Chapter 44 Food and Sex: An Introduction to Chinese Ethical Concepts

Food and Sex: An Introduction to Chinese Ethical Concepts Feng Tang . . .It is difficult for someone to write a book that is too privately printed in China. It can only be 1,200 characters. . . 2500 years ago, Confucius said: Eating men and women, people's great desires can exist.The tone of Chinese ethics is set.First, as an ethics that explores the relationship between man and man and between heaven and man, there are two main contents: food and sex. Food, talk about work, how to view food, how to coordinate the relationship between colleagues and superiors and subordinates.Sex, talk about life, how to look at going to bed, how to ensure the success of reproduction and the reproduction of offspring.Second, the keynote of ethics is that food and sex are not dirty, not shameful, eating and drinking men and women, human desires exist.What the common people need, the emperor can't help it. The theory of Confucius 2500 years ago is consistent with the biological theory of today.For living organisms, survival is the most important principle. Eating is for the survival of the individual, and going to bed is for the survival of the genes of the population.When God wrote the software of human nature, he believed that the ultimate driving force of human nature is to maximize the probability of the existence of individual genes.In order to survive, you can disown your relatives and be lawless.

The Chinese view of work is relatively simple.Junjun, ministers, fathers, sons, that is to say, we must follow the rules when doing things, and young people must learn to wait.But as for what the rules are, the Chinese have never directly summed up one, two, three, four in the past 2,500 years.It just clarifies the attitude of doing things: respect, go out as if seeing a distinguished guest, and make the people feel like accepting a great sacrifice.It just clarifies the effect that needs to be achieved in doing things: harmony, no complaints in the state, and no complaints at home.It just clarifies the two principles to be grasped in the process of doing things: forgiveness, do not do to others what you do not want; For 2,500 years, the Chinese have been using this set of work ethics, which is unclear but practical.Even though the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China does not use the balance sheet or KPI to select the top leaders of large state-owned enterprises, it still uses the principle of thumb: can this person entrust his life to a thousand miles.

Chinese people's views on sex are quite contradictory.Before the Song and Ming dynasties, people lived happily in the world, followed nature, and respected human desires.There is no TV, no Internet, no theaters, and when it gets dark, farmers drink a few cups of home-brewed rice wine to entertain each other's bodies, relieve the hard work of the day, and create new labor force.The literati and officials in the city went to brothels and temples to compose poems and sing songs, and discuss the country's governance of border defense and water transportation.Geishes and female Taoist priests are more fragrant than flowers, and they wear silk satin and gold, silver, pearls and diamonds produced by the most advanced productive forces at that time, representing the most advanced cultural level at that time.In the face of the laws of nature, Confucius himself had no choice but to say, I have never seen anyone who loves virtue as much as lust.Even if Confucius himself is also the product of this kind of sexual ethics, "Historical Records" pointedly pointed out that Kong Qiu was born out of the combination of wild and wild.In the Song and Ming dynasties, the national power was narrow and Confucianism prevailed, which emphasized the elimination of human desires and the preservation of natural principles.If it's not your wife, it's immoral at first glance, and it's a sin if you think about it.There is a joke that a Confucianism believer will not go to the streets all his life, because when people go to the streets, they will go to the streets with their prostitution, and they will walk on the streets with their prostitution, what is the law?During the Cultural Revolution, the situation was similar. There were only two kinds of clothes, green and blue, and Chairman Mao was the only idol.The concept of sex after the reform and opening up is between before Song and Ming and after Song and Ming.There are still very few people holding hands on the street during the day, and the CEOs basically have wives, but China’s second-tier cities and above have the largest sex industry in the world. Since the output value of these services is not included in official statistics, China’s GDP grossly underestimated.The most efficient time of the day is spent in these places, and 80% of the important business is negotiated in these places. A CEO taught me: "Doing business in China is also complicated and simple, so complicated that Buddha doesn't know Temple gate, as simple as ABC, spirits (Alcohol), beauty (Beauty) and kickback (Commission).

The latest trend among CEOs is to go to the temple every year to offer incense, eat a few fast meals, and live in a fast room for three days.A boss of a state-owned enterprise asked me after offering incense: "Should a person spend his whole life to realize that desires are illusory, or should he spend his whole life pursuing the satisfaction of one desire after another?"