Confucian culture pays attention to "etiquette" and "benevolence", and Confucius's divorce has made many "Kong fans" quite hurt. Moreover, another person in the "Way of Confucius and Mencius", Yasheng Mencius, also had a divorce.
Mencius wants to "get his wife"
The first to expose Mencius's divorce was the thinker Xunzi during the Warring States period. He said in the Xunzi Jiejie that "Mencius was evil and divorced his wife", which means that Mencius hated his wife's bad conduct and proposed a divorce for fear of ruining his reputation. What kind of bad thing did Mengzi do to make Mengzi want to "get his wife"?
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Meng Mu is a very clear and reasonable woman, just because the daughter-in-law is sitting in an indecent posture, the son proposed divorce, Meng Mu felt very absurd, so she quoted the ancient ceremony "will go to the church, the voice will be raised; Will enter the house, depending on the will" to remind the son: you go to your wife's room, do not greet in advance, there is no sound when you go in, it is "Rude, not rude to women." Mencius listened to it and blamed himself, and never dared to mention his divorce from his wife again.
The way the ancients divorced
In addition to the "seven outs" of divorce, there were three kinds of divorce channels in ancient times: "righteous renunciation", "peace and separation" and "illegal separation". "Peace and separation" may be proposed by the woman on her own initiative.
Among the women who took the initiative to propose divorce, the divorce between Li Qingzhao, a noun person and a gentle representative of the Song Dynasty, and her husband Zhang Ruzhou, was the most sensational in that year. Li Qingzhao originally had an enviable family, her husband was Zhao Ting, the son of Zhao Ting, the prime minister of the Chongning dynasty of Emperor Huizong of Song, and Zhao Mingcheng of the Jinshi family, and the two lived together for nearly thirty years. After Zhao Mingcheng died of illness in Jiankang (present-day Nanjing) three years after Jianyan, Li Qingzhao, who was lonely and helpless and physically and mentally emaciated, remarried to Zhang Ruzhou.
Who wants Zhang Ruzhou to be greedy for money, the picture is the golden stone ancient artifact left by Zhao Mingcheng to Li Qingzhao. After discovering that Li Qingzhao did not have much property, Zhang Ruzhou punched and kicked Li Qingzhao and inflicted domestic violence. As an intellectual woman, Li Qingzhao is determined to divorce Zhang Ruzhou.
It turns out that the great people who have been praised by people throughout the ages have also had some interesting things, after all, no one is perfect, they also have seven passions and six desires, so it is inevitable that there will be some small mistakes. We can only laugh at this and it will not affect his place in history.