Zheng Xuan, a famous scribe of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a famous scribe and a great sinong, a master of gambling, and the collation of ancient books, and was a master of the classics of the Han Dynasty, which played an important role in the development of Confucianism in later generations.
Statue of Zheng Xuan
One
There were two famous scribes in the Eastern Han Dynasty, one was Zheng Xuan and the other was Ma Rong. Zheng Xuan was proficient in the Confucian classics and proficient in astronomical calendars; Ma Rongcai was highly knowledgeable and had a wide range of disciples, and his students often reached as many as a thousand. At the beginning, Zheng Xuan had studied under Ma Rong's door, but he had not seen Ma Rong's face for three years, and all of them were explained by Ma Rong's high-talented disciples. Probably similar to the current hierarchical management, Ma Rong taught a small number of disciples, and then there were disciples who used as microphones to carry out copy-paste teaching. Ma Rong, perhaps, didn't even know that there was Zheng Xuan as a disciple.
It is the pearl that will shine, the awl that will pierce the tip out of the sack, and the opportunity is for those who are prepared. The time had finally come for Zheng Xuan to show his face. Ma Rong used the armillary celestial instrument to measure the celestial bodies, and the result was that the calculation was not correct, and he was very distressed, and the disciples were even more dazed. Suddenly, one of the disciples said, "I heard that Zheng Xuan is proficient in astronomical calendars. As soon as Ma Rong heard this, he asked, "Why hasn't this person heard of it?" The disciple said, "He is just an ordinary disciple, who has been here for three or four years, and who is smart and studious." The teacher is every day, how can he understand him? Ma Rong asked zheng xuan to come. Soon a young disciple came to the front, and Ma Rong saw that this person's figure was not outstanding, but Ji Yuxuan was tall and his eyes were bright. Asking him a few questions, they could answer like a stream, and Ma Rong instructed him to measure the position of the celestial bodies. The result did not take long, Zheng Xuan actually calculated it, and everyone was amazed and admired. When Ma Rong saw the method, he had never heard of it, so he looked at Zheng Xuan with surprise.
Later, when Zheng Xuancheng left, Ma Rong was full of emotions and told his disciples that Li Le was going to follow Zheng Xuan to the east. After Ma Rongsi thought about it, he felt that Zheng Xuan was so powerful at a young age that his reputation would definitely surpass his own in the future, and he couldn't help but be jealous, so he killed, so he turned the disc to divinate Zheng Xuan's whereabouts. Zheng Xuan also expected that Ma Rong would regret letting him go, and suspected that he would catch up with him. Just sit under the bridge, put on wooden sandals on your feet and step on the water. Ma Rong breathed a sigh of relief after divination and said to his disciple, "Zheng Xuan is now on the water and stepping on wood, he must be dead." "Isn't this buried in a coffin and buried in the soil?" So he stopped chasing after him, and Zheng Xuan was able to escape safely.
This story, the first half is an inspirational story of hard work, poor children are not far away, visiting famous masters to study, such as Song Lian in the Ming Dynasty's "Send Dongyang Horse Birth Order", the characters are simple and generous. The second half somehow turned out to be a modern movie full of thrills and suspense, deceitful, witful, and elegant and elegant. What makes teachers and students enemies? What makes people stop being human? It's all a bummer. These literati of dung and money are not only light on each other, but also inclined to each other. No wonder, Su Dongpo sighed after a thousand years: "I hate this body for a long time, when will I forget the camp." ”
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Two
Zheng Xuan once went out, staying in an inn, and heard a guest telling others that he was going to make notes to the Spring and Autumn Biography, and he listened carefully to the customer's thoughts, thinking that many of the views were the same as his own. Zheng Xuan had already made a partial note for the Spring and Autumn Biography, but now he suddenly changed his mind and said to the man in the past: "I have always wanted to annotate the Spring and Autumn Biography, and it is not yet finished. Today I should send you all the bets I have made. "The guest was called Fu Qian, and later the Fu Clan Note spread.
Therefore, Zheng Xuan can be called a real Confucian. The greatness of Confucianism lies not only in profound knowledge, but also in having a big mind, a big realm, and an atmosphere. If we take the modern concept, we should naturally do our own thing, you bet on yours, I bet on mine. What is more important is that the first hand is strong, and the second hand suffers, and when I Zheng's note comes out, who in the world will go to see what changes the soup without changing the medicine? The reason why Zheng Xuan gave in and selflessly took out his own results was because what he saw was slightly the same, and he regarded the person as a confidant.
Not all scholars are as down-to-earth as Zheng Xuan. Xiang Xiu, one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", not only wrote "Wen Di Fu", but also made a new interpretation of the old notes of the predecessors of the book "Zhuangzi", with accurate Xuan seconds, but the two parts of "Autumn Water" and "Zhile" died unfinished. Xiang Xiu's son was still young at the time, and his interpretation was scattered, but there were already other manuscripts. There was a man named Guo Xiang, who was very talented, and he saw that Xiang Xiu's interpretation had not spread, so he supplemented the two articles of "Autumn Water" and "Zhile", changed one, and the others were plagiarized as his own results. Unfortunately, however, Xiang Xiu's other manuscripts were also published, so that there were two identical copies of Zhuangzi.
From the perspective of the mind, Zheng Xuan is an admirable mountain, and Ma Rong and Guo Xiang are just ordinary small dirt bags.
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Three
Zheng Xuan summoned a slave in the family, but the slave did not meet Zheng Xuan's requirements. Zheng Xuan was very angry and wanted to hit her. But she still had to argue, and Zheng Xuan was even more angry, so he let people drag her into the muddy water and be punished. After a while, a slave maid came over, and seeing that she was in such a situation, he asked her in the words of the Book of Verses: "Is it in the mud?" "Meaning how did you get into the muddy water?" The slave maid also replied to her with the words of the Book of Verses: "Speak softly, and be angry with him." "It means I'm going to appeal, just in time for him to get angry."
It is already amazing that all the servants can recite the "Book of Poetry", and what is even more strange is that they can use it freely, and truly achieve the effect of applying what they have learned. "Enter the room of Zhilan, and for a long time you will not smell its fragrance, and assimilate with it." The environment can really shape people, the cultural atmosphere on Zheng Xuan's body is like a round of sun that continuously emits light and heat to the surroundings, and all those who are close to it have their light on them, and naturally they will shine. Therefore, with excellent people, it is difficult to think of not being excellent; with noble people, you can fly to the light and act towards good. This is called "in the middle of the fluff, not to help yourself.".