It turns out that Lao Tzu was the first person to lose faith in human nature? Mozi's thoughts are actually a call to a new world? And Mencius, however, made many simple logical mistakes?
Recently, Bao Pengshan's old book "Lonely Sage" was republished by the Commercial Press. With a unique language style and the power of thinking that bows down to Zhang He, the book leads readers through thousands of years of history, to feel the sorrow of the pre-Qin sons, and to touch the loneliness of the sages.
Bao Pengshan is a professor at Shanghai Open University, an adjunct professor at several universities, and a member of the Academic Committee of the Confucius Foundation of China. CCTV's "Hundred Pulpits" was the keynote speaker of "Bao Pengshan's New Water Margin" and "How Confucius Was Refined". Columnist of newspapers and magazines such as Guangming Daily, China Weekly, Confucian Style, Meiwen, Searching for Roots, and Reading for Middle School Students. He has published more than 20 works such as "Wind And Flow", "the Mind of Chinese", "Biography of Confucius", "Confucius Rulai", "Introduction to the Analects", "Bao Pengshan's New Saying of Water Margin" and so on. His works have been selected into the national unified high school Chinese textbooks and various universities and middle schools compiled by many provinces and cities.
"Lonely Sage" is a cultural essay written by Bao Pengshan in his early years to interpret the pre-Qin Zhuzi, which was first serialized in Meiwen in 1998. In this book, the author talks about the sages with his rafters, about the transparency of Lao Tzu, the persistence of Confucius, the eagerness of Mencius, the elegance of Zhuangzi... With his profound education and exciting talent, he made wonderful and exciting comments on the pre-Qin zhuzi.
There are more than a dozen characters written in the book. There are Zhuang Zhou, who looks dull and unhurriedly weaves straw shoes, but in his heart he longs for Kunpeng to spread his wings at a height of ninety thousand miles; there are old men who live in an upside-down and twisted world whose hearts have become cold but have been reborn and transcendent; there is Kong Qiu, who sits on a carriage and sings endlessly, when he sees his disciples educating and cultivating the people with music and then smiles; there is Mo Zhai, a "lone ranger" who wears a short sword around his waist and has a resolute light in his eyes, and his face is black; there is a harsh nature, who is good at handling things but is not good at self-treatment. Shang Martin, who can do great things but can only be a villain, so that he is eventually torn apart by the car; there is also Qu Yuan, who cannot be satisfied with the status quo and therefore cannot "poetically inhabit" the real land, and finally can only commit suicide without a way to go... The author has a grand vision, unfolds the deep-seated cultural conflicts and contradictions in the characters' hearts in the context of the big times, and then reveals the tragic and magnificent fate of the characters.
As Jia Pingwa said in the Preface to the First Edition: "The vitriol of this book is generous, the humor is wise, and the wanton is peaceful... This book makes the sages act mediocrely, the adults careful, and makes us unconscious and perceptive. ”
It is reported that the re-edition has updated the preface specially written by Bao Pengshan for the business edition, and has partially edited and modified the text and views, and the cover and layout have been redesigned carefully, and strive to present an excellent version of "Lonely Sage" that is blue and blue.
Nandu reporter Huang Qian