Historical Dialectics: Why did Zhuangzi scold the so-called "saints"? It turned out to be this reason

Author:Hao

In the pre-Qin era of Confucius and Zhuangzi, the princes were divided and the world was in chaos. Confucius tried to restore Zhou Li to regulate social order. This is a very interesting move.

Let's see what the so-called "saints" were at that time.

At that time, Confucius was not yet dead, and no one had named him a saint. Who is the saint in Confucius's mouth?

Confucius himself used the Spring and Autumn Brushwork to canonize Yao Shunyu and crowned him as a model of morality. Attempts were made to dedicate to the princes as exemplary education.

Zhuangzi pointed out very bluntly on this matter: "The saints do not die, and the great thieves do not stop." "Zhuangzi Outer Chapter, Tenth (the sage here refers to the princes and princes)" because he also knew that Yao Shunyu was not really a "holy king", and Zhuangzi knew very well that "the thief of the hook is cursed, and the thief of the country is hou." " truth.

After The death of Confucius, later generations crowned Confucius as a saint, which was also used to set a moral model for society.

But the so-called saints of the pre-Qin period and the saints after the pre-Qin period are not a concept.

The "sages" of the pre-Qin Dynasty refer to the Sage Lords and Sages (an ideal model of the Lord-King figure), and the Pre-Qin Sages refer to Confucius, Laozi, emperors, etc.