Chapter 31 Chapter 6: Yao and Shun Dismiss get out of class

Mention Yao and Shun, many people's eyes shine. Yao and Shun were highly respected sages and sage kings in Chinese history.The best era is called "the age of Yao and Shun", the best emperor is called "the king of Yao and Shun", and the highest ideal is called "everyone can be Yao and Shun".Even Mao Zedong, who didn't believe in the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, said that "the 600 million Chinese people are all Shun Yao". Obviously, this is a secular God, a moral God, a political God, a ruling class God. The same is true for Yao and Shun.Their origins are unknown, their whereabouts are unknown, and their identities are unclear.As the last two of the Five Emperors, are Yao and Shun human?is God?Half man half god?Clan tribe?I don't know.However, for the first three emperors, Nuwa is a frog, Fuxi is a snake, and Emperor Yan is a cow; after the five emperors, the Yellow Emperor may be a bear,,. ;.These are all ghosts, ghosts, and gods, or half-human, half-beast. How could there be fireworks in the world when Yao and Shun arrived?

What's more, after or at the same time as Yao and Shun, there were Gun and Yu. Well!In the front, a hundred beasts lead the dance, in the middle, horses and oxen are on the same stage, and in the back, fish and dragons come out together, but Yao and Shun who are caught in the middle are purely human. Isn't it a strange thing?and, Hehe, even the name seems to be made up. In fact, before Confucius, no one mentioned Yao and Shun at all.In the oldest and most reliable books, there is not even a shadow of them. Although "Shang Shu" is also ancient, "Yao Dian" and "Shun Dian" are fakes.It was "Mozi" and "Mencius" that really started talking about Yao and Shun.

This is very unreasonable. According to later generations of Confucianism, including Sima Qian, the ancestors of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties were all subjects of Yao and Shun.Xia's ancestor Yu was Shun's successor, Shang's ancestor Qi (read as Xie) was Yao's minister of civil affairs, and Zhou's ancestor Qi (Houji) was Yao's minister of agriculture.In other words, Yao and Shun were the "old leaders" of the ancestors of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.Without Yao, Shun and Yu, there would be no Xia, Shang and Zhou. However, Zhou people's "Da Ya", Lu people's work "Lu Song", Yin people or Yin people's descendants Song people's work "Shang Song", all only praise Yu, not Yao and Shun.Could it be that the people of Yin, Song, Zhou, and Lu all forgot their ancestors?Moreover, these two ancestors, from the Xia Dynasty to the Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, were ignored all the time, but they shined brilliantly in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States. Could it be "unearthed cultural relics"?

Probably. Indeed, if Yao and Shun had nothing to say, Confucius would not talk about it again and again;Therefore, the fact may be that Yao and Shun once existed, but they were neither so godly nor so holy, and they were not what later generations said at all.Moreover, because it is not great, it is ignored; because it exists after all, future generations can make a big fuss. The reason for the big fuss is that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period, rituals and music collapsed, the world was declining, and people's hearts were not ancient.Confucius and the others had to rely on Zhong Kui to fight ghosts; to promote their own political views and ideals, they could only invite the dead souls out of fear, reform the system on behalf of the ancients, and resurrect their souls with corpses.Yao and Shun, maybe they dug out from a pile of inconspicuous old papers, and then packaged them on the "GEM" according to the standards of moral models.

It's a pity that the power of role models has always been limited, and the ones created are not always real ones.When we read the biographies of Yao and Shun, we really don't see their greatness. We only know that Yao is very simple and Shun is very filial. Shun's father and younger brother repeatedly framed and murdered him, but he retaliated with virtue.How did an old model worker and a doormat become sacred? The opposite story is impressive.An eighty-year-old urchin named Rangfu said bluntly: False is true when true is false.Did Yao and Shun exist or not?

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