Chapter 15 check old accounts

brigade falcon In the past few days, Tingtao Society has published a book "Words of the Meat Eaters" [2], which is the speeches of the current rulers when they were still in the opposition. It tells everyone to "listen to their words and watch their actions" [3]. What a difference.In the weekly "Sound of the Waves" [4] published by the same company, there are often words with the same meaning. This is to check the old accounts, open the account books, make calculations, make a settlement, and ask why the inconsistencies are true.However, this method is now too "old way".The ancients were afraid of looking into such old accounts. When Wei Zhuang of Shu was poor, he wrote an impassioned and relatively popular "Qin Women's Song", which really made everyone read it. He refused to be included in the collection, and even tried to eliminate other people's banknotes.I didn't know the results at the time, but looking at the excavation of the banknotes of this poem from the caves in Dunhuang at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it can be seen that the scheming was in vain, but the painstaking efforts can still be imagined.

But this is ancient celebrity.Ordinary people are different. If he wants to erase the old account, he must cut off his head and reincarnate.When the beheaded criminal was bound to the execution ground, he shouted, "Twenty years later, he is a good man again!" In order to start anew and start a new life, twenty years must pass, which is really troublesome. But this is an ordinary person in ancient and modern times.Today's celebrity is different again. He wants to erase old accounts and start a new life. Compared with ordinary people's methods, the delay is really different from postal letters and telegrams.If you are not afraid of being slow, you can go abroad once, build a temple, get sick, and swim in the mountains for a few days; if you want to be quick, you can hold a meeting, read a scroll, give a speech, make a declaration, or sleep overnight. It’s okay to write a poem; if you want to be faster, you can slap your mouth twice and shed a few tears, and you can still change into another person, which has nothing to do with the "previous me".General Jingtan [6] transformed himself into a crucian carp, crawling between the thighs of the banshees. The author may have thought that the writing was superb, but looking at it now, it doesn't even have a breath of novelty.

If such a reform still feels troublesome, then roll your eyes and ask, "Is this my account?" The latter method. How can the "ancient way" be practiced in today's world?There are still people who advocate reading the scriptures. I really don’t know what that means?However, after one night, maybe everyone will be advocated to serve as soldiers, so I haven't bought it now, and I'm afraid I may not be a soldier tomorrow.July twenty-fifth. [1] This article was originally published in "Shen Shen Free Talk" on July 29, 1933. [2] The original book "Words of the Meat Eaters" was "Words of the Meat Eaters", edited by Ma Chengzhang, and published by Shanghai Tingtao Society in July 1933.It contains more than a dozen articles attacking the Beiyang government written by Wu Zhihui and modern commentators Tang Youren, Gao Yihan, Zhou Yusheng and others several years ago.The purpose of publishing this book is to show that the behavior of Wu Zhihui and others at that time was completely inconsistent with the previous remarks, because Wu Zhihui had become an accomplice of Chiang Kai-shek at that time, and Tang Youren and others were mostly senior officials of the Kuomintang government. "Meat eaters" refer to people who occupy high positions and enjoy high salaries. See "Zuo Zhuan" Zhuanggong Ten Years: "Meat eaters are contemptible and unable to seek far-sightedness."

〔3〕"Listen to his words and watch his actions" See "The Analects of Confucius Gongye Chang": "The master said: 'I started with people, listen to their words and believe their actions; now I am with people, listen to their words And watch it go.'" [4] For "Sound of the Waves", see note [13] on page 183 of this volume. [5] Wei Zhuang (approximately 836-910), styled Duanji, was born in Jingzhao Duling (now Xi'an, Shaanxi), a poet and poet in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, and the prime minister of Wang Jian, the former Shu lord of the Five Dynasties.In the first year of Tang Xizong Guangming (880), when the peasant uprising army led by Huang Chao attacked Chang'an, Wei Zhuang was staying in the city because he was taking an exam. Write a long narrative poem "Qin Fu Yin".This poem was very popular at that time, and many people stabbed the poems on the curtains, calling him "the scholar of "Qin Fu Yin"".The poem describes the embarrassment of the general officials and the harassment of the people when Huang Chao entered Chang'an. Because Wang Jian was one of the generals of Yang Fuguang's army at that time, Wei Zhuang later denied this poem and tried his best to eliminate it. In the "Family Commandments", the family is specifically instructed to "not allow the hanging of the "Qin Fuyin" curtain" (see Sun Guangxian's "Beimeng Suoyan" in the Song Dynasty).Later, when his younger brother Wei Ai edited "Huanhua Ji" for him, he did not include this poem.It was not until the end of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty that the Englishman Stein and the legal person Pelliot stole ancient relics from the Thousand Buddha Cave in Dunhuang County, Gansu, my country, and found the fragmentary copy of this poem.In 1924, Wang Guowei edited Zhang Gui's manuscript in the fifth year of Tianfu (905) in the Paris Library and An Yousheng's manuscript in the fifth year of Zhenming (919) in the London Museum, and restored the complete appearance of the original poem. .

[6] General Jingtan is Zhu Bajie in the novel (the original work is the Envoy of the Cleansing Altar). For the story of him turning into a crucian carp (the original work is a catfish) and crawling between the thighs of the banshees, see Chapter 72 of the book .