Recently, Professor Liu Mei and Wang Haiyan broke off the letter of friendship, which caused a hot debate, as a student of literature, I am not cold to the grudge between them, but the topic of the letter of renunciation is suddenly interested.
To put it bluntly, the root of this matter is still Confucius's proposition about the gentleman villain that we often discuss in the past, that is, the so-called gentleman and different, which probably best represents the friendship between Ji Kang and Shantao, the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest are famous men rather than Gao Shi, China's Gao Shi, there are only three in total, Tao Yuanming and Han Xizai occupy two, and the last one I will not tell you. The difference between Coats and Celebrities is that they have different understandings of the realm of life.
Ji Kang's most famous work is actually not a letter of renunciation with Shantao, but a Guanglingsan. A letter of renunciation is actually a form of self-preservation or self-promotion. Undoubtedly, Shantao and Ji Kang are both gentlemen, so the friendship of gentlemen is as light as water, but who is the most unusual thing, so Confucius said that the deceased such as Sifu, you understand this, you will understand why Ji Kang will entrust the aftermath to Shantao.
The first thing to solve for this problem is not who the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest are, but to know why they are called the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, not the Pine Forest or the Seven Sages of the Grass or Mass Burial Gangzi.
First of all, the title of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest originated from the new language of the world, but in fact, the book of the new language of the world is extremely unreliable, the world says that several people gather in the bamboo forest, so it is called the seven sages of the bamboo forest, this must be nonsense, because according to the place where these people live, Ji Kang is a native of Qiao Guo, ShanTao is a native of Hanoi, Hanoi is no problem, it is the Shangdang region of Shanxi, and the Qiao Kingdom, some say Zhuozhou, Hebei, some say Anyang, Henan, and shaanxi Fufeng, but one thing can be said, It is said that these two places are in the north, and it is said that the bamboo forest is in Shanyang County, this Shanyang County, that is, Henan Hui County, this is true, but Henan does not grow bamboo at all, even if there is, it is from bamboo, it is impossible to become a forest.
As for why it is called bamboo forest, I don't know, but I have read a lot of idle books, which probably means that it has something to do with Buddhism, that is to say, the bamboo of this bamboo forest is likely to be the Zhu of the Tianzhu Kingdom, in short, this is controversial.