Chapter 15 Wisdom is evil

I was originally a stable person who worked as a errand in a small tavern, but unfortunately I could read a few words. Under the influence of the New Culture Movement, I wanted to seek knowledge. At that time, I was in the countryside, and I was very upset about the pigs and sheep. I thought in my heart, although they are bitter, if they are like cattle and horses, they can be used for something else, so I won’t be good at selling meat.However, Zhu Yang is dull-faced and confused all his life, and there is no other way but to maintain the status quo.So, sure, intelligence matters! So I went to Beijing to pay homage to my teacher and seek knowledge.The Earth is round.There are more than seventy kinds of element quality (2). x+y=z.Unheard of, although it is difficult, but it is also considered to be something that people should know.

One day, I saw a daily newspaper, which broke my confidence again.A nihilistic philosopher in the newspaper said: Knowledge is evil, stolen goods [3]... .Nihilistic philosophy, with what authority, says that knowledge is evil.Although my intelligence is little, but it is indeed intelligence, which actually cheated me.So I asked the teacher to go.The teacher said: "Hey, you are too lazy to work hard, so you talk nonsense, let's go!" I thought: "Teacher, let's be greedy. It's better to have no knowledge. It's a pity that it's stuck in my mind and I can't get rid of it immediately. I'll forget about him." But it was too late.Because this night, I'm already dead.

In the middle of the night, I was lying on the bed in the apartment, and suddenly two things walked in, one was "life is impermanent" and the other was "death has a share"[4].But I am not surprised, because they are just like the sculptures in the Town God's Temple.However, the two monsters following behind made me lose my voice in fright, because they were not cow-headed and horse-faced (5), but sheep-faced and pig-headed!Then I realized that oxen and horses are still too smart and have committed crimes, and they were replaced by these gentlemen. This shows that knowledge is a crime....Before I finished thinking, the pig's head kicked me with its mouth, and I immediately fell into the underworld, without waiting for a long time to burn the chariots and horses.

Seniors who have been to the underworld often say that there are plaques and couplets on the gates of the underworld, but when I looked carefully, there were no ones. I saw a Yama king sitting in the lobby.Strangely, he is the billionaire Julang Weng next door to me.Probably money is a thing outside the body and cannot be taken to the underworld, so he becomes an innocent ghost after death, but somehow he became a high-ranking official again.He only wore a very simple patriotic cloth dragon robe, but that dragon face was much fatter than when he was alive. "Are you intelligent?" Lang Weng asked with no expression on his face.

"No..." I remembered the words of the philosopher of nothingness, so I answered this way. "If you say you don't have it, you have it—take it!" I just thought: The truth in the underworld is really strange...but I was forked by the goat's horn again and fell out of the Hall of Yama. At that time, I fell into a city, all of which were green brick houses with green doors. There were probably two so-called lions made of cement on the top of the door, and a signboard was hung outside the door.If in Yangjian, there are always five or six boards hanging outside each office, but here there is only one, which shows that the land is plentiful.In this instant, I was nose-bushed into a room by a pig-headed Yasha holding a steel fork, and there was a sign outside that read: "Oil beans slipped into the little hell"

Once inside, there is an endless flat ground covered with white beans mixed with tung oil.I saw countless people fall and get up on it, get up and fall again.I also fell twelve times one after another, and many pimples grew on my head.But there are also people who are sitting and lying at the door, not wanting to get up, and although they are soaked in oil, they don't have a pimple. Unfortunately, when I asked him, they all stared and didn't speak.I don't know if they don't hear or don't understand, if they don't want to talk or if they have nothing to talk about. So I fell forward and asked those who were falling wildly.One of them said:

"This is to punish Zhizhi, because Zhizhi is a crime, and stolen goods... We are still considered light. When you were in the world, why didn't you faint a little?..." He said breathlessly. "Now wake up." "late." "I've heard people say that Western medicine has medicine that makes people sleepy. Go and ask him to inject it, okay?" "No, I fell here because I know medicine, and I don't even have needles." "Then... there are people who give morphine injections. I heard that most of them are ignorant people... I'll find them."

At the time of this conversation, we'd already slipped hundreds of dollars.As soon as I was disappointed, I became even more inattentive, and suddenly bumped my head on the thin ground of white beans.The ground was very hard and the fall was heavy, so I lost my mind in a daze...Ah!free!Suddenly I was on the plain, with the city behind and the apartment in front.I was still walking in a daze, thinking: My wife and son must have gone to Beijing, and they are crying around my dead body.So I rushed to my body and sat up straight, they were scared away, and after I tried my best to explain, they understood, and they all shouted happily: You are still alive, oh, my God... I When I was thinking nonsense like this, I suddenly came alive... Without my wife and son by my side, and only a lamp on the table, I felt like I was sleeping in an apartment.A student in the wall has returned from the garden, and he was humming "The Emperor Emperor" [6] miles. It can be seen that it was not too early.

This Huanyang has to be too calm, it doesn't look like Huanyang, I thought, didn't he die before? If he had not died, then Julang Weng would not have been King Yama. To solve this problem, whether to use knowledge or to be afraid of evil, let us decide with emotion. October 23rd. KK [1] This article was originally published in the "Happy Words" column of the "Morning News Supplement" on October 23, 1921, signed by Feng Sheng. (2) Elemental quality is the element. [3] Wisdom is evil is a point of view of the nihility philosophy advocated by Zhu Qianzhi.In his article "Anti-intellectualism in Education" published on May 19, 1921 in the supplement "Friends of Youth" of the "Beijing News", he said: "Knowledge is stolen goods...the evil caused by the private ownership of knowledge It seems that knowledge is the most stolen goods, even in terms of knowledge itself, it is only stolen goods, so I am against knowledge, I am against knowledge itself, and the only way to abolish the private ownership of knowledge is to simply abolish knowledge, because knowledge is stolen goods, so the ownership of knowledge No matter what the form is, they are nothing but thieves.” He also said: “Knowledge is evil—one step forward when knowledge develops, and crime also advances with it. Because knowledge is against the simple truth, so there is knowledge, and honesty Sanpu, the world is in chaos. What morality! Politics! Institutional cultural relics! These man-made anti-natural traps, why don’t they come from knowledge, it can be seen that knowledge is the cause of crime and the root of chaos.” According to Zhu Qian He was born in Minhou, Fujian, and was a student of the Philosophy Department of Peking University at that time. [4] "Impermanence in life" and "Participation in death" are both superstitious and legendary envoys in hell.

[5] Bull head and horse face are the jailers in hell according to Buddhist scriptures. 〔6〕"The First Emperor" Zhuge Liang's libretto in the traditional Peking opera "Empty City Strategies": "The first emperor went to Nanyang to drive three times."The first emperor refers to Liu Bei.