We know that there are Confucians, Mo families, Taoists, yin and yang families in the hundreds of sons, but it is impossible to say all the hundred families. However, one of these ideas and eating are inseparable, and that is the farmhouse.
Peasant thought is one of the hundreds of schools of thought in the pre-Qin dynasty, also known as "peasant flow", which is an academic school that reflects agricultural production and peasant thought in the pre-Qin dynasty. It takes Shennong as its ancestor and advocates that peasants are self-sufficient.
With the passage of time, agronomy has gradually withdrawn from the stage of history. Although no complete work of the peasant family has been handed down, we can still see the figure of the peasant family from the works of other doctrines, which shows its influence.
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The peasants believed that "obedience to the will of the people" was the basis of all rule. Wise rulers are able to go along with the will of the people and take their support as a guideline for their actions. Peasants engaged in agriculture worked hard, not only to support their families, but also to pay taxes, and it was normal for peasants to ask rulers to be considerate of their suffering.
The peasants also demanded that the rulers limit their behavior, not to exploit the people excessively, but to reduce taxes and light labor and labor; attention should be paid to economy, not luxury.
The life of a dignitary
If a wise ruler wants to consolidate his rule, the first task is to eliminate floods, droughts, insect pests, diseases, and bad weather.
If he can solve these disasters and alleviate the suffering of the people, the people will follow the rules. In particular, floods are a dangerous natural disaster that rulers should pay more attention to.
If the people do not have food, the country loses its foundation, and the development of agricultural production must be placed in an important position.
Why did the farmhouse decline?
Flood control
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > peasant ideas were unfriendly to the nobility</h1>
Peasant thought held that both the earl and the emperor should work with the people, and no laborers should eat. This view is based on the fact that the ruling class at that time plundered grain from the hands of the peasants by raising taxes.
In the eyes of the peasants, this is equivalent to the ruler taking away his hard-earned food with his bare hands. Only when the monarch experiences the bitterness of the peasants' hard work, will he love the people, and will he think of the peasants when formulating national policies.
But how could the emperor really cultivate the land with the peasants? Although the peasants' starting point was good, hoping that the emperor could put himself in the shoes of the peasants, this idea was divorced from reality.
The lives of the people at the bottom
Everyone's division of labor was different, and although the emperor did not cultivate the land, he had been dealing with various things, and it was not that he had done nothing. And the ancient monarchs, in order to control all people, originally sanctified themselves. If he did the same work as the people at the bottom, it would undoubtedly reduce his authority.
The idea of "the monarch and the people ploughing together" is supported by the majority of the people at the bottom, and the upper echelons as rulers will never support it. On the contrary, rulers deliberately suppressed peasant ideas in order to safeguard their vested interests.
The peasants' idea of "conforming to the will of the people" is the voice of the working people at the bottom. Under the circumstances, it was unrealistic to require rulers to be self-disciplined and frugal. This is bound to attract the suppression of most aristocratic groups known for their extravagance.
The people cultivated the land
Moreover, the essence of the peasant family also has the idea of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, they believe that the merchants have not created food, the pearls and spices they sell cannot be eaten as food, and there will be no less people who should starve to death.
This coincides with the heavy agriculture and anti-commerce that have been implemented in ancient China, because the land that could be cultivated at that time and the grain yield were lower than now, and in order to allow more people to eat, heavy agriculture and suppression of commerce were indispensable.
However, if we look at this matter from God's point of view, we will know that business cannot be suppressed, and the people also need business to meet their daily lives. The farmer's thinking is too idealistic, and they want everyone to cultivate the land together to create food, which is also partly the reason why it is not popular with the mainstream.
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As we all know, books are effective carriers of knowledge. In ancient times, when the exchange of knowledge was not developed, the loss of a book often led to a complete loss of knowledge. According to the "Book of Han and Yiwenzhi", there are 20 works in Shennong, which specifically describe the peasants' thinking of governing the country and have important agricultural experience.
Unfortunately, these twenty articles are missing. Seventeen of the farmer's works, including Night Lang, Yin Wei, and Zai Shi, have reportedly not been preserved. Even if someone wants to study farming, they will face a situation where they have no books to learn. Sooner or later, ideas without fresh blood will disappear into history.
With the loss of ancient books, posterity has learned less and less about the farmhouse. Even if someone was interested in this idea, there were very few books that he could study, let alone pass it on. The essence of peasant thought is not allowed by the rulers and is bound to be oppressed; the works of thought are inevitably lost in reality. Its demise is a foreseeable outcome.
Shennong
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Confucian thought and peasant thought can be said to be completely different.
Chen Xiang and Chen Xin were famous Confucian disciples, and after they overheard about the idea of the peasant family, they were deeply attracted to it and ran all the way to the peasant family. Their actions caught Mencius's attention, but Mencius had no way of getting them back. Mencius had a meal with Chen Xiang.
This is a warning to later generations of Confucian disciples. Mencius was keenly aware of the peasants' idea of "the monarch and the people ploughing together", reflecting disrespect for the monarch. Later, Mencius put forward a proposition arguing for the inevitability of the social division of labor.
Mencius
Later, Mencius gave many examples in the debate, denying the idea of peasantism. In fact, from Mencius's vigorous suppression, it can also be seen that the social influence of the peasant family at that time was very large and the influence was sufficient, so it was able to attract Mencius's attention.
After the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu proposed to depose the Hundred Families and respect Confucianism alone, not only did later generations rarely hear of the peasant family, but there were only a few who were familiar with the Hundred Sons at that time.
Dong Zhongshu
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > conclusion</h1>
The idea of the peasant family now seems to have many ancient utopian meanings, and it also reflects the demands and pursuits of the peasants at that time. Heavy taxes did not suppress the minds of the peasants, who still had their own ideas, still had their own writings.
Moreover, farmers also make great contributions to agronomy, and they must cultivate the land according to the time of farming in the four seasons. Although the farmhouse has disappeared in the vast river of history. However, we, the future generations, can earnestly study the spirit of the hard work of our ancestors.