Chapter 27 17. Yellow Emperor's Complaint

Kui Beast is a strange beast full of psychedelic colors in Chinese mythology.During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius once held a theoretical seminar to discuss the habits of animals like the Kui beast.According to historical records, people at that time thought that the Kui beast had only one foot, because it was recorded in ancient books that "Kui has one foot", but Confucius explained that this sentence means that people like Kui, One is enough. According to Confucius' explanation, the sentence "Kui Yizu" is clearly a complaint, a complaint, a sentence with strong emotions, which obviously does not conform to the style of historical and objective texts.

So, what did the most primitive text in history say? In the East China Sea there is Mount Liubo, which goes seven thousand li into the sea.There is a beast on it, shaped like a bull, with a pale body and no horns, with one leg, and when it enters and exits the water, there will be wind and rain. Its light is like the sun and moon, and its sound is like thunder. Its name is Kui.The Yellow Emperor got it, used its skin as a drum, and used the bone of a thunder beast as a prong. It was heard for five hundred miles, and it was powerful in the world. ——"Shan Hai Jing Da Huang Dong Jing"

Look, in the original book, it is believed that Kui is indeed a beast. There is Mount Liubo in the middle of the East Sea. This mountain is seven thousand miles away from the East Sea.There is a beast on the mountain, which looks like a common cow, with a blue body but no horns, and only one hoof. When it enters and exits the sea, it must be accompanied by strong winds and heavy rains. The light it emits is like the sun and the moon. The voice is like thunder, and its name is Kui.When the Yellow Emperor got it, he used its skin to cover a drum, and then beat the drum with the bone of the thunder beast. The sound spread five hundred miles away, and used it to shock the world.

If it is said that the Kui clearly recorded in the Chinese is a strange beast, why would Confucius think that he is a human being? This is because Confucius also extracted the key words of this story and interpreted the original meaning of the story.The key words interpreted by Confucius should be as follows: No wonder Confucius explained that one person like Kui is enough.Now it seems that this sentence should be said by Huangdi himself, because Kui is Huangdi's opponent and the leader of the opposition. There is too much of an opponent, so Huangdi uttered this complaint. No wonder. So, how did Kui play tricks on the Yellow Emperor?

Here, Kui is a thinker, a man who is good at expressing controversial views, and the masses have high expectations of him.But Kui's views are not harmful, and Kui himself is mild-tempered and not prone to violence. It is precisely because of this that his views are respected by the people and also make the Yellow Emperor angry. The Yellow Emperor hated Kui competing with him for the limelight, so he secretly kidnapped Kui when people were not prepared, and then he found a person who was roughly similar in appearance to Kui, and asked him to pretend to be Kui and continue to publish his views in support of the Yellow Emperor in Kui's name.Due to Kui's high prestige, this approach brought Huangdi a large number of supporters. After that, Huangdi used this fake Kui as a weapon to clean up his opponents one by one.

However, the fire could not be contained in the paper, and this incident was finally discovered, and the Yellow Emperor mercilessly blocked the news... However, Confucius proved that it was the Yellow Emperor himself who leaked the news. Because the Yellow Emperor said: Kui has one foot. Such a remark full of complaints and grievances is not from the Yellow Emperor himself, and there is no reason for others to say it. For the Yellow Emperor, Kui had one foot.But for the common people, the more Kui, the better.