In traditional Chinese culture, the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are three-legged, and the "Interpretation" refers to Buddhism. In fact, Buddhism was introduced to China, dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, hundreds of years later than Confucianism and Taoism. During the Warring States period, the greatest prominent studies among the Eastern Zhou states were Confucianism, Ink Studies, and Taoism. So why did such a flourishing school of scholarship mysteriously disappear into the long river of history since Qin Shi Huang unified China and become the "Loulan" of the academic community?
What is Mojia?
The Mo family is a strict academic school, an academic school founded by Mo Zhai, whose main purpose is: Jane Love and Non-Attack, its leader is called "Giant Son", and its disciples go to various countries as officials, and must promote the Mo Family's venerables.
What is the content of Mo Jia's thought? In today's parlance, it was the earliest proposal to put the people first, the equality of all beings, the emphasis on complete fraternity, and the opposition to all wars of aggression. Mozi once said that as long as there is meritocracy, slaves can also become emperors. This is simply a hindrance to the existence of a feudal society that emphasizes centralization and absolute monarchical rule.
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How did the Mo family gradually disappear?
The idea of the Mo family, which emphasized the equality of all sentient beings based on the people, had a fierce conflict with the Qin state at that time, and in the process of unifying the six kingdoms, MoZi took the defensive equipment and disciples to fight a defensive war for the object of aggression of the Qin state. Due to the flooding of historical data, these fierce battles can now only be imagined.
In the process of fighting against the invasion and annexation of the Qin state, the Mo family was exhausted, and most of the personnel were killed and injured. With the victory and encirclement and suppression of the Qin Dynasty, the tangible power of the Mo family has become difficult to hide in China, and many remnants of the Mo family have fled overseas and crossed to Japan. It can be said that in the war of Qin Shi Huang to unify the Six Kingdoms, the Mojia School was the first ideological armed group to be completely destroyed and eliminated, followed by the Confucian and Fangshi groups.
So did the Mo family completely perish after the Qin Dynasty? Of course not, and there is a Mojia school that has existed on the land of China and has been secretly developed until the end of the Ming Dynasty.
According to legend, after the Qin unified China, the few disciples of the Mo family who spent the rest of their lives after the disaster were forced to change the name of the church and turned into underground secrets. This is the mysterious Mo family "Hidden Spirit Sect". Its host was Huang Jingting, the mo family giant at that time. There are about three hundred disciples who have achieved success, called "Lingzi", all of whom use the word "Fang" as the name, and put the Lingzi and the Inner Transmission Lingzi separately. Among the famous lingzi are: Zhang Liang (zifang), Xu Fu (Junfang), Huang Tianqiong (Yingfang) are Huang Jingting's sons; the inner lingzi are: Nan Xinghan (Chengfang), Wang Fei (foreign room) and others.
After the destruction of the Yan Kingdom, the Yan State Admiral Di Kun fled to the present-day Korean island of Jeju, and discovered that in the northeast there were Three Sacred Mountains Penglai (Japan's Jiuzhou Island), Abbot (Japan's Shikoku Island), and Yingzhou (Japan's Honshu Island). When Di Kun persuaded the Hidden Spirit Sect to cross the sea and establish a country of fraternity and equality. The Hidden Spirit Sect sent envoys to send the spirit sons Xu Fu, Chen Zhongyuan, Huang Tianqiong and others to plan to go to Japan, so Xu Fu, as an alchemist, asked Qin Shi Huang to cross the East to seek immortals, and after receiving the support of the Qin Emperor, there was a matter of Xu Fudong crossing Japan to ask for immortal medicine for Qin Shi Huang, and finally established a state in Yingzhou.
Among the people of Dongdu, Huang Tianqiong, the son of the sect leader Huang Jingting, was both literate and martial, and had the highest ability, so he had always been ambitious, and by the time of the Western Han Dynasty, Huang Tianqiong and Xu Fu had serious conflicts of opinion, Xu Fu advocated harmonious development with the local indigenous peoples, while Huang Tianqiong had the heart of an emperor and was bent on training the local indigenous peoples into a crack army, so as to counterattack the mainland.
At that time, Liu Bang had already ruled the Central Plains, and after the hidden spirit sect giant knew his son's ambitions, he was afraid that Huang Tianqiong, who was a great talent, would provoke a war, bring disaster to the Mo family, and would also put the people in the depths of the water, and then violate the principle of the Mo family and love, so he ordered him to go to Lonely LiaoZhou and never return to his homeland, lonely state is now the Americas, of course, this is a legend, but later found in South America the ancient Han village, according to research, it is believed that Xu Fu brought the descendants of boys and girls, which also indirectly provided evidence for the legend of Huang Tianqiong's long-distance crossing to the Americas.
Zhang Liang, one of the four outer spirit sons, was ordered by Huang Jingting to assist Liu Bang in unifying the world. Legend has it that Zhang Liang encountered the immortal Huangshi Gongzhi Bingshu, who may have covered up the nominal Huang Jingting for the sake of the secrecy of the Hidden Spirit Sect. After unifying the world, he knew that Liu Bang could not accept the ideas of the Mo family, so he later chose the canon of the Mo family's disciples to retire and return to the hidden mountains.
After Huang Jingting's death, the position of giant son passed to the Inner Transmission Lingzi, who was also his disciple Nan Xinghan.
In the years after the Han Dynasty, the "Mo clan" seemed to evaporate in the human world, never heard of it again, and has been silent. Only in the only words of the legend, you can also smell its incense unbroken, such as Lu Sheng in the Jin Dynasty, Letai in the Tang Dynasty, He Wu in the Song Dynasty, and Lu You in the Yuan Dynasty are all legendary hidden spirit sect descendants.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were only two descendants left in the Dying Hidden Spirit Sect, one for the Outer Spirit Son and one for the Inner Spirit Sect, but in the end it could not be sustained and had to close the Hidden Spirit Cave House. At this point, the only inheritance institution of the Mo family has ended its class.
Later, people studied according to some anecdotal legends, this hidden spirit religion is also known as the hidden religion, which was evolved by the Mo family, he respected Mozi as the ancestor, and when the seventh generation of giant Su Mengze, he established the hidden spirit cave house in the Baiyun Valley of the Jingxi Shenlong Mountain, and since then the Mo family has a fixed place of inheritance, but because of the serious conflict between its ideology and the centralized system of the feudal emperor, all ages have strictly suppressed it, so the hidden spirit religion has been secretly inherited, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, it has been exhausted, and the cave has to be sealed and closed.