A couple of god sticks pretending to be gods and ghosts perform life

A couple of god sticks pretending to be gods and ghosts perform life

Qiao Zhifeng

It is said that in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the famous scholar Qian Lou died, and Confucius's student Zeng Zi (Zeng Shan) personally went to mourn.

Zeng entered the house and saw Qian Lou's body parked under the window, his head resting on an unburned adobe brick (that is, adobe), a tattered mat underneath, a messy robe that was difficult to cover, and the earthen cloth quilt covered his body was too narrow, covering his head to expose his feet, and covering his feet was exposed.

A generation of celebrities, so shabby behind them, once sighed repeatedly, and said to Qianlou's wife: "Or cover the quilt obliquely for Mr. Qianlou, so that you can cover your head and feet, and Mr. Qianlou's body will not be exposed." ”

Zeng Shanben was well-intentioned, but QianLou's wife did not appreciate it, but had a sullen face: "There is more than enough oblique cover, it is better to cover it correctly." Mr. did things decently before he was born, never engaged in crooked ways, and now when he dies, he wants to let him cover the quilt obliquely, which is definitely not what Mr. wants. ”

Zeng Was embarrassed, did not know how to answer, remembered that he had come to mourn, and cried: "Woohoo, my respected sir, just gone!" Mr. Gao Feng Liang Festival, should have a nickname. What kind of nickname should I give my husband? "The nickname is a text that after the death of a person with a relatively high social status in ancient times, posterity evaluates according to his life deeds, and then gives either praise or depreciation. Qianlou can have his own nickname, which shows the high reputation and status.

Qian Lou's wife said, "Let's take 'Kang' as a courtesy." "Opening your mouth and coming, it means that you have already made up your mind."

Kang, that means rich. However, how could Qianlou have been rich? He was poor all his life, not to mention "Great Kang", and he simply did not achieve "moderate prosperity". As Zeng questioned: "When the gentleman was alive, he was hungry and clothed, and when he died, he did not even have a quilt for the bed to cover his body, and there was no wine and meat to entertain relatives and friends who came to mourn." There is no happiness in life, and there is no good sending when you die, so how can you use 'Kang' as a nickname? ”

Qian Lou's wife said, "In this life, sir, it is not without the opportunity to be rich and noble. The monarch once wanted to invite him to go out of the mountain to serve as the minister of state, but it was a high-ranking official under one person and above ten thousand people, but the gentleman insisted on not accepting it. The monarch also gave him a lot of money, which he also did not accept. This shows that there is no shortage of wealth in the husband. He is willing to be at the bottom of society, to live a plain life of ordinary people, not to be sad about his own poverty, not to deliberately pursue wealth, to seek benevolence and to be benevolent, and to seek righteousness and righteousness. Isn't it appropriate to take 'Kang' as a metaphor? ”

Qian Lou's wife's words completely impressed Zeng. He couldn't help but sigh: "Only with such a noble and good husband as Mr. Can we have such a virtuous and good wife!" Zeng Zi spoke, and naturally, "Lu Qianlou's wife" became famous for a while, on a par with her husband, and was later included in the "Biography of Xianming" in the "Biography of Lienu", becoming a well-praised model of a good wife.

Please forgive me for saying that I am very dismissive of the "Lu Qianlou's wife" and all kinds of high opinions, and I feel that not only is it arrogant, but it is also full of hypocrisy inside and out.

The quilt is covered obliquely, but it only covers the body of the deceased, which is a respect for the deceased, and what does it have to do with being a decent person? Confucianism is the most enthusiastic about sour "etiquette", and the suggestion made by Zeng Zi, one of the representative figures of Confucianism, will never exceed interests, but it was fiercely robbed by "Lu Qianlou's wife", which seems to be a great rebellion. This is probably not a general pedantry, but a deliberate attempt to show something, or to perform something.

If the diagonal cover quilt is "unorthodox", then how does the old couple usually cover the quilt? According to the standard of "Lu Qianlou's wife", can it only be put on the stomach uprightly, and there can be no tilt? If so, do you have to take a ruler every night to correct whether the quilt is correct, and there can be no error? Is it that when sleeping, you can't turn over at will, you are "sleeping" in danger, and you can't move, so as not to make the quilt "incorrect" or wrinkled, and damage the "right way"? As for the things that may lead to the "red wave", it is even more difficult to do.

I am afraid that they cannot do the above "right way". Since the living can't do things, why do they have to compete and toss on the dead? This is really the same as "the hero does not drink the water of the stolen spring" - he would rather die of thirst than drink the water of the stolen spring, simply because there is a word "thief" in the name of the spring; he would rather let his husband die uneasy and exposed, and resolutely not cover the quilt obliquely. Is this what this "virtuous wife" calls "uninswickedness"?

As for the long-winded confession of "Lu Qianlou's wife": "Mr. Xi Jun wanted to grant the government, thinking that he was the minister of state, and resigned but did not do it, there was Yu Guiye. The king tasted the millet of thirty bells, and the gentleman resigned and did not receive it, and there was Yu Fuye. "Inside and out, there is also a deliberate sense of showing off and showing off--my husband is not unable to become an official, nor is he unable to get rich, but he is not rare." So, he is a true Magi and a noble man. Taking pride in poverty and treating poverty as "natural justice" is not also a kind of ignorant backward thinking.

In addition, since we regard fame and fortune as dung and do not pay any attention to it, why should we still talk about it after death and brag to people everywhere? Hanging on to those things shows that she, like other laymen, cares a lot about fame and fortune. However, what most people care about is the tangible benefits and enjoyments that fame and fortune bring to themselves; what Qianlou and his wife are obsessed with is the rejection of the good reputation and illusory spiritual satisfaction that fame and fortune can win, as well as the morbid sense of moral superiority. The former is lustful and realistic; the latter is self-deprecating and self-deceitful, expressionism, and "performance artists".

Qianlou's husband and wife's style is actually similar to today's Internet celebrities. "Moral models", "celebrities", "sages who live in peace and happiness", etc., are their human designs, and all their performances and performances are in the service of this "tall and complete" persona. Acting, into the play too deeply, maybe even they believe it, to "moral model" to think of themselves, performance "celebrity style" has become a subconscious action deep into the bone marrow, no need to deliberately do it, you can put it away freely.

If we have a little understanding of some of the so-called "moral models" in ancient and modern China and abroad, it is easy to find that many of them, either are fools, who have some nobles in their minds, and have been brainwashed by false and hypocritical things, and are not so normal; or they are liars, and everything they show is a performance, a flicker.

Finally, we may wish to introduce Qianlou and his wife more and see what kind of characters they are.

Qian Lou's wife's real name is Shi Liangdi, and she is not the daughter of an ordinary family, but comes from a family of great wealth and nobility. Her father held an important position in the official position of "Tai Zhu" and held a prominent position. What does "Tai Zhu" do? It is the official position of the imperial family in charge of the sacrifice of ghosts and gods. To put it nicely, it belongs to the "clergy"; to say that it is ugly, it is similar to the gods and witches, and it is engaged in superstitious activities of communicating with ghosts and gods, except that he belongs to the "royal god".

And Qianlou, the biggest achievement is to write four books, that is, what later generations call "Qianlouzi". What does "Qianlouzi" write? Because the book has been lost, for the sake of objectivity and fairness, I will transcribe a piece of information -

The purpose of this book is to expound the legal principles, from the Fu Xi clan to show the number of gossip based on the god turtle of the heavenly descending river, and to study the principle of the generation of heaven and earth, focusing on the qi teachings running from heaven and earth to seek the theory of cosmic change. (Qian Lou) believes that it is innate to give birth to its nature, acquired to become its quality, from the invisible to the tangible, to generate the steps of evolution for all things. And with the sense of yin and yang, the principle of the unity of heaven and man, there is yin and yang between tomorrow and earth, there is yin and yang, there is induction, there is a change, there is a change, there is a change and then there is induction, so the cycle is agitated, the change is infinite, so as to gain insight into the ancient and modern ways of all things, and to clarify the truth that "the constant is the change, and the change is the constant", from a small place, it can verify the "perverted psychology" of people, and it can also verify the "normal behavior" of people. From a large perspective, it is also possible to predict and verify the rise and fall of a country.

I see. What theories such as yin and yang induction, river diagram turtle, etc., are they very familiar recipes and familiar tastes? Some of today's jianghu "masters" are also this theory. It seems that the "master" world also has a heritage, which has been in the same vein for thousands of years, and the mantle has existed for a long time, and there is still a market today. And also with the times, evolved the "change of snake", "external qi", "cure all diseases" and other divine skills.

A woman from a family of gods and Hans, who was deeply influenced by Her father tai zhu from childhood, later married a god stick full of "universe" and "yin and yang", of course, the piano was harmonious and like-minded, and the husband sang with the woman, starting a different and pretending to be a ghost, and even the Confucian stick was defeated by them.