the will, and the obedience was abandoned by the Duke of Song.
Confucianism has always been the main force in the court, because there was a great sikong blessing in the front, and the emperor loved Huan Tan's music skills, so it was difficult for the confucian to start for a while. But seeing that Song Hong was alienated from him at this moment, and he had also fallen out of favor in front of the emperor, what else did the common Confucian have to worry about? Just as the so-called wall is pushed down by everyone, then Huan Tan, the great enemy of the Confucian circles, will fall, and the common Confucians up and down the central and central circles will certainly have to strike together. Soon, Huan Tan's own paper was loose, becoming the last straw that overwhelmed him. Soon after the founding of the Guangwu Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty was in a state of ruin and awaiting rejuvenation, and Huan Tan was advised to go to the emperor for the sake of current politics, and he wanted to contribute to the suggestions and suggestions of the imperial court.
Huan Tan diagram
At this time, Emperor Guangwu had many lay Confucians around him, and would he like to ask if he could make the emperor obey him and let him be valued again? No way. As a result, the most bizarre scene in the Eastern Han Dynasty occurred, Huan Tan's performance, the emperor did not even look at it! With such a political status, what else does Huan Tan want? He was really not far from death. After the Guangwu Emperor established the dynasty, he gradually became obsessed with the art of sermons, not to say that he believed in feudal superstitions, but a way for him to rule the ideology and lay the foundation for his rule.
In the history of the rule of feudal dynasties, there has long been a situation of theosocratic unity, that is, the development of Confucianism into Confucianism, merging into the political system of feudal rule, using Confucian thought to fool the people, and at the same time mixing with feudal superstitions, making it believed by the people, so as to achieve the purpose of solidifying ideas and strengthening rule.
The so-called Confucianism, that is, in the name of Confucianism, takes the Confucian classics out of context, finds out the ideas suitable for the feudal rulers, and mixes superstitious elements such as alchemy and human ghosts and gods, and gently serves a complete system for the rulers. The Guangwu Emperor, who had just established the dynasty, first of all wanted to take the art of syrup as his orthodox name, and create momentum through superstitious activities, just like those emperors and generals, who had just been born with a vision of the situation of the heavens, and at the same time solidified the people's thinking with the art of jutsu and consolidated their dominance. But Huan Tan, who died, wrote a book full of words about the way of the king, the virtues of the sages, and his words were full of disdain for the art of the arts.
As a materialist scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huan Tan first rejected feudal superstitions, and secondly, denounced the shallow Confucianism of the world, and finally cut off his career and made people pity. As an official of the feudal dynasty, Huan Tan was unqualified, but putting aside these factors, just looking at Huan Tan's scriptural achievements, he was a master! In terms of his understanding of the Five Classics, he was the first in the world! This is also the reason why he was favored by Song Hong and Guangwu Emperor in his early years. In addition, his early materialist worldview assertions are also classics in the history of Chinese philosophy.