The original meaning of "authority fan" is that people in chess cannot see the situation clearly, and is often used to mean that the stakeholders in the event are confused and often used in conjunction with "bystander qing". From the Old Book of Tang Yuan Xing Chong Biography: "The authorities are called fans, and the (side) watched the trial." ”
Yuan Xingchong was Yuan Yuan, who served as an official during the years of Emperor Gaozong and Emperor Xuanzong, and also experienced the days of Wu Zetian's title of emperor.
Yuan Is not a Han Chinese, and the surname Yuan is mostly from the Xianbei Tuoba clan. In the Tang Dynasty, the glory of Tuoba's early years was no longer there, Yuan Tang was a reader, like to study the origin and inheritance of his own clan, at that time there was no Tuoba clan chronicle, Yuan Tang simply wrote thirty "Wei Classics" by himself. There is a lot of content, and the records of things are also very detailed, and everyone thinks it is good and respected.
When Yuan Yuan was an official, di Renjie, a heavy minister in the Wuzhou dynasty, was very important to him, and Yuan Yuan felt that he should not be like Di Gong's followers, so he told Di Renjie: Subordinates are like savings in response to occasional needs, and when needed, some are meat for making delicacies, and some are good medicines to prevent diseases. Di Gong, you have a lot of subordinate disciples who serve as a delicacy, so let me make a dose of medicine. Di Renjie understood and replied with a smile: "You are the medicine in my medicine box, and you can't do without it."
So what is the story of the "fans of the authorities" recorded in the Old Book of Tang?
At that time, the emperor ordered Ma Huaisu to write a book journal, and Chu Wuliang published four books to make them accurate and infallible. These cases were actually very laborious, and both people died before they could finish their work. Therefore, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered Yuan Yu to continue to complete. The results soon came out, and Tang Xuanzong personally wrote annotations for the "Filial Piety Classic", and then asked Yuan Tang to write for the "Filial Piety Classic" and include these works in the compulsory teaching materials at that time.
For the "Book of Regents", at the beginning, Wei Guangcheng, a minister during the Wuzhou Dynasty, listed the "Class Rites" written by Wei Zheng as a scripture, to say more, Wei Guangcheng's brothers are very interesting, he is a speech official, but he likes to use other people's physical defects to nickname, it may be a lively atmosphere in the court, did not want to offend a lot of people, and finally was impeached as Zhi County.
Regarding this "Class Ceremony", Emperor Xuanzong originally planned to let Yuan Tang and the Confucian students make a mistake and compile it into the school's teaching materials. Finally, it was sorted out and compiled into fifty articles, which were submitted to the emperor for final approval.
This matter is of great importance to the reader. At that time, the right minister Zhang Zhang said that he was clearly opposed. He said: The Book of Rites, which has been circulating for thousands of years, was written by the Western Han Dynasty Dai Sanctuary and has always been juxtaposed with the scriptures. Wei Zheng's "Class Of Rites" was first compiled by Wei Sunyan into a book of the same kind of excerpts from the "Book of Rites", and readers were very disdainful of doing so, believing that this was plagiarism. However, Wei Zheng only sorted it out separately, and this kind of book with an unauthentic origin must be annotated and used as a teaching material, which must not be done.
When Xuanzong heard this, he pondered and thought that he was right, so this copy of the "Class Rites" was left in the palace and not taken out. In fact, like most of the Pre-Qin classics, the Book of Rites is also a large number of versions, and later generations recognize Dai Sheng's "Book of Rites", commonly known as "Little Dai Li Ji", his uncle Dai De compiled more, this version is "The Great Dai Li Ji", but unfortunately everyone does not recognize it, and slowly scatters yi. The Book of Little Dai Li became a classic version after zheng xuan did excellent annotation work in the Han Dynasty.
Yuan Tang felt that he should use the new edition, so he wrote an article of "Explaining Doubts" to express his views, which used dialogue to express his chest directly. A said: Dai Sheng's version has been repeatedly revised and annotated for so many years, and there are many contradictions with each other, Wei Zheng is a new work sorted out on the basis of proofreading these errors and omissions, who knows there are still conservatives to oppose. B quickly echoed: Yes, just like the person who plays chess, the person who plays chess is confused, and the onlooker is clear.
Although the two people in the article are vigorous in defending, but this is really useless, Yuan Tang soon asked to return to his hometown. The practice of "Fagu" in our history is deeply rooted, and it is certainly not easy to overthrow a thousand-year-old habit. Recently, some books have been unearthed from the tomb of the Marquis of Haixia, and there is a "Book of Rites", and I do not know whether the status of the classic "Little Dai Li" can be subverted in the future.