Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Finding Strategies from Houheixue

Old Xia: Have you seen Lao Tzu? Wang Shuo: I mean flipping.The Tao is not the Tao, the Tao is not the Tao, the very Tao... In fact, I have seen it. But now I can't remember much, and I forget it after reading it.I used to hear about Lao Zhuang and Lao Zhuang, and I thought they were a person named Zhuang, like Lao Liu and Lao Wang, but I later found out that they were two people.Is there a sequence between them? Old Xia: Zhuangzi is behind Laozi. Wang Shuo: I read it roughly, and I also listened to what people said.His reasoning is a very thought-provoking one, teaching people to be more open-minded so that they don’t get tired of living.Chinese principles, one Confucius, one Lao Tzu, one Confucianism and one Confucianism, either teach people to think about it, or set up rules for them, if you can't think about it, set up rules or let others set up rules for you, if you want to think about it, stay away from the crowd Son, don't get together because of your size, those who get together can't think about it, and those who don't get together can think about it.Basically, they are specious things. I think many people don’t know him very well, don’t know what happened to him, and don’t even know that he was once a teacher of Confucius.But they all mentioned him in their articles, saying that such-and-such person has the "style of old and Zhuangzi".I never knew what this "Old and Zhuang style" was talking about.Some people like to play this, what is born.Recluse, it is said that someone's work has this in someone's attitude towards life.In my opinion, anyone who drops a book bag in an article and makes it look like a culture is flattering all the way.I don't really know Lao Zhuang.I think it is often a fig leaf for some people. Lao Zhuang has been turned into a fig leaf by many people. If he fails to achieve his goal, he will make a small temper, play hide-and-seek, similar to acting like a baby. Get a fairy style and don't look straight at people or something.That's basically how I feel about him.

Old Xia: Zhuangzi.Zen in Buddhism has always been a good archway for arty people from ancient times to the present. When literati get stumbled in their official careers, they must be either Lao Zhuang or Zen. Real, but too negative, and still dissatisfied in his bones.Lu Xun had a penetrating insight into this. The subsequent landscape poems, from Xie Lingyun to Wang Wei to Su Dongpo to Zhu Xi... are just embellishments after frustration.It is said that the high teachers of China's sects are illiterate, but so many literate people follow suit.In Chinese culture, only "inner Confucianism and outer law" is true, and the ruling technique is the complementarity of Confucianism and Legalism, not Li Zehou's complementary Confucianism and Taoism.Talk about Confucianism and etiquette to the outside world, and let others "restrain oneself and return to etiquette".The internal power struggle is all the way of the legalist yin and yang family, which is yin and ruthless.Did Chinese intellectuals really believe in anything?The American poet Ginsberg believes in Buddhism, especially Zen. He has been to China and wanted to find authentic Zen. Needless to say, he must have returned disappointed.Today's religions, temples, churches, priests, and monks all have administrative levels.I remember an incident in the 1980s that particularly illustrated what a believer in China was.There is an archmage in his seventies, what kind of mage is he called...?

Wang Shuo: It's Master Haideng, the one in Two Finger Zen. Old Xia: That's him.One year at the Spring Festival Gala, he actually got him to be a guest on CCTV, so he went too. Wang Shuo: Two-finger Zen, right? Old Xia: This great mage, it is said that he came out of the mountains at the end of several decades and cultivated six pure roots.In fact, this central station is too cruel. It can rely on administrative orders to pull people from the deep mountains to the busy city. He has been practicing in the deep mountains for so many years, and his mood is calm. This may ruin his life's practice.The Spring Festival Gala is so mundane, mediocre, sensational and alluring.Colorful, singing and dancing, with arms and thighs exposed, isn't this intentionally dragging the mage into the water?This archmage must have had to, quite reluctantly.But he seemed very excited, feeling that he was being treated with great courtesy, and he immediately wrote a poem, adding a bit of Zen fragrance to this vulgar platter.

Wang Shuo: To be famous is to be known.Those who are known to us and those who are praised as "Old and Zhuang" are not very old and Zhuang. We don't know the real Lao and Zhuang. I think maybe there is a kind of Sifan who came out of the mountain, and a group of people followed him to praise him for his transcendence. This kind of person is definitely not "old and Zhuang".At least he has a good relationship with these arty people in the secular world. People think that this monk is also a good person, and they are a little bit circling in their hearts. Old Xia: Have you read "Historical Records" and other historical books?

Wang Shuo: I have seen it.I read "Historical Records" when I was a child, but I didn't read much, and I can't remember much.I've read three or four books, and I'm a little daunted. I found that it was also full of various truths, and I found that those who wrote history in China were also tireless "teachers", extended some comments and made some truths in historical stories, and I was afraid of these books that said truth As soon as I reasoned, my eyes turned black and I couldn't see it.It seems that apart from the truth, the Chinese can't write anything else.

Lao Xia: Chinese novels are also like this, teaching people tirelessly anytime and anywhere.When reading those classic classics and unknown novels, there is always a reasoning paragraph at the beginning or end of each chapter and chapter, often using poems to explain the reasoning, there are poems and so on... Wang Shuo: The world's major events must be united if they are divided for a long time, and they must be divided if they are united for a long time... Most of them are quite old and mediocre.There are many tricks in it.Didn't the first talk about power tactics also start with Confucius?

Old Xia: Power tactics come from the vertical and horizontal techniques of the Warring States Period.Yin and Yang.Lao Tzu is a master of conspiracy in China, and he provides the fundamental rules of the game for the shadowy operation of Chinese politics.For those strategists, whoever the king recognizes him, he will serve him. Those who go to Qi State today and Wei State tomorrow.In fact, not only political strategists, but Confucius also traveled around the world to sell his set of things, and sold them to anyone who recognized him, just like the current "running officials" Same.In other words, the mentality of the current intellectuals as a staff member began with Confucius. He traveled around the world for nothing more than "running for an official" and mixing up a half-job.He talked about benevolence and righteousness, but he was still ruthless when he became an official. After a few days of being a chief criminal, he executed Shao Zhengmao.

At that time, some kings also liked to "raise scholars", raising a lot of educated soil at home, like raising a herd of good horses.Since then, the fate of Chinese scholars has been set.The lobbying skills of the political strategists have been inherited by future generations.To be a man is to have a milk or a mother, to rely on that one today, and this one tomorrow, what kind of beliefs.Loyalty, none at all. The same is true today. Wang Shuo: People who play tricks, I think they will never fall or grow old in China. Old Xia: A collection of ancient power tactics, it is ancient.Its readability does not lie in the pedantic principles that Sima Guang extracted from historical facts, but in the darkness, conspiracy and violence of traditional Chinese politics. Whoever is black, ruthless, and shameless will surely destroy political enemies and monopolize power.It is true that the six relatives do not recognize it, as long as it is an obstacle to seizing power, whoever you love will be destroyed.A large part of this wisdom comes from Lao Tzu and the Legalists.Laozi is a conspirator. His principles range from the ontology of nature to the art of concealment and political tactics. The so-called softness overcomes rigidity, yin overcomes yang, change can be met with change, selflessness can have great selfishness, etc... all of them. With wit and cunning.There are too many such things in the Twenty-Four History, and Han Xin's humiliation under his crotch and his success in achieving greatness is a classic example.From school to family, adults like to use Han Xin's technique of keeping a low profile to teach the younger generation, teaching people to use whatever means to achieve their goals, and even give up human dignity.If you are a human being, a dignified human being, how can you be willing to suffer the humiliation of your crotch for the momentary right? Using this method to seek future success is tantamount to telling you that if you want to be superior to others, you must not treat yourself as a fool. Human beings are not human beings.The eunuch's domination of power in Chinese history is an institutionalized strategy of Han Xin.In the end, it was not that the court had to eunuch someone, but that many people eunuched themselves and competed to enter the palace.When our history books mentioned the dispute between the eunuch group and the civil official group, most of them blamed the eunuchs for the crime, and often said that Chinese culture was destroyed by the eunuchs.It's not fair.First, the eunuchs are a product of the imperial power system; second, the civil official group is by no means higher than the eunuch group in morality, but it is just a half-step laugh at a hundred steps.The cruelty and bloodyness of the court party is not because of raising a group of villains, but because the system can only be supported by conspiracy and bloody politics.The eunuchs are ruthless to the civil servants, and the civil servants will never show any mercy to the eunuchs when they are in power, even more ruthless than the eunuchs.This is not decided by a certain emperor or a certain group, but by the system itself.

Wang Shuo: Then I think that some literati in China have also learned a lot of survival skills from their ancestors, so that society is not a society, and people are not individuals.What do you think? Old Xia: They did learn from conspiracy politics and life strategy. The combination of the two is thick black science. They have learned a set of things from thick black science. The means are used to achieve the ends, and usually the ends seem to be noble. For example, this kind of thing is particularly obvious on Wang Meng.In the past few years, because of his work, there has been a lot of waves in the intellectual circles.Someone posted an article saying that Wang Meng's novel was alluding to the chief designer, etc. Wang Meng rose up to use the law as a weapon to defend his reputation.right.political future.This is very good, and I was very excited when I knew it. Finally, there is a famous writer who protects himself not by means of pen battles, but by means of law, to uphold social justice, and to help other intellectuals suffer unwarranted and even sinister intentions in the future. How to protect yourself and maintain social justice when attacked byBut suddenly one day, Wang Meng published a large number of letters, among them was a letter from Mala Qinfu, the new head of the literary and art circles, to Wang Meng. At that time, Wang Meng was in the position of Minister of Culture.Mala Qinfu had nothing else to do at that time, and the content of the letter seemed to say that he could still do it, and asked Wang Meng to find him a position. It was a letter of humility and determination. Some people called this letter a "loyalty letter" .I don't think it has anything to do with allegiance, it's just the Chinese way of hiding.Wang Meng sent this letter obviously to slander Malaqinfu, but it was a private letter and could not be published without the consent or authorization of the writer himself.This is legal common sense.But Wang Meng didn't care about this, he thought that the villain can only deal with the villain, and the rogue can only return the rogue. He doesn't seem to understand that the rogue can only deal with the rogue together.This can vent personal grievances, but it will not help social justice and order.Just as violence is replaced by violence, the result is still violence.We never seem to escape this vicious circle.Wang Meng can do this. A while ago he would justifiably use the law to defend his rights and social justice, and later he would appear as the incarnation of justice, disregarding the basic legal common sense, using insidious tricks and gangsters against gangsters. to exact vengeance on someone who has done him harm.Moreover, I think this injustice is Wang Meng's practice, and it is also the common psychology of a large number of literati.

After Wang Meng's letter was published, many literati clapped their hands and cheered. They felt that Malaqinfu, an old leftist who specialized in manipulating people, was embarrassed.I think they applaud Wang Meng's actions, which is very painful. This is just a vent of personal grievances. It doesn't matter.Some intellectuals put aside justice from the very beginning, and what they want is only personal and gang interests.They are not even qualified to talk about basic social justice.If Wang Meng's resignation in the early 1990s contained a bit of conscience, at least his fate deserves sympathy, but I can't see where his conscience is when he does this. The skillful operation of the little conspiracy and his bad luck are regarded as different manifestations of the same survival strategy, which varies from time to place and from person to person, with extremely clever but heartless survival skills.

Wang Shuo: Among those letters, there seems to be a group of literary heroes, and Xie Kun seems to have one too. Old Xia: Wang Meng is talking about strategies. He didn't give up on Ma Laqinfu when he wanted to slander him. He mixed his letters with a lot of letters and sent them out.It is said that Ma Laqinfu wrote a "letter of allegiance" to the Minister of Culture, and the letters of other people are not much better.Except for the letters of Bing Xin and other respected seniors, there were no flattering words in the letters, and the rest of the letters were almost complete.More disgusting are the letters from Shanghai's Xu Zidong and Peking University professor Xie Mian.Xu Zidong is well-known for his three-person discussion on contemporary Chinese literature. In his letter, he mentioned Wang Meng's novel "Movement Transforms Human Shape", saying that many people's interpretations of this novel did not reach the point. Xu Zidong wanted to re-evaluate it and dig out its depth The connotation, anyway, the words are extremely nasty.Xie Mian went too far. At that time, Wang Meng published a poem in "People's Literature", which was quite long.Xie Mian started out as a poetry critic, and was the first of the "three rises" criticized during the purge in 1983. At any rate, he is a professor at Peking University, a Ph.D. supervisor, and a popular authority in the field of Chinese poetry theory. He has been engaged in poetry for so many years, and he must have read a lot of poems. Well written or something... Isn't this nonsense?Anyone who knows something about poetry will not feel good after reading Wang Meng's poems. How can you, a professor, doctoral supervisor, and theoretical authority, insist that they are good poems with a calm face?If that is also good poetry, where do you place Chinese poets as a professional poetry researcher?From the perspective of academic honor, where do you place the honor of professors and doctoral supervisors at Peking University?From the perspective of being a human being, at your age, you have experienced a lot of ups and downs, so where do you put your dignity?After reading this letter, you will know what his aesthetic standards as an authority on poetry theory are.It is not an aesthetic standard or a knowledge standard.Academic standards, but human status standards. standard of power.visibility standard.Like Xu Zidong.Xie Mian is all academics, and their flattery of power is the normal state of some people in the Chinese intellectual circles.Academia has become a trick, and behind the tricks are the skills of being a man and the strategy of mixing the world. How can the learning of such an academic school be academic and win the trust of the public?